NASCAR Fued between Edwards-Keselowski continues - CRASH VIDEO

Fireworks after the race did not even come close to the fireworks on the track tonight at Gateway Raceway in St. Louis, as the Edwards-Keselowski feud continued causing a huge vicious crash and some harsh words after the race.  Edwards last lap move was at the expense of Nationwide Series points leader Brad Keselowski just a few feet from the finish line. On the white flag (next to the last lap of the race) lap, Keselowski and Edwards were side by side racing for the lead and as Edwards pulled slightly ahead, Keselowski touched Edwards' left rear bumper in an effort to force Edwards to slow down, which he did. Then Edwards caught Keselowski and the two raced side-by-side off the final corner, when contact between their two cars sent Keselowski hard into the outside wall, then across the track into the inside barrier, where Shelby Howard smashed into Keselowski's Dodge.It was apparent in the video and after the race that Edwards retaliated for the move done to him a lap earlier.

Keselowski was on the inside and had appeared to take the lead before Edwards' car drifted into him. Keselowski spun into the wall and was struck head-on by another car. Everyone was OK after the crash, but tempers are high. NASCAR will probably have something to say concerning this later.

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"I just couldn't let him take the win from me," said Edwards, who drew a three-race probation in March for unabashedly turning Keselowski in a Sprint Cup race at Atlanta, with the unintended consequence of sending the No. 12 Dodge upside-down into the frontstretch wall. "My guys work way too hard for that. "We had a great restart. My guys built me a great car. We came to the checkered flag, and I hate to see stuff tore up, but we came here to win and he took it from us there in Turn 1. Just an awesome race. ... I'm sure some of them don't like that win -- Brad Keselowski fans and stuff -- but, man, I just couldn't let him take it from me. I had to do what I had to do." In Keselowski's view, Edwards' action at Gateway was intentional.

"He turned left into me and wrecked me on purpose," Keselowski said. "I gave him the lane, and he still wrecked me. … I figured out a way to beat him. He wasn't happy with me, so he wrecked me. Wrecking down the straightaway is never cool, whether it's at 200 mph or 120. I'm sorry that's the way it had to end."

Keselowski's father, old-school racer Bob Keselowski, had an even stronger take on the finish. "Brad got into Carl getting out of Turn 1 -- racing -- they bumped, they rubbed, typical rubbing-racing deal," Bob Keselowski said. "Carl flipped out like he did at Atlanta and tried to kill the kid. I'm sick and tired of this. I'll get my own damn uniform back on and take care of this. He ain't going to kill my boy." "He just overreacted so bad. If he wanted to bump Brad, it's one thing. But don't drive him through the inside guardrail. Don't put him in the grandstands at Atlanta. That's asinine."

After meeting with Edwards in the NASCAR hauler, Nationwide Series director Joe Balash attributed the final-lap crash to hard racing. "I think at the last lap there was a lot of hard racing going on," Balash said. "There was some movement on the racetrack. It was a tough finish for a really great race. "We've chatted about this evening, yes. We don't talk about any of those conversations [that we have] in the hauler."