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LONG POND, Pa. — had a Joe Gibbs Rac- is the permanent, ing team member slide in his Toyota through the window clog-free gutter solution!* and he tried to figure out how to mend a fried stick shifter welded in fourth gear. It’s rare a NASCAR driver has a passenger in the car, so Busch made small talk on the with car chief Nate Bellows. “Wait,” Busch said, “you don’t want to go with me?” 16 The Toyota never really YEARS BACKED did get fixed. There were 115 BY THESEAL miles to the Pocono finish, Busch had a fried clutch, only one gear and had to rush his car chief out of the car. But he had a full tank of gas, so he hit it. Busch came through in the clutch — even when he raced without one — and busted Hendrick Motorsports’ win- ning streak and denied the organization a shot at NAS- CAR history when he raced to his second victory of the season Sunday. MATT SLOCUM | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “Put as much as gas in it as Kyle Busch raises the trophy after winning a NASCAR Cup Series $99 we can, pack that thing full, race at on Sunday in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. we’re going to run it out the INSTALLATION FR rest of the day,” Busch said. got the critical pit road assist began in 1972 to win seven PLUS Busch stretched his fuel in Sunday and then drove the straight races. FORALIMITEDTIME GIFT CARD 1 his broken Toyota and out- final 46 laps on the 2 /2-mile Bowman started the streak ON ACOMPLETE WITH IN-HOME lasted late leaders William oval knowing another stop in in May at Dover and Chase Byron and JGR teammate the pits would end his race. Elliott followed the next week LEAFGUARD SYSTEM!† ESTIMATE!** as they saw “It took some brute force to at Texas. Larson then ripped their shot at the checkered hold that thing back, to hold off three straight points vic- flag disappear over the final it in,” Busch said. tories at Charlotte, Sonoma few laps when they ran out Busch raced without a care and last week at Nashville — of gas. early and sang a few bars of and squeezed in the $1 mil- “Sometimes these races “Fly Like An Eagle” over the lion All-Star race for four 423-443-3237 aren’t always won by the radio. His 59th career Cup wins, total — all while Hen- fastest car,” Busch said. victory will go down as one drick Motorsports became Sometimes they’re won by of Busch’s greatest hits. 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