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Ricky Stenhouse Jr. rocketed away from Denny Hamlin and Paul Menard on a restart with six-laps to go at Texas and headed to his second NASCAR Nationwide Series win of the year.
Driving a Ford Mustang Stenhouse, on Friday night, said "then that last restart Mike (Kelley his crew chief) decided to go with no changes on that last pit stop which I wasn't fond of but he knows what he is doing which is why he gets paid to do that.
"That last restart, it was crazy man. I think I spent the whole five laps or whatever it was under caution just praying for a good restart and everything worked out for us. It was fun racing those guys. I had to drive it in turn three wide open with Denny on the left rear of us and got us a little bit loose but we managed to hang on and pull it off."
It was Stenhouse's fourth career victory and fourth Nationwide Series win for his Roush Fenway Racing team at the mile and-a-half Texas Motor Speedway. Including Sprint Cup and the Camping World Series it's the 17th time an RFR driver visited victory lane and got a cowboy [hat] as well as the trophy.
Menard who ended up second in a Richard Childress Chevrolet said "I kept up with Ricky pretty good, but, we kind of spun our tires. I think we probably let him get away a little bit."
Kasey Kahne passed pole-sitter Hamlin for third place while Hamlin finished fourth in a Toyota.
Driving a Ford Mustang Stenhouse, on Friday night, said "then that last restart Mike (Kelley his crew chief) decided to go with no changes on that last pit stop which I wasn't fond of but he knows what he is doing which is why he gets paid to do that.
"That last restart, it was crazy man. I think I spent the whole five laps or whatever it was under caution just praying for a good restart and everything worked out for us. It was fun racing those guys. I had to drive it in turn three wide open with Denny on the left rear of us and got us a little bit loose but we managed to hang on and pull it off."
It was Stenhouse's fourth career victory and fourth Nationwide Series win for his Roush Fenway Racing team at the mile and-a-half Texas Motor Speedway. Including Sprint Cup and the Camping World Series it's the 17th time an RFR driver visited victory lane and got a cowboy [hat] as well as the trophy.
Menard who ended up second in a Richard Childress Chevrolet said "I kept up with Ricky pretty good, but, we kind of spun our tires. I think we probably let him get away a little bit."
Kasey Kahne passed pole-sitter Hamlin for third place while Hamlin finished fourth in a Toyota.