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Carl Edwards captured his third Nationwide Series victory of the season Saturday with a win in the Carfax 250 at Michigan International Speedway.

Carl Edwards:
It’s not easy at all. You know Tony Stewart with his car and Brian Vickers is very fast, it’s just pretty awesome man to win a race with, you know right here in Ford Motor Company’s backyard, you know in Jack Roush’s backyard, to win it for Planter’s Peanuts, they’re only on the car one time and they got a win that’s pretty cool.

I was a little nervous that we were gonna get a caution just because you know those guys were racing so hard. You know all over the track, everyone was racing really hard. We were lucky that the caution didn’t come out. We’ve been really close to winning here before in this series and had to go through a green-white-checkered and it didn’t work out that day so, it’s very cool to win this race. But pit road, you know coming off of pit road first was obviously the key, I mean you know Tony was so fast that it would have been a lot different race if he’d have come off of pit road where he came on.

Brian Vickers beat out Tony Stewart to finish second.

Brian Vickers:
It was tough to get by those guys, I mean they were running us hard and you know they had a good car as well. We were better on top on old tires than we were on the bottom and that’s how he got by us the first time, then once I got up top and the tires were old enough we got back down.

To hear an audio version of this interview and more about the race at Michigan International Speedway, visit http://www.nationwide.com/about-us/edwards-wins-michigan.jsp

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