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In The Pits: Final finish saved sluggish race
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Brad Keselowski held off Kyle Busch on one late restart, and Jimmie Johnson onanother. Doing it a third time was just too much to ask during a tense closing sequence at Texas Motor Speedway.
It was Johnson who won that final frantic battle to the finish line, holding steady asKeselowski slammed into the side of his car. Keselowski took it all the way to the edge - refusing, though, to cross a line and wreck the competition - and Johnson never blinked.
The five-time championnudged ahead, got some separation and pulled away for the win. Johnson now holds a seven-point lead over Keselowski in the standings with two races remaining in the Chase for the Sprint Cupchampionship.
Those three restarts over the closing nineten laps on Sunday will go down as some of the most memorable racing of the Chase. It also saved a race that would have been memorable for being largelyforgettable up to that point.
It took over three hours Sunday to get to the good stuff, and it's clearly not cutting it with fans.
And that's what Sunday was shaping up to be as Johnson, who startedfrom the pole, shot out of the gates and jumped out to a sizeable lead.
He led the first forieght laps, stopped for gas and tires, then led fiftyone more laps before NASCAR called its first cautionof the race, for debris. In fact, of the nine cautions on Sunday, five of them were for debris.
And one of them may have set the tone for the finish that had everyone talking on Monday.
Keselowskiwas leading with Johnson in third when NASCAR called caution for debris 58 laps from the scheduled finish and teams in various stages of fuel-mileage strategy. Keselowski went on to pit road as theleader, but locked up his brakes and slid deep into his stall, a miscue that dropped him to eighth when he got back onto the track.
Cautions breed cautions, and there were three more ahead. It set the...