Jimmie Johnson gained his fourth consecutive race, the Checker Car Parts 500 in the Phoenix International Raceway, to increase its advantage on Jeff Gordon in Caza by Glass NEXTEL of NASCAR, and the pilot of the 48 no. Lowe's Chevrolet is placed On guard to gain his second championship to the thread in the Homestead-Miami Speedway next Sunday.
Fifth in the resumption of return 275, after 10ª yellow flag of the race, Johnson moved quickly to the front, after escaping soon to Matt Kenseth for the second put in return 283 and to Martin Truex Jr by the leadership in return 288 of the race to 312 returns.
From that moment, Johnson escaped to take his 10ª victory of the season, the best thing of their race and the series. Triumph of its race is 33º, and so it ties for all time to Fireball Roberts in place 18.
In a fight by positions behind him, Greg Biffle finished second, to 0,870 seconds of Johnson. Kenseth arrived third party, followed of Tony Stewart and Ryan Newman. Gordon was 10º and back fell 86 points of its coequipero in the Hendrick Motorsports course to the closing in Florida.
The Johnsons and Gordon are the unique pilots with possibilities of gaining the title. Johnson is aircraft commander in gaining four races to the thread since Gordon obtained this feat in 1998.
Without concerning the result in Homestead, proprietor Rick Hendrick will take his seventh title in Glass NEXTEL. Johnson can moor the championship with a better result in 18º or in the last race.
“I only leave to do my work and to give everything what I have”, commented Johnson. “I am without speech. I am as overwhelmed as the others that saw the race”.
Gordon battled with the handling of its no. 24 Chevrolet in all the race, although it arrived at the second place after the leaders left sequence during the shutdowns in pits. Gordon reinitiated in fourth place and Johnson 10º after a yellow flag due to the accident of Kasey Kahne in return 148, but Johnson easily exceeded to Gordon 25 returns later, as no. 48 began to exert its dominion.
The eighth yellow flag of the race, after I spin a top of Dave Blaney in curve 2 in return 233, put again to all the leaders in the same sequence of shutdowns in pits. With change of two rims, Newman gained the race when leaving the track of pits and headed to the contingent in the resumption of return 240, with Kenseth second, Stewart third, Clint Bowyer fourth, Truex fifth and Johnson sixth.

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