Full Throttle

Kyle Busch figured out a way to win again in NASCAR’s Nationwide Series.

After two straight frustrating runner-up finishes in the Nationwide Series, Busch passed Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Joey Logano near the end of the Camping World 200 on Saturday and held off the 19-year-old for the victory at New Hampshire International Speedway.

Logano, who started from the pole and led 108 of the 200 laps, beat Busch out of the pits by the length of a hood on the final pit stop by the two leaders. But Busch was able to stay with the leader and eventually drive past him with 36 laps left.

“We just kept adjusting on our car all day,” said Busch, who had led the most laps in the last eight Nationwide races but had just two victories to show for it.

Busch led a total of 37 laps to earn his fifth Nationwide win of the year and 26th of his career. Busch, also a star in Sprint Cup and the Camping World Truck Series, has 52 wins in his NASCAR career.

Brad Keselowski finished third at the Magic Mile, followed by Mike Bliss, who stayed out on old tires during the third and final caution and led the field to a restart on Lap 162. Kevin Harvick came home fifth in his own No. 33 Chevrolet.

“I wanted to be (up front) — I just couldn’t get there,” said Busch, who started from the ninth position and became the 23rd different winner in 23 Nationwide races at NHMS. “These flat tracks, you just can’t do stuff like that. You don’t have the room to do stuff like that.

“Texas, Charlotte, Atlanta — all those big tracks — Kansas, Chicago, you’ve got room. You can go way up to the wall and run around the outside and pass guys, and you’ve got the whole racetrack to use. Here, Milwaukee, Phoenix, you’ve got one, one-and-a-half lanes to use in order to get through guys and make it up towards the front. So you’ve got to be methodical about it, think about it and try not to get into anybody.”

Logano, on the other hand, got a taste of the frustration that has haunted Busch, who had led 1,486 of the 2,787 laps he had completed in the first 15 races this season.

“I guess this is how Kyle feels lately — leading the most laps and not winning,” said Logano, who led a race-high 108 laps.

Sprint Cup teammates Scott Speed and Brian Vickers - driving cars for different Nationwide owners - tangled in Turn 3 on the final lap and lost chances for top-five finishes. As the cars entered pit road following the race, Vickers (who came home 12th) bumped his Red Bull Racing teammate (who ran eighth).

Speed explained that he had carried more speed than the cars ahead of him into the final set of corners.

“He said I slowed down going into the corner,” Vickers said. “No (kidding)!”