Matt Kenseth, driver of the #20 Dollar General Toyota, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Geico 400 at Chicagoland Speedway

Matt Kenseth, driver of the #20 Dollar General Toyota, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Geico 400 at Chicagoland Speedway

Matt Kenseth, the top seed in the hunt on behalf of the NASCAR Sprint Cup, added to his pro in Sunday's rain-interrupted GEICO 400 by the side of Chicagoland Speedway.

    With a strong pressure on from Kevin Harvick subsequently a restart with on Lap 245 of 267, Kenseth pulled away to beat Joe Gibbs Racing associate Kyle Busch to the plaid flag by .749 seconds and deny Busch the moment three-series weekend sweep of his career.

    The victory was Kenseth's sixth of the season, tops in the Cup chain, and his on the whole always in a single season. The driver of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota claimed his head win by the side of Chicagoland and the 30th of his career, 22nd on the all-time make a list.

    "I've until the end of time wanted to win at this point in Chicago," an elated Kenseth assumed in the Victory fast lane. "It's no more than a pair hours from anywhere I grew up--up in Wisconsin. So it feels absolutely to decisively grow the win at this point. We've been close a assortment."

    Harvick came in your third house, followed by Kurt Busch, who rallied from a leg down subsequently a pit road speeding penalty in the head third of the speed.

    Hendrick Motorsports teammates Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon both overcame huge adversity to be over fifth and sixth, correspondingly, as hunt drivers claimed the top six bad skin in the final order and 10 of the head 12.

    Other championship contenders weren't so providential. Pole winner Joey Logano brought his car to pit road under caution with engine issues on Lap 149 of 267. After Lap 175, the engine gave up the ghost, and Logano retired in 37th place.

    With the nose of his car punctured throughout a pit road accident on Lap 169, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Suffered an engine failure on Lap 226, he's a lot taped car overheating and ultimately erupting in a geyser of steam and smoke. Earnhardt dropped out cold in 35th place.

    "We had a car we were pretty favorable with and you know scarcely planning we were free to tolerate a pretty pleasant night," Earnhardt assumed apologetically subsequently taking the car to the garage. "I don't know pardon? Was free on on pit road nearby, but we knocked the front terminate inedible of it on pit road. Those guys all stopped on pit road in front of us.

    "We were irritating to grow so as to fix. We still had a venture to grow so as to fix and grow the downforce back in the front. We hack the press all up and the downforce was not here and we lost a leg nearby. We were free to grow so as to patched up and maybe be able to give rise to something out cold of it, but something broke nearby in the motor. It's tough. It's free to be really brutal to win a championship this far behind."