The Sprint Cup Series takes its final break of the NASCAR season this weekend and that opens the door for the Nationwide Series, which rolls into the Gateway International Raceway in St. Louis for the Dodge Dealers 250. With 18 of 35 races completed, Kyle Busch enters the Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 with a commanding 192-point lead over Carl Edwards. Busch continues to increase his lead over Edwards after finishing first or second in the last six Nationwide races. Last Friday at Chicagoland, Busch finished second to Joey Logano, who collected his third win of the season. Logano held off his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate on old tires after a late-race restart. Kevin Harvick and Reed Sorenson will join Busch and Edwards as those Sprint Cup Series regulars competing in Saturday’s race. Busch has finished fifth (2004) and eighth (2006) in two starts at Gateway. Edwards, Harvick and Sorenson have two victories each there. Dale Earnhardt Jr. is the only other repeat winner at the 1.25-mile track. Last year, Edwards led a race-high 79 laps and finished nearly seven seconds ahead of Logano for the victory in front of his hometown crowd. He also won at Gateway in 2006. Sorenson will make his first Nationwide start this season, driving the No.32 Toyota for Braun Racing. Two of Sorenson’s three career victories in the series have come at Gateway. He won there in 2005 and ‘07. Forty-nine teams are on the preliminary entry list for this year’s 250-mile race at Gateway. Check out Auto Racing Betting Odds.
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