Busch has led at least one lap in 18 of the 24 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races this season for a total of 1,580 laps. He has led more than any other driver this season.

Busch scored a second-place finish in tonight’s race, 1.969 seconds behind race winner Carl Edwards. He claimed his 15th top-five and 16th top-10 finish.

DID YOU KNOW? For the second consecutive Sharpie 500, the driver leading the most laps has led more than 400. Kasey Kahne led 450 laps on his way to a second-place finish.

Busch is the leader in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship standings, 212 points ahead of second-place Carl Edwards.

Busch leads Jimmie Johnson by four races (9-5) in the overall WIX Filters Lap Leader standings.

BUSCH QUOTES: YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT TONIGHT’S RACE AT BRISTOL. “It was all going fine there until the end. You know just a tough break for us and this M&M’s Toyota team. Steve Addington [crew chief] and the guys built me an awesome race car. The thing was flawless man for a long time there. On those long runs we could just check out and get through traffic better than everybody. It was really a cool car to have and be able to do that with. Just unfortunate with the way things came down there at the end. We’ll take it, we’ll go on and we’ll race here these next couple of weeks to try to get ourselves a win and into the Chase and throughout the Chase.” CARL SAID IN VICTORY LANE THAT HE RAN INTO YOU. DOES IT CUT ANY ICE AT ALL THAT HE AT LEAST ADMITTED HOW HE WON? “No, because he does that and he’ll always come back and say he’s sorry. He did it at Milwaukee, he’s done it a few other times. You know it’s just his normal fashion and so that’s fine. I’ve grown to know that now. You know, to pass a guy, to hit him getting into the corners and chatter his rear tires is what he did. I tried to get him back but I thought better of it and tried to pull down and pass him back but I just didn’t have a good enough car to stick and Denny got to my outside and he got by me and then I had to battle him there towards the end. We were clean as could be, of course. It’s just one other dude that we had a problem with.”

WIX FILTERS LAP LEADER AWARD STANDINGS

Kyle Busch 9

Jimmie Johnson 5

Dale Earnhardt Jr. 4

Tony Stewart 3

Kasey Kahne 2

Denny Hamlin 1

WIX FILTERS LAP LEADER AWARD WINNERS BY RACE

EVENT/ DRIVER

Daytona 500 Kyle Busch, 86 laps

Auto Club 500 Jimmie Johnson, 76 laps

UAW-Dodge 400 Kyle Busch, 56 laps

Kobalt Tools 500 Kyle Busch, 173 laps

Food City 500 Tony Stewart, 267 laps

Goody’s Cool Orange 500 Dale Earnhardt Jr., 148 laps

Samsung 500 Jimmie Johnson, 65 laps

Subway Fresh Fit 500 Jimmie Johnson, 120 laps

Aaron’s 499 Tony Stewart, 61 laps

Crown Royal 400 Denny Hamlin, 381 laps

Dodge Challenger 500 Kyle Busch, 169 laps

Coca-Cola 600 Dale Earnhardt Jr., 76 laps

Best Buy 400 Kyle Busch, 158 laps

Pocono 500 Kasey Kahne, 69 laps

LifeLock 400 Jimmie Johnson, 65 laps

Toyota/Save Mart 350 Kyle Busch, 78 laps

LENOX Industrial Tools 301 Tony Stewart, 132 laps

Coke Zero 400 Dale Earnhardt Jr., 51 laps

LifeLock.com 400 Kyle Busch, 165 laps

Allstate 400 at The Brickyard Jimmie Johnson, 71 laps

Pennsylvania 500 Kasey Kahne, 41 laps

Centurion Boats at The Glen Kyle Busch, 52 laps

3M Performance 400 Dale Earnhardt Jr., 43 laps

Sharpie 500 Kyle Busch, 415 laps