Image via WikipediaKyle Busch dominated Saturday's Nationwide race at Dover, the Dover 200, leading 192 of the 200 laps and picking up his eleventh series win of the season, That broke the single season series record set by Sam Ard in 1983 and matched by Busch last season.Busch is rapidly closing in on Mark Martin's all-time record for series wins. Martin has 48; Busch's win Saturday was his 41st.
Busch beat his JGR teammate Joey Logano to the finish by four-tenths of a second. Carl Edwards was third, followed by Reed Sorenson and Kevin Harvick. (Race results)
Edwards cut 53 points off of Brad Keselowski's lead in the points standings, but still trails by 320 points with just seven races remaining. Keselowski finished 17th. Busch (-500), who has competed in just 23 of the 28 races this season, is third in the standings, followed by Justin Allgaier (-764) and Paul Menard (-817).
Danica Patrick prepared for the Monster Mile by competing in Friday's K&N Pro Series East race. She led a few laps and finished sixth to earn her first NASCAR top-10 finish in the low level series. But Saturday was "another character-building day". She botched her qualifying run and started 42nd in the 43-car field, was a lap down 17 laps into the race, then blew a tire and hit the wall on Lap 71. She went to the garage for about 90 laps to repair the damage, then returned to finish 35th, 94 laps down.
Elliott Sadler was involved in the scariest incident of the afternoon. He spun in the middle of Turns Three and Four on Lap 136, backed into the wall and came to a stop in the middle of the track at the exit of Four. Rookie Drew Herring, who was having radio issues, didn't see him until it was too late and plowed into the front end of Elliott's car. The race was red-flagged for almost eleven minutes to clean up the debris, but both drivers walked away.
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