Mark Martin won the Sam’s Town 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday. It was his 49th career win in his 232nd Nationwide Series race, the most victories all time in the series, which started in 1982. His last series win came here at Las Vegas in March 2008, and his past three series victories have come at LVMS. He has won four times at Las Vegas.
This was Martin’s 16th 1.5-mile win, one behind Kyle Busch for the most all time. Martin is the oldest race winner at Las Vegas and only the sixth driver to win a series race after his 50th birthday.
This was the first win in the history of Turner Motorsports. Turner Motorsports teammate Justin Allgaier finished second, the third time teammates finished 1-2 at Las Vegas.
This was Chevrolet’s ninth series win at Las Vegas and second of the season.
Justin Allgaier has posted top-10 finishes in all three of his series starts at Las Vegas.
Brad Keselowski (third) was leading at the white flag before a flat right-front tire struck his car on the last lap. It was his second top-5 finish in his fifth Las Vegas race in the series. He rebounded from a Lap 51 speeding penalty on pit road. (He took the wave around on Lap 69.)
Danica Patrick (fourth) had her best career finish in the series. It was the best finish by a woman in a NASCAR touring series race. The previous best was by Sara Christian, who finished fifth at Heidelberg in the seventh-ever Strictly Stock/Grand National race in October 1949.
Trevor Bayne (fifth) has posted top-10 finishes in both of his series Las Vegas starts.
Kenny Wallace (10th) earned his second top-10 finish in his ninth series Las Vegas start; Wallace took the wave around on Lap 69.
Points leader Reed Sorenson finished 11th.
Kyle Busch (30th) led the most laps before a Lap 130 accident.
(ESPN.com)(3-7-2011)
