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One of the bigger stories of the weekend's Nationwide Series activities at Nashville Superspeedway, thanks to the fine folks over at Scene Daily, involved a potential move of Rusty Wallace Inc.'s two teams to Sprint Cup in 2010.

According to the story, team owner Rusty Wallace said that he'd like to make the move in 2010, but that a lot of things would have to line up for it to happen -- like equipment, sponsorship and other necessities.

But doesn't it seem a little perplexing that the former Sprint Cup champ would want to move an organization that has one total win in Nationwide Series competition to NASCAR's top level?

On the Nationwide Series' first venture of 2009 away from the shadow of the Sprint Cup Series, Joey Logano spoiled the show.

Logano, a full-time driver in both the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the Nationwide Series, won Saturday's Nashville 300 at Gladeville, Tenn.'s 1.5-mile Nashville Superspeedway after passing teammate Kyle Busch with just 8 laps to go.

While the Joe Gibbs Racing teammates dominated much of the day, the biggest story might be a restoration of Logano's confidence in a race car.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. said earlier this week that he's been a little too hard on his JR Motorsports driver Brad Keselowski.

After Saturday night, he's going to be pretty happy with his young driver after Keselowski won the Federated Auto Parts 300 at Nashville Superspeedway. It was Keselowski's first career win in the Nationwide Series.

Towards the end, the race was a lesson in fuel mileage as the leaders stretched their fuel tanks to the limit. Clint Bowyer, David Reutimann, and David Stremme all raced towards the front at the end as some late cautions allowed them to conserve fuel.

On the last restart, David Reutimann led until Clint Bowyer tapped his rear bumper to take the lead. Keselowski also got under Reutimann and stayed glued to Bowyer's rear bumper. He finally got under Bowyer with just a few laps to go and set sail for the finish line.

Bowyer and Stremme got together coming off turn four coming to the finish line, shooting Bowyer up the track. He wasn't real happy with Stremme after the event.

But for Keselowski, I'd say winning the traditional guitar trophy was much less important than the pressure he may have relieved from his owner Dale Jr.

Last week, Richard Childress Racing finished 1-2-3 in the Sprint Cup's Food City 500 at Bristol after what can only be described as a strange set of events.

It wasn't as crazy Saturday afternoon at Nashville Superspeedway.

Scott Wimmer, driving the No. 29 Holiday Inn RCR Chevy, took the checkers ahead of teammate Clint Bowyer for RCR's second team sweep of the top positions in a row. Wimmer had just enough full on-board to do a few celebratory donuts before the engine started to sputter.

Kyle Busch started on the pole for the event and led the most number of laps -- 125 -- until a "driver error" struck with 62 laps to go. Busch spun his car and slightly tapped a passing Bowyer, relegating Busch's Toyota to a 16th-place finish.

Carl Edwards was going for four-in-a-row at the track but came up a little bit short in third. Brad Keselowski and Kelly Bires would up fourth and fifth, respectively.

Wimmer's victory in the Nationwide Series was the first for a non-Sprint Cup driver in 2008 and first since last July at O'Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis.

Kyle Busch must not be much for lounging on the beach or lounging at home.

In a weekend that the Sprint Cup Series has off and most other drivers are taking time to recharge their batteries for the next barrage of race weekends, Busch is hanging out with the Nationwide Series in Nashville.

Saturday morning, Busch put the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota on the pole for Nashville Superspeedway's Pepsi 300, scheduled to take the green flag at 3pm/ET.

Busch's lap of 163.357mph on the 1.5-mile concrete oval topped Nationwide regular Mike Bliss (2nd), Steve Wallace, Carl Edwards, and Kelly Bires.

44 drivers challenged the clock for 43 positions in the event.

The Sprint Cup regulars in town for the event were Busch, Edwards, Denny Hamlin, David Reutimann, and Clint Bowyer.

Making his first NASCAR appearance in a while was now-former Sprint Cup driver and Tennessee native Sterling Marlin. Marlin clocked in 20th on the grid.

The race can be seen live on ESPN Saturday afternoon with coverage starting at 2pm/ET.

Well, I napped through most of today's Busch Series race in Nashville, but don't seem to have missed much.

I remember the pre-show--I was awake long enough to be annoyed by Nashville recording artist Julie Roberts' oversing of the National Anthem.

I vaguely remember Rusty Wallace talking about his son Steven being on the pole ... then things start to get fuzzy.

I woke up to Carl Edwards getting out of his car in victory lane.

Without a single practice lap on the track this weekend, the series points leader won the race--his third consecutive at the track, fourth on the season.

The always gracious driver dedicated his win to the France family, thanked his team, sponsors, etc.

Then he gave his Gibson guitar trophy away to Roush Fenway teammate David Ragan's brother. That was nice. It just might be awhile before Ragan brings one home.

Federated Auto Parts 300 Results | Standings

This weekend, the most popular motorsport division racing will be in Nashville, Tenn. NASCAR's Busch Series will call the city home for the weekend and take the limelight because the Cup Series has the weekend off. However, Nashville's reputation wasn't always as a home for NASCAR's second series.

The date was July 14, 1984 in central Tennessee. Around 24,000 had just watched Geoff Bodine lead 327 of the 420 laps that made up the 250-mile Pepsi 420 at Nashville Speedway USA en route to his 2nd career victory. Bodine beat Darrell Waltrip, winner of the the last 3 races at the track and last 4 of 6, and some guy named Earnhardt in a race that many would have never thought would change the landscape of NASCAR racing in Nashville forever.

It wasn't necessarily the competition on the track, but rather the financial wrangling behind it. Track owner Gary Baker made a deal with a California realtor to keep the track afloat, but the deal went sour after the California connection went bankrupt. As a result, NASCAR gave up on visiting a track with its premier series that was facing such financial hardship -- and a lack of political support -- and the two dates that speedway within the Tennessee state fairgounds had that season were gone the next despite hosting over 40 Cup events in the past 36 years.