Matt Kenseth ruined the opportunity of Johnson for a fifth consecutive victory, but the defending champion of Glass NEXTEL of NASCAR finished to the race in seventh place Sunday to take his second championship in a memorable day in the Homestead-Miami Speedway.
For example, the triumph of Kenseth was something like a gift of goodbye for the group leader Robbie Reiser, that the next campaign will be the General Manager of the stable of five cars of the Roush-Fenway Racing. It closed one season in which Kenseth arrived at Caza by Glass NEXTEL of NASCAR and disappeared after the first five races of the duel of 10. It returned with style to register five results to the thread between the five first, and include the gained triumph to pulse of Sunday in the Homestead-Miami Speedway of 2,4 km (1,5 miles).
The race was also the last one for one of the determined competitors more of NASCAR, that had 906 startings in their race, including the race of Sunday. With an irony touch, Rudd took its last race in a car property of Robert Yachts, one of the proprietors with more years and more success in the sport, that yielded the reins of the Robert Racing Yachts to its son, Doug.
The fans will remember also it like the race in which Jeff Gordon imposed a new record of NASCAR with 30 results between the 10 first in one season. Gordon finalized quarter in the race of Sunday, 77 points back of its coequipero Johnson in the hunting by the championship.
Also, Rick Hendrick had a memorable day. The popular proprietor smiled of ear ear after their cars finished in first and secondly in the championship. The gains of the first place are more than 6 million dollars. It was the seventh proprietor championship for Hendrick.
Behind Kenseth when crossing the line arrived Kurt Busch, Denny Hamlin, Gordon, Carl Edwards, Martin Truex Jr, Johnson, Jeff Burton, the veteran Mark Martin and the novice David Ragan.
As much Busch and Burton recovered of problems to finalize between the 10 first. The ex- champion, Tony Stewart, that fought most of afternoon, lost the control of his Chevy lacking 14 returns and beat against the outer wall to cause the seventh and last yellow flag.
Truex, that ran of solid way and led the race in a while, became victim of the strategy of the equipment of pits in the last shutdown. Its equipment put two rims to him instead of four with the hope to help to Truex in the position in track. It would have been thus but for the last yellow flag. Once the race was started again, the pilots who changed four rims escaped quickly to Truex as if he was stopped.
Johnson attacked when the green flag waved and fought with Ryan Newman until she led a return to secure five points extra that they occur to each pilot who leads a return. Quickly he lowered a little the speed and one was satisfied to obtain his championship.
Jeff Burton cleared the wall after only six returns, and a return cost to him when it entered pits.
The day of Dale Earnhardt, his last like pilot in the equipment of his finado father, the Inc. equipment Dale Earnhardt, was for forgetting. Dale Jr calculated bad its speed when entering pits, it slid itself in I graze and Kyle Busch trompeó when it rejoined to the track in the entrance of pits.
The things were of evil in worse for Dale Jr in a resumption when Jeff Burton beat to him to no. 8 by back it sent and it to the outer wall in the main straight line.
Kenseth, one of the best pilots in the last five events of the campaign, was a contender from the beginning, because it interchanged the leadership with Kurt Busch and Newman. Newman lost many positions in track when trompeó in return 149.
Kenseth in the middle of continued increasing to its speed the race, whereas Johnson remained in the ninth position. Denny Hamlin showed something of speed in this point of the race, and Martin Truex Jr was between the five first.
Gordon had raised the five first but it did not seem to be a threat to gain the race. Johnson, in this point, seemed to gain time, registering returned without looking for problems.

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