There's Brad Keselowski, and then there's the rest of the field in this year's NASCAR Nationwide Series standings.
Keselowski pulled away from Martin Truex Jr. on a late restart at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Friday night for his fifth win of the season, extending his series lead to 450 points.
Keselowski quickly shot ahead of Truex when the green flag fell with eight laps left. Justin Allgaier finished third, followed by Joey Logano and Clint Bowyer, who started on the pole but had a costly pit-road speeding penalty late.
While Danica Patrick posted her best finish in her nine Nationwide races - 21st although she was two laps down at the end - Keselowski had little competition once Kyle Busch had handling problems after halfway through the race. Busch finished sixth and Edwards, closest to Keselowski in the standings, was 13th.
Bowyer, who seemed to have the only car capable of competing with Busch early, was penalized for speeding on pit road with 42 laps left, dropping him to 16th.
Bowyer's penalty came during an odd caution to correct a scoring error.
NASCAR acknowledged it mistakenly penalized Brian Scott for a missing lug nut. When they were all accounted for, NASCAR put out the caution flag and allowed Scott to regain his original position.
Keselowski didn't pit and took the lead on the restart - his third lead of the race. He built a 1.5-second advantage before Scott wrecked and tore out a chunk of infield grass with 19 laps left to bring out another caution in the 200-lap race.
Keselowski earned his 11th career win while Patrick continued her learning process.
Making her first start on the big track at Charlotte after running go-karts here as a teenager, Patrick vowed Thursday to be aggressive on the track, if needed. James Buescher wrecked her a week earlier at California to end her chances of a top-15 finish.
But Patrick never raced side by side with Buescher - and was never a factor in the 300-mile race. She bumped the outside wall early on and kept control of her No. 7 Chevrolet, but she soon fell a lap down after green-flag pit stops.
The previous best Nationwide finish for Patrick, primarily an IndyCar driver, was 24th. She has struggled with the boxier stock cars.
Busch, who picked up his 12th series win of the year last week, had handling problems late in the race after dominating early.
Busch shot from sixth to first in 23 laps and led for much of the middle of the race until a series of green-flag pit stops put cars out of sequence. After briefly being a lap down, Busch moved to the front with 54 laps to go.
