2011 Matt Kenseth #17 Crown Royal Black Samsung Mobile 500 Texas Raced Win Version 1:24 NASCAR Diecast

After going 76 races without a win, Matt Kenseth finally returned to Victory Lane with a dominating run in the Samsung Mobile 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday night when the entire Roush Fenway team was outstanding.

"As you start to get a little older and start looking up at the results, it's been over two years since we won," Kenseth said. "You can't help but think, is the way it's going to go? Are we going to keep trickling backwards?"

Kenseth led 169 of 334 laps at the 1 1/2-mile, high-banked track for his 19th career victory, his first since California in February 2009 when he won the first two races of that season. Since his other win at Texas in 2002, Kenseth had four runner-up finishes, including last fall behind Denny Hamlin, and six other top-10 finishes at the track.

"It has been a long time," Kenseth said. "I have lost a lot of close ones at this track. It feels good to be able to close it out."

This time, the No. 17 Crown Royal Black Roush Fenway Ford was only trailing late behind Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch when both of those drivers were out of sequence on stops and trying to stretch fuel in hopes of catching a caution. Lucky for Kenseth, there were no yellow flags at the wrong time.

Kenseth went back ahead to stay with 13 laps to go when Busch had to make his final stop and give up a 8.2-second lead. Kenseth finished 8.315 seconds ahead of Clint Bowyer on warm and windy night for the first Texas race under the lights.