GLADEVILLE, Tenn. — Carl Edwards raced to his second consecutive NASCAR Busch Series victory, easily winning the Pepsi 300 in chilly conditions Saturday at Nashville Superspeedway to extend his lead in the season standings.

The Nextel Cup driver led the final 25 laps and crossed the finish line 4.7 seconds ahead of David Reutimann. Dave Blaney, who was involved in an early fracas, rallied to finish third. Jason Leffler was fourth, followed by Regan Smith.

"I don't know if I've ever raced this cold, maybe on a local race track, but it was a pretty chilly day to race," Edwards said. "The cars are usually 40-50 degrees warmer than outside so it was a great day to be a race car driver as far as comfort."

Edwards struggled with an early handling problem, but crew chief Pierre Kuettel was able to resolve the issue

"I felt really confident going in, like it was our race to lose," Edwards said. "Then they dropped the green flag and we went backward like a rock. I was really nervous there. But P.K. and the guys did a great job of regrouping. They made some pretty good-sized changes for this place and the car got better."

With temperatures in the 30s and 40s, the crews had to adjust to the cold conditions.

"It had cooled off a lot more than I thought, so we made some wholesale changes with air pressure and the car came back to life," Kuettel said.

Edwards led a race-high 74 laps, all in the second half of the event, to win for the 11th time in the Busch Series. He has won the last two Busch races at Nashville and also has won in the Craftsman Truck Series on the 1.3-mile concrete oval.