Jimmie did it again to Johnson. Johnson took the leadership in the resumption after 347 returns and she never turned around backwards as she moved away of the contingent to gain the Chevy Rock & Roll 400, race of Glass NEXTEL of NASCAR.
If Johnson had turned around, would have been present at the best race of the year when Dale Earnhardt Jr, Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart competed side to side and return after return until Stewart took the control to arrive secondly.
The striking effort of Earnhardt to be in Caza by Glass NEXTEL of NASCAR finished when lacking seven returns when the motor of its Chevy burst.
Earnhardt finished in 30º in one night in which the drama appeared in repeated occasions.
The novice of the year, David Ragan arrived Gordon thirdly, was quarter and Johnny Sauter fifth.
The result of Sauter was the best one of the season in a race where each position had to win with competition rolls to wheel and at full speed.
Denny Hamlin was sixth and Kevin Harvick, that gave a stroll by I graze of the trioval and finished until back of the contingent, overcame to the seventh place.
Kasey Kahne was eighth, Kurt Busch ninth after seeing itself involved in an accident and J.J. Yeley arrived in 10º.
The race, 26ª of the season of NASCAR, was the last one before NASCAR closes the points of the first 12 pilots in the scores. Those 12 pilots are eligible for the championship in last the 10 races.
Those pilots are Gordon, Johnson, Stewart, Matt Kenseth, Kurt and Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Clint Bowyer, Jeff Burton, Harvick, Carl Edwards and Martin Truex Jr.
Johnson will be at the top of the scores with 5.060 points. Gordon is the following one, 20 points back.
A dozen of yellow flags diminished the rate of the race and appeared two red flags while the officials cleaned the track.
It was a full event of action in the 400 returns, and included several multiple accidents that they eliminated numerous pilots, among them, Juan Pablo Montoya, Greg Biffle, Jamie McMurray and others.
In return 8, Tony Raines and Jeff Green they were in curve 1 and they caused the first yellow flag at night.
Greg Biffle was a victim of the accident and its Ford received some damages.
Paul Menard trompeó in curve 4 of the return 22 stops itself which he left the yellow flag again.
Gordon led each return until that point, but Newman left pits after changing only two rims.
Casey Mears and David Gilliland went to the front in the resumption, because they did not enter pits. Newman escaped quickly to Mears to remain with the end.
Scott Riggs caused another yellow flag in return 60 when a rim was broken to him and beat hard against the wall of curve 4, which damaged seriously to its Dodge.
Gordon back recovered the leadership after the shutdown in pits with Johnson and Newman of him.
There was no doubt at this moment that the race was going to have many emotions, with Gordon and Johnson competing by the victory and the 10 points extra in seedtime of Caza by Glass NEXTEL of NASCAR that begins the next week in New Hampshire. The first 12 places in the scores are defined by the number of triumphs and each adds 10 points.
Johnson arrived at the race from Saturday at night with five triumphs this season that are equivalent to 5.050 points in the situation of the “blotch and counts new” of the next weekend.
To the 100 returns, they were Gordon, Johnson, Kurt Busch, Edwards, Hamlin, Newman, Harvick, Stewart, McMurray and Bowyer in the 10 first.
Johnny Sauter had raised from 30ª starting position 11º. Then, Earnhardt was in place 12.
Joe Nemechek was the victim of a rim broken in return 133 and left the yellow when it beat to him to the wall in curve 4. Gordon recovered the leadership when the green flag resumed the race.
Martin Truex Jr went to the bottom of the contingent after to go to excess of speed in the track of pits.
Edwards reached to Gordon she exceeded and it in return 167 to take the leadership.
In return 180, the Ford of Edwards retired with problems with the motor. Hamlin took the leadership in the resumption and Gordon was back of him.
In the middle of the race, Hamlin, Gordon and Bowyer fought the leadership.
Bowyer lost the control of its Chevy underneath Hamlin and trompeó after half of the race so that it left another yellow flag.
In the resumption a little after half, the 10 first were Gordon, Hamlin, Johnson, Stewart, Newman, Kenseth, Earnhardt, Harvick, McMurray and Blaney. The problem of relegated it to Bowyer to place 27.

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