Busch dominant again in posting first Nashville win

LEBANON, Tenn. -- Kyle Busch said he thought he was like Ozzy Osbourne after winning Saturday night's Federated Auto Parts 300 at Nashville Superspeedway.

He may have been more like The Who's Pete Townsend when he slammed the special trophy the track gives to race winners, a Sam Bass-designed Gibson Les Paul guitar (watch video).

"Ozzy's done it, right?" Busch said

Results

Federated Auto Parts 300

Pos.	Driver	Make
1.	Kyle Busch	Toyota
2.	Brad Keselowski	Chevrolet
3.	Carl Edwards	Ford
4.	Mike Bliss	Chevrolet
5.	Jason Leffler	Toyota
6.	Stephen Leicht	Chevrolet
7.	Steve Wallace	Chevrolet
8.	Michael McDowell	Toyota
9.	Erik Darnell	Ford
10.	Brad Coleman	Toyota

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"[Ted] Nugent," crew chief Jason Ratcliff suggested.

"Pete Townshend?" Busch wondered. "I think Ozzy's done it, too. I think KISS has even done it. Everybody's done it, expect race car drivers. All them sorry saps, they take it home in one piece and put it on their shelf, man. I break that thing up and spread it within the team so everybody's got a piece."

That's all he was trying to do, Busch said. He made a promise to his team members last year that if he ever won a race at Nashville, he would give them each a piece of the guitar.

"I always said, 'Man, if I win here, I'd smash that thing.' I had to stick to my word. It's karma or something, I guess. I won here, so I tried to smash it up."

The problem was, it didn't break into many tiny pieces.

"It didn't break according to plan," Busch said. "I was actually hoping to get more pieces for the guys on the team. We'll go back to the shop and cut it up, and they can have nice, smooth pieces of it."

Bass was first taken aback by Busch's impromptu celebration in Victory Lane.

"Just like everybody else in Victory Lane, I was stunned when it happened," said Bass, who was brought into the infield media center moments before Busch's post-race news conference.

But then Bass heard Busch's explanation of the smashed guitar.

"When I took a picture with Kyle as I traditionally do, the first thing he said to me was that there was no disrespect to me or the trophy or the speedway or any of the sponsors," Bass said. "He just said that he told his guys that he was going to give each one of them a piece of the trophy whenever he won the guitar.

"That was his way, in the spirit of rock and roll to break the guitar like a KISS concert and share it with all the guys on the team. That made me feel a lot better. As a person that loves rock and roll the way the way I do and appreciates a good show, Kyle Busch put on as great show in Victory Lane and shocked the world."

Busch raced to his fourth Nationwide Series victory of the year and ninth overall NASCAR win of the season, easily holding off Brad Keselowski and Carl Edwards (watch video).

The 24-year-old Busch also has three Sprint Cup victories and two Camping World Trucks wins this year, giving him 51 career victories in NASCAR's top three series.

Keselowski, the race winner last year coming off a victory last week in Dover, was second -- 0.891 seconds back. Edwards, a three-time Nashville winner, finished third on the 1.333-mile concrete oval. Busch extended his points lead to 65 over Edwards.

Mike Bliss was fourth, followed by Jason Leffler.

Busch won for the first time after leading the most laps in the previous three races. He won the pole and led the most laps again Saturday, but this time nothing went wrong at the end of the race when he was out front for the final 24 laps.

Busch also avoided a series of wrecks early and midway through the 225-lap race. Busch's crew serviced his Toyota in a 14.3 seconds during the final round of green-flag stops with 35 laps to go, and he was back in front by Lap 202.

"It was a good day overall," Busch said. "We had a great race car, sat on the pole and led the most laps. Brad had some good stuff and was coming at the end but we were up front and got out a ways. We may have been a little tight at the end. Maybe that's why he was running us a down."

Busch led the first 67 laps, with Edwards and Keselowski not far off the pace.

After green-flag pit stops, they found themselves back in their respective positions in the top three by Lap 104.

At the halfway mark, Busch opened a 6-second lead over Keselowski before things again turned dicey. Brian Keselowski, Brad's older brother, spun on Lap 114 and on Lap 126, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. spun in Turn 4, touching off a five-car wreck that brought out the red flag (watch video).

When racing resumed, only 10 cars remained on the lead lap and only six were there by the finish.

Busch led four times for 173 laps around the 1.33-mile concrete track, giving up the lead only for pit stops.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.