Tony Stewart suffered his second heartbreaking defeat of the season when a flat tire late in the Coca-Cola 600 handed Kasey Kahne (kayn) the victory in NASCAR’s longest race of the year.
In winning NASCAR’s longest race, Kahne picked up the eighth victory of his career and the first since he won at Lowe’s on Oct. 14, 2006. The winner of last weekend’s all-star race, Kahne is the sixth driver to sweep both events in the same year and the first to do so since Jimmie Johnson accomplished in 2003.
Greg Biffle finished second to Kahne for the second straight week. Kyle Busch, the Sprint Cup Series points leader and winner of Saturday night’s Nationwide Series race, finished third. Jeff Gordon was fourth followed by Dale Earnhardt Junior, Jeff Burton, Matt Kenseth, Elliott Sadler, Carl Edwards and David Reuitmann.
FIN ST CAR DRIVER MAKE PTS/BNS 1 2 9 Kasey Kahne Dodge 190/5 2 4 16 Greg Biffle Ford 175/5 3 1 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 170/5 4 18 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet 160/0 5 6 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet 165/10 6 14 31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet 155/5 7 12 17 Matt Kenseth Ford 151/5 8 9 19 Elliott Sadler Dodge 147/5 9 30 99 Carl Edwards Ford 138/0 10 28 44 David Reutimann Toyota 134/0 11 23 43 Bobby Labonte Dodge 130/0 12 5 6 David Ragan Ford 132/5 13 20 77 Sam Hornish Jr. * Dodge 124/0 14 19 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 121/0 15 7 8 Mark Martin Chevrolet 118/0 16 8 2 Kurt Busch Dodge 120/5 17 11 22 Dave Blaney Toyota 117/5 18 31 20 Tony Stewart Toyota 114/5 19 37 1 Regan Smith * Chevrolet 106/0 20 27 84 A.J. Allmendinger Toyota 103/0 21 38 12 Ryan Newman Dodge 105/5 22 17 41 Reed Sorenson Dodge 97/0 23 15 26 Jamie McMurray Ford 94/0 24 16 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 96/5 25 39 7 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet 88/0 26 41 28 Travis Kvapil Ford 85/0 27 29 55 Michael Waltrip Toyota 82/0 28 13 66 Scott Riggs Chevrolet 79/0 29 21 5 Casey Mears Chevrolet 81/5 30 42 42 Juan Montoya Dodge 73/0 31 26 40 Sterling Marlin Dodge 70/0 32 40 0 Michael McDowell * Toyota 67/0 33 33 33 Ken Schrader Chevrolet 64/0 34 24 1 Martin Truex Jr. Chevrolet 61/0 35 43 70 Johnny Sauter Chevrolet 58/0 36 36 45 Kyle Petty Dodge 55/0 37 34 10 Patrick Carpentier * Dodge 52/0 38 35 96 J.J. Yeley Toyota 49/0 39 10 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 51/5 40 32 38 David Gilliland Ford 43/0 41 25 15 Paul Menard Chevrolet 40/0 42 3 83 Brian Vickers Toyota 42/5 43 22 7 Robby Gordon Dodge 34/0
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