NASCAR Daytona Nationwide Series Results: 2012 Drive4COPD 300

In a weekend of unlikely winners, James Buescher took the checkered flag under caution in Saturday's Drive4COPD 300 Nationwide Series race with wreckage from the cars of the likely winners strewn behind him in Turn 4 at Daytona International Speedway.

Buescher, a first-time winner in the series, took advantage of a last-lap wreck involving front-runners Trevor Bayne, Tony Stewart, Elliott Sadler, Joey Logano, Kurt Busch, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Kyle Busch to score the victory, one day after rookie John King won his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race in his first trip to Daytona.

Brad Keselowski dodged the wreck to finish second, with Elliott Sadler coming home third in the unofficial results.

A race that had been peppered with minor incidents produced a huge one on Lap 104, when the front of the field accordioned in Turn 4, and cars began checking up and wrecking mid-pack. All told, 20 cars were involved in the crash, including the machines of Denny Hamlin, Kenny Wallace and Justin Allgaier.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. ducked to the bottom of the track to avoid the wreck and sustained minor damage to the right side of his Chevrolet. After a four-minute stoppage to pry the splitter from Wallace's wrecked car from the Turn 4 wall, Earnhardt restarted 14th on Lap 113.

But Earnhardt fell victim to a 14-car pileup one lap later when contact from David Ragan's Ford turned Sam Hornish's Dodge to trigger the multicar wreck.

Pole-sitter Danica Patrick exited the race on Lap 49, after a hard tap from Cole Whitt, her teammate at JR Motorsports, knocked Patrick's No. 7 Chevrolet out of control and into the Turn 3 wall.

Patrick's team pushed the car to the garage for extensive repairs, losing 48 laps in the process. She returned to the track on Lap 98 and finished 38th, an inauspicious start to a championship campaign.

Here are the results from the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Daytona today:

1. James Buescher
2. Brad Keselowski
3. Elliott Sadler
4. Cole Whitt
5. Austin Dillon
6. Tayler Malsam
7. Timmy Hill
8. Tony Stewart
9. Kasey Kahne
10. Kurt Busch
11. Trevor Bayne
12. Benny Gordon
13. Danny Efland
14. Josh Wise
15. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
16. Joey Logano
17. Blake Koch
18. Kyle Busch
19. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
20. Sam Hornish Jr.
21. Johanna Long
22. Eric McClure
23. Joe Nemechek
24. T.J. Bell
25. Jeremy Clements
26. David Ragan
27. Michael Annett
28. Mike Wallace
29. Joey Gase
30. Kenny Wallace
31. Ryan Truex
32. Denny Hamlin
33. Justin Allgaier
34. Reed Sorenson
35. Robert Richardson Jr.
36. Casey Roderick
37. Brian Scott
38. Danica Patrick
39. Mike Bliss
40. JJ Yeley
41. Jason Bowles
42. Johnny Sauter
43. Jeff Green