Saturday night's Coke Zero 400 offered plenty of fireworks and when the smoke cleared it was Kyle Busch in victory lane celebrating his first Cup Series win at the Daytona International Speedway, his sixth of the 2008 season.

Busch endured problems with the steering in his Joe Gibbs Toyota just past the halfway point and contact with teammate Denny Hamlin to put himself in contention during the late stages of the race.

The kid from Las Vegas was glued to the rear bumper of four time champion Jeff Gordon for several laps before making a pass for the lead with five to go. The caution waved with four laps remaining due to a melee on the backstretch that sent Jimmie Johnson hard into the outside reataining wall.

For the sixth time this season NASCAR lined the field up for a green, white, checkered finish with Busch leading Gordon and Carl Edwards to the flag. Jeff Gordon went for a wild spin through the infield grass on the restart after contact with Edwards. Gordon was able to continue with no caution displayed to the field.

Edwards pulled alongside Busch to take the white flag as numerous cars crashed through the tri oval bringing out the yellow and freezing the field in their current running order.

NASCAR officials reviewed video tape of the final lap before declaring Kyle Busch the winner.

"I can't beleive we're here," Kyle Busch said in victory lane. "We didn't have the best car tonight but these guys didn't give up and we kept going to the front."

NASCAR scoring credited Edwards with second, Matt Kenseth third, Kurt Busch fourth and David Ragan fifth.