Edwards Wins a Wild One in Milwuakee
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Carl Edwards was named the winner of Saturday night’s Camping World RV Rental 250 at the Milwuakee Mile, and pulled into Victory Lane in the Nationwide Series for the first time since winning in Nashville last June, but the 250-mile race was hardly one that lacked emotion, excitement and controversy.
The first half of the race was dominated by polesitter, Brad Keselowski, who was looking to his second win for JR Motorsports in a three-week span, but despite leading the most laps on the evening, it just wasn’t meant to be. Last week’s race winner, 18-year-old Joey Logano, caught Keselowski at the front of the field and the two raced side-by-side with 79 laps remaining in the books. Logano drover underneath the race leader to take the position through turns 3 and 4, but a slight bobble slid him up into Brad’s fender and took him out of contention for the win.
Then, during the final round of pit stops, Logano made contact with points leader, Clint Bowyer, on pit road as the two rubbed fenders and shuffled Joey back to fourth while Carl Edwards took the lead. Bowyer then passed Edwards with 39 laps to go and held the position until the next caution flag. The restart came with 25 circuits remaining. Edwards got underneath him on the restart and knocked him sideways and drove away for the win.
Logano was able to pass Bowyer as well, as he wound up finishing 2nd, and Bowyer had to settle for 3rd. Fellow Sprint Cup regulars, David Ragan and David Reutimann completed the top-five in 4th and 5th. Scott Wimmer continued with his recent success with another top-ten finish in 6th, and Mike Bliss came home in 7th. Brad Keselowski rebounded from his earlier adventure with Logano and was relegated to an 8th place run, while Jason Leffler and Jason Keller rounded out the top-ten finishers.
There were no changes amongst the top-four spots in the standings, as Bowyer now stretches his points lead to 188 points over second place, Brad Keselowski. David Ragan and Mike Bliss each jumped up a spot to 5th and 6th over Kyle Busch, whom did not attend the race this weekend.
Check here for complete Camping World RV Rental 250 race results.
Nationwide Series Standings:
| RANK |
+/- |
DRIVER |
POINTS |
BEHIND |
STARTS |
POLES |
WINS |
TOP 5 |
TOP 10 |
| 1 |
– |
Clint Bowyer |
2506 |
Leader |
17 |
0 |
1 |
7 |
14 |
| 2 |
– |
Brad Keselowski |
2318 |
-188 |
17 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
9 |
| 3 |
– |
David Reutimann |
2316 |
-190 |
17 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
9 |
| 4 |
– |
Carl Edwards |
2301 |
-205 |
17 |
2 |
1 |
7 |
9 |
| 5 |
+1 |
David Ragan |
2201 |
-305 |
17 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
10 |
| 6 |
+1 |
Mike Bliss |
2192 |
-314 |
17 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
8 |
| 7 |
-2 |
Kyle Busch |
2093 |
-413 |
16 |
2 |
4 |
7 |
7 |
| 8 |
– |
Mike Wallace |
2053 |
-453 |
17 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
6 |
| 9 |
– |
David Stremme |
1977 |
-529 |
16 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
9 |
| 10 |
– |
Jason Leffler |
1968 |
-538 |
17 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
6 |
| 11 |
– |
Jason Keller |
1918 |
-588 |
17 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
| 12 |
– |
Steve Wallace |
1855 |
-651 |
17 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
| 13 |
– |
Marcos Ambrose |
1824 |
-682 |
17 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
| 14 |
– |
Kelly Bires |
1816 |
-690 |
17 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| 15 |
– |
Bobby Hamilton Jr. |
1761 |
-745 |
16 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| 16 |
+1 |
Brad Coleman |
1578 |
-928 |
17 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| 17 |
+1 |
Kenny Wallace |
1531 |
-975 |
16 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| 18 |
-2 |
Kevin Harvick |
1494 |
-1012 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
6 |
| 19 |
– |
Scott Wimmer |
1457 |
-1049 |
10 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
7 |
| 20 |
– |
Kevin Lepage |
1332 |
-1174 |
16 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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