Austin Dillon roars to first Nationwide win at Kentucky, nabs points lead
June 29, 2012
By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service
SPARTA,
Ky. -- In his 26th Nationwide Series start -- in his first full season
in the series -- Austin Dillon administered an emphatic, definitive,
no-doubt-about-it beating to 42 also-rans in Friday night's Feed the
Children 300 at Kentucky Speedway.
How decisive was Dillon's first Nationwide victory? Consider this:
Dillon led 192 of 200 laps, most ever by a Nationwide race winner at the 1.5-mile track.
He beat runner-up Kurt Busch to the finish line by 9.828 seconds.
Dillon
and seven other drivers finished on the lead lap, despite a mass
wave-around for a restart on Lap 150 after the second caution of the
race.
When
that caution interrupted a series of green-flag pit stops, after Dillon
had built a lead of more than seven seconds, he simply ran away from
the field after the restart.
Just
after the halfway point, on Lap 106, Dillon put Elliott Sadler, the
series leader entering the race, a lap down. With his dominating win,
Dillon wrested the points lead from Sadler and carries a two-point
cushion to Daytona, site of the July 6 Nationwide race.
And,
oh, by the way: Kevin Harvick, Michael Annett and Justin Allgaier
completed the top five. For Annett, it was his first top-five finish in
120 Nationwide starts.
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