TALLADEGA, Ala. — Brad Keselowski won his first Sprint Cup Series race today after a dramatic final lap at Talladega Superspeedway when Carl Edwards' airborne car sailed into the fence near the finish line.

Edwards later warned that restrictor-plate racing is eventually going to kill someone.

Keselowski, racing in just his fifth career Cup race, hooked onto the rear of Edwards' bumper on the last lap to push him past Ryan Newman and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Once clear of them, Keselowski peeked around Edwards to make a move for the lead.

Edwards tried to block the move by darting low, but Keselowski was too close to his bumper and the contact sent Edwards sailing up the track. His spinning car shot over Newman's hood and into the safety fence near on the front stretch.

The fence swelled toward the race fans but held, and Edwards' car landed back on the track. He climbed from the crumpled metal and ran on foot across the finish line.

"We'll race like this until we kill somebody," Edwards said afterward. "Then they will change it."

Edwards was referring to the high speeds at NASCAR's fastest track, which are combated by horsepower-sapping restrictor plates. The plates typically keep the field bunched tightly together, and one wrong move by a driver can cause a massive accident.

In addition to Edwards' frightening flight into the fence, Sunday's race was also marred by a 13-car crash on the seventh lap and another 10-car accident with nine to go.

"Talladega is short for 'We're going to crash, we just don't know when,'" said Newman, the third-place finisher, who also recalled Matt Kenseth's fiery tumble in the Nationwide Series race on Saturday.

"We saw that two times this weekend, so maybe we need to look at things that keep the car down on the ground."