Kyle Busch held off his brother Kurt Busch to win his series-leading third race of the season at Bristol on Sunday. The win is Busch's eighth at the track -- which leads all active drivers -- and third in his past four races there. Busch now has 54 NASCAR Cup Series wins and 204 in all three major series. He was the Vegas favorite to win at Bristol at 3-to-1 odds and the highest-priced driver in DraftKings at $12,900. This win wasn't easy for Busch, who spun right after the race started. He was able to rebound in Stage 1 and work his way back into the top 10 before it's conclusion. At the end of the race, Busch elected to stay out with 20 to go while a handful of the leaders opted for tires. It proved to be the right decision. Ty Dillon collected his first career stage win, battling Clint Bowyer at the end of Stage 1 en route to a green-and-white checkered. Dillon and Bowyer made contact, but it was the No. 13 that saw its nose cross the start-finish line just a hair before Bowyer's. Joey Logano dominated Stage 2, leading 106 laps ahead of his Penske teammates Brad Keselowski and Ryan Blaney. Logano had no issues cruising to his third stage win of the season, putting him one behind Kyle Busch for the series lead. Food City 500 results Kyle Busch Kurt Busch Joey Logano Ryan Blaney Denny Hamlin Paul Menard Clint Bowyer Daniel Suarez Ryan Newman Jimmie Johnson Chase Elliott Matt DiBenedetto Kevin Harvick Austin Dillon Ty Dillon William Byron Martin Truex Jr. Brad Keselowski Kyle Larson Bubba Wallace David Ragan Chris Buescher Alex Bowman Erik Jones Ryan Preece Landon Cassill Matt Tifft Michael McDowell Ross Chastain Daniel Hemric Bayley Currey Quin Houff Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Corey LaJoie Timmy Hill Gray Gaulding Aric Almirola Stage 1: Wrecks, penalties and racing Kevin Harvick suffered a major setback before the race even started. The No. 4 failed inspection three times, which sent Harvick to the rear of the field for the start of the race where he then had to serve a pass-through penalty once the race went green. Harvick's engineer was also ejected as a result of the failed inspections. Harvick wasn't the only one in trouble early. Almost immediately after Chase Elliott led the field to green, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. got into the back of Kyle Busch and sent him spinning. Prior to that, Aric Almirola made contact with William Byron which caused mechanical damage to the No. 10 that would knock him out of the race for good. Despite getting back on track quickly, Stenhouse's hood was raised up a little too high for NASCAR's liking which caused him to get black flagged. He brought the No. 17 down pit road for further repairs that essentially knocked him out of contention for the day. Things settled down after that as Elliott led 39 laps however once he made his way into lapped traffic he encountered Ryan Preece, who cut a tire in his backup car and went spinning. Elliott slammed on the brakes, but Corey LaJoie got into his rear bumper and spun the No. 9 out. Fortunately for Elliott, he was able to keep it off the wall and sustained minimal damage. To add insult to injury, Preece was penalized for speeding on entry to pit road alongside Bubba Wallace. Denny Hamlin stayed out under yellow and led the field to green ahead of his teammate Erik Jones. The No. 20 took the lead from Hamlin several laps later. After leading 10 laps, Jones felt a vibration and brought his car down pit road under green for a loose wheel forfeiting the lead to Ryan Blaney. Harvick and Kyle Larson also suffered loose wheels and had to pit early as well. Larson's team was busted for an uncontrolled tire and had to serve a damming pass through. Harvick's stop put him four laps down. Clint Bowyer challenged Blaney for the lead with less than 15 laps go to as Kyle Busch recovered from the early setback and moved into the top 10. Bowyer took the lead from Blaney with eight laps to go when -- ironically -- the No. 8 car of Daniel Hemric went spinning to bring out the caution. Blaney and the Penske cars elected to come down pit road as opposed to staying out for stage points. While four of the top five cars pit, Bowyer chose to stay out. Unfortunately for Bowyer, so did Ty Dillon, who outraced him in a shootout at the end of the stage and collected the green-and-white checkered. Stage 1 results Ty Dillon Clint Bowyer Brad Keselowski Joey Logano Jimmie Johnson Kyle Busch Ryan Blaney Paul Menard Martin Truex Jr. Chase Elliott Stage 2: Joey Logano puts it in cruise control Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano led the field to green to begin Stage 2 and it was the No. 2 that took the early lead. Keselowski ran 15 laps out front before turning the lead over to Logano. Logano nicely led a clean 69 laps before Matt Tifft went spinning and brought out the first caution of the stage. Tifft was then penalized for an uncontrolled tire when making his pit stop under yellow. Chase Elliott had fallen off the lead lap just prior to Tifft's spin and was awarded the free pass under yellow. Logano won the race off pit road ahead of Keselowski and led the group back to green. Logano had no problem leading the way after that, amassing 106 total laps led in Stage 2 en route to the green-and-white checkered flag. Martin Truex Jr. was riding inside the top 10 for most of the stage, however was forced to bring his car down pit road before the stage's conclusion with reports of a loose wheel. This put the No. 19 multiple laps down heading into the Final Stage. Stage 2 results Joey Logano Ryan Blaney Ryan Newman Brad Keselowski Kyle Busch Kurt Busch Chris Buescher Clint Bowyer Austin Dillon Daniel Suarez Final Stage: Kyle Busch gets it done<doc-sep>Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Today’s episode of NASCAR America airs from 6-7 p.m. ET on NBCSN and will recap all the action from the weekend’s racing at Bristol Motor Speedway. Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte are joined on today’s show by Dale Earnhardt Jr. They’ll have a lot to talk about Sunday’s Food City 500, including Kyle Busch’s win, the late race pit strategy that potentially cost Joey Logano the victory and more. If you can’t catch today’s show on TV, watch it online at http:/nascarstream.nbcsports.com. If you plan to stream the show on your laptop or portable device, be sure to have your username and password from your cable/satellite/telco provider handy so your subscription can be verified. Once you enter that information, you’ll have access to the stream. Click here at 6 p.m. ET to watch live via the stream.<doc-sep>BRISTOL, Tenn. — It was a frustrating day for pole winner Chase Elliott as the Hendrick Motorsports driver lost the power steering in his No. 9 Chevrolet barely 20 laps into the race, then was involved in an incident just shy of the halfway point of the 500-lap race. MORE: Official Bristol results Despite the setbacks, he was still contending for a spot in the top 10 when his car hit the wall with less than 70 laps remaining. He led the first 38 laps of the race, finished 11th and on the lead lap, but saw a good day otherwise ruined. “Definitely not what we started out hoping for,” he admitted. “We got turned late in the race, that was about it. We fell behind from there. “I had a great car, even without the power steering.”<doc-sep>NASCAR fined the Nos. 11 and 19 Joe Gibbs Racing teams on Tuesday following last weekend’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series action at Bristol Motor Speedway. Both cars were found to have one lug nut not safe and secure in post-race inspection. As a result, crew chiefs Chris Gabehart and Cole Pearn were each fined $10,000. RELATED: Full Bristol results Denny Hamlin drove the No. 11 Toyota to a fifth-place finish in Sunday’s Food City 500 while Martin Truex Jr. was 17th in the No. 19 Toyota. The Monster Energy Series returns to the track at 7:30 p.m. ET on Saturday at Richmond Raceway for the Toyota Owners 400 (FOX, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).<doc-sep>
Near the conclusion of Sunday’s Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, some late-race confusion within the No. 2 Team Penske camp on the final restart order resulted in NASCAR black-flagging an upset Brad Keselowski, who went to the NASCAR hauler after the race for a discussion. Keselowski pitted during one of the final cautions and upon exit was ahead of cars on track that had not pitted. NASCAR attempted to correct the restart order through communication with spotter Coleman Pressley via the race channel. With Keselowski’s team taking issue with the running order, NASCAR race control waved off one restart attempt, then went back to green-flag conditions with Keselowski’s No. 2 Ford still outside the double-file lineup. NASCAR officials issued the team a pass-through penalty for “disobeying a NASCAR request” on Lap 486; the team served the penalty four laps later. MORE: Full Bristol results Keselowski was visibly upset on pit road after an 18th-place finish in which he led 40 laps, but after a discussion with NASCAR officials he understood where the mix-up happened and said NASCAR “made the right call.” Will go live tonight when we get back home. Teaser- I met with Nascar and understand what happened on the last restart now. Bummer to throw away a great race we had a shot at winning but, in the end after hearing all the information; they made the right call. — Brad Keselowski (@keselowski) April 7, 2019 NASCAR Senior Vice President of Competition Scott Miller joined SiriusXM NASCAR Radio on Monday morning for a weekly call and further clarified the confusion. “The thing is, it’s really actually pretty simple,” Miller said. “We were trying to get him in the right spot in the lineup and we were communicating with his spotter via the race channel, which is their responsibility to listen to per the rule book and numerous times we told him the 6 car (of Ryan Newman) belonged in front of him, give him space to get in there and he didn’t. As we talked to Brad after the race, there was a breakdown in communication on their side because he never really received that communication from his spotter. “That’s where the problems started and obviously, unfortunately, it didn’t end the way Brad wanted it to end. But it’s their responsibility to monitor what we’re saying and what we’re trying to get things to do, and it didn’t appear that happened as it should have. “We expected Brad to be there when we got (back to the NASCAR hauler) and he certainly was.” The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series next heads to Richmond Raceway, where the two-time 2019 winner has seven straight finishes inside the top 11.