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Nationwide Series - Lagano Beats Busch

Joey Logano passed Kyle Busch with three laps to go and won his fourth Nationwide Series race of the year at Kansas Speedway on Saturday. The Joe Gibbs teammates had the best cars all day as Busch led 173 of the 200 laps. But Busch got passed for the win for the fourth time this year in the final laps by the young Logano. Busch, who couldn't believe he came in second again to his teammate, took the loss in stride, but was clearly disappointed. The race had its highlights, but no one had anything for the Gibbs Toyotas. The race to the checkered flag was set up by a crash when Brendan Vaughan "ran out of talent" and spun into Brian Vickers with both cars ending up in the wall. The green flag came back out with six laps to go and it didn't take long for Lagano to take the high side and pass Busch. Racing for third were the Safety-Kleen sponsored cars of Brad Keselowski and Kevin Harvick, who ran in the top five all day but never had the horsepower to contend for the lead. Greg Biffle also had a good car, but was only able to take fifth followed by Safety-Kleen's Justin Allgaier driving for Penske Racing. Carl Edwards finished seventh and fell even farther behind Busch for the championship with six races to go. But Keselowski closed to 62 points behind Edwards for second in the series points. The Nationwide teams travel west to Fontana, California for the race next Saturday.