Celebrating his birthday every spring in Richmond International Raceway's Victory Lane is becoming a tradition for Kyle Busch. He did it for the third year in a row after dominating Saturday night's Crown Royal 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race in Virginia's capitol city. Busch turns 26 on Monday.

Starting 20th in the 43-car field Busch went on to lead 235 of the 400-lap event. Denny Hamlin crossed the finish line 1.805 seconds behind Busch to finish second.

Kasey Kahne finished third followed by David Ragan and Carl Edwards. Clint Bowyer, A.J. Allmendinger, Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart and Brian Vickers completed the top-10.

Juan Pablo Montoya, Ryan Newman, Kurt Busch, Joey Logano, Jeff Gordon, Clint Bowyer, Matt Kenseth, Mark Martin, Paul Menard and David Reutimann were all involved in accidents with Gordon taking the hardest hit. The No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet was sent to the garage for the night after slamming hard into the inside retaining wall on lap 300. Gordon hit a section of the wall not protected by a SAFER barrier.

"I wish there was a SAFER barrier there," said Gordon. "I seem to be able to find the ones without the SAFER barrier."

Montoya and Newman got together twice during the race. Montoya brushed the wall in the first incident and went three laps down in the pits as the Earnhardt-Ganassi crew made repairs to the No. 42 Chevrolet. Montoya later retaliated by running into the back of Newman's No. 39 machine.

Newman visited with NASCAR officials after the race while Montoya declined interviews and left the track on a golf cart.

"To retaliate the way he did just didn't show much class," said Newman.

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