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Heading to Loudon, Carl Edwards trails by 127 points behind Kyle Busch and hopes to close the gap in the NASCAR Nationwide Series point standings. Carl finished in the top five at this race last year and hopes to take home the win Saturday when the race starts at 3PM on the ABC network.

Kyle Busch won the NASCAR Nationwide series Federated Auto Parts 300 at the Nashville Superspeedway.

Busch who has dominated the last six series events by leading the most laps has been plagued by a series of late race circumstance that kept him and his Joe Gibbs Racing team out of victory lane with just one win in the last five events.

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That streak was broken last night as Busch, who started from the pole again out paced the competition by leading 173 of the 225 scheduled laps.

Last years winner Brad Keselowski was making ground on Busch in the closing circuits but Busch held on to win by a 0.891 second margin to take his fourth win of the season and twenty fifth of his career.

Matt Kenseth benefitted from a late race caution to win the Diamond Hill Plywood 200 at the famed Darlington Raceway.

Kenseth, driving for Roush Fenway Racing mounted a late race charge and was running second behind Kyle Busch.

Busch who completely dominated the event by leading 143 of the races 153 circuits was in first with Kenseth picking up as much as three tenths of a second per lap as the race was in its closing laps.

Kenseth caught Busch with two laps remaining but before the former Sprint Cup champion could mount a pass the yellow flag came out after Scott Lagasse and Joe Nemecheck got together on the back stretch.

The caution set up a green-white-checker finish.

2009 marks the twenty-seventh year for the series currently known as the NASCAR Nationwide series. The series officially kicks off next Saturday with the Camping World 300 at the Daytona International Speedway.

As teams prepare for the event they were greeted with NASCAR announcing new engine rules for the series. Similar to rules in the Camping World Truck series, teams are not permitted to compete in three consecutive events without using a previously used engine from the season. The measure is designed to cut costs for teams, many of which are struggling with the country’s current economic problems. The rule does not go into effect until March twenty-fifth and does not apply to races at restrictor plate tracks (Daytona & Talladega).