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The Roush Fenway Racing squad has always been at its best on 1.5-mile intermediate race tracks and Sunday was no exception, as Carl Edwards scored his second consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup victory in dominating fashion, taking a crash-filled UAW-Dodge 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
All told, three Roush Fenway Fords finished in the top six, with Greg Biffle finishing third and David Ragan sixth. And only a late-race crash not of his own making kept Matt Kenseth from scoring a top-five for the team as well.
Edwards’s victory moved him to the top of the NASCAR Sprint Cup points standings for the first time in his career. He led a race-high 86 of 267 laps en route to the ninth Cup victory of his career, while Kenseth led another 70.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. survived a day of calamity to finish second in his Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, with the Richard Childress Racing Chevys of Kevin Harvick and Jeff Burton finishing fourth and fifth, respectively.
But the story of the race was a spate of blown right-front tires and record 11 cautions that knocked out some of the biggest names in the sport. Right-front tire failures caused hard crashes for Tony Stewart, Kurt Busch and Robby Gordon, while Jeff Gordon was involved in savage
Las Vegas favorite son Kyle Busch was strong early on, leading 56 laps, but once his car fell out of the lead, the handling went away and he was never a factor in the second half of the race. He last led at lap 115 of 267, and ended the day a disappointing 11th, his first non top-five finish of the season.
Edwards and Kenseth dominated the proceedings in the second half of the race, with occasional challenges from Gordon and Earnhardt.
At the Lap 100 mark, the order was Busch, by 2.608 seconds over Kenseth, Burton, Edwards and Stewart. On Lap 109, Stewart blew a right-front tire and went hard into the wall in Turn 3, sliding along the SAFER barrier clear through into Turn 4. Stewart, who crashed in Saturday’s Nationwide Series race, suffered a bruised foot and some aches and pains.
All 16 lead-lap cars pitted on Lap 111, the leaders all taking four tires. During that stop, a tire got away from Edwards’s car and he was sent to the end of the longest line as a result.
Kenseth passed Busch for the lead on Lap 117 and at Lap 134, the midpoint of the race, Kenseth’s lead over Jeff Gordon was 2.189 seconds, with Busch third, then Earnhardt and Biffle.
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