NASCAR Nationwide Series Results At Texas Motor Speedway: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Wins

Streaking away from Denny Hamlin and pole-sitter Paul Menard after a restart with six laps left, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won Friday night's O'Reilly Auto Parts 300 Nationwide Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.

The victory was Stenhouse's second in six starts this season and the fourth of his career. It was also the fourth straight Nationwide win at Texas for Roush Fenway Racing.

Menard finished second, with Kasey Kahne passing Hamlin for third in the closing laps. Austin Dillon ran fifth, and series points leader Elliott Sadler faded to 12th during the final short run.

The middle third of the event featured scintillating racing that mirrored the action from Fontana, Calif., three weeks earlier. Menard started fifth on a restart on Lap 104 but quickly regained the lead, after Blake Koch's No. 15 Chevrolet bounced off the inside wall on the backstretch to cause the third caution.

Throughout the ensuing green-flag run, Menard kept Stenhouse at bay, with the margin fluctuating between .2 and 1.5 seconds. On Lap 143, Sadler passed Stenhouse for the second position but couldn't gain ground on Menard, as the lead-lap cars began a round of green-flag pit stops.

After the pit stops cycled through, Menard held a 2.188-second lead over Stenhouse, who surged past Sadler for the second spot on Lap 151. Menard maintained an advantage of more than two seconds until the caution flag flew for the fourth time on Lap 162, when track lighting failed on the inside of the backstretch for the second time Friday night.

Dillon and David Ragan stayed on the track under the yellow, while the rest of the leap-lap cars came to the pits for tires and fuel. NASCAR red-flagged the race after Lap 169 as track workers replaced the faulty breaker that proved to be the source of the light failure.

After the race restarted on Lap 173, Stenhouse blew past Dillon into the lead on Lap 177, with Menard in pursuit. Stenhouse stretched the margin to more than a second before the engine blew in Kurt Busch's No. 54 Toyota on Lap 187, necessitating the fifth caution of the evening.

Here are the full NASCAR Nationwide Series results from Texas Motor Speedway:

1. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
2. Paul Menard
3. Kasey Kahne
4. Denny Hamlin
5. Austin Dillon
6. David Ragan
7. Justin Allgaier
8. Danica Patrick
9. Michael Annett
10. Steve Arpin
11. Sam Hornish Jr.
12. Elliott Sadler
13. Cole Whitt
14. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
15. Joey Logano
16. Mike Bliss
17. Joe Nemechek
18. Jason Bowles
19. Mike Wallace
20. Johanna Long
21. Kyle Fowler
22. Kelly Bires
23. Erik Darnell
24. Eric McClure/Jeff Green (relief driver)
25. Tayler Malsam
26. T.J. Bell
27. Tim Schendel
28. Timmy Hill
29. Jeremy Clements
30. Kurt Busch
31. Danny Efland
32. Ryan Truex
33. Benny Gordon
34. Robert Richardson Jr.
35. Brad Keselowski
36. Blake Koch
37. Brian Scott
38. Scott Riggs
39. Chase Miller
40. Josh Wise
41. Scott Speed
42. Kevin Lepage
43. Jeff Green