Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Roush Fenway Racing teammate Carl Edwards insist they like each other. But for the second weekend in a row, they sure didn’t act like it.
Saturday night at Iowa Speedway, Stenhouse and Edwards banged doors, fenders and feelings as they fought for the victory in the U.S. Cellular 250 Nationwide Series race.
Their final banging occurred a couple of hundred feet from the finish line on the last lap, and it produced a smoky, screeching, metal-bending finish as Edwards rammed Stenhouse’s car from behind and actually pushed it to the victory.
“If he wouldn’t have hit us, we definitely would have ended up second,” said Stenhouse, whose victory was his second of the season at the seven-eighths-mile oval. “I knew we had enough momentum to get there [the finish line]. I just wasn’t sure if we were going to be first or second. It worked out that we were first.”
Edwards led 109 of the race’s 250 laps. Stenhouse led 25. NASCAR.com
Sadler, who dealt with an ill-handling car early in the race, wound up finishing third. JR Motorsports teammates Josh Wise and Aric Almirola rounded out the top-five.
With his sixth-place run, Reed Sorenson collected a $100,000 bonus for being the highest-finishing eligible driver in the second Nationwide “Dash 4 Cash” race this season. Sorenson also claimed the cash award last month at Daytona. MiamiHerald.com
FIN CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 6 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Ford 2 60 Carl Edwards Ford 3 2 Elliott Sadler Chevrolet 4 7 Josh Wise Chevrolet 5 88 Aric Almirola Chevrolet 6 32 Reed Sorenson Chevrolet 7 9 Kenny Wallace Toyota 8 66 Steve Wallace Toyota 9 18 Michael McDowell Toyota 10 33 David Mayhew Chevrolet 11 20 Drew Herring Toyota 12 62 Michael Annett Toyota 13 38 Jason Leffler Chevrolet 14 11 Brian Scott Toyota 15 70 Scott Wimmer Chevrolet 16 87 Joe Nemechek Toyota 17 51 Jeremy Clements Chevrolet 18 19 Mike Bliss Chevrolet 19 30 Mikey Kile Chevrolet 20 39 Joey Gase Ford 21 15 Timmy Hill * Ford 22 40 Charles Lewandoski * Chevrolet 23 23 Robert Richardson Jr. Chevrolet 24 22 Sam Hornish Jr. Dodge 25 16 Trevor Bayne Ford 26 14 Eric McClure Chevrolet 27 52 Tim Schendel Chevrolet 28 81 Blake Koch * Dodge 29 31 Justin Allgaier Chevrolet 30 28 Derrike Cope Chevrolet 31 1 Mike Wallace Chevrolet 32 89 Morgan Shepherd Chevrolet 33 113 Jennifer Jo Cobb * Dodge 34 102 Jamie Dick Chevrolet 35 141 Matthew Carter Chevrolet 36 174 Mike Harmon Chevrolet 37 49 Mark Green Chevrolet 38 175 Johnny Chapman Ford 39 146 Chase Miller Chevrolet 40 171 Carl Long Ford 41 142 Tim Andrews Chevrolet 42 147 Brian Keselowski Chevrolet 43 44 Jeff Green Chevrolet
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