Kyle Busch dominates in winning Brickyard 400

INDIANAPOLIS -- Kyle Busch spent most of this weekend hearing about a historic sweep.

On Sunday, he finally got to dust off the answers.

Busch led a record 149 of 170 laps and beat teammate Matt Kenseth to the finish line in the second overtime by 2.126 seconds to win his second straight Brickyard 400. Coupled with his Xfinity Series success Saturday, Busch became the first NASCAR driver to win both poles and both races on the same weekend.

"I've never had a dominant car like this," Busch said after winning for the fourth time this season and sharing it with his wife and children. "This is obviously a special day and a special car."

The impressive feat even overshadowed two other major story lines -- Jeff Gordon's comeback and Tony Stewart's farewell.

Stewart finished 11th in his final race at Indianapolis, while Gordon was 13th. Gordon came out of retirement to replace Earnhardt, who has battled concussion-like symptoms and has not yet been cleared by doctors to drive.

Afterward the two drivers who grew up in Indiana drove side-by-side around the 2.5-mile oval one last time.

But nobody was better than Busch this weekend.

One year after winning both Indy races, he joined third-place finisher Jimmie Johnson as the only back-to-back winners of the Brickyard. Johnson won in 2008 and 2009.

Busch surrendered the lead for 14 laps after his first pit stop, regained it when race leader Brad Keselowski pitted then gave it up again for only five laps when he made his second pit stop.

Everyone else spent their day chasing Busch.

The No. 18 car was so strong that Roger Penske's drivers started with a strategy of trying stretch their runs long enough to make one fewer pit stop. It didn't work. Logano finished seventh and Keselowski wound up 17th.

The crashes began when Carl Edwards' car wiggled in the first turn on a restart with seven laps to go. His car slid up the track, hitting Keselowski and wound up involving Ryan Blaney, Ryan Newman and Danica Patrick, too. Though nobody was seriously hurt, the wreck brought out a red flag for almost eight minutes.

On the ensuing restart, with three to go, Busch again pulled away only to have a collision between Trevor Bayne and Clint Bowyer behind him to send the race into first overtime.

It happened again when Jamie McMurray slid through the first turn and into the wall on the next restart, but Busch pulled away one more time for a historic win in a race that actually 425 miles.

"I certainly didn't want one, let alone five of them of however many there were," Busch said. "We just wanted the race to go green till the end. We had a really good long-run car till the end, so I felt like we'd be able to hold off all those guys behind us and then we had all those restarts."