Brad Outlasts Kyle At Richmond

Xfinity drivers were back to short track racing as they we at Richmond for 250 laps of short track racing.

The race started off with Kyle Busch leading lap after lap. As the race continued Brad Keselowski started to get faster and faster and at lap 47 Brad Keselowski takes over the race lead. At lap 52 Bobby Earnhart blows a tire to bring out the first caution of the night.  Some car pit under the caution.  As the race continued Ty Dillion and his fresh tires took the race lead and the stage one win.  The leaders pit and Daniel Hemric won the race off pit road.

Daniel Hemric got to lead some laps as Kyle Busch got hot and took over the race lead.  As the green flag racing continued Brad Keselowski started to get hot again.  With under five laps left in the stage Brad was right behind Kyle for the race lead.  On the final lap Brad was able to get the race lead and win the second stage.

The third stage had Kyle Busch leading most of the laps as Brad Keselowski was getting better and better as the long green flag run went on.  With under 25 laps left in the race Brad was right behind Kyle for the race lead.  With under 20 laps left Bead was able to get the race lead as he went through lapped cars better than Kyle did.  As the laps quickly went down Brad broke out to a 2 second plus lead over Kyle to easily win the race.

“Had a lot of speed on long runs,” said Brad Keselowski. “Really proud of my team.”

“He(Brad Keselowksi) had better long run car,” said Kyle Busch.

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