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Win and you are in, or so the saying goes. Well, not if it is only your fifth race, 16 events into the season. However, running together a string of 10 straight Top Fifteens or better is easier than taking one of these contests, and Kyle Busch checked that off his “to do” list at Sonoma Sunday.

Richard Petty Motorsports (RPM) made the best out of their trip to the west coast and their annual visit to the Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway. With the No. 9 and No. 43 Sprint Cup teams returning to North Carolina on Monday, they did with another Top-10 finish at the technical road course located in Napa Valley.

Jimmie Johnson put had a quick car and was running the quickest laps of the race. Chad Knaus had played the right strategy to put his driver out front. It looked as though he would score the victory. Then the caution happened. Rather than celebrating a victory, Johnson crossed the finish line in sixth.

With this win, Kyle tied Kevin Harvick for 23rd on the all-time wins list. This is Busch’s first win this year; his last victory was March 23, 2014. There are 800 starts between the brothers and this is the first time they finished one-two.

Starting on the pole for the Toyota SaveMart 350, A.J. Allmendinger would lead laps early and look to be en route to contending for a victory in the later stages of the event. However, on lap 61, Allmendinger headed down pit road with mechanical issues.

In the first-ever 1-2 finish in the series by the Busch brothers, Kyle Busch beat Kurt Busch to the finish line by .532 seconds to win for the first time since returning from an 11-race absence because of a broken right leg and left foot sustained in a Feb. 21 accident at Daytona International Speedway.

A late race pit stops for tires led to a mad dash to the finish of the 110-lap Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway, the 16th race of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Chevrolet’s Kurt Busch came within 0.532 seconds of earning his third victory of the season in his No. 41 Haas Automation Chevrolet SS. Busch pitted for fresh tires on the final pit stop with 11 laps remaining. Restarting ninth, Busch did everything he could to catch his younger brother Kyle (Busch) for the win, but ended the day in the runner-up spot. Busch led 43 laps en route to his second-place effort. It is his seventh top-10 finish in 15 races at Sonoma and eighth top 10 finish of the season.

In only his third career Sprint Cup start at the 1.99-mile 11-turn road course, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. drove his Fastenal Ford to a 20th-place finish in today’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Sonoma Raceway.

A flat right-front tire foiled Biffle’s chances at a top-10 finish at Sonoma. Biffle started 22nd and was looking at a solid finish as different pit strategies unfolded over the 110-lap race.