After Tony Stewart ran out of Fuel Clint Boywer takes advantage of it and holds off Denny Hamlin for his 1st of 2010 and his 1st in 88 races
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NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES PHOENIX 2009
Kevin Harvick had to battle Brad Keselowski for the victory in a final lap thriller at Richmond.
2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Highltights Wrecks, Wins, and Fights
David Reutimann didn’t need any help from Mother Nature this time when he won Saturday’s LifeLock.com 400 at Chicagoland Speedway for his second career Sprint Cup Series victory. Reutimann drove past Jeff Gordon for the lead with 54 laps remaining, and then after reclaiming the top spot following a late-race round of green-flag pit stops, he held off Carl Edwards in the closing laps for his first win in a Sprint Cup race that went the scheduled distance. His maiden victory in NASCAR’s top circuit came 42 races ago at Charlotte, where the May 2009 event was cut 173 laps short of its 400-lap distance due to rain. “No rain tonight,” Reutimann joyfully said in Victory Lane. “We earned this one, and nobody gave it to us, and that feels really good.” Reutimann led 52 of the final 67 laps, as he beat Edwards by 0.727 seconds. “We had a really good car from the time we unloaded until now,” Reutimann added. “We got really free that last run. [Edwards] started gaining on us… Thankfully, he didn’t have enough time to get to us.” Edwards finished a season-best second, while Gordon, who made his 600th career start, took the third spot. Gordon’s winless streak has now reached 48 races, which is the longest drought for the four-time Cup champion. “I noticed in my mirror [Reutimann] was following me and gaining on us,” Gordon said. “I knew he was the car to beat. He proved it those last hundred laps for sure.” Clint Bowyer finished fourth, followed by pole sitter Jamie McMurray. Kasey …
Juan Pablo Montoya finally had a race without a mistake, and he proved invincible. The hard-driving Colombian erased 113 races of futility Sunday, winning a duel with Marcos Ambrose and the Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen International. “It’s about time,” Montoya said after celebrating with his crew in Victory Lane. “We’ve lost a lot of them, gave away a lot of them. It gets frustrating, everybody fighting. There’s so many things I have to learn. I still make a lot of mistakes. It’s experience. We’ve just got to learn from it.” Frustration mounted when crew chief Brian Pattie’s pit strategy backfired at the previous two races. A late four-tire call likely cost Montoya a win at the Brickyard 400, and he finished 16th a week ago at Pocono after starting second, another questionable pit call the culprit that led to harsh words over the radio. A prerace talk at Watkins Glen with team co-owner Chip Ganassi helped clear the air. Montoya went out, withstood repeated stalking and challenges from Ambrose and won going away. Montoya led 74 of 90 laps on the road course in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York and beat Kurt Busch to the line by nearly 5 seconds for his second career victory. The other win came on NASCAR’s other road course at Infineon Raceway near Sonoma in 2007, 113 races ago. Montoya gave Earnhardt Ganassi racing just its third victory of the season.
The NASCAR races at Montreal never fail to produce some exciting moments, like this one from the 2010 NAPA Auto Parts 200 presented by Dodge
By WILL GRAVES (AP) LONG POND, Pa. — Denny Hamlin won again at Pocono, pulling away from teammate Kyle Busch following a late restart Sunday in the 500-mile race at the massive 2.5-mile oval. The victory was Hamlin’s fourth of the season and fourth in nine career starts at the “tricky triangle.” Busch held off Tony Stewart for second in his 200th career start. Points leader Kevin Harvick was fourth, followed by four-time defending series champion Jimmie Johnson. The start was delayed 90 minutes by rain then another 10 minutes or so while officials patched a pothole at the end of pit road inadvertently opened up by a jet dryer. Once the rain cleared, Hamlin dominated at one of his favorite tracks. Hamlin appeared to have the race won five minutes earlier, but his two-second lead was wiped out when Harvick nudged Joey Logano into the wall while the drivers were battling for fourth with less than two laps to go. Hamlin couldn’t quite reach the start/finish line for the white flag before the caution came out, sending the race into a two-lap overtime. Hamlin debated on which lane to pick for the restart, and opted to go inside in front of Busch. The two Joe Gibbs Racing teammates haven’t exactly been friendly of late, with Busch saying he wanted to “kill” Hamlin following a run-in at the All-Star race two weeks ago. There was no drama this time. Hamlin easily drew free of Busch and Stewart, cutting Stewart off as they exited the first turn and cruising from there. “That last …
BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) — The most surprised person to find Mark Martin in Victory Lane at Michigan International Speedway was the driver himself. The 50-year-old NASCAR star has run well but has had to deal with considerable bad luck this season. It looked like more of the same Sunday when the battery in his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet began to fail before the halfway mark in the LifeLock 400 Sprint Cup race. Martin turned off everything in the car that he could, nursing it as best he could. Then he realized the race was going to be a fuel economy run. “I always, always come up short in those gas things,” Martin said. “I’m probably about 2 and 25 in these things.” Make that 3 and 25 now. Martin saved just enough gas to hang on for his third victory of the season and the 38th of his Cup career. Jimmie Johnson dominated most of the LifeLock 400 and took the lead from Greg Biffle six laps from the end as Martin watched the duel from third place. Johnson, the three-time reigning Cup champion, ran out of gas two laps from the finish, giving the lead to Biffle. But he also ran out of gas as the final trip around the 2-mile oval began, clearing the way for Martin to drive to the front. His car also was left with an empty tank on the last lap, but Martin was able to coast to the finish line almost three seconds ahead of runner-up Jeff Gordon.
Wow, what a finish to an incredible race. Final lap, Final Turn and it looks as though it’s going to be a battle between Junior and Newman, until they reach the Tri-Oval…..
