Kurt Busch won a Nascar Sprint Cup race that took place at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday even if he was forced at some point to continue the competition in a different vehicle than his stock car. A dropcloth covered his blue Dodge, which was parked on a pit road and had a part dangerously hanging from the underside.

The Lenox Industrial Tools 301 came to a premature end after 284 laps, 17 laps early, because of a vigorous thunderstorm, and Busch received his first victory of the season. Aided by fuel strategy and a perfectly timed shower, commonly known as plain luck, Busch wound up ending his 29-race winless series. He was one ouf of seven lead-lap drivers who remained on the track during the next-to-last caution period, which began on the 273rd lap after Jamie McMurray banged into Dale Earnhardt Jr.

The first four cars in the circuit, including Tony Stewart’s powerful Toyota, pit stopped during the caution period for enough fuel to finish. Stewart also changed two of the tires, and he might have burst through the field to win his first race of the season. But the yellow flag showed up again when Clint Bowyer and Sam Hornish Jr. entangled in the third turn at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Then, seemingly in a deliberate manner, Juan Pablo Montoya ran into the right-rear fender of Kyle Busch's car. It caused Busch to spin and hit Montoya's car as Montoya was driving by. The rain started and the race ended. Montoya was disciplined with a two laps penalty for rough driving and finished 32nd. Although Kyle Busch was not completely innocent in the clash with Montoya, he was not penalized and kept his lead in the series situations.