"It's not the way we wanted our day to finish," a disappointed Ambrose said, his car crippled in an incident on the preceding restart. Something was wrong with the car there, I could feel it on the roll around lap, something had broken. I just feel sorry for all the guys that got caught up in that mess. We had a great, fast car. It just wasn't our day. His fortunes changed on the 60th lap when teammate Aric Almirola crashed, forcing a caution flag. Busch and several other cars were already pitting as the pace car came out, relegating Ambrose to 14th after he made his pitstop the next time around. With six laps of the 90-lap race to go the Australian, in 12th position and his Ford struggling, was nudged from behind by Max Papis' Chevrolet and sent crashing into a wall. The frustrated Tasmanian ripped off his steering wheel, climbed out of the car and then angrily threw his helmet while Busch went on to win. Kelly's aim was to keep James Finch's No.51 Chevrolet SS out of trouble and bring it home on the lead lap, ticking both boxes despite having to avoid the two late-race crashes. "It was eventful out there," Kelly said. When some were going around in front of you, I'd try to avoid them, then the guys behind would be in the back of you, it was relentless. I thought we'd probably end up about 15th overall, our pace was with those guys who were around there, but I lost a bunch of spots when Marcos (Ambrose) crashed. The 36-year-old, who cut his teeth racing V8 Supercars before heading stateside to chase a NASCAR career, said racing the sport's biggest stars was an awesome experience. At one point, we were struggling with the front end and I looked into the mirror and Jeff Gordon was chasing me and pushing on my bumper to get by. I thought then 'this is pretty cool, it's not every week you get pushed around by Jeff Gordon.' That probably brought it home for me how big a deal this was. It was definitely the biggest race that I have ever been involved in. Both Ambrose and Kelly will now head to the Mid-Ohio Sportscar Course this weekend for the second-tier Nationwide Series race, Ambrose pulling double-duty racing at Michigan in the Sprint Cup Series. Out Re-live the exciting NASCAR race at Watkins Glen in stunning HD, Monday at 7pm EST on SPEED (Foxtel/Austar channel 512)