Green Wins Busch Pepsi 300

David Green passed Johnny Sauter on the backstretch of the final lap Saturday to win the Pepsi 300 at Nashville Superspeedway in Gladeville, Tenn.

Green won his first NASCAR Busch Series race since June 1996. With the Winston Cup Series in Virginia this week, the 1994 Busch champion became the first Busch regular to win this season.

Green was running fourth with 17 laps left. But he drove his Pontiac through traffic and worked his way up as he passed Mike Bliss for third, then passed Ashton Lewis Jr. in Turn 4 of the next-to-last lap.

Sauter, who led 22 of the final 23 laps, finished 0.28 seconds behind Green. Lewis was third, followed by Bliss.

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Dennis Setzer passed Chad Chaffin with 51 laps to go and held on through a series of late restarts to win the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Advance Auto Parts 250 at Martinsville, Va.... Scott Dixon took the pole position for the Indy Racing League Japan 300 after heavy rain washed out qualifying at the Twin Ring Motegi. Dixon’s lap at 206.996 mph in his G-Force Toyota during Friday’s practice session was good enough for the pole.

From Associated Press

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Gardena’s Mike Price won the rain-shortened 34-lap Southern California Auto Club Late Model Series main event before 5,859 at Irwindale Speedway.

The 20-lap Pick Your Part Figure 8 series feature was won by Long Beach’s Tom Smith.

Lee Ladd won the 40-lap Vista Paint Super Stock Series feature.

-- Tony Solarzano