Ricky Stenhouse Jr. showed his 2011 championship winning form by holding off Mark Martin to win the 300 mile Nationwide race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday.
Stenhouse led the final 54 laps in a Ford Mustang to take his third series victory. “We were at the front all day. I don’t think we really ran out of the top five at all and the guys getting me off pit road first, we came in second and got off first, so that was huge,” he said. “That was a serious beat down that Ricky Stenhouse Jr., put on me that last run,” said Martin, whose only finish outside the top-two at Las Vegas was a sixth-place effort in March 1998. “I have to admit, I almost wrecked the car five times trying to keep up with him and finally just had to surrender. I just about wrecked it I don’t know how many times. He was just gone and we have to, unfortunately, settle for second place.” Martin, driving a Toyota led 44 laps and dominated the middle of the race. Pole sitter Elliott Sadler finished third in a Chevrolet. Danica Patrick was 12th. Recent Articles
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