Ricky Stenhouse Wins in Bizarre Fashion

This is a finish moment where the phrase "Have you ever?" followed by "No, I've never!" comes.

Its the last lap of the U.S. Cellular 250 at Iowa Speedway, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has in the lead, and his rival for the race (and teammate) Carl Edwards is in 2nd. Coming to the checkered flag, Stenhouse had a blown motor. Carl Edwards is coming, but with all the smoke (and oil) on the track, he had no where to go and got into the back of Stenhouse's car. Both ended up wrecking just feet away from the line. Margin of victory was 0.066 sec, with Ricky getting the win.

Nationwide Series hits Watkins Glen next week.

Stenhouse Jr. Dominates, But Keselowski Comes Out With The Victory

Ricky Stenouse Jr dominated the Nationwide race at Lucas Oil Speedway, leading 188 laps. However,  on the second to last restart, Keselowski pushed him up the track, knocking him out of the lead. The caution came out moments later when Elloitt Sadler spun and got into his teammate, Austin Dillon. The next restart, Keselowski pulled away and came out with the win. James Buescher passed Ricky to take 2nd, while Ricky had to finish in 3rd.

The biggest moment was a scary crash with Tim Andrews (drove of the #40 Key Motorsports car), Michael Annett, and Steve Wallace. Michael Annett got loose and got into Tim Andrews (according to both of their interviews, (there were no replays of their incident)), and moments later Steve Wallace spun out and plowed into Annett's parked car and got into Andrew's car. All drivers were okay. Wallace put the blame on Jame Buescher because he bumped him, that somehow caused him to spin out 5 seconds after the bump occurred.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. took the points lead after this race, he is leading Reed Sorenson by 4 points. The Nationwide guys hit Iowa next, the same track where Ricky Stenhouse took his first Nationwide win.

Carl Edwards Flips Again

Carl Edwards passed his teammate, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., in the closing laps of the Alliance Truck Parts 250 at Michigan International Speedway.

It was your normal quiet race at MIS, with long green flag runs and wild restarts. There where 3 cautions one for debris and the other two for spins)

The Nationwide guys head to Road America next week, while the Cup guys are at Infineon.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Wins First Career Race At Iowa

Early last week, I posted an article on my views of Cup Drivers in the Nationwide Series. What we saw today is what we need in stand-alone races for the Nationwide Series.

Last year, everyone thought Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was going to lose his ride at some point during the 2010 Nationwide Season. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. had only 8 Top 10 finishes, 5 of which came in the last 10 races, and one DNQ (Nashville).

This year, Stenhouse Jr. turned his career around, having 8 Top 10 finishes in 11 races. And today, he won the John Deere Dealers 250 at Iowa Speedway. On the last restart, Ricky passed his teammate, Carl Edwards, for the lead. Stenhouse stayed in the lead for the rest of the race, later picking up his first NASCAR career win. This is also the first Nationwide Regular to win a Nationwide race since Justin Allgaier at the Spring race at Bristol last year. Ricky is also the first driver to pick up his first career win in the Nationwide Series at Iowa.

This race seemed to went into segments. First it was the Drew Herring show, then it was the Michael McDowell show, then it was the Reed Sorenson show, and finally it was the Ricky Stenhouse Jr. / Carl Edwards / Brad Keselowski show for the end.

There were 5 cautions for 28 laps. 7 different leaders with 28 lead changes.

The Nationwide Series will be at Charlotte Motor Speedway this Saturday for the Top Gear 300.

(Because of plans, I probably will only post a very brief article on who won)