By Al Robinson
NSSN Correspondent

DOVER, Del.
For a long time, it looked like Mother Nature would be the only winner at Dover Int’l Speedway on Saturday. Instead, Denny Hamlin earned his second NASCAR Nationwide Series triumph of the season.
After a three-hour rain delay, Kyle Busch established his usual place at the front of the field in the Heluva Good! 200. It was not to be his day, thanks to a pit-road skirmish and an on-track accident, which opened the door for Hamlin, who led 131 laps, including the final 95 circuits of the one-mile asphalt oval.
Usually teammates, Hamlin and Busch were racing head to head this time as Hamlin carried the Joe Gibbs colors and Busch was aboard the Braun Racing entry he took to victory lane at Lowe’s Motor Speedway one week earlier.
Between them, the pair of Toyotas led 199 of the 200 laps. Kevin Lepage was scored the leader of a single lap under caution.
Pole-winner Carl Edwards failed to lead a lap, but finished runner-up, one second behind Hamlin, while a two-tire stop propelled David Stremme to third. David Reutimann and Greg Biffle completed the top five ahead of Hamlin’s teammate du jour, heralded rookie Joey Logano.
“We just bided our time and ran as hard as we needed to and everything paid off in the end,” said Hamlin, who has risen through the Joe Gibbs Racing-developmental chain from obscurity to stardom in just four years. “It’s a shame to see Kyle get torn up there because it really would have been a great race at the end.”
Busch passed Hamlin on lap 38 and led past the halfway mark, but a round of caution-flag pit stops after Brad Coleman crashed on lap 104 started to unravel his race. In the tight confines of the Dover pit road, Brad Keselowski bumped Busch, bending sheet metal behind the left- front wheel and bringing Busch back to the pits.
No harm resulted, but Busch was still trying to crack the top five when he was assisted into the turn-two wall by the other Braun Racing driver, Jason Leffler, with 31 laps to go.
Typically, Busch lobbed a verbal assault at Leffler after the crash, but Leffler for his part, took full blame for the accident. “I just lost it,” he said.
Busch was scored 28th and fell 121 points behind Clint Bowyer for the Nationwide Series point lead.    
Logano also lost track position in a pit bump and subsequent inspection stop early in the race, but was able to rally and run in the top five until the closing laps when he lost fifth to Biffle.
Keselowski made it back to seventh, while Mike Wallace passed Bowyer near the end for eighth. Kasey Kahne was 10th.
The unwritten NASCAR rule for tracks without lights has long been that a race will not start if there is not sufficient daylight to run the advertised distance. The cars were fired up at Dover around 6 p.m., looking at a sunset of 8:22 p.m. Trouble with the condition of pit road delayed the green flag until 6:16, but the full distance was completed with plenty of daylight remaining.