Keselowski races to 5th Nationwide win

? There’s Brad Keselowski, and then there’s the rest of the field in this year’s Nationwide Series standings.

Keselowski pulled away from Martin Truex Jr. on a late restart at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Friday night for his fifth victory of the season, extending his series lead to 450 points.

Keselowski quickly shot ahead of Truex Jr. when the green flag fell with eight laps left. Justin Allgaier finished third, followed by Joey Logano and Clint Bowyer, who started on the pole but had a costly pit-road speeding penalty late.

While Danica Patrick posted her best finish in her nine Nationwide races — 21st, although she was two laps down at the end — Keselowski had little competition once Kyle Busch had handling problems after halfway through the race. Busch finished sixth, and Edwards, closest to Keselowski in the standings, was 13th.

Bowyer, who seemed to have the only car capable of competing with Busch early, was penalized for speeding on pit road with 42 laps left, dropping him to 16th.

Bowyer’s penalty came during an odd caution to correct a scoring error.

NASCAR acknowledged it mistakenly penalized Brian Scott for a missing lug nut. When they were all accounted for, NASCAR put out the caution flag and allowed Scott to regain his original position.

Keselowski didn’t pit and took the lead on the restart — his third lead of the race.