Kyle Busch went side-by-side with Carl Edwards for the finish at O'Reilly Raceway Park tonight in the Kroger 200 but Busch was the one who earned the victory which was his eighth of the season.

Busch, the defending NASCAR Nationwide Series champion, said he did worry about Edwards' late-race behavior but the two raced each other cleanly.

Edwards has been getting flack this week after sending Brad Keselowski spinning into the wall and then into numerous other cars last weekend at Gateway International Raceway. The two drivers have a history which made the situation that much worse and NASCAR responded with a fine, points deduction and probation for Edwards and probation for Keselowski. Cousin Carl seems to have turned into NASCAR's new bad boy over night but he raced NASCAR's recent baddest of the bad, Rowdy Busch, very clean.

Busch called it good, clean racing and said, "That's what happens when you race guys cleanly over time and race each other with respect, you get respect back."

Edwards finished a close second followed by Aric Almirola, Trevor Bayne and Reed Sorenson. Brendan Gaughn, Justin Allgaier, Brad Keselowski, Paul Menard and Steve Wallace rounded out the top-10.

Next weekend the NASCAR Nationwide Series will be in Iowa for the U.S. Cellular 250 presented by Northland Oil & John Deere. The race is scheduled to broadcast at 7pm ET Saturday on ESPN2.

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