The victory was Edwards' first of the season and sixth of his Busch career.

Pole winner Matt Kenseth led just one lap before yielding the top spot to Kevin Harvick. Jamie McMurray was the next to lead the race on lap three, but while leading the No.64 Dodge blew a right-front tire and slammed into the outside wall to end his evening and bring out the race's first caution flag.

Just four green flag laps later, Tony Stewart slammed the outside wall with his No.33 Chevrolet. The debris that scattered from Stewart's car hit a number of cars including: Dave Blaney, Kenny Wallace, Kasey Kahne and Mark Martin.

When the race finally restarted after a prolonged clean-up period, Kurt Busch took control of the race. He built a lead of more than three seconds over Kenseth.

Through lap 40, the race saw its first long run of the evening and Kenseth's No.17 appeared to improve the longer the run went. Kenseth had reduced Busch's lead from three seconds to three lengths. He pushed past Busch for the lead on lap 41 and quickly built a sizeable lead of his own.

Kenseth was setting a torrid pace and by lap 60, he had lapped all the cars through the 27th position. Only Edwards was putting up laps equal to the No.17 Ford.

On the first round of green-flag pit stops, points leader Harvick's crew left a lug nut off and he was left two laps down after a return visit to his pit box.

Through the first 85 laps, Kenseth's pace left just 15 cars on the lead lap, the last being Jimmie Johnson, winner of the last four Nextel Cup events at LMS.

At the mid-point of the 200-lap event Kenseth had led 51 laps and reduced those on the lead lap to 13 cars.

Only Edwards could stay within one second of Kenseth as third-place Casey Mears was more than six seconds back.

By the time the caution flag came out on lap 112 for a Mike Wallace broken track bar, Kenseth had reduced the lead lap cars to a miniscule nine competitors.

Greg Biffle got himself back on the lead lap after a couple of caution flags and he and Denny Hamlin topped off their fuel tanks on lap 125. Was either driver or any other going to try and make it to the end without stopping again?

On the restart, Kenseth's Ford was definitely not as fast as before when he was dominant. He quickly fell to the back of the lead back. It appeared he lost a cylinder and one lap later his engine exploded bringing out another caution flag.

Kenseth's problem handed the lead to Edwards with 65 laps to go. Edwards then pitted for fuel giving the lead to Mears for the first time on the evening.

On lap 144, Clint Bowyer who entered the race in second place overall, slammed the outside wall ending his evening and collecting Jon Wood in the incident.

"I saw Martin (Truex Jr.) get up there on the high side and make it work...but I was too free and just lost it," said Bowyer.

Mears had the lead, but it appeared that he still needed to refuel to reach the checkered flag. That would leave two-time Busch Series champion Truex Jr. in control even though he was in second place.

Behind Truex Jr. however were some fast cars. Busch, Biffle, Johnson and Edwards were all lurking in the top-10 as well as Jeff Burton and J.J. Yeley.

Truex Jr. gave up second place for fresh tires with 41 laps remaining pushing Burton up to second place.

Mears was ignoring every chance to pit and appeared to be going the distance without another stop. He was expanding his lead on each lap - to 2.251 with 30 laps remaining.

Edwards was flying through the field, but could he catch Mears? Did he really have to or could he just wait till Mears ran out of fuel?

Edwards took second place from Burton with 25 laps to go, but was 3.212 seconds behind Mears. He was the fastest car on the track and began to eat into Mears' lead.

A Randy LaJoie spin brought out another caution flag and put Edwards right on Mears' rear bumper.

The green flag dropped with 17 laps to go.

Mears took the green flag and shot off to a solid lead. But Edwards fought back and wouldn't let him get away.

With 14 laps to go, Mears reported that his fuel light started to flicker. Was he almost out of fuel?

He was holding a half-second lead with 10 laps to go when another caution flag came out for the 10th time.

There were just six laps (nine miles) to go when the race restarted.

The answer was quickly apparent - Mears didn't have enough fuel. Edwards charged to the lead in turn one and so did Busch, Yeley and Johnson.

With five laps to go, Edwards' lead was 1.5 seconds and no one was going to catch him.

The No.60 Ford cruised to a 2.458-second victory.

Harvick came back to finish eighth and maintain a stranglehold on the Busch Series championship. Harvick's lead is 348 over Edwards and 439 over Bowyer.

The next race is the series is set for the Dover International Speedway on Saturday, June 3rd.

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