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By Curtis Pashelka
Bay Area News Group

SONOMA - He conserved enough fuel for the two-lap sprint to the finish. He hit his marks. He ran consistent lap times to stay comfortably ahead of his pursuers.

And he nailed restart after restart, including the most crucial one of the day.

Kyle Busch said he hardly considers himself to be a "road-course ace" at this point in his promising career. But Busch certainly had the look of one during a dominant performance Sunday at Infineon Raceway.

"Today," Busch said, "we were just in the right positions at the right times."

Busch, 23, was flawless during a green-white-checkered finish to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup Toyota/Save Mart 350 in only the seventh road-course start of his Cup career. David Gilliland finished 1.716 seconds behind in second, and five-time race winner Jeff Gordon was third.

Busch, who started 30th, led 78 laps, including the final 42 for his fifth Cup victory of the season. He has won 11 times this season including his work in the Nationwide and Craftsman Truck series. He won the Nationwide Series road race in Mexico City in April.

Kyle Busch wins Sonoma NASCAR race....