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Saturday's race: Kenseth wins pole

FORT WORTH, Texas Matt Kenseth will start on the pole for the NASCAR Nationwide Series at Texas, five spots ahead of points leader Kyle Busch.

Kenseth earned his first pole in his 13 Nationwide races this season, the 16th in his career, with a qualifying lap of 187.201 mph in his Ford. David Ragan also starts his Ford on the front row.

Busch, who has a 205-point lead over Carl Edwards with three races left, starts sixth. Edwards starts directly behind him in the No. 8 spot.

Title is big, but Busch wanted more

HOMESTEAD, Fla. Kyle Busch still wonders what could have been.

Even with eight Nationwide Series wins this season, 11 runner-up finishes and a guaranteed series championship as soon as he takes the green flag in Saturday's Ford 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Busch still looks for more.

"You know, what would be impressive is if those 11 second-place finishes were wins," Busch said. "That would be 19 wins. That's what's stupid. That's what's silly."

Friday's race big for the Toyota camp

There is no Sprint Cup Series championship in the cards for Kyle Busch this season, but he still has the opportunity to win his first NASCAR championship.

Entering Friday night's Dollar General 300 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, Busch holds a 155-point advantage over Carl Edwards in the Nationwide Series standings.

Busch, 24, would need to hold off Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski over the final five races to secure the championship, which would be his first in NASCAR’s three national series.

Edwards' Nationwide sponsorship set

FONTANA, Calif. Auto auction and salvage company Copart has signed on to sponsor NASCAR driver Carl Edwards in the Nationwide Series in 2010.

Copart will be the primary sponsor for 16 races for Edwards' No. 60 Roush Fenway Ford. Industrial products company Fastenal will be the primary sponsor for 15 races in 2010. Team owner Jack Roush said on Friday that he is still searching for primary sponsors for another handful of events.

Edwards is second in the Nationwide points standings heading into Saturday's race at Auto Club Speedway. The 2007 Nationwide champion trails Kyle Busch by 245 points with six races remaining.

Kyle Busch rolling

Kyle Busch keeps extending streaks at Texas in search of a NASCAR first.

Busch won his fourth consecutive Nationwide Series race at the 11/2-mile, high-banked track Saturday. The dominating victory came a day after he won his fifth truck race in his last five starts in the series.

He will try to complete an unprecedented trifecta today and become the first driver to win all three of NASCAR's national series races on the same weekend.