Race
For the first time since June 1954 (when Al Keller won in a Jaguar on the road course at Linden Airport), a foreign nameplate found its way to the winners' circle as Kyle Busch dominated the field to win his fifth Cup race of his career, and give Toyota their first Sprint Cup victory after 40 races. Carl Edwards, still smarting from last week's win that found a loose oil tank, costing him 100 points in the drivers chase, his owner Jack Roush 100 owners' points and suspended crew chief Bob Osborne for six races until April 30 as well as a $100,000 fine, was in the lead until there were 50 laps to go and Edwards' transmission in the #99 Aflac Ford blew up, finishing 42nd, and falling deeper out of the top 12.
Much of the pre and post-race talk was about the tires Goodyear supplied to the teams. Tony Stewart claimed that the tires were shoddy in a post-race commentary. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. also said that the tires didn't work well on the subject of its grip, while Jeff Gordon claimed that in light of Stewart's gripes that "I think he went a little overboard". The tiremaker commented the day after that in a press release "if the drivers aren't happy, Goodyear's not happy."
| Top Ten Finishers | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Car # | Driver | Make | Team | ||||
| 1 | 18 | Kyle Busch | Toyota | Joe Gibbs Racing | ||||
| 2 | 20 | Tony Stewart | Toyota | Joe Gibbs Racing | ||||
| 3 | 88 | Dale Earnhardt, Jr. | Chevrolet | Hendrick Motorsports | ||||
| 4 | 16 | Greg Biffle | Ford | Roush Fenway Racing | ||||
| 5 | 24 | Jeff Gordon | Chevrolet | Hendrick Motorsports | ||||
| 6 | 07 | Clint Bowyer | Chevrolet | Richard Childress Racing | ||||
| 7 | 29 | Kevin Harvick | Chevrolet | Richard Childress Racing | ||||
| 8 | 17 | Matt Kenseth | Ford | Roush Fenway Racing | ||||
| 9 | 83 | Brian Vickers | Toyota | Team Red Bull | ||||
| 10 | 31 | Jeff Burton | Chevrolet | Richard Childress Racing | ||||
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Famous quotes containing the word race:
“It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another ... if a man is a scientist, like me, he’ll always say “Publish and be damned.””
—Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974)
“But—if you cannot give us ease—
Last of the race of them who grieve
Here leave us to die out with these
Last of the people who believe!
Silent, while years engrave the brow;
Silent—the best are silent now.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
“You sang far better than you knew; the songs
That for your listeners’ hungry hearts sufficed
Still live,—but more than this to you belongs:
You sang a race from wood and stone to Christ.”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)