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.”

  

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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The Lap 67 crash began when Colin Braun turned Josh Wise on the frontstretch, and chaos ensued behind them. Patrick, who was running 21st at the time of the crash, went low and hit debris, which sent her down toward the infield, where she turned right and went up to the outside wall.

“There’s nothing you could do,” Patrick said.

It was an eventful day for Patrick, she again showed us great car control when she avoided Trevor Bayne’s in turns one and two on lap7, then stalling her car during her second pit stop. I think she was just being really cautious after her crew chief Tony Eury Jr warned her about over revving the engine after her first pit stop.

This certainly not the outcome Danica wanted  for her Nationwide Series debut.

Danica kind of struggle the fist part of the race with an ill handling car describing it pushing a lot through the corners, and having a hard time handling the car. Tony Jr was on the radio a few times telling her she needed to get closer to the cars in front of her so that she wouldn’t loose the draft.

After getting some adjustments during her last pit stop it look as if Danica was alot more confident in her car. She did a much better job of staying with the car in front of her so they could hold on to draft.

I think even though she wrecked out early, Danica show some signs of getting comfortable in the car.

Patrick was confident with what she learned today that she will be better prepared for next year . Patrick said  “This is some really difficult racing, it really is. The cars are definitely on the edge here. As you can see, when somebody gets a little bit out of shape and everybody’s on top of each other.”

Lets hope she can do better next week at California.

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I hope she can make it in NASCAR, but think the publicity she gets from this is too much.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/305728-danica-not-first-female-in-nascar-so-why-the-big-hoopla

Jennifer Jo Cobb. Chrissy Wallace. Janet Guthrie.

Who are these women? They are NASCAR drivers. They have all driven long before the name Danica Patrick even came to motorsports. But for some reason, Danica’s is the only one that matters. But why? Her stats are far from impressive: one win (in Japan), her best finish at the Indianapolis 500 was third, highest points finish was fifth (2009), has three poles, and 41 top 10s with 81 starts.

Let’s take a look at some other women in racing to compare.

Most notable, and current, is Chrissy Wallace, of the famous Wallace racing family. While her start has been slow, she most recently took to the track in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series as part of the first ever father/daughter pair on track, racing against her dad Mike. She finished ahead of him in the top 20.

Along with Chrissy, currently on the NASCAR radar is Jennifer Jo Cobb. Most recently she was entered in several NASCAR Nationwide Series race in the 2009 season. Both she and Chrissy were the only women in their series at the time of their races.

Going back further in time, there are the first women of NASCAR. Janet Guthrie was the first woman to compete in a NASCAR race, and she also competed in the Indy 500. Her first NASCAR race was the 1976 World 600, where she finished 15th. She also finished 12th in the 1977 Daytona 500. Guthrie completed four seasons with NASCAR, finishing 33 races before heading over to the IRL, completing 11 races there. She was inducted into the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame and the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, and her fire suit and helmet can be found at the Smithsonian Institute.

Louise Smith raced in the 1949 Daytona Beach Road Course, along with two other female drivers (Ethel Mobley and Sara Christian), the only race to have three women compete. She later raced late models, modifieds, midgets, and sportsmen cars. She had 38 wins, with 28 of them in the modifieds from 1949-1956. She was the first woman inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1999.

Danica Partick has one win. One.

So why is the whole world making such a huge deal out of her? Even the male drivers who came from open-wheel haven’t done as well. Sam Hornish, Jr. is still crashing into walls (or other drivers), Juan Pablo Montoya is just now figuring out how to succeed, and Robby Gordon only does well when he drives in the desert. And they were all successful in the IRL.

Will Danica bring people to the races? Sure. Will she bring sponsors to her car? Possibly. Will she bring wins to JRM? Highly doubtful. But one thing is for sure: 2010 is going to be an interesting season!