Jeff Burton passed Matt Kenseth with one lap remaining Sunday to win an unpredictable and super-exciting Samsung 500 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.
With a huge crowd on its feet and his wife Kim biting her nails in his pit box, Burton battled Kenseth in fender-to-fender style for the final 15 laps before slipping past with just one lap remaining.
It was Burton’s second victory at the Texas track. He won the inaugural race here back in 1997.
Trailing Burton and Kenseth across the finish line was everybody’s favorite Mark Martin, who is running an abbreviated schedule this year with the Ginn Racing team after chasing a championship for several decades.
The 334-lap event before some 200,000 fans, produced some of the most dramatic moments of the year, including multiple spins by former champion Tony Stewart, an accident that knocked both Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kyle Busch and defending champion Jimmie Johnson from contention.
Stewart’s first spin resulted from some hard racing contact with Juan Pablo Montoya. The second Stewart spin resulted from Tony trying too hard to make up lost time. Earnhardt slowed for the spin and Busch hit him from the rear.
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