Kurt Busch acclimated a lightning fast final pit stop to hunt bottomward the leaders and accord aggregation buyer Roger Penske a coveted Memorial Day weekend victory.That the win came in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and not at his admired Indianapolis Motor Speedway, apparently didn't amount to Penske.After all, it came at the amount of Chip Ganassi, Penske's top battling in open-wheel antagonism and the acceptable car buyer of the Indianapolis 500 beforehand Sunday.
2010 Nascar Coca Cola 600
"Roger, this one is for you," Busch said. "The aboriginal being I anticipate about is Roger Penske. This is article that will be advanced and centermost in Roger's bays case that I was blessed to deliver."Busch, who led 252 of the 400 laps, and Ganassi disciplinarian Jamie McMurray were the chic of the acreage at the end of NASCAR's longest chase of the season, and McMurray was acquisitive to accord Ganassi a ambit of the two celebrated Memorial Day weekend races. Beforehand Sunday, Dario Franchitti won in Indianapolis and, afterwards the celebration, Ganassi flew to North Carolina to bolt the additional bisected of the NASCAR race.
He accustomed in time to see McMurray, the Daytona 500 winner, assignment his Chevrolet through the acreage and ultimately booty over the advance from Busch.But a backward attention for a Marcos Ambrose blast with 24 laps to go took it out of McMurray's hands. He led best of the leaders bottomward pit road, but was exhausted aback assimilate the clue by Busch and Matt Kenseth. Jeff Gordon was the aboriginal of three cars not to pit, and restarted as the baton with 19 laps remaining.
Busch blew accomplished the three advance cars and steadily pulled abroad from the pack. McMurray bound confused into second, but ran out of time to run bottomward Busch, who captivated on to ambit the May contest at Charlotte. Busch won the $1 actor All-Star chase aftermost weekend.
"I anticipation about the Ganassi car abaft me," Busch said in Achievement Lane, "he wasn't accepting by us."
Ganassi, who became the aboriginal disciplinarian Sunday to win the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500 in the aforementioned season, didn't assume to apperception the defeat.
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