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After a late race crash necessitated a green-white-checker finish during Saturday night’s Missouri/Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 Nationwide Race at Gateway International Raceway, Carl Edwards got around Brad Keselowski for the lead as the white flag flew.

In turn one of the final lap, Keselowski slid up into Edwards’ left rear quarterpanel, getting Edwards’ loose. Edwards kept the car pointed straight and stayed in the gas, and the two entered turn three side by side, with Edwards on the high side.

Keselowski had the advantage off of turn four as the two came to get the checkerd flag, and Edwards bumped into the right rear of Keselowski, sending him spinning into the outside wall.

Accidental, it wasn’t.

“I’m sure some (fans) don’t like that win, Brad Keselowski fans and stuff, but I couldn’t let him take it from me. I had to do what I had to do,” Edwards told ESPN in Victory Lane.

It seems that Keselowski and Edwards’ little run-in at Atlanta had nothing to do with this incident. Edwards maintained that had Keselowski not bumped into him in turn one that he would have stayed off of Keselowski’s bumper off of turn four. And at first, it looked like another crash that just involved the two cars. However, Keselowski bounced off the outside wall and skidded down the racetrack towards the inside wall and was blasted by Shelby Howard and Tayler Malsam and pieces of Keselowski’s car scattered everywhere.

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