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Motor Sport: Busch wins in a nail-biting finish at Daytona

07-Jul-2008
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Stewards had to play back race footage to decide the winner of NASCAR's Coke Zero 400 NASCAR series leader Kyle Busch was declared winner of the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona after the stewards had to examine video footage to determine who had won. The final lap ended under caution and although Carl Edwards crossed the finish line first, he had been running side-by-side with Busch when the caution came out, and the stewards judged Busch's Toyota to have been ahead. Taking his sixth win of the season, Busch had been forced to fight his way up from the back of the pack after surviving contact with his team-mate Denny Hamlin earlier in the race. "It was a great night for us," said Busch. "We had a pretty good car, it wasn't the best one out there, but it was good enough where we were able to get it up towards the front and race there... [read full story]                    

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