Tony Stewart gained like gift an unexpected victory after the majority of the leaders remained without fuel in Banquet 400 presented by ConAgra Foods, disputed east Sunday in the evening in the Kansas Speedway.
Stewart stayed miraculously in track after saving fuel in the final returns. Soon after crossing the goal, the motor of its Chevy paused without more fuel in its tank.
“He is hard to go slow to save fuel, but definitively we secured the result that we looked for. In the curves it did not use the brakes, only left the car moves with envión”, counted the present champion of series NEXTEL Cup.
Casey Mears led the race until the last curve, but just when it get ready to cross the victorious goal its car paused. Mears managed to cross the goal second, followed by a true trio of veterans, Mark Martin, Dale Jarrett and Jeff Burton, that the leadership in the table of points conserves.
“Good, it lacked very little”, it said Mears. “My first engineer me imploró that saved fuel and I did that, but last one curves the motor began “to toser” and that was everything. It could have been worse, after all I arrived second.”
Stewart became candidate from turn 263, when Jimmie Johnson had to pause by fuel. Jimmie overcame until position 14, very far from the longed for recovery that hoped for this race. Johnson is eighth in the points to 165 points of Burton.
The third position of Mark Martin makes possible to him to only accede to the third step of the championship to 70 units of Burton. The veteran pilot of Ford, finally hopes to obtain his first title of the series in his already announced last season.
“I am proud of the work of these boys”, said Martin after the race. “We fought very it last to finish the competition and the third position is a great result.”
For the majority of the contenders to Caza 2006 good day has not been.
Matt Kenseth suffered with an unstable car during all the race, took that it to thin 23º put. Jeff Gordon marched eighth when its motor stopped responding to him in turn 238. 39º was classified.
“I do not know that it happened”, Gordon said. “There was no gasoline pressure, will be necessary to investigate.”
Stewart obtained an average of 121,753 mph in a race that counted on 11 yellow flags by space of 45 turns.

Time of race - 3 hours, 17 minutes, 22 seconds
Returns: 267
Average of speed - 121,753 mph
Margin of victory - 12,422 seconds
Inexperienced Raybestos of the Race - Clint Bowyer

The NEXTEL Cup Series now travels to Talladega Superspeedway to dispute to the next Sunday the UAW Ford 500.

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