Mark Martin gave his boss, Rick Hendrick, a huge birthday present Saturday after he held off teammate Jeff Gordon in a double- file restart with two laps to go to win the LifeLock.com 400 at Chicagoland Speedway.
Martin set a track record for leading the most laps at Chicagoland with 195, but gave up the lead to his other teammate, Jimmie Johnson, after a restart with less than 40 laps remaining. Denny Hamlin pushed Johnson out of position on the following restart. Hamlin and polesitter Brian Vickers then got together and slowed each other down, allowing 50-year-old Martin to pass underneath the two to reclaim the lead with 16 laps to go. MiamiHerald.com
“That was fun,” Martin said. “That’s what life is all about.”
Jeff Gordon’s hard-charging finish got him second place.
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Martin and Gordon are Hendrick Motorsports teammates and earned a $1 million bonus. The teammates also grabbed the top two spots at the LifeLock sponsored race in June, setting up the shot at the big cash prize.
“I saw Jeff coming and I was like, ‘Get it, get it,’ ” Martin said.
Enumclaw’s Kasey Kahne was third. Points leader Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin rounded out the top five. Seattle Times
FIN CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 5 Mark Martin Chevrolet 2 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet 3 9 Kasey Kahne Dodge 4 14 Tony Stewart Chevrolet 5 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 6 39 Ryan Newman Chevrolet 7 83 Brian Vickers Toyota 8 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 9 33 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet 10 42 Juan Montoya Chevrolet 11 47 Marcos Ambrose Toyota 12 0 David Reutimann Toyota 13 44 A.J. Allmendinger Dodge 14 99 Carl Edwards Ford 15 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet 16 1 Martin Truex Jr. Chevrolet 17 2 Kurt Busch Dodge 18 20 Joey Logano * Toyota 19 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 20 55 Michael Waltrip Toyota 21 96 Bobby Labonte Ford 22 26 Jamie McMurray Ford 23 17 Matt Kenseth Ford 24 43 Reed Sorenson Dodge 25 6 David Ragan Ford 26 12 David Stremme Dodge 27 19 Elliott Sadler Dodge 28 7 Casey Mears Chevrolet 29 21 Bill Elliott Ford 30 34 John Andretti Chevrolet 31 16 Greg Biffle Ford 32 25 Brad Keselowski Chevrolet 33 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 34 7 Robby Gordon Toyota 35 98 Paul Menard Ford 36 82 Scott Speed * Toyota 37 31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet 38 77 Sam Hornish Jr. Dodge 39 36 Mike Skinner Toyota 40 9 Mike Bliss Dodge 41 187 Joe Nemechek Toyota 42 171 David Gilliland Chevrolet 43 66 Dave Blaney Toyota
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