Top Gear 300 Tops for Roush Fenway Racing

Carl Edwards and his Roush Fenway teammates continued their recent dominant streak by showing as the class of the field at the Charlotte Motor Speedway on Saturday.  The starting lineup provided a glimpse of things to come as the three machines, all sponsored by Fastenal, were nose to tail on the inside row with Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. in the 6 car on the pole, Carl Edwards in third and Matt Kenseth in the 16 car in fifth position.  Kenseth was substituting for driver Trevor Bayne who has been out of the car due to illness. When the green flag fell, the three RFR Mustangs quickly drove to the front of the field.  Stenhouse led the first 13 laps, Kenseth took the lead at lap 14 and Edwards took over at lap 17.  Edwards ran strong all day, falling out of the top five only once.  He lead a total of 63 laps in the race.

Roush Fenway Drivers led the field in the Top Gear 300 (Biran Czobat, USA autostock)

By the end of the race, Edwards was able to battle Matt Kenseth.  The teammates swapped the lead back and forth before Edwards’ car got too tight to continue the battle.  He was able to finish a strong second place to Kenseth, with Kyle Busch finishing third, last week’s winner Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. in fourth and Reed Sorensen in fifth place.  The win was a one and done for Kenseth, as Trevor Bayne returns to his #16 team next week at Chicagoland Speedway.  After the race, Edwards said “That was hard racing.  Matt there at the end, he was better and he had the kid gloves on with me.”

Stenhouse moves up to second place in the driver standings, one point behind Elliot Sadler.  Jack Roush’s #60 team stands third place in the owners’ points, 16 behind the#20 Joe Gibbs car.