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CUP: Stewart Wins For Second Time In Kansas
Tony Stewart won the Price Chopper 400 at Kansas Speedway...
Tom Jensen  |  Posted October 04, 2009   Kansas City, KS
Tony Stewart celebrates with his crew in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Price Chopper 400 presented by Kraft Foods at the Kansas Speedway. (Photo: Getty Images)


Tony Stewart finally slowed the Hendrick Motorsports juggernaut, as he won Sunday’s Price Chopper 400 at Kansas Speedway, the third of 10 races in the Chase for the Sprint Cup.

Stewart’s No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolets, of course, use Hendrick chassis and engines, but the regular-season points leader was the first non-Hendrick driver to win a Chase race after Mark Martin won at New Hampshire and Jimmie Johnson won at Dover.

A late-race, two-tire pit stop allowed Stewart to take the lead, and he was able to hold on and win his fourth race of the season and the second at the 1.5-mile track.

Jeff Gordon finished second in a Hendrick Chevrolet, followed by the Roush Fenway Racing Ford of Greg Biffle, Juan Pablo Montoya's Earnhardt Ganassi Racing Chevy and Denny Hamlin in a Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.

Holding on to the top two spots in points were Martin, who finished seventh, and Johnson, who was ninth. Unofficially, Martin now leads Johnson by 18 points, Montoya by 51 and Stewart by 67.

Martin started from the pole, a personal-best seventh time this season he had qualified in the top spot. Martin had plenty of Hendrick Motorsports help up front, with Dale Earnhardt Jr. qualifying second and Brad Keselowski third. Not surprisingly, Martin led the first lap to pick up 5 bonus points.

The first caution came on Lap 3, when Joey Logano spun out of Turn 2, giving his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota a pair of flat left tires.

On Lap 7, there was another crash at the exit of Turn 2, this one snaring Max Papis, Paul Menard, David Ragan, Bobby Labonte and Michael Waltrip. Menard started the pileup when spun by himself in a virtual duplicate of Logano’s earlier spin. This time, though, the others stacked up and crashed behind him.



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