Kurt Busch won the Dickies 500 this afternoon, claiming his second victory this season and first ever at Texas Motor Speedway.
“It’s bittersweet to beat Kyle. He was going for the sweep. We took it away from him,” said Kurt Busch, who led six times for 89 laps while also running second behind his brother much of the race. “I don’t think he could have picked a better driver to lose to. ... It wasn’t quite the door-to-door, nose-to-tail, fender-banging green-whiste-checkered like we would have hoped, but it came down to strategy.”
While Busch celebrated with a backwards victory lap with the checkered flag in hand, Johnson’s day at Texas turned out to be disastrous after his wreck resulted in a 38th-place finish and his points lead trimmed from 184 points to 73 over Mark Martin, who finished fourth.
“It’s still a respectable lead,” Johnson said. “I hated that we gave up all these points tonight.”
RANK DRIVER POINTS STARTS 1 Jimmie Johnson 6297 34 2 Mark Martin 6224 34 3 Jeff Gordon 6185 34 4 Kurt Busch 6126 34 5 Tony Stewart 6119 34 6 Juan Montoya 6061 34 7 Greg Biffle 6050 34 8 Denny Hamlin 5975 34 9 Ryan Newman 5973 34 10 Kasey Kahne 5898 34 11 Carl Edwards 5857 34 12 Brian Vickers 5777 34 13 Kyle Busch 4183 34 14 Matt Kenseth 4151 34 15 Clint Bowyer 4078 34 16 David Reutimann 3969 34 17 Jeff Burton 3677 34 18 Marcos Ambrose 3637 34 19 Joey Logano* 3600 34 20 Casey Mears 3571 34 21 Kevin Harvick 3535 34 22 Jamie McMurray 3389 34 23 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 3285 34 24 Martin Truex Jr. 3260 34 25 Elliott Sadler 3231 34 26 A.J. Allmendinger 3218 34 27 David Ragan 3097 34 28 Reed Sorenson 3019 34 29 Bobby Labonte 3012 34 30 Sam Hornish Jr. 2991 34 31 David Stremme 2919 33 32 Paul Menard 2818 34 33 Michael Waltrip 2706 32
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