Busch wins 5th race of year

SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — Kyle Busch snapped the brief slump that’s plagued him the past two weeks, racing to his first Sprint Cup Series win on a road course Sunday.

Busch, who had a poor qualifying run and started 30th at Infineon Raceway, steadily moved through the field and grabbed the lead away from defending race winner Juan Pablo Montoya on an early restart. Nobody came close to taking the lead from Busch the rest of the way, but he did have to hold off a pair of challenges on two late restarts.

It was Busch’s series-best fifth win of the season, and 11th overall spanning all three of NASCAR’s top series. It also was his second road course victory of the season — he won the Nationwide Series race in Mexico City in April.