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VIDEO: Last Lap Cup - Dover
Jimmie Johnson won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway...
VIDEO: Last Lap Cup - Dover Jimmie Johnson celebrates in victory lane. (Image: SPEED)
Jimmie Johnson passed Kyle Busch for the lead with 63 laps to go and went on to earn an easy victory in the AAA 400 Sprint Cup race at Dover International Speedway on Sunday.
The victory was the sixth of the season and first in the Chase for Johnson, who is looking to win his fifth straight Cup championship for Hendrick Motorsports.
Johnson, the polesitter, moved from sixth to second in points with the victory. He is 35 behind the leader, Denny Hamlin, heading to next week’s race at Kansas Speedway.
Johnson, who finished 25th in last weekend’s Chase-opening race in New Hampshire, beat second-place Jeff Burton of Richard Childress Racing to the finish line by 2.6 seconds.
Finishing third was Joey Logano.
Fourth and fifth respectively were Chase drivers Kurt Busch and Carl Edwards. Chaser Kyle Busch was sixth.
Hamlin finished ninth.
Clint Bowyer, the winner of last week’s race and who was slapped down with a 150-point penalty for running an illegal car afterward, finished 25th after being penalized for speeding.
Bowyer was not the only Chase driver to have trouble during pit stops. Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch also got penalized for speeding and Matt Kenseth missed the pits, had to lock up the brakes and then blew a tire as a result. Jeff Gordon was running top 10 until a dropped lugnut on the final pit stop of the day dropped him back.
The victory was the sixth of the season and first in the Chase for Johnson, who is looking to win his fifth straight Cup championship for Hendrick Motorsports.
Johnson, the polesitter, moved from sixth to second in points with the victory. He is 35 behind the leader, Denny Hamlin, heading to next week’s race at Kansas Speedway.
Johnson, who finished 25th in last weekend’s Chase-opening race in New Hampshire, beat second-place Jeff Burton of Richard Childress Racing to the finish line by 2.6 seconds.
Finishing third was Joey Logano.
Fourth and fifth respectively were Chase drivers Kurt Busch and Carl Edwards. Chaser Kyle Busch was sixth.
Hamlin finished ninth.
Clint Bowyer, the winner of last week’s race and who was slapped down with a 150-point penalty for running an illegal car afterward, finished 25th after being penalized for speeding.
Bowyer was not the only Chase driver to have trouble during pit stops. Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch also got penalized for speeding and Matt Kenseth missed the pits, had to lock up the brakes and then blew a tire as a result. Jeff Gordon was running top 10 until a dropped lugnut on the final pit stop of the day dropped him back.
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