Kyle Busch won the second Annual Indiana 250 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Busch lead 92 of the 100 laps in route to his fifth victory from the pole this season, breaking a single-season record for wins from the pole.
Brian Scott finished 2nd (Best career finish) followed by Joey Logano, Brian Vickers and Kevin Harvick.
Busch won the Coors Light Pole Award with a track qualifying-record lap of 50.099 seconds, 179.644 mph. He lead them to the green flag and pulled away from the field. Justin Allgaier had his hood up on his car before the race and had to start at the rear. He went back to the garage on lap six. Busch led the entire way till the green flag stops on lap 30 when Trevor Bayne took the lead. Busch then retained the lead after they cycled thru the stops. Busch, who had a six-second lead over Bayne, is down to a 4.9-second lead.
The first caution waved on lap 50, which was halfway, for debris on the straightaway. Everybody came in for their stops except for Busch, Kenseth and Brian Scott. Ken Butler’s car had to stop on backstretch because he didn’t beat pace car off of pit road.
We went back to green on lap 56 with Busch still leading. Busch had to come into pit little bit earlier then expected so he came in on lap 66, right when the caution came out. Reason for the caution? #12 of Sam Hornish Jr was blowing smoke on the backstretch and he went to the garage. Everybody that did not pit, came in to get their car worked on. Vickers took two tires. Menard took two tires and makes a track-bar adjustment. Smoke visible from Regan Smith’s tailpipe and he has to take care of his car in order to maintain his point status.
We went back to green with 30 laps to go with Busch leading as usual. Logano was second and was actually keeping pace with Busch but is iffy on going the distance on fuel.
The third caution waved on lap 84 when debris was on the racetrack. No.87 of Joe Nemechek cut a tire from that debris and had to come into pit road and get that fixed. Travis Pastrana got the free pass. Everybody but the top-7 cars pitted.
We went back to green with 11 laps to go but that did not last long as Kasey Kahne and Trevor Bayne got together with couple other guys and bumped fenders heading into the turn and had grass go everywhere to cause the caution to go out.
We went back to green and there was contact between Logano and Busch which made Brian Scott go to the lead. Busch was gaining a bunch of time and basically had to move Scott to take the lead and he pulled away for the win at the bricks!
Austin Dillon leads the point standings by six points over Regan Smith.
