INDIANAPOLIS -- Kyle Busch spent most of this weekend hearing about a historic sweep. Nike Air Max 2015 Kopen . On Sunday, he got to dust off the answers.Busch led a record 149 of 170 laps and beat teammate Matt Kenseth to the finish line by 2.126 seconds in the second overtime to win his second straight Brickyard 400. Coupled with his Xfinity Series success Saturday, Busch became the first NASCAR driver to win both poles and both races on the same weekend.Ive never had a dominant car like this, Busch said after winning for the fourth time this season. This is obviously a special day and a special car.The impressive feat overshadowed two other storylines:?Jeff Gordons comeback and Tony Stewarts farewell.Stewart finished 11th in his final race at Indianapolis, and Gordon was 13th. Gordon came out of retirement to replace?Dale Earnhardt Jr., who has battled concussion-like symptoms and has not yet been cleared by doctors to drive. Afterward, the two drivers who grew up in Indiana drove side-by-side around the 2.5-mile oval.I have gained so much respect and admiration for Tony, Gordon said. I love this guy. I have always respected his talent.But nobody was better than Busch this weekend. One year after he won both Indy races, he joined third-place finisher Jimmie Johnson as the only back-to-back winners of the Brickyard. Johnson won in 2008 and 2009.Busch surrendered the lead for 14 laps after his first pit stop, regained it when race leader Brad Keselowski pitted, then gave it up again for only five laps when he made his second pit stop. Everyone else spent the day chasing Busch.The No. 18 car was so strong that Roger Penskes drivers started with a strategy of trying to stretch their runs long enough to make one fewer pit stop. It didnt work. Logano finished seventh, and Keselowski wound up 17th. The only real challenge for Busch came with a series of late crashes that delayed his fourth trip to victory lane this season.The crashes began when Carl Edwards car wiggled in the first turn on a restart with seven laps to go. His car slid up the track, hit Keselowski and wound up involving Ryan Blaney, Ryan Newman and Danica Patrick. Nobody was seriously hurt, but the wreck brought a red flag out for almost eight minutes.On the ensuing restart, with three to go, Busch again pulled away, only to have a collision between Trevor Bayne and Clint Bowyer behind him to send the race into first overtime. It happened again when Jamie McMurray slid through the first turn and into the wall on the next restart, but Busch pulled away one more time for a historic win in a race that was actually 425 miles.I certainly didnt want one -- let alone five of them or however many there were, Busch said. We just wanted the race to go green til the end. We had a really good, long-run car til the end, so I felt like wed be able to hold off all those guys behind us, and then we had all those restarts.WHOS HOT: Joe Gibbs Racing and Toyota. The team had three cars finish in the top five and heads to Pocono with back-to-back victories. Toyota, meanwhile, had three of its cars place in the top four.WHOS NOT: Hendrick Motorsports. Yes, Johnson ended a four-race streak with no top-threes, but nobody else finished in the top 10, and none of the four cars was even in contention for the lead.TOUGH WEEK: Greg Biffle wanted this weekend to be a tribute for his late father, who died Tuesday. Instead, Biffles day ended early, after he crashed on Lap 52.EMPTY SEATS: Its tough to fill roughly 250,000 seats. But the estimated crowd of about 50,000 left plenty of seats empty at a race that has seen attendance steadily dwindle the past eight years. The lone exception came in 2015, in what was supposed to be Gordons final ride.HE SAID IT: When Busch was asked whether his success the past two years at Indy would prompt him to follow the footsteps of his brother,?Kurt, and run in the Indianapolis 500, Kyle Busch responded, Well, I wont be following in his footsteps. Ill be?doing my own footsteps. It certainly may open up some avenues. Im not sure.UP NEXT: Pocono Raceway, July 31. Kenseth is the defending race winner. Goedkope Nike Air Max . After Mondays hard-fought loss, the wait seemed longer than usual. Getting set to go their separate ways for a short Christmas break, the Raptors coach credited his team for their effort on a seemingly impossible three-game road trip, urging them to build on that success when they get back to work at the end of the week. Nike Air Max 90 Essential Sale . Once again Jordan Cieciwa (@FitCityJordan) and I (@LynchOnSports) go head to head in our picks. Last weekend at UFC Fight Night 32 my #TeamLynch got the best of #TeamJC by a score of 9-6. Let us know which side youre on for UFC 167 use the hashtag #TeamLynch or #TeamJC on Twitter. http://www.sneakersoutletheren.nl/zwart-wit-heren-nike-air-max-180-schoenen.html . Kyle Denbrook, a soccer player from Saint Marys University, took the CIS male athlete of the week honour. Stanley, a fourth-year business administration student from Charlottetown, scored both goals in a 2-0 win over Dalhousie on Friday and tallied again in a 1-0 win over Saint Marys on Sunday.Japans Hideki Matsuyama parred the fourth extra hole to clinch an unlikely play-off victory over American Rickie Fowler at the Phoenix Open on Sunday. Matsuyama went birdie-birdie over the final two holes of regulation at TPC Scottsdale to force the play-off as he and Fowler had matching 67s for a 14-under-par 270, two strokes clear of American Harris English. Final Leaderboard Phoenix Open Fowler had a two shot lead on the 17th tee of the final round, but he was to rue opting for the driver instead of his three wood. His ball hit the down slope at the short par four and ended up in the water for the eighth time in his career on this hole. A bogey for Fowler and a birdie for Matsuyama had them tied on 14-under-par heading down the last. Two good drives down the fairway, and it was Rickie who looked to have the advantage as the American hit his ball to around six feet. A confident long putt from Matsuyama forced Fowler to make a clutch putt of his own to force the play-off. Matsuyama holed a long putt on the final hole to force a play-off with Fowler They opened the sudden death play-off by playing the par-four 18th twice, matching each other first with par and then birdie, bbefore continuing at the par-four 10th. schoenen heren Nike Air Max 2015 wit & zwart & oranje. wayward drive from Fowler in to the rough on the third play-off hole put the world number four on the back foot, and he followed up his bad drive by sculling his second through the green.Mastuyama, whose drive was comfortably on the fairway, was unable to exploit Fowlers mistake and saw his own effort fly past the hole to the back of the green. They pair both managed pars to send the match to a fourth play-off hole. Fowler hit his drive in to the water nine times on the 17th of TPC Scottsdale during his career The play-off finally ended at the par-four 17th, where Fowler drove into a water hazard for the second time in barely an hour and could not save par. Despite taking his three-wood, Fowler knew it was off-line from the start and after a lackluster chip his par putt rolled past the right hand side of the hole.Matsuyama had the luxury of two-putting from five feet for his second victory on the PGA Tour, following the 2014 Memorial. Watch the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am live on Sky Sports 4 HD from 8pm on Thursday. Or watch from £6.99 without a contract, on NOW TV Also See: Phoenix Open leaderboard WATCH: Golfs loudest hole? First round highlights Golf live on Sky Sports 4 Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys China NFL Cheap Jerseys ' ' ' 

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