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BUSCH WHACKED
Pit strategy propels Kurt Busch to Loudon win
By Reid Spencer, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service, June 30

LOUDON, N.H. -- With Kurt Busch's No. 2 Dodge parked behind the pace car on pit road and a rear brake duct hose dangling onto the pavement, NASCAR called Sunday's Lenox Industrial Tools 301 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and anointed a victor who said he didn't deserve to win.

Kurt Busch poses with the winners trophy in victory lane at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire, June 29, 2008.
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LOUDON RESULTS

"We weren't the fastest car, and we didn't deserve to win, but the record book will show that we won the Lenox 301," said Busch, who was out front thanks to a fuel-mileage call when rain stopped the race after 284 of 301 laps.

The unexpected victory was Busch's first of the season and the 18th of his career, as pit strategy scrambled the running order and deprived Tony Stewart's dominant No. 20 Toyota, which spent 132 laps at the front of the field, of a chance to win.

"We had a pretty good car all day," said Pat Tryson, Busch's crew chief. "We topped off the fuel (on Lap 218) and were pretty close to making it to the end. We were hoping for some cautions, we got them, and I told Kurt that we were going to stay on the racetrack and take a gamble. Today it worked, and it got us a win."

Michael Waltrip, who started at the rear of the field after a postqualifying engine change, took second, followed by J.J. Yeley, Martin Truex Jr. and Elliott Sadler. Reed Sorenson, Casey Mears, Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson and Bobby Labonte completed the top 10.

Next Sprint Cup Race:

What:COKE ZERO 400
Where: Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach Fl.
GREEN FLAG: 8:00 p.m. ET July 5
TV: TNT,6:30 p.m. ET
Radio: MRN/Sirius Satellite Ch. 128.
Distance:160 Laps 400 Miles
Track layout:2.5 paved track
2007 Winner:: Jamie McMurray

Todays Headlines:

--Tony Stewart’s Season of ‘What-If’s’ Continues

--Montoya Penalized for Late Race Contact with Kyle Busch

-- Late wreck clobbers Earnhardt

--Prospect of wide-open testing stuns garage

-- Kyle Busch Stirs Up Emotion in a Bad Kind of Way

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Tony Stewart’s Season of ‘What-If’s’ Continues
By Greg Engle,Editor, Cup Scene Daily, June 30

Another great race for Tony Stewart, another lousy finish to show for it. Stewart led a race high 132 laps Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway only to see a victory slip from his grasp.

Montoya Penalized for Late Race Contact with Kyle Busch
By Greg Engle,Editor, Cup Scene Daily, June 30

Juan Pablo Montoya showed his ‘bad boy’ side late in the running of the Lennox Tools 301 Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Late wreck clobbers Earnhardt
By Reid Spencer,Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service, June 29

LOUDON, N.H. -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. had a solid top-10 run going in Sunday’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301 until he headed for pit road on Lap 271.

Prospect of wide-open testing stuns garage
By Reid Spencer,Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service, June 30

LOUDON, N.H. --Is NASCAR’s trial balloon about wide-open testing something that could fly, or will it turn out to be nothing more than hot air?

The View From Fanville
Kyle Busch Stirs Up Emotion in a Bad Kind of Way
By Amy Hair,Senior Columnist,Cup Scene Daily, June 30

Uh oh, I think we’ve got us the beginning of one of those “situations”…the kind that brews behind the scenes and finally begins to surface at the most inopportune time.

NASCAR Number
By Bill Marx, The Sporting News,June 30

7: Career second-place finishes for Michael Waltrip in 706 Cup races. Waltrip finished second in Sunday's rain-shortened race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway for his 39th career top five. Waltrip has four wins.

This Day in NASCAR History
By Bill Marx, The Sporting News,June 30

1951: West Coast legend Lou Figaro wins his only NASCAR race, finishing first in a 200-lap event on the half-mile dirt track of Carrell Speedway in Gardena, Calif.

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