INDIANAPOLIS _ Kyle Busch dominated the field but had to negotiate two overtime periods Sunday on his way to winning NASCAR's Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Busch, who started on the pole, led 149 of the race's 170 laps (it was scheduled for 160 laps). He had to survive three restarts in the final laps, including one during the race's first attempt at a green-white-checkered finish.
Matt Kenseth, Busch's Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, finished second. Jimmie Johnson, who fell a lap down earlier in the race after a pit-road penalty, was third. Denny Hamlin, another JGR driver, was fourth.
Tony Stewart, who is retiring after this season and was running his final Cup race at Indianapolis, was 11th. Already-retired Jeff Gordon, driving in place of injured Dale Earnhardt Jr., was 13th. Gordon will drive for Earnhardt again next week at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway.
"I hoped it would be that good and that dominant," Busch said. "This thing was hooked up; it was on rails. It was fun to come out here and have such a dominant piece at Indy."
Busch, who won for the fourth time this season, became the first driver in NASCAR history to win both the Xfinity and Cup races from the pole in the same weekend.
