Keselowski nabs first Nationwide win in Nashville
Quote selected text Published June 7th, 2008 in NASCAR News
Brad Keselowski raced to his first Nationwide Series victory Saturday night, passing Clint Bowyer with six laps to go and easily holding off his closest rivals at Nashville Superspeedway.
Kyle Busch, racing in the second of three NASCAR races in a historic weekend triple, finished 20th, three laps down. A green flag pit stop with 52 laps to go bounced him from the top five to two laps down.
Keselowski, driving for Dale Earnhardt Jr., became the seventh first-time winner in 15 Nationwide races at Nashville Superspeedway. David Stremme rallied to finish second, followed by David Reutimann and Bowyer.
Busch’s setback came 24 hours after his second-place finish in the Craftsman Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.
By starting Sunday at Pocono, the Sprint Cup Series leader will become the first driver to compete in all of NASCAR’s top three series at different tracks on the same weekend. Busch will start in a backup car at the tail of the field, the result of a crash earlier Saturday that destroyed his primary car during practice.
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS:
FIN ST CAR DRIVER MAKE SPONSOR PTS/BNS LAPS STATUS
1 2 88 Brad Keselowski Chevrolet U.S. Navy 190/5 225 Running
2 13 64 David Stremme Chevrolet Atreus Homes & Communities 170/0 225 Running
3 14 99 David Reutimann Toyota Aaron’s Dream Machine 170/5 225 Running
4 4 2 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet BB&T 170/10 225 Running
5 21 6 David Ragan Ford Discount Tire 155/0 225 Running
6 9 7 Mike Wallace Toyota GEICO 155/5 225 Running
7 7 29 Scott Wimmer Chevrolet Holiday Inn / Holiday Inn Express 151/5 225 Running
8 20 47 Kelly Bires Ford Clorox 142/0 225 Running
9 6 5 Landon Cassill * Chevrolet Nat’l Guard / 185th Theater Aviation Brigade 143/5 225 Running
10 15 16 Greg Biffle Ford CitiFinancial 134/0 225 Running
11 24 9 Chase Miller * Dodge Country Crock Spread 130/0 225 Running
12 3 1 Mike Bliss Chevrolet Miccosukee Resort & Gaming 127/0 225 Running
13 8 60 Carl Edwards Ford World Financial Group 124/0 225 Running
14 19 170 Mark Green Chevrolet Foretravel Motorcoach 121/0 225 Running
15 25 111 Jason Keller Chevrolet Jason Aldean “Relentless” / America’s Incredible Pizza Company 118/0 225 Running
16 29 28 Kenny Wallace Chevrolet U.S. Border Patrol 115/0 225 Running
17 18 30 Stanton Barrett Chevrolet GrandStay.net 112/0 225 Running
18 22 37 Burney Lamar Ford Greg Biffle Foundation 109/0 223 Running
19 16 59 Marcos Ambrose Ford Kingsford Hickory Charcoal 111/5 222 Running
20 5 32 Kyle Busch Toyota Dollar General 103/0 221 Running
21 11 66 Steve Wallace Chevrolet Atreus Homes & Communities 100/0 221 Running
22 17 40 Bryan Clauson * Dodge Fastenal 97/0 221 Running
23 31 81 D.J. Kennington Dodge Mahindra Tractors / NPPL 94/0 221 Running
24 37 89 Morgan Shepherd Dodge Victory In Jesus 91/0 220 Running
25 40 156 Travis Kittleson Chevrolet Bob Steele Chevrolet 88/0 219 Running
26 26 38 Jason Leffler Toyota Great Clips 85/0 218 Running
27 33 52 Brad Teague Chevrolet Hilton Garden Inn 82/0 216 Running
28 41 24 Eric McClure Chevrolet Hefty 79/0 215 Running
29 36 161 Kevin Lepage Ford Cone Solvents 76/0 201 Running
30 28 25 Bobby Hamilton Jr. Ford Smithfield 73/0 183 In Pit
31 1 20 Joey Logano Toyota EA Sports NASCAR 09 / GameStop 75/5 182 Running
32 30 01 Kertus Davis Chevrolet SponsorDavis.com 67/0 170 Out of Race
33 23 99 Josh Wise Toyota Aaron’s Dream Machine 64/0 154 In Pit
34 12 33 Cale Gale * Chevrolet Camping World/ RVs.com 61/0 143 In Pit
35 10 27 Brad Coleman Ford Federated Car Care 58/0 88 In Pit
36 34 149 Derrike Cope Chevrolet Jay Robinson Inc. 55/0 39 In Pit
37 43 90 Johnny Chapman Chevrolet MSRP Motorsports 52/0 30 In Pit
38 27 102 Andy Ponstein Chevrolet Stott Classic Racing 49/0 27 In Pit
39 35 0 Danny Efland Chevrolet SponsorDavis.com 46/0 23 In Pit
40 38 331 Kenny Hendrick Chevrolet GrandStay.net 43/0 21 In Pit
41 32 91 Justin Hobgood Chevrolet MSRP Motorsports 40/0 13 In Pit
42 39 36 Ruben Pardo Dodge Supercuts 37/0 2 In Pit
43 42 4 Shane Hall Chevrolet JVC Everio 34/0 1 In Pit
Bookmark to:
- Marlin replaces Sauter at Phoenix Racing
- Stremme will replace Austin in RWR car at Nashville
- Keselowski given OK to drive at Richmond-UPDATED
- 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series schedule
- Keselowski offered contract by JR Motorsports for 2008
Sweet! Nice job.
(Kyle’s travelin’ weekend isn’t shaping up to his hopes is it? lol)
Good job Keselowski on the win!
Way to go Brad!!! He beat a few cup regulars!
i knew it was gonna happen soon…way to go Brad…hopefully JR can make it an 88 sweep tom at pocono!!…i cheer when lagono got wrecked…tired of hearing about him
darrell wrote:
yea thats a pretty mature thing to do. the kid’s a really good race car driver and should be mentioned alot he did fantastic last week and was dominating this week. it’s unfortunate what happened but certainly nothing to laugh about. now kyle busch wrecking would be a different story!
Congrats to Brad and his team. You did awesome!!
Joey Lagono is like a Good song.
At first you only hear it a little bit and you have that “I need more” feeling, then it starts getting played every hour on the hour on your main radio station, and even when you change the stations you hear it and you start to get sick of it. Then it starts to die off in popularity when the next big song comes, and by a month or two later you are back to only hearing that song one or two times a day, and within 2-3 months you hardly ever hear that song but you kind of like when you hear it because you haven’t heard it in awhile.
Yeah I know that was a long way to go for an analogy, but it was a good/true one.
Yeah I dont know about Direct tv in Chicago they suck w nascar… I watched the whole race and 10 laps to go bam a Direct TV logo with some elevator music for about 15minutes and then it goes off and Brad was in victory lane. Sucks I didnt get to see the finish live but oh well what could I do??????? Way to go Brad I knew this would come before the year was over just didnt think it would be this fast. 88 all the way!!!!!!!! Hell 88 all the way in both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series!!!!!!!!!!! woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I was at a short dirt. A really great time need I say more. track…. but sadly I miss seeing Brad win the race. whay to go Brad. A big congat to jrms. This kid is going places and he deserves every thing he earms
WTG Brad nice job, this kid is the real deal and i will be rooting for him all the way.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS TO Brad Keselowski CONGRATS TO YOU DUDE !!!
Take that, Denny Hamlin!
http://www.tnt.tv/sports/nascar/racebuddy08_live/
Tune in every race to race buddy, it’s free and it’s cool…….
JAG wrote:
What does that have to do with the Nationwide races that are on ESPN/ABC?
Fisha695 wrote:
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Did I say Nationwide races?
Who is showing Sprint races, TNT For now, duhhhhhhh……..
Why is it that this is a story on the kids first major win… yet 1/2 the article is on shrub? I mean seriously if you wanna talk about him give him his own article about this weekend, leave him out of someone elses congratulatory article. I mean the last 2 paragraphs even? sheesh.
Thank god he finished dead last today in cup, 21 points for burton to take him off his high horse.
JAG wrote:
And What exactly does this topic have to do with Sprint Cup? NOTHING. Last Time I checked this article was about a Nationwide series race, and the Nationwide series is on the ESPN/ABC family of networks not the Turner Family of networks.
Fisha695 wrote:
Fisha noone else but you even cares!!!!!!
George I’m simply following the rules, If JAG Can’t follow simple rules on here I’m not even sure if ‘it’ should be allowed out of sight/custody of some mental institution officers.
Awesome Job Brad! We love to watch you race!
Fisha695 wrote:
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Fisha has a problem about people passing out information whether it deals with Nationwide or Sprint cup racing, who cares Fisha what the topic is about, who are you the Internet Police?, are you gonna arrest me and put me away in a mental institution, woo-wee you scare me, come get me Mr. Internet Police Officer…
I think the white coats should come after Fisha unit 695…
from the uk im only just catching up been out of the country for so long but good race.