Kyle Busch took his first lead with 17 laps to go and captured Saturday afternoon’s Yellow Transportation 300 Busch Series race at the Kansas Speedway. The No.5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet driver crossed the finish line just 0.085 seconds ahead of Matt Kenseth.

The victory was Busch’s third of the season and 10th of his Busch career.

“It’s a testament to this team, they don’t give up,” said Busch.

Kenseth brought the field to the green flag for 200 laps of racing, but it was points leader Carl Edwards who led the first lap and beyond. Edwards led eight laps before he gave up the top spot to Denny Hamlin, who lasted just one lap before Kenseth retook the lead.

Things then began to settle down and Kenseth took control of the early portion of the race. But only for about 20 laps and then they played some more “leap frog.”

First Greg Biffle, then Jeff Burton took turns in the lead, but Kenseth was never far from the top, only falling as low as fourth.

Burton began to expand his lead as the field hit the 80-lap mark (to more than four seconds), but a caution flag erased Burton’s lead in a heartbeat.

On lap 95, Edwards suddenly slowed after colliding with Kenseth which caused a cut left-front tire. . Try as Edwards’ pit crew might, they couldn’t get the repairs done in time and the points leader went down a lap to the leaders.

Up front, Brian Vickers was challenging Burton and in fact, took the lead on lap 96. He still held it at the halfway point.

Vickers, Biffle and Burton quickly opened up a working margin after a restart on lap 119. Meanwhile, Kenseth had some problems that forced an early pit stop and left him in 18th place with 80 laps to go. And Edwards pulled his car behind pit road for major repairs (oil cooler).

A round of pit stops for the leaders left Casey Mears and Kenseth, both of whom did not pit, with the lead.

Three drivers, Mears, who still had to pit one more time, Kenseth, who might have to pit one more time and Clint Bowyer who stopped at lap 130 and probably could go the distance, took control of the race. Their lead was two seconds over fourth-place Busch with 50 laps to go. Then Mears fell back and it was between Kenseth and Bowyer.

One lap later, Edwards, who had returned after his repairs, suffered a hard crash after spinning and his day was done.

“That was pretty hard…kind of a long day,” said a frustrated Edwards. “Something broke on the car.”

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UNOFFICIAL RESULTS:

FIN, ST, CAR, DRIVER, MAKE, SPONSOR, PTS/BNS,, LAPS STATUS

1 6 5 Kyle Busch Chevrolet Lowe’s / Sta-Green 190/5 200 Running
2 1 17 Matt Kenseth Ford Arby’s 180/10 200 Running
3 9 24 Casey Mears Chevrolet Nat’l Guard / 35th Infantry Division 170/5 200 Running
4 23 2 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet BB&T 160/0 200 Running
5 7 126 Jamie McMurray Ford Dish Network 155/0 200 Running
6 5 20 Denny Hamlin Chevrolet Slim Jim Monster / Act II 155/5 200 Running
7 15 15 Paul Menard Chevrolet Super Clean / Menards 146/0 200 Running
8 4 29 Jeff Burton Chevrolet Holiday Inn 147/5 200 Running
9 10 10 Brian Vickers Toyota Fan1st.com 143/5 200 Running
10 2 16 Greg Biffle Ford 3M 139/5 200 Running
11 24 33 Tony Stewart Chevrolet Old Spice 130/0 200 Running
12 11 9 Kasey Kahne Dodge Ragu 127/0 200 Running
13 16 77 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet Dollar General 124/0 200 Running
14 28 103 Todd Bodine Toyota Germain Toyota / Chase 121/0 200 Running
15 26 21 Scott Wimmer Chevrolet Camping World / RVs.com 118/0 200 Running
16 33 211 Jason Keller Chevrolet InvestLinc 115/0 200 Running
17 31 99 David Reutimann Toyota Aaron’s Dream Machine 112/0 200 Running
18 19 27 Casey Atwood Ford VIVA / Breast Cancer Rsrch Foundation / Hy-Vee 109/0 200 Running
19 27 90 Stephen Leicht Ford CitiFinancial 106/0 200 Running
20 13 35 Bobby Hamilton Jr. Ford Timberland PRO Series 103/0 200 Running
21 17 38 Jason Leffler Toyota Great Clips 100/0 200 Running
22 29 37 Bobby East Ford Kickbutt Amped Energy Ballz 97/0 200 Running
23 30 41 Bryan Clauson Dodge Memorex 94/0 199 Off Track
24 36 170 Mark Green Chevrolet Foretravel Motorcoach / Biomet 91/0 199 Running
25 8 42 A.J. Allmendinger Dodge Memorex 88/0 198 Running
26 42 25 Richard Johns Ford FreeCreditReport.com 85/0 198 Running
27 32 36 Brent Sherman Chevrolet Big Lots 82/0 198 Running
28 37 14 Kyle Krisiloff * Ford Lilly / Walgreens 79/0 198 Running
29 39 72 D.J. Kennington Dodge Vector Security 76/0 197 Running
30 43 158 Chris Horn Chevrolet Horn Auto Racing 73/0 196 Running
31 18 22 Mike Bliss Dodge Supercuts 70/0 195 Running
32 38 28 Johnny Sauter Chevrolet Yellow Trans. / Garmin 67/0 192 Running
33 34 1 J.J. Yeley Chevrolet Miccosukee Gaming & Resorts 64/0 190 Running
34 14 6 David Ragan * Ford Discount Tire 61/0 188 Running
35 25 18 Kevin Conway Chevrolet Wal-Mart / Z-Line Designs 58/0 184 Running
36 22 88 Brad Keselowski * Chevrolet U.S. Navy 55/0 175 Off Track
37 35 66 Steve Wallace Dodge HomeLife Communities 52/0 175 Running
38 3 60 Carl Edwards Ford Scotts WinterGuard Fertilizer 54/5 142 Out of Race
39 12 59 Marcos Ambrose * Ford Kingsford Tailgate 46/0 125 Out of Race
40 21 47 Kelly Bires Ford Armor All 43/0 111 Out of Race
41 20 7 Mike Wallace Chevrolet GEICO 40/0 67 Out of Race
42 40 0 Eric McClure Chevrolet Hefty 37/0 65 Out of Race
43 41 01 Kertus Davis Chevrolet RaceGirl 34/0 17 Out of Race