GLADEVILLE, Tenn. — Scott Wimmer passed Richard Childress Racing teammate Clint Bowyer with 21 laps to go and held on to win the Nationwide Series’ Pepsi 300 on Saturday at Nashville.
The Childress cars took the top two spots, six days after the team swept the top three positions in the Sprint Cup series race at Bristol.
Wimmer edged Bowyer by 0.578 seconds for his sixth victory in 149 Nationwide Series starts and first since 2003. Carl Edwards was third, followed by Brad Keselowski and Kelly Bires. Bowyer took the series points lead from Kevin Harvick.
“I felt like we let three or four races get away from us last year, so it was nice to get the job done today,” Wimmer said.
Massa on pole
SEPANG, MalaysiaMcLaren’s Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen were penalized five grid places for impeding other drivers and rival Ferrari took the pole position for the Malaysian Grand Prix.
Felipe Massa claimed the pole ahead of teammate Kimi Raikkonen for today’s race. An investigation by race stewards found McLaren guilty of interference during qualifying.
The Associated Press
Today’s race
FORMULA ONE
Malaysian Grand Prix
Site: Kuala Lumpur
Track: Sepang International Circuit (permanent road course, 3.443 miles, 15 turns).
Race distance: 192.808 miles, 56 laps.
Last race: Lewis Hamilton, last year’s overall runner-up, was never seriously threatened in winning an accident-filled Australian Grand Prix to open the season. Hamilton started from the pole and avoided the mayhem behind him for his fifth victory in 18 GP starts. Only seven of the 22 cars on the grid finished the 58-lap race.
Next event: Bahrain Grand Prix, April 6, Sakhir
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