NASCAR NATIONWIDE SERIES NASHVILLE RACE REVIEW

Brett Winningham
7/27/2011 1:02 pm

       Carl Edwards wins the Federated Auto Parts 300 Saturday night at Nashville marking his 34^th NASCAR Nationwide series win beating his teammate Ricky Stenhouse Jr. to the line by 0.647 seconds. Top 10 Unofficial results of the Federated Auto Parts 300 1^st Carl Edwards, 2^nd Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 3^rd Austin Dillion, 4^th Justin Allgaier, 5^th Aric Almirola, 6^th Sam Hornish Jr. 7^th Drew Herring, 8^th Reed Sorenson, 9^th Trevor Bayne, 10^th Kenny Wallace. Unofficial top 10 points standings after Nashville 1^st Reed Sorenson 702 +1, 2^nd Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 697 +1, 3^rd Elliott Sadler -2 688, 4^th Justin Allgaier -- 672, 5^th Aric Almirola -- 631, 6^th Jason Leffler -- 608, 7^th Kenny Wallace -- 605, 8^th Steve Wallace -- 558, 9^th Michael Annett -- 550, 10^th Brian Scott -- 537. Race Status of the Federated Auto Parts 300 225 of 225 laps were completed, 3 cautions for 16 laps under yellow, 4 leaders, 7 lead changes, 43 cars started, 13 finished on the lead lap, time elapsed 2 hours 16 minutes 13 seconds, average speed 134.009 mph. margin of victory 0.647 seconds. Lap leaders of the race Carl Edwards led 125, Brad Keselowski led 88, Austin Dillion led 9 laps, Elliott Sadler led 3 laps. Nationwide series news story of the week, Travis Pastrana is set to make his 1^st start in the NASCAR Nationwide series this weekend at Lucas Oil Raceway park in Indianapolis. Also new to the NASCAR Nationwide series race this weekend is NASCAR.COM announced yesterday that there will now be a RaceView product that will be now available for this weekend’s NASCAR Nationwide series race and 2 other NASCAR Nationwide Series races this season for free, and those races are Watkins Glen August 13^th and Richmond on September 9^th and will allow race fans to follow all 43 NASCAR Nationwide series stars out on the race track with live scanner also which came available last season for the Nationwide series. Race can be seen on espn and heard on MRN radio at 7:30 P.M. My pick’s this weekend to win the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Lucas Oil Raceway park is Aric Almirola, for trucks I’m going with Austin Dillion. For the NASCAR Sprint cup series this weekend im going with you guessed it Juan Pablo Montoya.