Sam Hornish Jr. finds victory in Las Vegas

When it’s your day, it’s just your day. And when you have a dominant racecar, it’s just makes things that much better.

Clearly on Saturday, it was Sam Hornish Jr.’s day at Las Vegas Motor Speedway as he cruised his way to victory in the Sam’s Town 300.

After rain limited track time for both the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series cars, Saturday morning consisted of a short practice session for Nationwide teams to tune in their cars for the 300-mile race later in the afternoon.

“We had a really good racecar. The guys at Penske Racing gave me an awesome racecar,” said Hornish Jr. in victory lane after picking up his second career Nationwide Series win in 69 starts in the series.

“I’m only winded from getting in and out of the car and all that good stuff. The way that the car was handling was just perfect.

“Dreams are made on how cars like that run.”

Throughout the course of the day, Hornish Jr. was locked in a battle with the second place finish car of Kyle Busch, the all-time wins leader in the Nationwide Series.

The two battled hard on the final restart with seven laps to go, racing side-by-side around the 1.5-mile Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Hornish Jr. eventually powered around the outside of Busch’s Toyota, stretching out his lead and never looking back until the checkered flag flew.

“Kyle put up a heck of a fight,” said Hornish. “It was a real clean race.”

Hornish Jr. led a race-high 114 of the 200 laps on the day to claim the first victory for Penske Racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

By picking up his second-career Nationwide win, Hornish Jr. now sits atop the series championship standings by 19-points over Justin Allgaier and Elliott Sadler.

Sam’s Town 300 Unofficial Results 

1. Sam Hornish Jr. 
2. Kyle Busch
3. Brian Vickers
4. Trevor Bayne
5. Elliott Sadler
6. Austin Dillon
7. Regan Smith
8. Alex Bowman
9. Brian Scott
10. Travis Pastrana
11. Ty Dillon
12. Brad Sweet
13. Nelson Piquet Jr.
14. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
15. Justin Allgaier
16. Reed Sorenson
17. Mike Bliss
18. Ryan Sieg
19. Johanna Long
20. Scott Lagasse Jr.
21. Blake Koch
22. Jamie Dick
23. Dexter Stacey
24. Hal Martin
25. Josh Wise
26. Jeffery Earnhardt
27. Joe Nemechek
28. Juan Carlos Blum
29. Robert Richardson Jr.
30. Parker Kligerman
31. Daryl Harr
32. Kyle Larson
33. Joey Gase
34. Mike Wallace
35. Jason White
36. Kevin Lepage
37. Brad Keselowski
38. Jeff Green
39. Chase Miller
40. Eric McClure