Kyle Busch wins Sprint Cup race at Indy

SPEEDWAY, IN — Kyle Busch won the Combat Wounded Coalition 400 Sprint Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for his 4th win of the season, 2nd win at Indianapolis, and 38th career win. He started from the pole and led 149 of 170 laps. That is the most laps led in a race at Indianapolis.

Busch also made history with the win.

The Joe Gibbs Racing driver became the first driver in NASCAR history to win both a Sprint Cup and XFINITY Series race in the same weekend after starting both races from the pole.

"It's so cool because it hasn't been done before. I've tried and been successful at being able to do a lot of things that others haven't been able to do before," Busch said. "I guess I give myself more chances than others because I run more of those races. It helps you and when it helps you win on Sunday, that's what makes everything so worthwhile on those Saturday races."

The race required two NASCAR Overtime attempts to complete after a rash of late race cautions.

Busch is the first driver to capture the XFINITY and Sprint Cup poles and win both races in the same weekend.

Matt Kenseth finished 2nd followed by Jimmie Johnson, Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson, Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano, Martin Truex, Jr., Austin Dillon, and Paul Menard.

Tony Stewart, running his final race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, finished 11th.

Jeff Gordon, subbing for Dale Earnhardt, Jr. finished 13th.

With less than 10 laps to go, Carl Edwards made contact with Ryan Newman and cars started spinning. Edwards spun to the outer wall, slamming the wall hard and making contact with Brad Keselowski. 

Newman went down onto the grass then spun back up across the field. Danica Patrick, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Ryan Blaney were also caught up in the crash. 

The race was red-flagged with less than six laps to go so NASCAR could clean up the track. 

Edwards took responsibility for the accident immediately after it. 

“It felt like I just got tight down there,” Edwards told NBCSN. “I’ve been having a little trouble with the splitter on the starts I got down there, we were fighting really hard for the bottom. It felt like I just got tight and hit whoever was on the outside of me. So if indeed that’s what happened, I apologize. That’s pretty frustrating. I don’t know if he came down or if I came up, but it felt like I got in there and just scrubbed that right front.”

There were 4 lead changes among 3 drivers and 8 cautions for 34 yellow flag laps.