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Elliott Sadler cannot shake Ricky Stenhouse Jr. For the second consecutive season, Sadler finds himself in familiar territory battling Stenhouse for the NASCAR Nationwide Series championship with two races remaining. Sadler has held the top spot for the last four weeks, but watched the lead dwindle to zero this past weekend at Texas as Stenhouse captured his 18th top five of the season. The duo is now deadlocked with 1,170 points apiece, setting up a dead heat to the finish. Stenhouse holds the current tie-breaker: six wins to Sadler’s four.

Phoenix could be Sadler’s best chance to regain the reins of the top spot. He led 26 laps in March en route to his first of four victories this season.

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Ricky Stenhouse Jr. rallies for improbable Nationwide win at Kansas

Oct. 20, 2012

(EDITORS: Updates with quotes, results.)

By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Ricky Stenhouse Jr. rallied from two laps down to win Saturday’s Kansas Lottery 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Kansas Speedway and tighten the battle for the series championship.

During a green-white-checkered-flag finish that took the race six laps beyond its scheduled distance of 200 laps, Stenhouse surged to the front in the final turn after Kyle Busch ran out of fuel.

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Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wins at Chicagoland, assumes Nationwide points lead

Sept. 15, 2012

By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service

JOLIET, Ill. — It was a statement victory for defending NASCAR Nationwide Series champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who won Saturday’s Dollar General 300 Powered by Coca-Cola at Chicagoland Speedway and simultaneously wrested the series lead from Elliott Sadler.

The victory was Stenhouse’s fifth of the season and the seventh of his career. He crossed the finish line 2.402 seconds ahead of Kyle Busch, who fell one spot short of posting his first victory in the Nationwide car he owns.

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Sept. 1, 2012

By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service

HAMPTON, Ga. — There’s an arrest warrant out for Ricky Stenhouse Jr. — or perhaps there should be — after the defending NASCAR Nationwide Series champion stole Saturday night’s NRA American Warrior 300 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Stenhouse grabbed the lead from Kevin Harvick on the final lap, after a restart with three laps remaining. Contact between the cars of Danica Patrick and James Buescher caused the eighth and final caution and set up the three-lap run to the finish.

Brad Keselowski, on fresh tires, passed Harvick for the second spot. Harvick ran third, followed by Elliott Sadler and Justin Allgaier.

Continue reading “Last-Lap Surge Propels Ricky Stenhouse Jr. To Nationwide Win At Atlanta”