Sunday’s win by Keselowski broke a drought for Ford Performance at Martinsville dating back to 2002, as well as a drought for Team Penske that stretched back to 2004, when NASCAR Hall of Famer Rusty Wallace claimed his final victory.

Penske said following the race that a win at Martinsville, during such a milestone race for his team, added a special layer to the day.

“When you think about this track and places like Darlington and North Wilkesboro, these are the tracks that formed the foundation of NASCAR for many years. Watching Richard (Petty) and Darrell Waltrip run here … you want to win here and join those guys, so it’s pretty special to think that we could get into victory lane.”

“It’s certainly a special day for us, and especially in our 1000th race … those moments don’t come around all the time and it’s one we’ll remember.”

Busch came home second after leading seven different times for a total of 274 laps. He narrowly missed winning stage two in a photo finish with Chase Elliott, and said that his final set of tires was not to the car’s liking.

“All we did was put four tires on it and it went to junk,” Busch lamented. “I hate it for our guys; they’ve deserved all year much better finishes than what we’ve been able to produce and this was another one today.”

“Adam and the guys did an awesome job on this car this weekend to get it to where it was. We were lights-out faster than those guys after 20 laps or so. There that run, it was at minimum three-tenths slower the entire time and that’s why Brad just was able to drive away there at the end. We were really, really, really struggling. I’m surprised I held off the 24 (Elliott). Overall, we’re just not quite getting the finishes we need and we just need to figure out how to finish better than where we’re running. So far we’ve just been finishing worse.”

Elliott came home third, backing up his Truck win on Saturday and surprise stage victory, followed by Joey Logano and Austin Dillon.

A.J. Allmendinger, Clint Bowyer, Ryan Newman, Matt Kenseth and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. completed the top 10.

Erik Jones was the highest-finishing rookie in 12th, while opening stage winner Martin Truex Jr. ended the day 16th.

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