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NASCAR Nationwide Series DRIVE4COPD 300 Open Race Thread | Updated with Final Race Results

Feb 19, 2011, 4:51 PM UTC

Update 3:55 p.m. EST: Landon Cassill shoves Tony Stewart to a photo-finish victory over Clint Bowyer. The margin of victory is 7/1,000ths of a second.

Update 4:55 p.m. EST: Landon Cassill is the first Nationwide Series points leader under the new NASCAR points-paying system. Reed Sorenson, Jason Leffler, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., and Trevor Bayne round out the top-five.

1	--	Landon Cassill	41
2	--	Reed Sorenson	39	-2
3	--	Jason Leffler	38	-3
4	--	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	36	-5
5	--	Trevor Bayne	35	-6
6	--	Mike Bliss	31	-10
7	--	Danica Patrick	31	-10
8	--	Joe Nemechek	29	-12
9	--	Jeremy Clements	28	-13
10	--	Bobby Santos	27	-14
11	--	Aric Almirola	25	-16
12	--	Steve Wallace	24	-17
13	--	Shelby Howard	22	-19
14	--	Donnie Neuenberger	21	-20
15	--	Patrick Sheltra	20	-21
16	--	Derrike Cope	19	-22
17	--	Morgan Shepherd	18	-23
18	--	Justin Allgaier	17	-24
19	--	Kenny Wallace	16	-25
20	--	Josh Wise	13	-28
21	--	Robert Richardson Jr.	12	-29
22	--	Eric McClure	11	-30
23	--	Brian Scott	10	-31
24	--	Scott Wimmer	9	-32
25	--	Sam Hornish Jr.	8	-33
26	--	Mike Wallace	8	-33
27	--	Elliott Sadler	6	-35
28	--	Michael Annett	5	-36
29	--	Jeff Green	4	-37
30	--	Kevin Lepage	3	-38
31	--	J.R. Fitzpatrick	2	-39
32	--	Kelly Bires	1	-40
33	--	Tony Stewart	0	-41
34	--	Clint Bowyer	0	-41
35	--	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	0	-41
36	--	Kyle Busch	0	-41
37	--	Michael Waltrip	0	-41
38	--	Kasey Kahne	0	-41
39	--	Joey Logano	0	-41
40	--	Todd Bodine	0	-41
41	--	David Starr	0	-41
42	--	Carl Edwards	0	-41
43	--	Brad Keselowski	0	-41

* Denotes Rookie

The excitement of this weekend just keeps growing with each event, next up the Nationwide Series where we will see a few more of the Cup drivers involved.

I haven’t been this excited to the start of a Nationwide season in a long time, with the changes to the cars, and to who can exactly run for a Championship this should make for one interesting year for this long over-looked series.

If you want the most complete run down of who is driving what car and more then check out NASCAR RnR’s very own Troy J.‘s comprehensive NASCAR Nationwide Series pre-race report!

Starting line-up for today’s event can be found here (via nascar.com).

I’ll see you all on the other side, in the comment area of course.

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