Tetracampeón of Glass NEXTEL of NASCAR Jeff Gordon interchanged the leadership with the bichampion Tony Stewart in the last returns and it undid of him to at night gain the Subway Fresh 500 Fit Saturday in the Phoenix International Raceway.Gordon almost was catched in pits when a yellow flag left near the end, but left pits to end of the return of the leader. When the leader of the Stewart competition and other leaders entered pits, Gordon went of return to the front, where it took and it finalized the race.Stewart did escapes dramatic and bold on right Gordon after the resumption, but it again passed it to Gordon through the victory.Triumph, the 76 of Gordon for all time tied, it with missing Dale Earnhardt in the list of NASCAR triumphs.It was the first victory of Gordon in Phoenix. Behind Gordon and Stewart when crossing the line of goal was Denny Hamlin, that perhaps had the car fastest most at night, but was penalized by excess of speed in the track of pits. Jimmie Johnson was quarter and Matt Kenseth was fifth. The Ford of Kenseth prevented one swept of Chevrolet in the five first.Jeff Green, pilot of one of the equipment with a single car, finalized sixth in front of Kyle Busch.Bobby Labonte was eighth, Johnny Sauter ninth and Kevin Harvick 10º.Hamlin and polesitter Gordon dominated the first returns, with Hamlin at the top most of they.The Chevy de Johnson was plagued of problems with the battery and the defending champion had to change of battery.Johnson continued running near the front.Two yellow flags by rubbish and one third by a shock compacted the contingent, while the equipment worked to solve the characteristics of maneuverability of the Car the Morning.Harvick, that swept with both races (Series Busch of NASCAR and Glass NEXTEL of NASCAR) in this track the last autumn, inherited the right leadership before the contingent reinitiated, after the second yellow flag by rubbish.Hamlin was penalized to enter pits too fast and had to start from back of the contingent.Harvick had run until the put second, just in front of Johnson, Martin Truex Jr, Gordon, Kurt Busch and Tony Stewart.Several cars were damaged at the outset in a shock when David Ragan trompeó their car when trying to avoid to Stewart. The car that trompeaba of Ragan met to David Stremme and Casey Mears, to cause some damages to those cars.One fourth yellow flag by rubbish encouraged the contingent again, shortly before half of the race and Stewart took the leadership from Harvick when they were 157 returns.In this point in the race, Hamlin had fought through contingent to return to 12ª position.
Juan Pablo Montoya occupied position 33
The Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya, who had released from position 36, obtained as soon as to ascend to square 33.
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Multiple shock in Phoenix
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Harvick was tenth
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