Tony Stewart grabbed the lead on a restart with 26 laps left Sunday at Kansas Speedway and held on to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup race.
Stewart’s fourth win of the season moved him up one spot in the standings to fourth. He was 106 points behind Martin at the start of the day but sliced the margin to 67.
“That’s almost half,” said Stewart, who averaged 137.144 mph for 267 laps at the 1.5-mile oval. Tri-Valley Herald
Gordon, who won the first two Cup races at Kansas Speedway in 2001 and 2002, gave it his best shot but had to settle for second.
“As long as he didn’t make any big mistakes, I wasn’t going to catch him,” Gordon said. Kansas City Star
Greg Biffle finishes third, with Juan Pablo Montoya and Denny Hamlin completing the top-five.
Biffle led a race-high 113 laps, but took four tires on his final stop and could not catch Stewart at the end.
Kasey Kahne finished sixth, while David Reutimann took the eighth spot, Jimmie Johnson ninth and Carl Edwards 10th. MiamiHerald.com
FIN CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 14 Tony Stewart Chevrolet 2 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet 3 16 Greg Biffle Ford 4 42 Juan Montoya Chevrolet 5 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 6 9 Kasey Kahne Dodge 7 5 Mark Martin Chevrolet 8 0 David Reutimann Toyota 9 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 10 99 Carl Edwards Ford 11 2 Kurt Busch Dodge 12 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 13 25 Brad Keselowski Chevrolet 14 47 Marcos Ambrose Toyota 15 7 Casey Mears Chevrolet 16 1 Martin Truex Jr. Chevrolet 17 44 A.J. Allmendinger Dodge 18 77 Sam Hornish Jr. Dodge 19 21 Bill Elliott Ford 20 19 Elliott Sadler Dodge 21 33 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet 22 39 Ryan Newman Chevrolet 23 31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet 24 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 25 12 David Stremme Dodge 26 43 Reed Sorenson Dodge 27 82 Scott Speed * Toyota 28 20 Joey Logano * Toyota 29 96 Erik Darnell Ford 30 98 Paul Menard Ford 31 26 Jamie McMurray Ford 32 113 Max Papis * Toyota 33 34 John Andretti Chevrolet 34 7 Robby Gordon Toyota 35 6 David Ragan Ford 36 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet 37 83 Brian Vickers Toyota 38 55 Michael Waltrip Toyota 39 17 Matt Kenseth Ford 40 66 Dave Blaney Toyota 41 9 Mike Bliss Dodge 42 187 Joe Nemechek Toyota 43 171 Bobby Labonte Chevrolet
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