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When Joey Logano's momentum came to a shaking stop in Sunday afternoon's Windows 10 400, the story seemed to be how Kyle Busch was going to celebrate his fourth consecutive win and his fifth victory on the season.

But there were plenty of twists on the track which only has three turns.

All the effort Kyle Busch spent conserving was not enough and his No. 18 M&M's Crispy Toyota would run out of gas. Busch's Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Matt Kenseth passed defending Pocono winner Martin Truex, Jr, who also ran out of fuel, to take the checkered flag and his first career victory at Pocono Raceway.

Kenseth, the 2003 Sprint Cup champion, doubted whether he would ever celebrate a Pocono victory and never thought it would come under the fuel mileage circumstances.

"Today is a first, I checked two things off the (bucket) list," Kenseth said. "I won at Pocono, I didn't that would ever happen, and I won a fuel-mileage race, I didn't think that would ever happen.  There's been a few through the years that I thought we had it all figured out, and we were the only one that was going to make it and all that stuff and you catch an untimely caution and there's been some other ones where you are kind of dominating the race and you're out there and you run out of gas and somebody back mid-pack had enough gas to make it and lost several like that.  

"Feels good to get one like that.  We had a fast car and we were able to get the fuel mileage good enough to get the win."

While Busch's streak of three wins in a row came to an end, the victory did mark the fourth consecutive win for Joe Gibbs Racing and Toyota in Sprint Cup competition. 

It marks the seventh time JGR has been to victory lane on the 2015 Sprint Cup season; a major improvement from their two win campaign of 2014.

"I attribute it to a lot of hard work and everybody back there from a total team effort," Joe Gibbs said. "Then of course you've got to have great drivers and great crew chiefs or you're not going anywhere. The crew that's been coming to the racetrack has been phenomenal.  I called J.D. (Gibbs), thanking him and everybody back at the race shop.  I said a big thanks to Todd Vasos and Rick Dreiling at Dollar General.  Our sport is unlike any other, you've got to have great partners.  And to hear them over the phone get excited with you, and you realize all that they invest with you, and they want to win. There's none of those sponsors that we have, they all have somebody they're trying to beat out in the world, and certainly on the racetrack."

A rough day for Brad Keselowski, which saw him slide through his pit box and make contact with a couple members of his pit crew, actually turned out to produce a runner up finish. The finish marks the XX time Keselowski has finished inside the top ten on the 2015 Sprint Cup season.

Keselowski admits circumstances didn't allow him to showcase just how fast his race car truly was.

"It was really fast, which was probably the highlight," Keselowski said. "Fast race cars are really a joy to drive, and I think at the end -- it's hard to say, I think Kyle was maybe caught behind Joey and not able to show everything he had.  But just by lap times and what everybody could run, we were running the fastest laps, and that was so much fun to have a car that strong. But unfortunately just another race where I kind of feel like it didn't all come together for us, and this one certainly on my end with having problems on pit road and kind of sliding through the box. That dug a hole, got us a lap down with the penalty and so forth.

 "I think the last restart with -- had to be somewhere around 60 or 70 to go, we restarted 12th and we were able to drive up to sixth and looked like we were going to be able to get to fifth and then the fuel play came in there at the end.  We were able to take care of it to bring home second, which is a very respectable day.  Certainly probably not where we were going to finish without the fuel, but I guess that's sometimes how it works.  I think my teammate and his team did a phenomenal job.  I'm kind of heart broken for them not to win the race.  But that's how this racing plays out."

Keselowski saw the race's wild, fuel mileage ending as somewhat of a breath of fresh air. 

"It was nice to have a race like this that stayed green for so long at the end," Keselowski explained. "That's enjoyable to me, to let the racing kind of play out on the racetrack and not necessarily on pit road or restarts, and we saw that today. I think it's been -- we were talking about it privately the other day, I think it's been two years since we've seen a race play out where there was a green-flag pit stop, a full-length green-flag run at the end, and it's nice to have one of those today, and sometimes that can create some of the best racing and best finishes, and I think that's what we saw."

Much like Keselowski, Jeff Gordon benefitted from the end of race circumstance and despite being mired back in the middle of the pack for much of the race was able to walk away with a third place finish. 

The four time Sprint Cup champion, Gordon, was surprised by the way the race's ending played unfolded.

"The script I had played out in my head was we were going to be 15th," Gordon said. "So this one was way better than that.  For whatever reason the last couple times we've been here we've had decent race cars, not maybe the cars that we would have liked to have had, but cars far capable of better finishes than what we've had, have been getting, and just a lot of different circumstances not playing out.  Some to our own credit and others just circumstances.

"Today finally one went our way for a change, which is really nice to bounce back after last week's unfortunate incident where we lost so many points."

Dale Earnhardt, Jr, recovered from a pit road speeding penalty as well as a spin earlier in the race to notch a fourth place finish. Greg Biffle finished in fifth place followed by Jimmie Johnson, A.J. Allmendinger, Clint Bowyer, and Tony Stewart rounding out the top ten.

Martin Truex, Jr, finished in 19th with Joey Logano, who led 97 laps, finishing in 20th place. While the red hot Kyle Busch finished in 21st place. 

Busch admits his team's go-for-broke strategy cost them the chance at clinching a Chase berth but doesn't place any blame on anyone.

"We would be celebrating a win and a Chase berth (had the fuel not run out)," Busch said. "We got greedy. I don't know how greedy, but that's the position we're in. If it came down to other things that we haven't had the success that we've had lately, we would have had to have pitted and make the most of it and get the best finish we could. 

"We went for broke today and came up a little bit short. You can't fault the team."

Busch now sits in the 32nd position in the Sprint Cup points standings, just 13 points out of 30th place.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Race Number 21
Unofficial Race Results for the 42Nd Annual Windows 10 400 - Sunday, August 2, 2015
Pocono Raceway - Long Pond, PA - 2.5 Mile Paved
Total Race Length - 160 Laps - 400 Miles - Purse: $5,084,726

Leader
Fin    Str    Car    Driver    Team    Laps    Pts    Bns    Driver Rating    Winnings    Status    Tms    Laps
1    7    20    Matt Kenseth    Dollar General Toyota    160    47    4    119.2    $233,601    Running    2    2
2    9    2    Brad Keselowski    Alliance Truck Parts Ford    160    43    1    104.6    $205,166    Running    1    3
3    10    24    Jeff Gordon    AARP Member Advantages Chevrolet    160    42    1    92.8    $181,686    Running    1    2
4    15    88    Dale Earnhardt Jr.    Microsoft Chevrolet    160    40        88.6    $134,375    Running        
5    25    16    Greg Biffle    Roush Performance Ford    160    40    1    91.0    $139,908    Running    1    2
6    12    48    Jimmie Johnson    Kobalt Tools Chevrolet    160    38        104.8    $144,851    Running        
7    22    47    AJ Allmendinger    Bush's Grillin Beans Chevrolet    160    37        80.6    $125,323    Running        
8    19    15    Clint Bowyer    Maxwell House Toyota    160    36        87.8    $124,073    Running        
9    5    14    Tony Stewart    Rush Truck Centers/Mobil 1 Chevrolet    160    35        83.5    $116,279    Running        
10    8    19    Carl Edwards    Stanley Toyota    160    34        98.3    $87,915    Running        
11    18    27    Paul Menard    Sylvania/Menards Chevrolet    160    33        83.5    $94,440    Running        
12    27    42    Kyle Larson    Suave Men Chevrolet    160    33    1    99.5    $112,908    Running    1    5
13    4    3    Austin Dillon    American Ethanol Chevrolet    160    31        91.2    $120,611    Running        
14    29    40    Landon Cassill(i)     Chevrolet    160    0        67.2    $82,250    Running        
15    17    1    Jamie McMurray    Lexar Chevrolet    160    29        76.8    $111,541    Running        
16    20    10    Danica Patrick    GoDaddy Chevrolet    160    29    1    77.6    $89,125    Running    1    5
17    24    55    David Ragan    Aaron's Dream Machine Toyota    160    28    1    78.8    $107,539    Running    1    1
18    21    43    Aric Almirola    United States Air Force Ford    160    26        68.0    $116,956    Running        
19    13    78    Martin Truex Jr.    Furniture Row/Visser Precision Chevrolet    160    26    1    104.4    $106,015    Running    1    6
20    3    22    Joey Logano    Shell Pennzoil Ford    160    26    2    128.7    $128,853    Running    4    97
21    1    18    Kyle Busch    M&M's Crispy Toyota    159    24    1    97.7    $146,211    Running    3    19
22    11    11    Denny Hamlin    FedEx Office Toyota    159    23    1    98.6    $93,645    Running    1    2
23    14    31    Ryan Newman    Caterpillar Chevrolet    159    21        69.5    $110,670    Running        
24    31    51    Justin Allgaier    Fraternal Order of Eagles/Switch Hitch Chevrolet    159    20        62.2    $102,528    Running        
25    28    7    Alex Bowman    FW1 Wash and Wax Chevrolet    159    19        56.3    $92,203    Running        
26    39    46    Michael Annett    Pilot Flying J Chevrolet    159    18        53.0    $77,895    Running        
27    33    35    Cole Whitt    MDS Transportation Ford    159    17        48.7    $88,853    Running        
28    26    13    Casey Mears    GEICO Chevrolet    159    16        62.8    $92,092    Running        
29    36    83    Matt DiBenedetto #    Burger King Toyota    159    15        44.3    $75,895    Running        
30    35    23    JJ Yeley(i)    Dr Pepper Toyota    159    0        45.3    $75,745    Running        
31    32    34    Brett Moffitt #    A&W All American Food Ford    158    13        49.1    $74,095    Running        
32    40    32    Travis Kvapil(i)    Skuttle Tight Ford    158    0        36.8    $73,920    Running        
33    37    38    David Gilliland    Love's Travel Stops Ford    158    11        40.0    $81,720    Running        
34    41    98    Reed Sorenson     Chevrolet    157    10        32.8    $73,520    Running        
35    38    26    Jeb Burton #    Maxim Toyota    157    9        37.5    $73,370    Running        
36    43    62    Timmy Hill(i)     Ford    156    0        30.3    $73,120    Running        
37    6    41    Kurt Busch    Haas Automation Chevrolet    150    8    1    93.5    $90,931    Running    1    13
38    42    33    Alex Kennedy #    MediaCAST Chevrolet    126    6        30.8    $68,102    Running        
39    30    9    Sam Hornish Jr.    Medallion Bank Ford    123    5        37.1    $90,375    Running        
40    23    6    Trevor Bayne    AdvoCare Ford    91    4        45.8    $104,605    Overheating        
41    34    17    Ricky Stenhouse Jr.    Ford EcoBoost Ford    27    3        29.7    $64,030    Accident        
42    2    4    Kevin Harvick    Jimmy John's/Budweiser Chevrolet    20    3    1    48.8    $104,855    Engine    1    3
43    16    5    Kasey Kahne    Aquafina Chevrolet    3    1        23.7    $66,530    Accident        
 Race Comments:    Matt Kenseth won the Windows 10 400, his 33rd career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory. Prior to the start of the race, the following cars dropped to the rear of the field for the reasons indicated: No. 26 (backup car); No. 31 (rear gear).
 Failed to Qualify:    N/A
 Time of Race:    03 Hrs, 01 Mins, 36 Secs.    Average Speed:    132.159 MPH    Margin of Victory:    9.012 Seconds
 Caution Flags:    8 for 32 laps: Laps: 6-9 (#5 accident frontstretch [Red Flag: Lap 7, 14:43] [None]); 17-19 (Competition [98]); 21-23 (Oil on track from #4 [None]); 29-33 (#9, 17 accident turn 1 [98]); 62-65 (Debris on pit road [98]); 67-71 (#9, 27, 41 accident turn 1 [2]); 73-75 (#35, 88 accident turn 1 [23]); 93-97 (#33 accident turn 1 [32]).
 Lead Changes:    18 among 13 drivers: Kyle Busch 1-16; K. Harvick 17-19; Kurt Busch 20-32; M. Truex Jr. 33-38; J. Logano 39-51; Kyle Busch 52; D. Hamlin 53-54; B. Keselowski 55-57; D. Patrick 58-62; J. Logano 63-87; M. Kenseth 88; K. Larson 89-93; J. Logano 94-123; D. Ragan 124; G. Biffle 125-126; J. Gordon 127-128; J. Logano 129-157; Kyle Busch 158-159; M. Kenseth 160; 
Chase Grid Outlook:     1.J. Johnson 713 (4 wins);2.K. Harvick 780 (2);3.D. Earnhardt Jr. 717 (2);4.M. Kenseth 662 (2); 5.Ku. Busch 620 (2); 6.J. Logano 734 (1);7.M. Truex Jr. 694 (1);8.B. Keselowski 681 (1);9.D. Hamlin 614 (1);10.C. Edwards 553 (1);11.J. Mcmurray 631 (0);12.J. Gordon 617 (0);13.P. Menard 591 (0);14.R. Newman 584 (0);15.C. Bowyer 574 (0);16.K. Kahne 559 (0)
3M Lap Leader    : Kyle Busch, #18 19 Laps    American Ethanol Green Flag Restart Award    : Joey Logano, #22 
Coors Light Pole Award    : Kyle Busch, #18 178.416 mph    Duralast Brakes "Brake in the Race"    : Kyle Busch, #18 
Ingersoll Rand Power Move    : Jeff Gordon, #24 15 positions    Mahle Clevite Engine Builder of the Race    : Toyota Racing Development (TRD), #20 
Mobil 1 Driver of the Race    : Matt Kenseth, #20     Moog Chassis Parts Problem Solver of the Race    : Brad Keselowski, #2 P Wolfe, .674 sec
Sherwin-Williams Fastest Lap    : Kyle Busch, #18     Sunoco Rookie of the Race    : Matt DiBenedetto, #83 
(i) Ineligible for driver points in this series
Next Race:    Aug. 9, 2015 - Watkins Glen International
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