Ambrose messed up, Edwards Wins @ Montreal

RACE RECAP | MONTREAL | NATIONWIDE SERIES
Carl Edwards wins ORP10 Kyle Busch
9 Brendan Gaughan
8 Stephen Leicht
7 Jean Francois Dumoulin
6 Tony Raines
5 Brad Keselowski
4 Jaques Villenueve
3 Andrew Ranger
2 Marcos Ambrose

VICTORY LANE

1 Carl Edwards takes home his first ever road course win

OTHER STORIES ON THE DAY

-Teams practiced AND qualified in the rain on Saturday

-Colin Braun had engine problems early on causing the longest caution in history!

-Patrick Carpentier had transmission problems while running top 5

-4 minutes per pace lap…excruciatingly painful

-Justin Allgaier lost control after a wheel hop, took out Ron Fellows and damaged Kyle Busch’s 18 machine

-Why can’t teams figure out how to make windshield wipers work at high speeds?

-In a late restart, Carl Edwards moved Marcos Ambrose aside, on the next set of turns, Ambrose returned the favor and took the lead back

-With 16 laps to go, rain fell for a full course caution

-NASCAR decided to continue racing in the rain, brought the cars down pit road, gave them a 5 minute clock to make preparations to race in the rain. This turned into a race in itself.

-Kyle Busch’s windshield wipers looked wicked cool

-With 3 to go on the restart, Kyle Busch was spun, giving Carl Edwards a chance for more points. Kyle lost a ton of positions

-A battle to the finish on the final lap of the race between Marcos Ambrose and Carl Edwards

-Marcos Ambrose dominated this race, leading 60 laps, and lost it on the last turn hitting the curb sending his #47 airborne, putting him in second. Marcos said “I made one mistake and it cost me the race”

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