Young Kyle Busch won the Sodie Zero 400 Saturday night at Daytona, showing once again why he’s the man this year in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series.

The series leader got knocked out of line by teammate Denny Hamlin, shuffled beyond the back of the pack and then stormed back not only to reconnect with the pack but to work through it en route to his sixth victory of the season.

The end was squirrely of course, with cars crashing all over the place, but setting the field and allowing Busch to win (and hold off Columbia’s Carl Edwards) under the yellow.

While Busch was making his way through the field, the Hendrick boys — Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr — ran up front most of the night, but Johnson and Gordon got caught up in late incidents and Earnhardt Jr. got shuffled back into the back.

Nice ride by J.J. Yeley, the former Joe Gibbs Racing driver who lost his ride because of Kyle Busch but drove Saturday night in relief of former Gibbs teammate Tony Stewart. Two-time champion Stewart was ill with flu-like symptoms and pulled out of the car 72 laps into the 160-lap race. Yeley drove from 33rd into the top 10, before getting shuffled back and then getting caught up in the wreck that ended the race — involving Travis Kvapil, Sam Hornish Jr., Michael Waltrip, Dave Blaney, Paul Menard, Regan Smith.