The Busch brothers were stalking Brad Keselowski, looking to take the victory on the final lap at Daytona on Saturday night.
They wound up with completely different outcomes at the end of the race.
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Kurt Busch, winless in 30 attempts at the track, ended up sliding across the grass while brother Kyle Busch raced to second.
As Kurt Busch’s car came shooting out of a tight pack of cars, Brad Keselowski led the field to the checkered flag.
Kurt Busch seemed less than pleased with the outcome — and Joey Logano's style of racing in the closing laps.
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“We positioned ourselves to be the car to get a good run off the bottom," he said. "It just didn’t work out with him (Logano) trying to drive straight through us. And it would have worked out better if he would have pushed us. We could have had a shot at the No. 2 (of Keselowski). And with just the way that it turned out, I feel disappointed that I didn’t get the win for (crew chief Tony) Gibson and all these guys that work for our team.
"We did everything right tonight except cross the line where we were supposed to.”
The final lap that crowned Brad @Keselowski the champ of the #CokeZero400. https://t.co/1DaWWQg8ZV
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Logano apologized in his postrace comments for the contact.
“Bummed out I got into Kurt there at the end,” Logano told NBC. “That was the last thing I wanted to do. Just running so hard at the end, I had a run to get underneath him and when that happens the cars are so close, I just hate that I got him there.”
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Kyle Busch, meanwhile, said he was a bit fuzzy on exactly how things went down following the final restart.
“I don't remember a whole lot,” he said. “It gets kind of crazy. I do remember the 6 car (of Trevor Bayne, who finished third) just being really, really helpful to us and being able to give us a really big push there down the front stretch and then again down the backstretch.
"I thought we had enough speed and enough momentum to have a good enough run to try to get alongside (Keselowski’s) car getting into Turn 3, but once (Bayne) kind of lost my rear bumper a little bit, then (Kurt Busch) really had momentum on the inside and a run going that then we kind of lost the ability to get back to (Keselowski), and from there it was just trying to finish second and trying to figure out what all was happening on the inside of us with (Kurt) and (Logano) kind of getting together, I guess.”