Carl Edwards repeats in Texas

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    Carl Edwards knew Kyle Busch was charging hard. What he almost didn't see was the car that would change the Nationwide race at Texas Motor Speedway.

    Edwards and Busch were running 1-2 on lap 88 when Tim Schendel's car blew a right front tire and shot up the track, basically splitting the front-runners. He barely scraped the back of Edwards' car, but was right in front of Busch, who had nowhere to go and hit him full force.

    "Just sheer luck of timing, the car ended up missing us and caught him instead," Edwards said. "Out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw that car turn. ... I'm glad that I caught it. A split second later, it would have been over."

    Edwards went on to lead 169 of 200 laps and win his second consecutive Nationwide race at the 1½-mile, high-banked track. It was his 30th Nationwide victory, the 15th NASCAR victory for car owner Jack Roush at Texas, and the first NASCAR win for a Ford Mustang.

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