Entry List

• (R) denotes rookie driver

Final laps

With 48 laps to go, Paul Menard took the lead from Busch. With 46 to go, Kyle Busch took the lead from Menard. With 42 to go, Brad Keselowski took the lead. With 40 to go, Paul Menard took the lead from Keselowski. With 37 laps to go, Kevin Harvick took the lead and held onto it. With 30 to go, green flag pitstops began. With 25 to go, Kevin Harvick gave up the lead to Brendan Gaughan to make his pitstop and Gaughan was the new race leader. While they were coming to pit road, Kyle Busch got rear ended by Patrick Sheltra giving Busch rear end damage and ending his chances of winning. Gaughan soon gave it to Robert Richardson Jr. with 24 to go. After everything cycled through, Kevin Harvick retained his lead. Harvick was looking to become the first driver to win a NASCAR Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series race on the same day since Harvick won the Cup race earlier in the day. With 6 laps to go, Brad Keselowski made an attempt to pass Harvick for the lead but could not get in front of him. But with 4 laps to go, the third caution flew for the second big one on the frontstretch going into turn 1 that collected 7 cars. It started when Colin Braun got hooked by Steve Arpin and Braun turned down into Parker Kligerman in a wreck that also collected Arpin, Kyle Busch, Scott Lagasse Jr., Shelby Howard, and Morgan Shepherd. The wreck would set up a green-white-checkered finish. On the restart Harvick got out in front of Jamie McMurray, who Harvick beat in the earlier Cup race by .011 seconds, with a push from his Cup Series teammate Clint Bowyer. On the final lap, Harvick kept his lead but McMurray was looking for revenge and got a push from Brian Vickers down the backstretch and got side by side with Harvick. Vickers tried to duck below McMurray to pass him but McMurray blocked Vickers. But in turn 3, Brad Keselowski ducked to the outside of McMurray and Harvick with a push by Joey Logano and Keselowski took the lead from Harvick and McMurray. In turn 4, the third big one would occur that brought out the fourth and final caution in a crash that took out 20 cars. It started when Jamie McMurray attempted to get in front of Clint Bowyer but got hooked onto Bowyer's right front and spun in front of the pack. During the wreck, Paul Menard came up in front of Dennis Setzer and Setzer's car ramped onto Menard and the wall and struck the turn 4 catchfence with the front of the car ripping almost the whole front of the car and bursting it into flames. Setzer and everyone were ok. The cars involved were Chrissy Wallace, Steve Arpin, Patrick Sheltra, Brian Scott, Justin Allgaier, Clint Bowyer, Eric McClure, Scott Wimmer, Kenny Wallace, Brian Vickers, Tony Raines, Jeff Green, Scott Lagasse Jr., Brendan Gaughan, Bobby Gerhart, Michael McDowell, Jamie McMurray, Dennis Setzer, Paul Menard, and Trevor Bayne. Brad Keselowski was in front when the caution came out and he was the race winner. The win would be Keselowski's first of 6 wins in 2010 en route to his first Nationwide Series Championship. The top 10 from the race featured some surprises. Joey Logano, Kevin Harvick, Jason Keller, and Johnny Borneman III rounded out the top 5 while Clint Bowyer, Tony Raines, Paul Menard, Brian Vickers, and Brian Scott rounded out the top 10. This would be Keller's first top 5 finish since 2008 and his final top 5 of his Nationwide Series career after he failed to qualify 3 of the first 7 races of 2010 with a 4th-place finish. Keller's teammate Tony Raines finished 7th giving owner Mark Smith, the owner of TriStar Motorsports, his first top 5 and top 10 finish of the team's Nationwide Series career. Raines would score another top 10 at Gateway later in the year for Smith. This would be Johnny Borneman III's first and only top 5 finish of his Nationwide Series career as he finished in 5th.^[7]