Dale Earnhardt Jr. outlasted a season-high 13 cautions -- and overtime -- to beat Matt Kenseth in a green-white-checkered flag finish Friday night at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Earnhardt, who started from the pole, led a race-high 125 laps, but several late cautions bunched up the field and gave the competitors a chance to run him down in the Food City 250. He had a terrific restart with nine laps to go, easily pulling away from Kevin Harvick.

But Kenseth pushed past Harvick and was reeling Earnhardt in when the 13th caution flag came out for a wreck involving Tony Raines and Jay Sauter.

It set up the first green-white-checkered flag finish of the Busch Series, and Earnhardt once again got a jump to pull away from Kenseth and ride on to his second series win in four starts this season.  More