Justin Allgaier was able to hold off his teammate Brad Keselowski in the closing laps of the Scott’s Turf Builder 300 to get his very first Nascar Nationwide win at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Keselowski, the pole-sitter who led 73 laps, finished second to give team owner Roger Penske his first 1-2 finish in the Nationwide Series.

It was a great day for Penske Racing Nationwide program. Allgaier took to the lead on a restart with 27 laps to go and stayed in front the rest of the way to get his first series victory.

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

Keselowski could have used the famous Bristol bump and run on Allgaier to take the lead towards the end of the race but chose not to. I think mainly because they’re teammates, and they are both are up top of the Nationwide Series points.

“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, chose not to push Allgaier from the lead in the final laps Saturday, Kevin Harvick had other thoughts in the fight for fifth place. Harvick pushed 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 clearly upset with the contact with Harvick stomped off after the race without comment.

On lap 91, contact between Scott Wimmer and Brian Scott resulted in a spin by Colin Braun, and Braun’s car was slammed in the rear by the following car of Steve Wallace. The impact shot Braun’s car into the air, and Wallace’s car came to a stop partially underneath it as fire erupted. There were no injuries.

A few laps later, James Buescher tapped Trevor Bayne’s car in the second turn, and both cars slid through the turn. Coleman Pressley spun out as

he slowed behind them.

Kyle Busch led 59 laps and finished third. Edwards came home fourth and retained the series points lead by 26 points over Keselowski. Allgaier is third in the standings, 31 points behind Edwards.

Speed Tv contributed to this report.

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