“ToyotaCare 250”
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA – 250 laps on the ¾ mile track, were scheduled for the Nationwide Series race at Richmond. Brad Keselowski (22) beat out Kyle Busch (54) for the pole position. Kevin Harvick (33) was the In-Race Reporter. Reed Sorenson (43) is subbing for Michael Annett, as he is still sidelined with the sternum injury from early in the season. Kyle Busch will be attempting to win his fourth consecutive race of the season for Joe Gibbs. Ryan Reed (16) is racing with Diabetes. This is his very first start in the series.
The first caution came out on lap 26, for Dexter Stacey (92) dropping down oil on the track. A “Red Flag” was thrown at lap 34, to get the rear gear oil cleaned up off the rack. The red flag lasted five minutes.
On lap 101, Alex Bowman (99) tagged the wall after having a tire failure. He was running in seventeenth place when this happened.
At the mid-race point, Kevin Harvick led over Elliott Sadler (11), Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch and Justin Allgaier (31)
On lap 154, the third caution flew for Juan Carlos Blum (74) tagging the wall.
On lap 190, Tanner Berryhill (17) spun out, bring out the fourth caution.
On lap 200, Kevin Swindell (98) spun out. On the restart, Trevor Bayne (6) was penalized for getting out of line before the start/finish line. He had to make a pass down pit road as the penalty. He was lucky that he was able to do this under the caution.
On lap 210, Austin Dillon (3), Brian Scott (2) and Justin Allgaier (31) wrecked. It appeared that Dillon was inside of Allgaier going into the corner, and Allgaier tried to take the same path that Dillon already had.
On lap 223, Mike Wallace (01) began smoking on track, and he received a black flag. He did pull off track, but then he came back out and caused the caution.
On lap 234, Mike Wallace caused the caution to fly again.
On one of the last restarts, Keselowski and Harvick ran each other very hard to have the lead. While running one another the way they did, they both lost momentum and Kyle Busch was able to pass the two. The final restart had Keselowski and Harvick being able to get past Busch, as Keselowski was too fast for Harvick to catch. Keselowski won for the first time, in his Ford Mustang.
The rest of the top ten were: Kevin Harvick (33), Kyle Busch (54), Brian Vickers (20), Regan Smith (7), Elliott Sadler (11), Sam Hornish Jr. (12), Kyle Larsen (32), Travis Patrana (60) and Reed Sorenson (43).
A couple final notes to comment upon, was Johanna Long (70) bringing home a fifteenth place finish. In his first race for Uncle Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeffrey Earnhardt (5) ran very well at Richmond. He was near the top ten in the later laps, and finished eighteenth after slipping back in the last two restarts. On the final laps, Nelson Piquet Jr. (30) and Brian Scott (2) had some dust ups on track. Piquet Jr. claimed that it stemmed from Martinsville, and he felt he did nothing wrong. His comments to the reporter were filled with cussing words. On the cool down lap, the two played bumper cars with one another and when they got to pit road, Scott got out of his car and went to talk to Piquet Jr. by his car. Piquet Jr. kicked Scott between the legs, below the belt clearly. Scott proclaimed that to be a chicken move. I believe NASCAR will have something to say about that this week.
Next weekend will be at Talladega. The race is scheduled for Saturday on ESPN.
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