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Driving the No. 09 Chevrolet of owner James Finch, Keselowski, 25, moved to the inside when Edwards went high to block him in the final 400 yards of the 188-lap race. Edwards slid back down the track in another attempt to block, but Keselowski already was inside his left-rear quarter panel.
Contact between the cars turned Edwards and lifted his rear tires off the pavement. Edwards flew into the path of third-place finisher Ryan Newman’s Chevrolet, and that collision launched Edwards into the fence. Newman’s wrecked car slid across the finish line. NASCAR.com
The fence swelled toward the race fans but held, and Edwards’ car landed back on the track. Officials said none of the injuries to fans was life-threatening.
Dr. Bobby Lewis, Talladega’s onsite physician, said two people in the crowd were airlifted from the track to avoid the heavy traffic. One woman had a possible broken jaw, Lewis said, and another had an undisclosed medical issue.
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Edwards, who climbed from his crumpled race car and ran on foot across the finish line, railed against the racing style at Talladega and Daytona, the two tracks where horsepower-sapping restrictor plates are used.
“We’ll race like this until we kill somebody,” said Edwards, “then (NASCAR) will change it.”
“Talladega is short for ‘We’re going to crash, we just don’t know when,’” said Newman, the third-place finisher, who also recalled Matt Kenseth’s fiery tumble in the Nationwide Series race on Saturday. The Associated Press
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