NASCAR BUSCH SERIES McMurray wins again at Rockingham oval

He won the Target House 200 for his third straight triumph at Rockingham.
ROCKINGHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Jamie McMurray won the race, Kevin Harvick grabbed a title for his car owner and Brian Vickers put himself in position for his first championship in the Busch Series race at North Carolina Speedway on Saturday.
McMurray scored the fourth Busch Series win of his career -- and third consecutive at Rockingham -- by taking the checkered flag at the Target House 200.
He led 126 of the 197 laps in his Dodge and capitalized on late race troubles by his Chip Ganassi Racing teammates to hold off Martin Truex Jr. over the final few laps.
"I can not believe we won three races in a row here," said McMurray, who scored his first career Busch win here last November. "I just love this place."
Harvick clinches title
Harvick, who has split seat time with Johnny Sauter in the No. 21 Chevrolet, finished 14th to lock up the Busch Series car owner title for Richard Childress Racing.
"The owner championship is what we set out to do at the beginning of the year," Harvick said. "We don't want to take anything away from the driver championship, but we're taking home some hardware of our own."
The driver championship will be decided in next weekend's season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, where six drivers will be eligible to win the title in the tightest battle in NASCAR history.
Just 89 points separates first to sixth, making Vickers, David Green, Ron Hornaday, Jason Keller, Scott Riggs and Bobby Hamilton Jr. all able to win the championship next Saturday.
Vickers takes lead
Vickers grabbed a 22-point lead over Green by finishing sixth Saturday. "I'd rather be at the top next week instead of this week, but we'll go to Homestead and go after it," Vickers said.
Hamilton Jr. finished third Saturday, Winston Cup star Jeremy Mayfield finished fourth in his first Busch Series start in several years in a Dodge and David Stremme was fifth in a Dodge.
Vickers was sixth in a Chevrolet, Kyle Busch was seventh and Scott Wimmer, Sauter and Green rounded out the Top 10.
Riggs came into the race as the points leader, but wrecked with 32 laps to go. He finished 38th and dropped to fifth in the standings in his first DNF of the season.
"I hate it," Riggs said. "We're chasing four other guys now and we need to go in and do the best job we can. It's pretty ridiculous for us to be where we were and then be where we are now."
Accident foils sweep
His accident brought out the final caution of the race, and ruined what looked to be a 1-2-3 sweep for the Ganassi drivers.
McMurray and Mears, both Winston Cup rookies this season for Ganassi, and Stremme, an upcoming star in his driver development program, combined to lead 174 laps of the race and were in front of the pack when the caution came out.
McMurray and Mears came out of the final pit stops in first and second, but Stremme, who went in third, had a horrible stop and came out eighth to split the teammates.
McMurray and Mears then had trouble getting around the lapped car of Mike Bliss on the restart. McMurray eventually passed him, but Bliss slid in behind to separate him from Mears. As Mears battled to get around Bliss, McMurray pulled away and Mears was eventually done in by a flat rear tire that sent him to a 21st-place finish.
"I was worried about Casey on the final restart because he kept catching me at the end of all those long runs," McMurray said. " But it was a short final run, and I was hoping that Casey would be holding those other guys up. It looks like something broke for him and that's a shame because it could have been a good day for us."