Denny Hamlin wins own charity race

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    After a thunderstorm kept the crowd down for Denny Hamlin's charity race, the host put a move on Kyle Busch on the final lap and finally won his own event.

    "The way the wrecks happened and the restarts, we were just in the right line at the right time and we were able to pull it out," Hamlin said Thursday night, calling the win a confidence boost.

    He will enter the Sprint Cup race Saturday night 17th in points with just one top-10 finish after eight races, and that's 15 spots behind where he finished last season.

    Busch had dominated all night, but when the race went back to green after a caution with three laps to go, Hamlin surged from fourth to second right away, stalked his teammate with Joe Gibbs Racing and passed him on the backstretch when Busch ran out of fuel.

    Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/cup/news/story?id=6446613
     

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