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McMurray’s The Man
September 5th, 2010
By Ron Lemasters, Jr.
HAMPTON, Ga. – Jamie McMurray snookered Brad Keselowski on a restart with 23 laps remaining Saturday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway and held off a too-tight Kyle Busch to earn victory in the Great Clips 300 for NASCAR Nationwide Series cars.
Keselowski stayed out on the final caution of the night, when Reed Sorenson crashed off Turn 2, and he was gambling that another yellow flag would come out and allow him to change tires for the final run.
It never happened.
On the restart, Keselowski took off with McMurray on his heels. Fellow front-row starter Josh Wise, McMurray’s teammate, was not as quick off the line, trapping Busch behind him for a few moments.
McMurray cut down to the low side and passed Keselowski, while Busch had to go low and get around Wise. Busch had a great run at McMurray over the next lap and a half, but fell a couple of tenths of a second short at the end.
“It was really strange,” McMurray said. “We unloaded as the fastest car off the truck, and at the end, I couldn’t drive it hard. I was driving it hard and I wasn’t going any faster. So I drove it at about 95 percent and just had the best car at the end.”
Keselowski, who leads the series points by 332 over third-place finisher Carl Edwards, was sure there would be a yellow flag in the final 23 laps.
“We had a fourth- or fifth-place car, and we rolled the dice to win, because we want to win,” he said. “We know we have a real good shot at winning the title, and we banked a set of tires so we could have one at the end. In every race we run, it seems like there is a late yellow flag.
“We just didn’t catch one tonight.”
Busch was the first car off pit road on the final pit stop, with Keselowski and Wise having stayed out on old tires. He gave it a great run on the restart, but couldn’t get it done on McMurray.
At the end of the race, he was catching McMurray at more than a tenth of a second a lap, but ran out of time. He did lead the most laps on the night, but failed to win for the first time when he did so. He also failed to break the record for victories in a season he shares with the legendary Sam Ard.
“We were fighting tight all night, and it just got too tight to hustle the car on the restarts,” Busch said. “I’d blow the right front tire off it in two laps. We didn’t put any gas in it either, and that always works. I did that two years ago in the All-Star race and wound up knocking the wall down and finishing 10th.
“One of these days we’ll figure that out.”
McMurray scored the eighth Nationwide Series victory for JR Motorsports, and he was the 12th different driver to win a series race this season. He led 48 laps on the way to victory.
“Thanks to Dale Earnhardt Jr. for giving me this opportunity,” McMurray said in Victory Lane. “It’s so much fun racing with these guys. They’ve had a lot going on this year.”
Edwards was third at the finish, nearly catching Busch at the end. Kevin Harvick was fourth and Matt Kenseth took fifth.
Harvick played strategy into a one-lap lead on the field just past the halfway point.
By staying out on old tires and getting off-sequence, he was able to race on a lap of his own for seven laps before he had to hit pit road. Even after coming in and putting on four tires, he returned to the track in fourth place.
Joey Logano was sixth, followed by Jason Leffler, Ryan Newman, Paul Menard and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. in the top 10.
Keselowski was 12th at the finish and leads the points over Edwards, with Busch third, 551 points out. Justin Allgaier, who was 13th in the final rundown, is fourth as the top Nationwide regular, but he’s 742 points behind Keselowski.