Saturday, May 5, 2012

Last-minute move "Joey Logano gets win"


As the evening when on at Talladega Joey Logano pushed Kyle Busch all the way to the tri-oval but then snuck out of line to beat Kyle Busch to the finish line to win the Aaron's 312 at the Talladega SuperSpeedway this afternoon. 

It just seemed like Kyle Busch was going to hold of all of the competitors breathing down his back at the end of the race today and take Kyle Busch Motorsports to victory lane for the second time this season but he was a pretty much a sitting duck on the last lap of this race much like everybody that is leading the final lap at this racing facility. Restrictor plate tracks are the only track where you really would prefer to be sitting in second place rather than in first place coming to the checkered flag.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. would finish third, Cole Whitt fourth and Dale Earnhardt Jr. fifth.

With Ricky Stenhouse Jr's great finish today and Elliott Sadler's tenth place finish that moves Stenhouse into first place in the points standings. Stenhouse has a five point points lead over Sadler now.

After a horrific crash red flags the race and sends Eric McClure to the hospital, Joey Logano passes Kyle Busch in the last turn at Talladega to win under a green-white-checkered finish..

A very frightening moment happened this afternoon with two laps to go, they had the big one on the backstretch and that collected Eric McClure sending him very hard into the inside wall. One of the hardest hits I have seen in my life but thankfully there was a safer barrier there. The safety workers had to cut away at the racecar to get him out of the car, they put him on a stretcher and transported him via Helicopter to a local hospital. McClure was talking with the safety workers before being removed from the car, but they had no further update on his condition.

Prayers with Erik McClure at this time.

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