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Any way you look at it, the first Canadian running of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park was a smashing success.

Chock-full of excitement, from the enormous crowd, estimated at 50,000, and rivalled only by Montreal's Formula One race, to the exhilarating on-track action - with plenty of hard and fast racing, fans got every bit of their money's worth.

But it was probably the resounding slap at the finish - a slap heard around the world - that the inaugural Chevrolet Silverado 250 will be most remembered for.

Chase Elliott. (Photo: Getty for NASCAR)

The 64-lap event featured plenty of lead-swapping, paint-trading, yellow caution flags and punts into the tire walls. At the end of the day, victory was claimed by Chase Elliott in the #94 Chevrolet.

It was a controversial win by the 17-year-old Georgia native, who made contact inside on the final turn with Ty Dillon's No. 3 Chevrolet Silverado, sending Dillon into the tires and taking over the lead.

Max Papis and Mike Skeen were battling for second place, when Skeen also took the inside line on turn 10, making contact with Papis' No. 14 Chevrolet and sending both into the tire wall. The resulting skirmish left the track open for Kyle Busch Motorsports' Chad Hackenbracht to take second place in the No. 51Toyota.

Ty Dillon. (Photo: Getty for NASCAR)

In third place was Miguel Paludo, Darrell Wallace Jr. in fourth with Ron Hornaday Jr. finishing fifth. Papis got back on track to finish sixth, with defending Champion James Buescher ninth and series leader Matt Crofton in tenth place.

Emotions ran high with much of the action taking place off-track. Papis and Skeen continued to trade paint during the cool-down lap and one of Skeen's crew members attempted to grab Papis while he was still behind the wheel.

Papis, one of the world's top road-racing drivers and veteran of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Formula One and Champ Car, later described Skeen as not very "sportsmanship-like" and while talking to television reporters, was caught off-guard by a vicious slap delivered by a female friend of Skeen's. To his credit, Papis' reacted merely with raised eyebrows.

Max Papis ( l ), driver of the #14 Sport Clips Chevrolet, is confronted by a member of the crew of Mike Skeen (not pictured), driver of the #6 Hawk Performance Chevrolet, in the garage area after the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Chevrolet Silverado 250 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. (Photo: Geoff Burke/NASCAR via Getty Images)

Elliott, who claimed he hated to win "like that" celebrated his victory by saying "sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do." It was Elliott's first NASCAR road course win - his father Bill Elliott won his first NASCAR cup race in 1983
- making them NASCAR's first father and son combination to achieve their first victories on road courses.

For an inaugural event, the Chevrolet Silverado 250 was a slap-stick crowd pleaser, and organizers were understandably thrilled. This was truly entertaining racing.

Max Papis seemed to think so.

"If you didn't like this", he said grinning, "come back again!"

Results
1. (4) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 64 laps, 141.3 rating, 47 points, $53,385.
2. (8) Chad Hackenbracht, Toyota, 64, 97.5, 42, $41,875.
3. (5) Miguel Paludo, Chevrolet, 64, 117.2, 42, $27,920.
4. (9) Darrell Wallace Jr., Toyota, 64, 84, 40, $22,660.
5. (17) Ron Hornaday Jr., Chevrolet, 64, 73, 39, $19,085.
6. (7) Max Papis, Chevrolet, 64, 89.1, 0, $14,310.
7. (18) Ross Chastain, Ford, 64, 92.4, 37, $16,060.
8. (15) Timothy Peters, Toyota, 64, 75, 36, $15,560.
9. (1) James Buescher, Chevrolet, 64, 96.8, 36, $17,960.
10. (13) Matt Crafton, Toyota, 64, 74.8, 34, $15,835.
11. (24) Bryan Silas, Ford, 64, 63.9, 33, $14,460.
12. (25) John Wes Townley, Toyota, 64, 55.7, 32, $14,285.
13. (3) Mike Skeen, Chevrolet, 64, 103.7, 31, $14,185.
14. (21) Martin Roy, Chevrolet, 64, 55.5, 0, $14,085.
15. (12) German Quiroga, Toyota, 64, 86.2, 30, $14,960.
16. (2) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 64, 92, 29, $13,785.
17. (6) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 64, 116.9, 29, $13,685.
18. (10) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet, 62, 68.8, 26, $13,585.
19. (22) Dakoda Armstrong, Chevrolet, 61, 42.2, 25, $13,485.
20. (30) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 57, 33, 24, $14,010.
21. (26) Derek White, Chevrolet, rear hub, 55, 42.7, 0, $12,035.
22. (11) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, 54, 63.8, 22, $11,935.
23. (28) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Ram, 52, 34.4, 21, $10,735.
24. (23) Max Gresham, Chevrolet, 47, 39.7, 20, $10,635.
25. (14) Alex Guenette, Chevrolet, oil line, 45, 50.7, 19, $10,735.
26. (19) Joey Coulter, Toyota, 41, 43.5, 18, $10,535.
27. (20) Brennan Newberry, Chevrolet, transmission, 38, 51.3, 17, $10,485.
28. (16) Johnny Sauter, Toyota, gas line, 34, 35.1, 16, $10,435.
29. (27) Carl Long, Chevrolet, brakes, 4, 29.5, 0, $10,385.
30. (29) Chris Lafferty, Chevrolet, clutch, 3, 28.8, 14, $10,835.

Schmidt Motorsport's Simon Pagenaud won his second IndyCar race of the 2013 season and this time it was in the streets of Baltimore where he had to work hard for it.

Although Pagenaud had been in the thick of it all afternoon, the Frenchman was one of the driver involved in a fierce battle for the lead especially with Marco Andretti (Andretti) following a late restart with only seven laps remaining.

Josef Newgarden (Sarah Fisher Racing) was also part of the final showdown but unfortunately for him, his tires were not able to let him battle it out with Pagenaud in the last two laps.

Newgarden held on for second, putting him onto the podium for the first time in his IndyCar career, while Sebastien Bourdais was one of many to survive contact on his way to third for Dragon.

Simon Pagenaud. (Photo: IndyCar)

There were a lot of incidents during the race involving no less than the main title contenders who had their share of trouble.

Restarts were problematic causing a string of yellow flags, the most significant came when Will Power (Penske) turned towards the wall on the front straight and slammed straight into Scott Dixon (Ganassi), forcing him out of the race.

Points leader Helio Castroneves was involved in an early incident which forced him to pit for a new front wing, a bad pitstop in which he was dropped off the jack before his right-front wheel had been fitted, and a drive-through penalty for hitting one of his own tyres in the pits.

But despite all those misfortunes, the Brazilian extended his points lead to 49. He crossed the line in ninth.

Results - 75 laps:
Pos  Driver   Team/Engine   Time/Gap
1. Simon Pagenaud  Schmidt/Honda  2h16m32.3443s
2. Josef Newgarden  Fisher/Honda  +4.1592s
3. Sebastien Bourdais   Dragon/Chevy  +7.9588s
4. Justin Wilson  Coyne/Honda  +10.7598s
5. Simona de Silvestro   KV/Chevy   +11.6017s
6. Charlie Kimball   Ganassi/Honda   +21.4160s
7. James Hinchcliffe  Andretti/Chevy   +22.8422s
8. Sebastian Saavedra  Dragon/Chevy   +25.5377s
9. Helio Castroneves  Penske/Chevy   +29.3117s
10. Marco Andretti  Andretti/Chevy   +40.5499s
11. Tristan Vautier  Schmidt/Honda  +1 lap
12. Oriol Servia  Panther/Chevy  +1 lap
13. EJ Viso  Andretti/Chevy  +1 lap
14. Ed Carpenter  Carpenter/Chevy   +1 lap
15. Tony Kanaan  KV/Chevy  +2 laps*
16. Stefan Wilson  Coyne/Honda  +3 laps
17. Graham Rahal   Rahal/Honda  +7 laps*
18. Will Power  Penske/Chevy  +8 laps
* Not running at finish

Retirements:
Scott Dixon  Ganassi/Honda  52 laps
Ryan Hunter-Reay  Andretti/Chevy  42 laps
Dario Franchitti  Ganassi/Honda   22 laps
Luca Filippi  Herta/Honda  12 laps
James Jakes   Rahal/Honda  5 laps
Takuma Sato   Foyt/Honda  4 laps