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No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports driver Dale Earnhardt's eighth place was the team’s only top-20 finish at Daytona. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images) » More Photos
Hendrick Motorsports drivers dominated the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway Saturday night, but the team had little to show for it in the final rundown because of a spate of late-race incidents.
Among them, Hendrick teammates Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson led 101 of 162 laps in the race, but all three of them were caught in accidents of various severity, with Earnhardt’s eighth place being the team’s only top-20 finish.
Johnson lost the handle on his car when he had contact with Kyle Busch around Lap 132, and then on Lap 156, he got turned into the wall by Dave Blaney, heavily damaging his once front-running car and dropping him to 23rd in the final rundown.
Gordon was in second place when the track went to a green-white-checkered finish on Lap 161. But he came down the track on the restart and made contact with Matt Kenseth, getting spun at the end of the frontstretch. He was credited with a 30th-place finish in the unofficial results.
For Gordon, it was an uncharacteristic night, a bad finish when his car was running up front all night, exactly the opposite result that he’s had for most of the year.
“Everybody was laying back and trying to get a run on that last restart,” said Gordon. “And they got the jump on me and I tried to block him (Edwards). I don’t know, maybe I came across his nose. It’s hard to say. It’s unfortunate. We had such a strong run.”
But what really chafed the four-time champion is that Busch got by him on the bottom
The one note of encouragement the team could take away from the evening is that their cars consistently were the fastest in the race, something they rarely have been this year. “It was just awesome,” said Gordon. “I love having a race car like that. … It’s unfortunate what happened tonight, but at least we ran good.”
COKE ZERO 400 RESULTS
Tom Jensen is the Senior NASCAR Editor for SPEEDtv.com, the former Executive Editor of NASCAR Scene and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com. He is the author of “Cheating: The Bad Things Good NASCAR Nextel Cup Racers Do In Pursuit of SPEED,” and has appeared on television and radio shows to discuss NASCAR racing. Jensen is the President of the National Motorsports Press Association. Jensen is the 1997 National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year and has won numerous national and state awards for news reporting, columns and feature writing. The Answer Man is back at SPEEDtv.com. Tom Jensen answers your questions during every race week and looks forward to hearing from you - please e-mail it to
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