Brad Keselowski turned in two impressive performances in the BUBBA burger 250 at RIR on Friday night. Nearly 60 laps into the race, Keselowski ran off to take a huge lead and hold it for 189 of the 250 laps. Then after ceding the lead on a late caution pit, he made a dramatic come-from behind charge in the final four laps to take the win.

“It wouldn’t be right if I didn’t win a race without a lot of drama,” Keselowski said.

What was looking to be a very mundane race got exciting in the final laps when Paul Menard hit the wall with six laps to go. Suddenly Keselowski’s nearly two second lead that he had held for nearly half the race was brought back to a double-file restart.

Then to compound matters, Keselowski pitted leaving Busch and Justin Allgaier on the track holding the lead with four laps to go.

As the cars neared the entrance to pit road Busch faked in and Keselowski dove, thinking the others would follow but Busch and Allgaier stayed out.

“I just watched Kyle and it kind of looked like he was pitting. I knew that he would do the opposite,” Keselowski said. “(Crew Chief) Paul (Wolf) and I talked about it.

I was watching Kyle run down on the apron like was going to pit and I wanted to make sure I ran as high as possible and then commit at the last second, hoping I could catch him going onto pit road too, because I wanted everybody to come onto pit road.

“I’m not exactly sure at what moment that call was made, it happened so fast that time was a blur, but it was the right call.”

“The 22 (Keselowski) was stellar tonight,” Busch said. “He had us covered. (We were) reaching for anything there at the end. That was all we could muster there with everybody else going all around us.”

A fresh set of tires was all the best car on the track needed to roar past all competitors and edge past Greg Biffle in turn four of the final lap for the win.

“It was kind of an uneventful race there for quite some time, a lot of long green runs and then that caution at the end made things exciting,” Biffle said. “…Then the No. 22 was coming like gang-busters.”

Biffle took second followed by Jamie McMurray, Busch and Carl Edwards.

Edwards was momentarily penalized by NASCAR when it appeared he jumped the restart on the final caution, pulling past Keselowski. However, he gave up the position, which nullified the penalty and solidifying a fifth place finish.

Keselowski finished the race with a perfect driver rating of 150.