Winn-Dixie 250 - Daytona International Speedway

Kyle Busch Notches First Busch Series Win of 2007
Kyle Busch held off Kevin Harvick and Dave Blaney in a green-white-checkered-flag finish to win Saturday's rain-delayed Winn-Dixie 250 NASCAR Busch Series race at Daytona International Speedway. Busch crossed the finish line .103 seconds ahead of Harvick, with Blaney .243 seconds back, in a race that required two laps beyond the posted 100-lap distance at the 2.5-mile superspeedway. Tony Stewart and Clint Bowyer completed the top five in the finishing order. Busch led 65 of the 102 laps and was at the front when Juan Pablo Montoya spun in the dogleg on Lap 98 to bring out the race's sixth and final caution. The race restarted on Lap 101, and though Harvick and Blaney jockeyed for position behind the race winner, they never mounted a concerted threat. The victory was Busch's seventh in the NASCAR Busch Series and the first this season, though he had led the most laps in his four previous Busch races (Daytona, Las Vegas, Atlanta and Texas). "It was definitely a good racecar, and all we had to do was keep it out front and try to keep the mistakes to a minimum," Busch said. "Really, there were none today. For me, it was just a matter of being able to hit my restarts right and go through the gears and not miss a shift and keep those guys at bay -- keep them to half-a-car-length to a car-length behind me so they could never develop momentum and a run to get by me." Harvick ducked out of line momentarily on the final lap but had no drafting help, and the top four quickly returned to single file. "We had a lot of trouble today," said Harvick, who had problems with the left rear tire on an early pit stop and later suffered an alternator failure. "We couldn't get the tire off, the alternator went out, and we were just really, really loose the first run and kind of had to back out of the pack there to wait to get our car fixed."

Winn-Dixie 250 Notes

· Race Results · Toyota Post-Race Quotes · Ford Post-Race Quotes · Rookie Post-Race Quotes · Point Standings · Owner Point Standings · WIX Filters Lap Leader Notes · Starting Lineup · Qualifying Results · Final Practice · Practice 2: Rookie Practice · Practice 1 · Qualifying Order · Entry List · Weekend Schedule · Raybestos Rookie Notes · Kerry Earnhardt Notes · Brian Vickers Notes · Kelly Bires Notes

· Carl Edwards Notes · Kevin Harvick Notes · David Ragan Notes · Jason Leffler Notes · Dave Blaney Notes · Marcos Ambrose Notes · Greg Biffle Notes · Shane Huffman Notes · Clint Bowyer Notes · Scott Wimmer Notes · Casey Mears Notes · Juan Pablo Montoya Notes · Kyle Busch Notes · Eric McClure Notes · Jamie McMurray Notes · Tony Raines Notes · Bobby Labonte Notes · Kasey Kahne Notes · Reed Sorenson Notes

Rain Postpones Winn-Dixie 250
The Winn-Dixie 250 presented by Pepsico scheduled for Friday night at Daytona International Speedway has been postponed due to rain. The NASCAR Busch Series event will now run Saturday, July 7th at 9:00 am ET and will be televised by ESPN2. The NASCAR Busch Series garage opens at 6:30 a.m. and driver introductions are scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m.

Leffler Wins Busch Series Pole Position at Daytona
Jason Leffler won the Busch Pole for the Winn-Dixie 250, lapping the Daytona International Speedway in 48.765 seconds, at an average speed of 184.559 mph, to win his seventh Busch Pole in 137 career NASCAR Busch Series races. This is Leffler’s first Busch Pole and his sixth top-10 start in 18 NASCAR Busch Series races in 2007. This is Leffler’s first pole and fourth top-10 start in eight races at Daytona International Speedway. Tony Stewart posted the second-fastest lap at 48.819 seconds, at an average of 184.354 mph, and will join Leffler on the front row. With four different drivers, Joe Gibbs Racing has posted six consecutive front row starts at superspeedways in the No. 18 car. Aric Almirola (third) posted his third top-10 start this season. He started from the pole at Daytona International Speedway at the beginning of the season. Teammates Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer will start fourth and fifth respectively.