Jimmie Johnson needed a victory to maintain a lukewarm hope to obtain NASCAR championship 2004. And that victory arrived by 2º consecutive time in the Motor Lowe's Speedway, the same company that supports to Johnson for a pair of seasons.
Nevertheless this triumph of Johnson does not seem to be sufficient to fight by the title.
Bond to refresh that Jimmie was great the dominator of championship NASCAR until August ends, but a rollover of 3 consecutive abandonments moved away chances of the North American in the contest. When beginning “playoff” the perspective of Jimmie continued descending until falling to 9º square of the table, their worse location in all the season.
But in Lowe's Jimmie one recovered here adjudging the UAW-GM Quality 500, just in front of his companion Jeff Gordon. This way Johnson ascended to 8º put of the championship but still she follows very far with 227 points less than the Busch leader.
“This victory is a great reward to all the bad fortune that we have crossed months in the last”, Johnson said. And he is not for less considering his incredible rollover of abandonments product of the breakage of his Chevrolet motor.
The night in the Motor Lowe's Speedway has been problematic for the main candidates to the title. Busch and Gordon did I spin a top in the first return but they managed to leave windy the situation. In the middle of race these two last ones returned to have an accident after carrying out a shock in chain when Scott Riggs missed a change in the heat of march.
Gordon and Busch had to go to pits to repair their cars. When returning to track were 38º and 40º…
“Today I have carried out all type of incidents that could have left to me outside the competition, but I stayed barren, I recovered positions and I arrived in the beginning in an unimaginable location for my of the race”, explained Gordon.
Another candidate who has not obtained the result that he looked for was Mark Martin, who culminated 13º, and very angry after undergoing a collision with Spencer and Gaughan.
“Not yet I can think as certain pilots obtained their license to lead…”, displeased Martin said very, “He owned an exceptional car but these two (Spencer and Gaughan) were in charge to ruin the race to me.”
The certain thing is that Spencer and Gaughan were touched, and Mark could not avoid the mess slightly damaging its Taurus.
On the other hand the ex- champion Tony Stewart culminated 10º with a little competitive car. Also Tony stays 6º in the championship to 204 points of Busch.
With regard to Busch, the pilot of Ford arrived 4º behind the 3 Chevrolet de Johnson, Gordon and Earnhardt. The Montecar it they have been quicker than the Taurus, but the consistency of Busch, that remembers the one of Kenseth the last year, seems difficult to break.
Who has remained definitively outside the fight by the crown is Jeremy Mayfield. With 349 units less than Busch, no longer it owns chances mathematical of campeonar when they only reduce 5 races for the closing of the season.

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