Stealing the spotlight from his younger brother, Kurt Busch dominated Sunday's Kobalt Tools 500 to earn his nineteenth career Cup Series victory. Leading more laps than he did throughout the entire 2008 season, Busch put his blue deuce out front early and often to score his first win since last June in Loudon, New Hampshire.

Starting from the outside of the front row, it did not take long for the elder Busch to take control of the race. Following the first round of pit stops on Lap 14, Busch moved around Ryan Newman - who took only two tires - and began to drive away from the rest of the field. Opening up a lead of nearly seven seconds by Lap 40, Busch began to pick through lapped traffic while the rest of the field tried to catch his shrinking Dodge.

The entire complexion of the race changed once the caution flag flew on Lap 67, smack dab in the middle of the of green flag pit stops. With the majority of the leaders already on and off pit road, the yellow mixed up the running order and left only six cars on the lead lap - Denny Hamlin earned the free pass once the caution came out and became the sixth car on the led lap.

With Busch still in command of the event, the five cars that had not come to pit road under green flag conditions came in for service. Miring a lot of good race cars a lap or more down and with others starting on the tail end of the lead lap, the caution jumbled the running order.

Despite problems with a slipping clutch, Jeff Gordon was able to stay in contention and work his way through the field and towards the front. One of the only cars that was able to challenge Busch's No. 2 Dodge, Gordon was able to pull up to the rear of the blue deuce but struggled to make his move for the lead.

Beating Busch and teammate Jimmie Johnson off pit road in a three-wide battle, Gordon was able to take the lead for the first time on Lap 204. Taking off on the restart, Gordon was able to hold onto the lead for the next forty-seven laps.

When Gordon caught the tail end of the field on Lap 250, Busch was able to close the gap and challenge for the lead once again. Making his move on the outside between Turns 3 and 4, Busch drove around the No. 24 DuPont/National Guard Youth Challenge Chevrolet to take the top spot on Lap 251.

With sixty laps to go, Busch had a new challenger in his rear view mirror in the form of Brian Vickers. Methodically working his way through the field from his 17th starting spot, Vickers used the high line to close the gap on the dominant Busch. With only five laps to go and fuel a concern for everyone, the driver of the No. 83 Red Bull Toyota was able to cut Busch's lead to just over half a second, setting up another dramatic Atlanta finish.

Unfortunately for Vickers, Robby Gordon's tire let go on Lap 323 littering the track with debris and brining out the caution. With over fifty laps on their tires and little fuel in the tank, all of the leaders hit pit road for service.

A great stop by Busch's Pat Tryson-led pit crew sent Busch out second only to Carl Edwards who took two tires. The No. 24 team was able to get Gordon out third behind Busch, while Kevin "Bono" Manion opted for two tires sending his driver out fourth. Kevin Harvick fought back from being caught a lap down and restarted the race in fifth. After entering the pits second, a slow stop dropped the No. 83 of Vickers back to sixth and out of contention.

Lining up for the Green-White-Checkered finish, Edwards hoped his tires would hold and a caution would fly behind him, thus ending the race. Taking the green flag, Gordon got a great jump and looked to the outside of the Busch's Dodge for second. Shutting the door and driving hard into the corner, Busch got a great run through the corner and pulled past Edwards on the outside off Turn 2.

As Busch moved around Edwards on the high side, Gordon took advantage and jumped to the outside of the No. 99 for second. With Edwards and Gordon racing hard for the runner-up spot, Busch drove off and grabbed the checkered flag.

Celebrating on the frontstretch, the 2004 Cup Series champion took the checkered flag, put the car in reverse and drove his car backwards around the 1.5-mile speedway in one of the most unique celebrations in NASCAR history.

"Man this was an incredible race," Busch said after climbing from his car in victory lane. "I have to thank my guys, this car was unbelievable. Good things come to those that wait. We waited over a year and a half with this CoT to find a good package and we have that to start off 2009."

For the second year in a row, the Busch brothers earned back-to-back wins in the Sprint Cup Series. Not only did younger brother Kyle take last week's Cup Series event at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the 23-year-old captured Saturday's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event in Atlanta.

"That's neat," the oldest Busch brother explained. "I've got to hold my end of the bargain because Kyle's on the gas right now."

Clearly dominating the Sunday's event, Busch led six times for a total of 234 laps, earning a perfect driver rating for the day - the first driver to do so since, well, himself in Pocono in 2005.

"We had our hands full, but we had a great race car," Busch added. "Our Dodge Charger was unbelievable. Just from the get go of the race, I knew that we had something special; it was up to me to protect it. We started sliding around mid-part in the race and had to get back to the old school 'race the track' and don't race the competition."

There really was no competition for Kurt Busch and his Pat Tryson-led pit crew today. Dominating the event, Busch reminded everyone there is another Busch in NASCAR and he knows how to get the job done too.