For the second week in a row, points leader Kyle Busch utilized a late race pass to take the checkered flag in the LifeLock.com 400 at Chicagoland Speedway. The win marks the seventh time this year Busch has visited victory lane in the Cup Series and extends his points lead over the competition.

Busch dominated much of Saturday night’s race at Chicagoland, but was passed for the lead by former teammate Jimmie Johnson with less than twenty laps remaining. Johnson began driving away in the clean air until a caution for David Gilliland’s blown engine brought Busch and the rest of the field to his back bumper.

Johnson slowly led the field to the final restart of the race with only two laps to go. Busch was not going to wait on the No. 48 Chevrolet to get going and pushed Johnson down the D-shaped frontstretch, making a move to the outside going into Turn 1. Racing side-by-side down the backstretch, Busch was able to take the lead off Turn 4 and cruise to victory with Johnson behind him.

“Jimmie (Johnson) was going to bring us down slow,” Busch explained. “I remember this from short track days when somebody was in your mirror and you creep up on them. You stop and they’ll go up on you. Well, I just went – I pushed Jimmie Johnson to go and was like ‘let’s go man, here we go.’ That was the saving grace right there was a good restart. I just had to go to the outside because he was going to block the bottom in turn one and two. It sucked for me out there. I don’t know how, why or whatever.

“Steve Addington (crew chief) and these guys deserve this one here,” Busch added. “It was a great car out front all night. We got back in traffic and complained about it a lot. When we got back out front it felt good again. I knew when Jimmie got us here that clean air was going to be it. Luckily we got that caution and got back by him.”

“I really wasn't thinking defense,” Johnson said of the final restart. “We had such a good car, I thought I would get away from him on the restart, and he got a great start and was right there with me and just broke past that bumper plane through the center of one and two, and that was it. So looking back, if I could do it over again, I would have played more defense on that restart. I thought with how we had been running, I was in good shape.”

This win continues Busch’s amazing season as he chases his first Cup Series championship. Heading into this year’s Chase, Busch has a commanding lead in terms of bonus points, with seventy. With seven races remaining before the Chase begins, Busch has a very good shot at piling on more bonus points before the field is set.