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RACE REPORT.
Byline: AL PEARCE
NASCAR might want to put this race video in a lead-lined case and bury it for all time: The Best Buy 400 at Dover International Speedway featured exactly one on-track lead change in 400 laps around a one-mile track. It came on lap 171, when Carl Edwards easily passed the ailing car of Roush Fenway Racing teammate Greg Biffle. The other 14 changes among seven other drivers happened during pit stops. An 11-car wreck on lap 16 immediately sidelined Denny Hamlin and Elliott Sadler and severely damaged the cars of Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kasey Kahne, Kevin Harvick, Bobby Labonte, Clint Bowyer and Scott Riggs.
The most crucial change came on lap 237, when Kyle Busch took the lead by winning the dash off pit road. Except for nine laps while subsequent stops cycled through, Busch easily led the final 163 laps and handed Toyota its third win of the weekend (the other two coming in the Nationwide and Craftsman Truck races). He won his season-leading fourth race for Joe Gibbs Racing by four-plus seconds over Edwards, with Biffle, Matt Kenseth, Jeff Gordon and sixth-place Martin Truex Jr. the only drivers on the lead lap.
Definitely not a race for your DVR archives.
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Source: HighBeam Research, RACE REPORT.