Carl Edwards Doubles Up in Las Vegas

If Aerosmith was in town, they'd be belting out "Same Old Song and Dance" right about now.

Carl Edwards took his second Sprint Cup Series victory in a row Sunday afternoon at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. His win -- the ninth of the Missouri-driver's career -- at the UAW-Dodge 400 put Edwards into the points lead of the Sprint Cup Series for the first time.

Edwards also won last week's Auto Club 500 in California.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., Greg Biffle, Kevin Harvick and Jeff Burton rounded out the Top-5 in the second race of the weekend at LVMS to set new records for cautions.

Saturday's Nationwide Series event had a track record 13 cautions while Sunday's Sprint Cup event won by Edwards had 11 cautions -- one over the track record.

A few of the cautions saw NASCAR's biggest names involved in some of the day's biggest hits.

Tony Stewart got things rolling by cutting his right-front tire in turns 3 & 4 and plastered the SAFER barrier with the right side of his No. 20 Toyota. Kurt Busch suffered the same fate off of turn 4 when his right-front exploded, sending him into the wall.

Both Stewart and Busch walked away quite gingerly but were released from the infield care center.

Jeff Gordon tangled with Matt Kenseth on a restart with four laps to go, shooting the No. 24 across the backstretch and into a safety truck opening -- ripping the radiator and tons of other parts of the car. Calling it the hardest hit he had ever had, Gordon's crash brought out a 17-minute red flag.

Pole sitter Kyle Busch looked very strong through the first half of the race, but faded late to continue the streak of a pole winner never winning the Sprint Cup race at Vegas. He finished 11th.

Stay tuned to NASCAR FanHouse for plenty more coverage of Sunday's UAW-Dodge 400