Kyle wins by a (Monster) mile.

The thirteenth round of the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series was unlucky for just about everybody save for Kyle Busch, who took the Best Buy 400 by the scruff of the neck just prior to the half way mark and proceeded to lead the majority of the final 200 laps.

With the bumpy and slick concrete surface of the one mile Dover International Speedway magnifying the difference in performance between those who nailed the correct set-up and those who just missed it Sunday's 400-lap race could hardly be described as a classic despite an early race multi-car wreck that involved no less than six of the drivers who came into the day among the top 12 in points.

While the lap 19 crash that involved, among others, Tony Stewart, Denny Hamlin, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Kevin Harvick, Clint Bowyer and Kasey Kahne, certainly shook the running order up in the middle of the pack it had little effect on those who started at the front and such was the dominance of Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards and finally Busch that it was hard to see any of the above mentioned contenders challenging for the win in any case.

In front of a large but nowhere near sold out Delaware crowd it was polesitter Biffle who took off like the proverbial scalded cat, opening up a two second lead inside ten laps before, on lap 17, David Gilliland tapped Elliott Sadler into a spin coming off turn two. Sadler hit the outside wall and bounced back directly onto the racing line in front of a large pack of traffic. First to pile in was Stewart who punted Sadler's car back to the outside where he was hit by the rapidly approaching Hamlin and Scott Riggs. No sooner had Hamlin and Riggs made contact Earnhardt Jr, Bobby Labonte, Bill Elliott, Kahne and Bowyer joined the fun with Paul Menard and David Ragan somehow threading their way through without sustaining any meaningful damage.

With the track blocked with severely damaged cars NASCAR chose to red flag the race and while Sadler and Hamlin were the only drivers to be out on the spot, several others including Stewart and Harvick would spend more than 50 laps making repairs before returning to the track.

The delay didn't dampen Biffle's spirits however and as soon as racing resumed he quickly re-established his lead over third place starter Kyle Busch and the second of the Roush-Fenway machines of Carl Edwards. After two more quick caution periods Edwards moved into second spot and seemed content to sit about one second of Biffle's rear bumper as a round of green flag pitstops approached just shy of the lap 150 mark.

When Biffle pitted on lap 148 he conceded the lead for the first time under green flag conditions all day and while he soon regained it as the order cycled through Edwards was able to pass him for the lead for good on lap 170. Now it was Edwards' turn to pull away as Biffle, hampered by alternator problems, began to struggle.

Kyle Busch moved into second spot on lap 185 and slowly worked his way onto Edwards' rear bumper as a second round of green flag stops began on lap 225. It was now that Busch's #18 Joe Gibbs team came into their own, turning Busch's car around in under 13 seconds and handing him the lead when the order shuffled out.

Busch didn't get a chance to showcase his new lead for long though as the fifth and final caution period of the day waved for debris on lap 242, bringing Edwards, Biffle, Matt Kenseth, Jeff Gordon and the rest of the leaders back onto Busch's rear bumper. But Busch needn't have worried for when the green flag dropped on lap 247 Busch simply drove away again.

Edwards did his best to stay within striking distance of the leader as the race entered its final 100 miles, running directly behind Busch on the track as the final round of stops approached. With no caution period to help them it was squarely down to the crews once again when the stops finally took place between laps 315 and 325 with Busch's crew again proving themselves to be a cut above the rest as they serviced Busch's car in less than 13 seconds for the second straight stop to hand him a three second lead by the time the order sorted itself out.

Edwards remained in second spot for the final 75 lap stretch to the chequered flag but Busch clearly had the field covered, leading by three seconds on lap 330, five on lap 340 and eight seconds with 50 laps remaining. Despite being held up by Martin Truex Jr and Jimmie Johnson who, whilst running sixth and seventh were in danger of being lapped, Busch was able to keep his lead above five seconds as the race entered its final stages. After some considerable coaxing by the team Kyle finally backed off his pace slightly in the final five laps but was still able to coast across the finish line for his fourth win of the year with ample room to spare, extending his points lead to more than 100 in the process.

After watching Hamlin run away with the Nationwide Series race on Saturday Edwards found himself in a similar position on Sunday with second the best he could possibly hope for. Whilst Edwards was by no means happy the result, coupled with the misfortunes of others, helps overcome his 100-point penalty incurred following his Las Vegas indiscretions.

Biffle claimed third, more than ten seconds behind Busch and after dominating at Darlington before mechanical troubles put him out and then running second in both the All Star race and the Coca Cola 600, another strong run has put the 2005 series runner up into the top five in the driver points standings with 13 races left before the cut-off for the 'Chase for the Championship.'

Matt Kenseth made it three Roush-Fenway cars in the top four with his first top five finish since the second race of the year in Fontana while Jeff Gordon and defending Best Buy 400 winner Martin Truex Jr the only other two unlapped runners in fifth and sixth places respectively.

Jimmie Johnson overcame a speeding penalty on pit road to finish seventh, albeit a lap down while Jeff Burton lost his one hundred per cent laps completed record this year despite registering an eighth place finish. Dave Blaney put in one of his best drives of the year to take ninth with Jamie McMurray rounding out the top ten in the fourth Roush-Fenway entry.

Travis Kvapil narrowly missed out on a top ten finish in his unsponsored Yates Racing entry and took eleventh with Juan Montoya 12th in what is becoming an increasingly unsettled season for the Colombian born Chip Ganassi Racing man. Brian Vickers suffered two speeding penalties and finished two laps down in 13th with Ryan Newman 14th, the fifth Roush-Fenway Ford of David Ragan 15th and the rest of the top 20 at least three laps behind the leaders such was Busch's torrid pace at the head of the field.

Of the drivers caught up in the lap 17 melee Kahne fared best and finished 31st, eight laps off the lead with Earnhardt Jr 13 laps back in 35th, Harvick 74 laps back in 38th and Stewart 41st, retiring his damaged car after completing 199 laps.

Despite the generally mundane nature of the race there was plenty of shuffling in the points standings amongst the top 12 for while Busch now leads Burton by 142 points, third place man Earnhardt Jr is now more than 270 points back with Edwards up to fourth, Biffle jumping six places to fifth and Gordon jumping four places to sixth. The biggest losers on the day were Hamlin, Harvick, Stewart and Kahne for although they remain in the top 12, less than 200 points now separate them from a bunch of non chase drivers including surprise package Ragan, Daytona 500 champ Newman, the consistent Truex Jr, the recovering Kenseth and the unpredictable Montoya.