Kurt Busch bests brother for Kentucky win

Kurt Busch earned his first win of the season by outracing his younger brother in overtime in a door-to-door to the Kentucky Speedway finish line last night.

The victory comes a week after Busch lost at Daytona because he pitted from the lead moments before weather stopped the race. That pit call has haunted Busch and his Chip Ganassi Racing team all week, but it was a call for four tires late in the race that gave Busch a shot at racing for the win.

Joey Logano had the victory in hand until a spin by

Bubba Wallace with six laps remaining sent the race into overtime.

Logano and Kyle Busch lined up side-by-side on the restart for what was expected to be a race for the victory, but both Erik Jones and Kurt Busch shoved their cars into the mix for an intense final two laps. Kurt Busch and Kyle Busch touched as they raced for the lead, both cars wiggled, and it appeared Kurt Busch was headed into the wall. But he recovered to squeeze past his brother right before the checkered flag.

The Busch Brothers finished 1-2, but it was the first win of the year for Kurt Busch and his new Ganassi team.

The victory is the third straight of the season for Chevrolet and first in nine races at Kentucky. It ended a two-race winning streak for

Martin Truex Jr. and Toyota.

Pole for Pagenaud

Indianapolis 500 winner

Simon Pagenaud will start from the pole for the IndyCar race through the streets of Toronto.

Pagenaud has been on a tear around Exhibition Place all weekend as his Team Penske Chevrolet has been consistently fast and he paced yesterday morning’s final practice on the 11-Turn, 1.786-mile street course. Then he took pole in qualifying, edging out reigning series champion Scott Dixon for the top starting spot in today’s race.

“This is the best you can feel in racing, when you achieve what you expect,” said Pagenaud, who won the Indy 500 in May from the pole.

Dixon said after qualifying he’s been bothered almost a month with “tennis elbow” — an inflammation of the tendons in the elbow — from working in the simulator and the discomfort has been problematic on Toronto’s rough street circuit.

“It’s been a bit of a nightmare,” Dixon said. “I got it the week of Texas and then I had it all the way through at Le Mans, and then at Road America it was really bad in the race. So we’ve been trying to do some therapy with it but tennis elbow. There’s no easy fix. It might be an offseason project, we’ll see.” Dixon teammate Felix

Rosenqvist qualified third for Chip Ganassi Racing, followed by Indy 500 runnerup Alexander Rossi for Andretti Autosport as Honda drivers took spots two through four. IndyCar points leader

Josef Newgarden qualified fifth, followed by Ed Jones. Marco Andretti, Sebastian

Bourdais, Spencer Pigot and Takuma Sato qualified seventh through 10th.

The day got off to an explosive start when Sato confronted Sebastien Bourdais following the morning practice session.

Hamilton off pace

By only six milliseconds — 0.006 — Lewis Hamilton was left in an unusual position: Missing out on pole for the British Grand Prix.

But after being outpaced by Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas, Hamilton will not start from the front of the grid at the British GP for the first time since 2014.

“It wasn’t the best of qualifying sessions,” Hamilton said, “but it is a long race tomorrow.”

It is a race Hamilton is trying to win for a record sixth time, further cementing the racing excellence of Britain’s five-time world champion.