Kyle Busch wins in overtime at GEICO 500

Kyle Busch took the lead in the second NASCAR overtime shootout and earned the victory in Sunday's GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala.

Following incidents with six laps to go and in the first extra segment, Bubba Wallace passed Busch as the white flag flew, but Wallace spun while blocking Ryan Blaney for second.

That caused the eighth caution, and Busch cruised around in his No. 8 Chevrolet at pace-lap speed to win under caution and record the 62nd Cup Series win of his career.

In his second victory this season, the Richard Childress Racing driver won for the second time at Talladega. His previous win was on April 27, 2008, while driving for Joe Gibbs Racing — 55 wins ago.

Blaney finished second followed by Chris Buescher, Chase Briscoe and Brad Keselowski.

Arriving at Talladega without a pole position there in 18 career seasons, Denny Hamlin produced a top-qualifying lap for the first time and led the drivers to the green flag to open the 188-lap race around the high-banked track.

However, Briscoe and Wallace swapped the lead at NASCAR's largest oval track during Stage 1, with Wallace topping the leaderboard with 23 circuits led.

The event's first caution flew with 18 laps left in the first segment when Briscoe spun on pit road while leading a group of Fords and was unable to get his No. 14 Mustang moving despite being under power.

In his second race since returning from a broken tibia, Chase Elliott roared across the finish line at Lap 60 followed by teammate Alex Bowman for his first 2023 stage win.

But Aric Almirola earned a win in the second stage when teammate Kevin Harvick pushed the No. 10 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford to the line to end Elliott's bid for a second straight segment triumph.