LOUDON, N.H. — Brad Keselowski slipped in front when Kevin Harvick got into a traffic jam. Then Harvick got mad.

Keselowski took the checkered flag in Saturday's Nationwide race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway while Harvick fumed about the inexperienced driver who got in his way even though she had been lapped.

"It's somebody who shouldn't be on the racetrack, who has no clue what they're doing in the race car," Harvick said, directing his anger at Amber Cope, who grew up in Puyallup. "She wants to be Danica Patrick, but she can't hold her helmet."

Keselowski capitalized when Harvick was forced to slow down with about 21 laps left in the 200-mile race at the 1-mile oval, pulling ahead and winning by about six car-lengths.

"I caught a little bit of a break in traffic," Keselowski said, "but that's the way it goes."

The pole-sitter had lost the lead to Harvick at about the 150th lap when Patrick's Chevrolet bumped Jason Bowles' Toyota, bringing out the yellow flag. When the race restarted, Harvick shot in front.

The 28-year-old Cope is one of the twin nieces of Spanaway's Derrike Cope, who won the Daytona 500 in 1990. Her only other race in the Nationwide series was in May at the Iowa Speedway where she was sent off the track on the 203rd lap of the 250-lap race for driving too slowly.

Enumclaw's Kasey Kahne finished sixth, while Patrick came in 14th.

Other race

• Timothy Peters won the NASCAR trucks series race at Iowa Speedway for his first victory of the season. It's the fourth career win for Peters, who overtook Ron Hornaday Jr. with 10 laps left to become the third pole-sitter to win a trucks race in four events in Iowa.