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Richmond, VA, United States (AHN) – Kevin Harvick won the battle but Brad Keselowski might well win the war.

Harvick, the polesitter for Friday night’s NASCAR Nationwide Series, held off Keselowski, the points leader, over a final 40-lap run to to win the Virginia 529 College Savings 250 at Richmond International Raceway.

In the third race in the Nationwide Series’ new car, Harvick finished .256 seconds ahead of Keselowski, who stretched his points lead to 373 points over Carl Edwards, who finished 10th.

“We started off OK and really fell off. Paul Wolfe (crew chief) and all the Ruby Tuesday team worked on the car all night and made it way better throughout the race,” said Keselowski. “We just needed a little bit there at the end to catch Kevin (Harvick) because he was awesome all night. What a great battle at the end. He was so good on long runs.

Trevor Bayne finished a career-best third and was followed by Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Reed Sorenson.

“I was definitely a little worried there on that first long green flag run. We were just way too tight in the center of the corner. At the beginning of the run we would be free in, but we just had to kind of ignore that to get it freed up in the center,” said Bayne. “

The run before the last one, we were really, really strong, but we went a little too far there at the very end so I didn’t have anything for those leaders. Really excited about this run we had today. That was awesome to get a top-three here with these new cars. Everybody at our shop has worked their butts off to get these new cars right and they were that way when we unloaded. Just a great run for this Out! Pet Care Toyota.”

For Harvick it was his third win of the season and 37th of his career as he led 170 of 250 laps. The top-10 finishers were rounded out by Denny Hamlin, Clint Bowyer, Paul Menard, Kyle Busch and Edwards.

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