SPARTA, Ky. -- On his very first practice lap at Kentucky Speedway on Friday, Brad Keselowski wrecked his best car. What could have been a devastating blow, ended up being a curious blessing. Driving his backup, Keselowski raced to his series-leading third victory of the year Saturday night, grabbing the lead with 55 laps remaining and holding off all challengers in the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kentucky Speedway. "It wasnt the newest car we got, but it runs," Keselowski said. The 28-year-old from Rochester Hills, Mich., picked up his seventh win in his five years on the circuit. He won earlier this year at Bristol and Talladega. He gave all the credit for the latest victory to his team. "They put together a backup car from last year in 100-degree heat in one hours time to get me back on the track," he marveled. Kasey Kahne rode a late surge to second place, 4.399 seconds back of the winner. So well was Keselowski running that Kahne, despite his fast finish, knew he needed help to catch him. "I just hoped hed run out of gas," Kahne said, grinning. "No way I was catching him. We had stopped (for a fill-up) and I was hoping hed shut down." Keselowski had just enough fuel to finish. Crew chief Paul Wolfe called the quick turnaround in cars "probably the toughest weekend our team has ever had up to this point." "Im just really proud of everybody on this team, to pull out a backup car after having that crash on the first lap on the track just says a lot about all these guys," he said. "To be able to have a backup car that is capable of winning a race says a lot." While registering his 16th career top-five finish in the 267-lap race, Keselowski, who led for 68 total laps, ended a lull over the past four starts where he had failed to crack the top 10. He was driving his backup car after slamming the right side of his top car into the wall in the wake of a collision with Juan Pablo Montoya during practice Friday. He admitted that he felt he had been "pushed around" by Montoya on the practice lap and reacted angrily. He hinted that maybe he channeled that anger into the big race. Denny Hamlin was third, Dale Earnhardt Jr. fourth and Jeff Gordon fifth. Hamlin announced a new agreement with Joe Gibbs Racing on his Twitter account just before the start. "Its a great day," he said. "When you know youre locked in where youre going to race for really long time, its a good feeling. Those guys (at JGR) have given me a championship-calibre racing team." A year after severe traffic congestion resulted in thousands of angry fans, there were few glitches after the track and government officials widened ramps and roads and added 20,000 parking spaces. Defending champion Kyle Busch dominated for most of the first half of the race before he bumped into the wall and a broken shock absorber dropped him off the pace. "We salvaged a heck of a finish for what all we had to go through," said Busch, who ended up 10th. With an uncharacteristic white paint job on his Chevrolet, pole-sitter and five-time Cup champ Jimmie Johnson led at the 200-lap mark but fell back all the way to 11th due to a flat tire. He rebounded to sixth. "Up front in clean air that thing was blistering fast," he said of his car. "I got back in traffic and just couldnt go anywhere." Matt Kenseth, in action for the first time since announcing that he was leaving Roush Fenway Racing after the season, surged late to place seventh. Rounding out the top 10 were Martin Truex Jr., A.J. Allmendinger and Busch. Kenseth maintained his lead in the season point standings by 11 points over Earnhardt. Keselowski is 10th. 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"Its not practical, possible or prudent to have a full season now," added Stern, who previously cancelled the first two weeks of the season. And he repeated his warnings that the proposals might now get even harsher as the league tries to make up the hundreds of millions of dollars that will be lost as the lockout drags on. "Were going to have to recalculate how bad the damage is," Stern said. "The next offer will reflect the extraordinary losses that are piling up now." Just a day earlier, Stern had said he would consider it a failure if the sides didnt reach a deal in the next few days and vowed they would take "one heck of a shot" to get it done. Instead, negotiations broke off again over the division of basketball-related income, just as they did last Thursday. Union executive director Billy Hunter said the league again insisted it had to be split 50-50, while Stern said Hunter just walked out and left rather than discuss going below 52 per cent. Owners are insistent on a 50-50 split, while players last formally proposed they get 52.5 per cent, leaving them about US$100 million apart annually. Players were guaranteed 57 per cent in the previous collective bargaining agreement. "Derek (Fisher) and I made it clear that we could not take the 50-50 deal to our membership. Not with all the concessions that we granted," Hunter said. "We said we got to have some dollars." Instead, theyll now be out roughly $350 million, the losses Hunter previously projected for each month the players were locked out. He believed a full season could be played if a deal were made this weekend, but Stern emphatically ruled out any hope of that now. "These are not punitive announcements; these are calendar generated announcements," Stern said. No further talks have been scheduled. There was a sense of optimism entering the day after progress was made on salary cap issues during about 24 hours of talks over the previous two days. Then the sides brought the revenue split back into the discussion Friday and promptly got stuck on both issues. Stern said the NBA owners were "willing" to go to 50 per cent. But he said Hunter was unwilling to "go a penny below 52," that he had been getting many calls from agents and then closed up his book and walked out of the room. Hunter said the league initially moved its target down to 47 per cent during Fridays six-hour session, then returned to its previous proposal of 50 per cent of revenues. "We made a lot of concessions, but unfortunately at this time its not enough, and were not prepared or unable at this time to move any further," Hunter said. Union president Fisher said it was difficult to say why talks broke down, or when they would start up again. "Were here, weve always been here, but today just wasnt the day to try and finish this out," he said. There was some good news. Deputy Commissioner Adamm Silver said there was essentially a "tentative agreement" on most system issues, with Stern rattling off some of them: Owners agreed to keep the midlevel exception starting at $5 million a year; and contract lengths would be five years for players staying with their teams and four when leaving for another.dddddddddddd. "And then we hit a wall," Stern said. The small groups that were meeting the previous two days grew a bit Friday. Union vice-presidents Chris Paul -- wearing a Yankees cap for his trip to New York -- and Theo Ratliff joined the talks, and economist Kevin Murphy returned after he was unavailable Thursday. Mavericks owner Mark Cuban stayed for the session after taking part Thursday. Fisher said there were still too many restrictions in the owners proposal. Players want to keep a system similar to the old one, and fear owners ideas would limit player movement and the choices available to them in free agency. And though they might be inclined to give up one if they received more concessions on the other, players make it sound as if they are the ones doing all the giving back. The old cap system allowed teams to exceed it through the use of a number of exceptions, many of which the league wants to tweak or even eliminate. Hunter has called a hard cap a "blood issue" to players, and though the league has backed off its initial proposal calling for one, players think the changes owners want would work like one. "Weve told them that we dont want a hard cap. We dont want a hard cap any kind of way, either an obvious hard cap or a hard cap that may not be as obvious to most people but we know it works like a hard cap," Hunter said. "And so you get there, and then all of a sudden they say, Well, we also have to have our number. And you say, Well wait a minute, youre not negotiating in good faith." But if players think whats being proposed is a hard cap, heres another warning: Silver wont rule out the league seeking one again. "Our response is then lets have a hard cap, which is what we wanted," he said. "We dont think its a hard cap. ... Weve all been wasting our time if they believe this is a hard cap. Weve been spending literally hundreds of hours negotiating the specifics of a system, where theyre now saying is the equivalent of a hard cap. Weve been clear from the beginning from a league standpoint we would prefer a hard cap." When players offered to reduce their guarantee from 57 per cent to 53 per cent, Hunter said that would have transferred about $1.1 billion to owners over six years. Now, at 52.5, he said that would grow to more than $1.5 billion. But even a 50-50 split would be too high for some hardline owners, because it would reduce only $280 million of the $300 million they said they lost last season. Owners initially proposed a BRI split that players said would have had them around 40 per cent. Though they will miss a paycheque on Nov. 15, Hunter said each player would have received a minimum of $100,000 from the escrow money that was returned to them to make up the difference after salaries fell short of the guaranteed 57 per cent of revenues last season. The real losses, though, could be felt by arena staff and other people who work in fields connected to the game. Stern apologized to them in making the announcement. But Jeff Lee, a 37-year-old cafe owner and Warriors season-ticketholder in the East Bay, said he isnt discouraged about Fridays setback. "Im pretty certain that the seasons going to start sooner or later," Lee said. "I know when the season starts its going to be well worth the wait." cheap nfl jerseys wholesale jerseys ' ' '