Kyle Busch maintained his remarkable run of form to win the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis for the first time and take his third consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win.
Busch took the lead away from Kevin Harvick at a restart with eight laps to go and held on through two further caution periods, resisting the attention of Joey Logano at a green-white-chequered finish.
Logano had taken the lead at the start of the race from second on the grid, going around the outside of Carl Edwards at Turn 2.
He sat second to Harvick with 40 laps remaining when the leaders pitted for the final time, under caution.
Having been fourth, Busch led the race off pit road and rejoined fifth behind those who stayed out.
Once that out-of-sequence quartet had stopped by the time the race went under caution for the sixth time due to debris, it was Harvick who returned to the lead after making a good comeback from a slow stop, ahead of Edwards and Busch.
Busch took second at the restart that followed, and after the seventh caution for a Dale Earnhardt Jr spin, he snatched the lead from Harvick thanks to a push from Logano.
The penultimate caution came with five laps left due to debris, after which Harvick made a poor restart and fell to fourth behind Logano and Martin Truex Jr.
Trevor Bayne spun to set up the green-white-chequered, with Busch holding on to take his and Toyota’s first Brickyard win, ending a 12-year Chevrolet streak in the race.
It brings Busch up to within two places and 23 points of the 30th position he needs to make the Chase.
Harvick repassed Truex to finish third, with Denny Hamlin fifth and Clint Bowyer recovering from an early spin to take sixth.
Matt Kenseth was seventh ahead of Kurt Busch, Kyle Larson and Brad Keselowski.
Edwards finished up 13th after pitting when he lost second to Busch with 10 laps to go.
Five-time Brickyard 400 winner Jeff Gordon had a tough final race at Indianapolis after hitting the wall in avoidance of a spinning Bowyer on the first restart at the 50-lap mark.
He was initially able to continue despite heavy damage but ended up 53 laps down, hurting his chances of making the Chase on points.
