With a strong restart on a green-white-checkered-flag finish, David Ragan held off Roush Fenway Racing teammate Carl Edwards in Friday night's Food City 250 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Ragan led the final 56 laps of the Nationwide Series event at the .533-mile speedway, but Edwards was the big winner, as he trimmed Kyle Busch's lead in the series standings from 339 to 248 points.
Busch was the victim of an early accident and finished 28th, 59 laps down. "It was a fun night to drive such a fast race car," said Ragan, who chose the outside line for the final restart, as the race went four laps beyond its scheduled distance. "The outside had been great all night. I really struggled passing cars on the bottom. "I raced with Carl it was fun racing with a teammate and I was able to pin him behind a lapped car.
I don't think I would have passed him, because he was running that middle groove, and I just couldn't get around him." The race ended under caution because of a wreck on the final lap that froze the running order with Ragan in the lead. Polesitter Brad Keselowski rallied from an early fender-bender to finish third, followed by Kevin Harvick and Matt Kenseth.
