Five days after finishing 10th in his Nextel Cup Series debut at Michigan, Carl Edwards pulled away from Shane Hmiel on a green-white-checkered restart to win the O'Reilly 200 on Wednesday at Bristol Motor Speedway.

"I don't even know what to say," Edwards said. "This is the greatest week of my life."

Edwards, whose crew elected to make unapproved pre-race repairs to his Ford after a spin in qualifying, methodically worked his way to the front.

He took the lead from Mike Skinner's Toyota on the 180th lap and held on for his third win of the season. Hmiel, driving a Chevrolet, got a final chance at his first victory when the race's eighth caution added six extra laps to the scheduled, 200-lap distance, came up .306 seconds short -- a distance of two truck lengths.

Edwards' sixth series victory and third of the 2004 season was worth $43,310. He averaged 74.496 mph as 50 laps ran under the yellow flag. More