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INDIANAPOLIS -- Kyle Busch used his first Brickyard 400 victory as a springboard to his first Sprint Cup title.Hes trying to make sure it happens again.Another dominant weekend at Indianapolis sent Busch home with a historic sweep, a reputation for having tamed Indianapolis tricky 2.5-mile oval and plenty of momentum heading into the chase.To come out of here, at a place this hard to race and be able to have two years like this, I think, is really special, team owner and Super Bowl-winning coach Joe Gibbs said. Thats a tribute to him, the team and (crew chief) Adam Stevens.If Busch keeps driving this well, hell be impossible to catch.He posted the fastest laps in both of Fridays practices, the best speed in two of the three rounds of Cup qualifying Saturday and led a record 149 laps in the double overtime race that went 10 laps longer than the scheduled 160.Busch also won the Xfinity Series race from the pole while leading all but one lap, and the first of two heat races.Its the first time a NASCAR driver has captured two poles and two wins on the same weekend, and he joined Jimmie Johnson as the only back-to-back winners of the Brickyard. Johnson finished third Sunday.Busch was so strong at Indianapolis, that he overshadowed Jeff Gordon in his comeback and Tony Stewart in his farewell race on their home track.Now Busch is looking to replicate the aftermath of last years two-race Indy sweep -- building off the momentum at Pocono as the title quest nears.I thought last year the momentum did carry over, he said. We won this race and then we were running right behind Joey Logano for much of the last stint at Pocono, and we thought we had just enough fuel to make it. We didnt. We ran out.Here are some other things learned from Sundays race:FOND FAREWELL: Gordon and Stewart both missed out on top-10 finishes. Stewart wound up 11th after a late speeding penalty on pit road. Gordon, who replaced the injured Dale Earnhardt Jr., wound up 13th in his season debut. And after the race, Stewart and Gordon -- two Indiana drivers who were once rivals -- took one final, slow lap around the track together to thank their home-state fans.STRONG EFFORT: Busch won the race, but Gibbs had two other cars in the top four. Matt Kenseth, the New Hampshire winner, was second, 2.126 seconds behind Busch. Denny Hamlin overcame a speeding penalty to finish fourth. Carl Edwards looked like he would have a top-five finish before crashing late in the race.NOTHINGS SAFE: While Busch clearly had the dominant car, the closing laps made him nervous. There were three restarts with less than 10 laps to go and each time, Busch managed to pull away and hold on for the win. He just wasnt happy about it. I certainly didnt want one, let alone five of them or however many we had.SECOND ACT: Buschs brother, Kurt, already has raced in the Indianapolis 500. 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"I was fortunate to play many years at this level with a great organization and unbelievable teammates," said Hejduk in a statement. Pakistan 8 for 97 (Sarfraz 31*, Hazlewood 3-19, Starc 3-45, Bird 2-7) trail Australia 429 (Smith 130, Handscomb 105, Renshaw 71, Wahab 4-89, Amir 4-97) by 332 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball detailsAustralia and Pakistan on night two in Brisbane resembled nothing so much as Australia and most of the rest of the world during the great recession of 2008. Having planned and saved soundly in the good times on a slower day one pitch, the hosts were able to absorb the shock of tougher batting conditions, helped by a Peter Handscomb stimulus package.Pakistan had no such safety net, and when the crash came under the Gabba lights against the wobbling pink ball, they went swiftly into free fall. The visiting batsmen jutted their bats out at the bad real estate offered by Australias canny bowlers like so many reckless traders, and were left observing the ruins of their first innings like former employees of Lehman Brothers.The main reason for the days violent swerve from 1 for 43 to 8 for 67 was the quickening of the surface, which clearly did not need a single millimetre more grass than the two the curator Kevin Mitchell Jnr. left on it. One wonders how swiftly the match might have moved with the 6mm preferred by Adelaides groundsman Damian Hough.Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and Jackson Bird had far too much speed, accuracy and movement for Pakistans batsmen, cowed as they already had been on slower, seamier pitches in New Zealand. Of the tourists only Sami Aslam gave any indication of permanence, and even that was of the painful, white-knuckle kind as he wore two blows on the helmet before glancing Bird into Matthew Wades gloves.Handscombs chanceless century, in only his second Test, ensured that the quality spells bowled by Mohammad Amir and Wahab Riaz did not result in a similar level of mayhem. Amirs figures were his best since returning to the Pakistan side, but he was unable to dislodge Handscomb, who showed patience beyond his years and deep trust in his way of batting. Gleefully, he leapt from 91 to 101 with a powerful six off Yasir Shah then a delectable square drive off Amir. Bird and Nathan Lyon bolstered Australias total with a pesky stand of 49 - runs measured in value through the deepening furrow in Misbah-ul-Haqs brow.Steven Smith and Handscomb had begun intent on a long occupation, but the captain appeared to decide it was time to go on the attack after the fourth wicket stand went beyond 170 runs. First he tried to deposit Yasir into the Gabba stands only for Amir to drop a swirling chhance, then flayed at Wahab to end an equal parts fine and fortunate innings.ddddddddddddNic Maddinson was not confronted by floodlights and a swinging ball, but the extra pace off the pitch did appear to trouble him against both spin and pace before he was unable to withdraw his bat from Wahab in time - having already been turfed at short leg off Yasir. Wade and Starc both offered up catches to the slips off the persistent Amir before Handscomb was able to reach three figures, doing so with an exultant yell and matching fist pump.Despite the late flurry from Bird and Lyon, Pakistans openers did have the advantage of starting in daylight. Starc gained some early swing, but it was a ball angled across with bounce that found the edge of Azhar Alis bat - expertly snaffled by Usman Khawaja. For a little more than 15 overs, the resolute Sami and a seemingly composed Babar Azam held the Australians at bay, even as the lights took effect.It was clear they stuck around longer than the hosts preferred, as evidenced by Starcs ever more prominent snarling in Samis direction. But it was to be Hazlewood who signalled the start of the downturn by tempting Babar with a delivery just wide enough to drive, and just short enough to make it risky. The resultant edge was well held by Smith, turning his body, and next ball Wade had a far simpler task to collect a thinner edge from a fencing Younis Khan.Though Misbah survived the hat-trick, he seemed mesmerised by the bouncing, seaming ball, and it was no surprise when his searching bat succeeded only in edging low to Matt Renshaw at first slip. By now the Gabba had taken on full Colosseum mode, as near enough to 25,000 spectators willed further edges into the Australian cordon.They got them too, as Asad Shafiq and Yasir offered further catches to Khawaja, either side of a return catch from Wahab and a forlorn touch down the leg side by Sami. His determination to keep his bat from harm had been the closest any Pakistani came to a workable method in such bouncy conditions.Late in the piece, Sarfraz Ahmed and Amir managed to hang around until stumps while inching the total towards three figures - the former was reprieved when Wade failed to glove a stumping chance off Lyon. 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