Matt Kenseth took the lead from Kyle Busch on the last restart of the evening with fewer than 15 laps to go and won the 52nd running of the Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Kenseth claimed his third win of the year and moved up to third in points in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Chase for the Sprint Cup. Busch finished second and held off a late race challenge by third-place finisher Carl Edwards. Rounding out the top five were Kasey Kahne in fourth and Marcos Ambrose in fifth.
Busch led most of the second half of the race until a series of late-race cautions kept the field jumbled. Track position was critical and several drivers had to gamble to get to the front.
Jimmie Johnson took a hard hit into the second turn wall, but emerged from the incident uninjured.
Following the Bank of America 500, Edwards holds the Chase points lead by five points over Kevin Harvick and Kenseth is seven points behind Edwards.
Kenseth averaged 146.194 mph as the race was slowed by eight caution periods for a total of 34 laps. There were 16 lead changes among 10 drivers. Time of the race was 3 hours, 25 minutes, 37 seconds. Rounding out the top 10 were Harvick in sixth, followed by A.J. Allmendinger, Tony Stewart, Denny Hamlin and Ryan Newman.
FIN CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 17 Matt Kenseth Ford 2 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 3 99 Carl Edwards Ford 4 4 Kasey Kahne Toyota 5 9 Marcos Ambrose Ford 6 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 7 43 A.J. Allmendinger Ford 8 14 Tony Stewart Chevrolet 9 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 10 39 Ryan Newman Chevrolet 11 6 David Ragan Ford 12 20 Joey Logano Toyota 13 22 Kurt Busch Dodge 14 42 Juan Montoya Chevrolet 15 16 Greg Biffle Ford 16 2 Brad Keselowski Dodge 17 27 Paul Menard Chevrolet 18 31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet 19 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet 20 83 Brian Vickers Toyota 21 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet 22 38 J.J. Yeley Ford 23 56 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 24 33 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet 25 78 Regan Smith Chevrolet 26 0 David Reutimann Toyota 27 1 Jamie McMurray Chevrolet 28 51 Landon Cassill Chevrolet 29 47 Bobby Labonte Toyota 30 32 Mike Bliss Ford 31 21 Trevor Bayne Ford 32 13 Casey Mears Toyota 33 71 Hermie Sadler Ford 34 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 35 36 Dave Blaney Chevrolet 36 34 David Gilliland Ford 37 5 Mark Martin Chevrolet 38 7 Robby Gordon Dodge 39 66 Michael McDowell Toyota 40 55 Travis Kvapil Ford 41 30 David Stremme Chevrolet 42 277 Andy Lally * Ford 43 87 Joe Nemechek Toyota
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