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The feud between Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski—dormant since Atlanta in March—erupted like an angry volcano at Gateway International Raceway.
In a drag race to the finish line, Edwards sent Keselowski hard into the outside wall on the way to winning Saturday night’s Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 Nationwide Series race at the 1.25-mile track. As Edwards took the checkered flag two car lengths ahead of runner-up Reed Sorenson, Keselowski careened into the inside retaining wall and took a vicious shot from Shelby Howard’s Chevrolet just short of the finish line.
Less than a lap earlier, Keselowski had bumped Edwards in Turn 1 in an attempt to take the lead after a restart on Lap 199 of 200. Edwards’ Ford and Keselowski’s Dodge raced side-by-side for most of the final lap. With Keselowski edging ahead as the cars approached the stripe, Edwards turned Keselowski’s Dodge, igniting a multicar pileup on the frontstretch. NASCAR.com
“The deal is he’ll eventually learn he can’t run into my car over and over and put me in bad situations,” Edwards said. “In every situation, there’s an aggressor and there’s someone who reacts.
“I was not the aggressor in this situation.”
Edwards said Keselowski wouldn’t have been in position to win if he hadn’t bumped Edwards earlier on the final lap.
“The way it went, he bumped me and he finished wherever he finished and I still won the race,” Edwards said. “That’s the only way I could see the race turning out fair.”
Keselowski finally rolled across the line in 14th. He wasn’t hurt, just peeved.
“I’m sure he’ll say how sorry he is, or how cool he thinks he is or how great of a guy he is in his own mind,” said Keselowski, who leads the Nationwide series by 168 points over Edwards. “But that’s not reality.” The Associated Press
Edwards claimed his second victory of the season and the 27th of his Nationwide career. He now leads all drivers with three wins at Gateway, which is roughly 125 miles east of his hometown of Columbia, MO.
“I just couldn’t let him take the win away from me,” Edwards said. “When we came to the checkered flag, I hate to see stuff tore up, but we came here to win.”
Keselowski was not injured during incident. During his examination in the infield care center, his father and former NASCAR driver, Bob Keselowski, was furious with Edwards.
“I’m sick and tired of this,” Bob Keselowski said during a post-race interview on ESPN. “He’s not going to kill my boy. I’ll put my old driver’s uniform back on and take care of this myself.” MiamiHerald.com
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