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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Falcons Matt Ryan Jersey . -- Kurt Busch didnt want to talk about his future. All he wanted to do was celebrate his victory with underfunded Phoenix Racing. Busch won a wild Nationwide race at Daytona International Speedway on Friday night, holding off several challengers over the final hundred yards in a battered race car. "I dont care about me right now," Busch said. "Tonight is about Phoenix Racing." Buschs victory was his second in the Nationwide Series this season and first with Phoenix Racing. He won for his brothers team, Kyle Busch Motorsports, at Richmond. The latest one was more improbable, given that Buschs No. 1 Chevrolet was spewing steam over the final 10 laps and had what seemed like a roll of tape holding it together. "Its just a matter of putting yourself in position to win," Busch said. "Tonight, we overcame our damage. We could have folded, but these guys jumped into action and didnt give up." The race set a Nationwide Series record with 42 lead changes and 16 different leaders, besting the previous mark set at Daytona in February. The two-car tandem racing and recently paved track made for exciting passes and lots of action. Plenty of wrecks, too. Less than half the field remained on the lead lap for a green-white-checkered finish. Busch started the two-lap sprint pushing Austin Dillon, but made a move to the front with a lap left thanks to help from Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who was 11th on the final restart. Busch and Stenhouse held off Michael Annett and Dillon as they neared the finish line. "Theres heart and passion out there that these big teams dont got," Buschs crew chief, Nick Harrison, said. The win seemingly meant a lot to Busch, the 2004 NASCAR champion who was suspended for a weekend earlier this season by NASCAR for verbally abusing a media member. "Im a racer," said Busch, who lost his ride with Penske Racing last season after several public blowups. "I dont know much about anything else. You get caught up in marketing or PR and everything else that goes along with it, but youve got to do all the steps in this day and age. I keep saying I grew up 30 years too late, and I still havent grown up, even though Im 33. But back in the 80s, thats what this team reminds me of. Its family. And you go hard, or you go home." Stenhouse was second, followed by Annett, Dillon and Joey Logano. Loganos car failed a post-race inspection, and the team could be penalized next week. Dillons car spun across the track as he crossed the finish line and made contact with at least two others before coming to a stop. "Its not fun coming to the checkered spinning out, but we did it in the best fashion you can," Dillon said. "Theres no better feeling than coming to Daytona and coming to the checkered and having the run on the two leaders there. Ricky blocked high, and I tried to cross him up, got hooked a little bit. I probably should have just wedged it in there and crashed everybody. But I got hooked back left. It was a fun race. It was an awesome feeling. I was smiling the whole last lap." Dillon might not be smiling next week. His car failed post-qualifying inspection earlier Friday. It was the second failed inspection for the team in two weeks and could lead to another penalty. He was docked six points after officials deemed his car was too low following a victory at Kentucky last Friday. "I am not concerned," said Dillon, whose grandfather is NASCAR team owner Richard Childress. "It was just a bummer because we made another mistake. Its two in a row and its not fun and I know grandfather was upset with the guys." Danica Patrick had reason to be upset, too. She was involved in one of the earlier wrecks -- her car slammed head first into an inside retaining wall with 16 laps remaining -- and finished 31st. "Yeah, bummer," she said. "It kind of felt like the IndyCar days when you are close a couple of times. Its just frustrating when thats the case. What are you going to do? There was an accident happening in front of me, and the best thing that you can do is try and get around it. I havent seen a replay, but I know there was an accident in front of me." Busch did everything right down the stretch and got to celebrate another victory. "It just worked out beautifully," he said. "The seas parted. I juked and jived and found the right holes. I went high. I went low. Im glad I didnt have to move people out of the way at the end cause Stenhouse was pushing hard. He knew he had to get us in position to go for the win. He stayed with us the right amount and then we could settle it on who could win it." 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Kamaras goal in the fourth minute was his fifth in the past 10 MLS games, while the goal he scored for New York in the 28th minute resulted in a draw that left Sporting KC (14-7-5) two points clear of the Red Bulls (13-7-6) in the Eastern Conference standings. "Every game is important, right?" Sporting KC coach Peter Vermes said. "We just have to move onto the next game. These are what the games are going to be like when you get to the playoffs." Not to mention when the teams meet again. The rugged affair Sunday night was the first of three games the conference leaders will play over the next two months, and the only game at Livestrong Sporting Park. There were five yellow cards handed out, and Sporting KCs Aurelien Collin will miss the next game because of his. "This was ugly," Red Bulls coach Hans Backe said. "Two teams that definitely wanted to win." The scoring started before many fans had settled into their seats. Graham Zusi took control of the ball near midfield and flicked it ahead to Teal Bunbury on the wing, and he managed to chip the ball over the heads of New York defenders Connor Lade and Markus Holgersson. Kamara then out-jumped them both to head the ball into the net, which was left wide open when goalkeeper Bill Gaudette strayed too far onto the pitch. The goal proveed to be costly for Sporting KC, though. Michael Palmer Womens Jersey. Bunbury sprained his left knee while leaping to make the assist, putting one of the teams hottest scorers on the sideline. "He was putting them under pressure and thats what Teal has been doing well," said Vermes, adding that Bunbury will probably have an MRI exam on the knee this week. "They were a little afraid of him getting behind them." The equalizer for New York came in the 28th minute. Red Bulls forward Sebastien Le Toux set up for a spot kick far out on the wing, and sent a scorcher into the box. Tim Cahill was angling toward the net and Kamara tried to block him, but he got just enough of the ball with his head to send it past Sporting KC goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen. "There was obviously some miscommunication," Nielsen said. "Someone yelled to leave it, and Kei was trying not to touch it, and he got a piece of it. It was a really soft goal." It still counted the same. The own-goal was only the fifth goal allowed in 13 games by Sporting KCs starting defence of Collin, Seth Sinovic, Chance Myers and Matt Besler. That quartet kept New Yorks high-scoring attack out of the goal the rest of the night, and moved to 22-2-6 when they start a game together, including a 10-1-2 mark this season. It helped their cause that the Red Bulls played without forward Thierry Henry, whose wife gave birth to a son Friday. Henry is expected to return to the team this week. "We started the game exactly as we wanted to with high pressure," Besler said. "The goals didnt go in tonight, but were still in the position we want to be." ' ' '