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NASCAR Nationwide Series
NNS: Allgaier Breaks Through At Bristol
Justin Allgaier won the wreck fest that was the NASCAR Nationwide Series Scotts Turf Builder 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway....
Mike Hembree  |  Posted March 20, 2010   Bristol, TN
Justin Allgaier, driver of the #12 Verizon Dodge, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series Scotts Turf Builder 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway. (Photo: Getty Images)
Justin Allgaier held off Penske Racing teammate Brad Keselowski in tight racing over the closing laps and won Saturday’s Scotts Turf Builder 300 Nationwide Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway.

LINK > RESULTS: Scotts Turf Builder 300 - BRISTOL

It was a big day for the relatively new Penske Racing Nationwide program. Keselowski led 72 laps, some of them with Allgaier on his bumper. Allgaier sprinted to the lead on a restart with 27 laps to go and stayed in front the rest of the way to score his first series victory.

“I’m happy for Justin,” Keselowski said. “There’s nothing like a first-time winner in NASCAR.”

Keselowski was close enough to Allgaier over the final laps to execute the bump-and-run and take the lead, but, largely because they’re teammates, he didn’t use the move.

“On the restart there he ran me up pretty high, but I really had no room to be angry at him because I wrecked him here before,” Keselowski said. “I lifted and let him in. I thought I had a shot at getting it back, but I didn’t catch the right breaks as far as lapped traffic.

“I erred on the side of caution. The last thing I need is to wreck either one of us. It’s still a relatively new program. That’s the last thing we need.”

Allgaier called the win “unbelievable. That battle with Brad was awesome. I couldn’t be happier to see two Penske cars up there running for the win.”

Although Keselowski, whose aggressive driving has been criticized by other NASCAR drivers, chose not to push Allgaier from the lead in the final miles Saturday, Kevin Harvick had other thoughts in the fight for fifth place. Harvick popped Joey Logano’s car in the left rear in the final turn on the final lap, sending Logano into the wall and dropping him from fourth to 14th.

“He kept chopping me and chopping me,” said Harvick, who had tried to pass Logano for a long series of laps. “I got into him a little bit. I hate that it happened. You got to do what you got to do.”

Logano stomped off after the race without comment.


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