Full Cup Series results from Auto Club Speedway of Southern California

1 24 17 Matt Kenseth
2 6 24 Jeff Gordon
3 10 18 Kyle Busch
4 5 16 Greg Biffle
5 4 2 Kurt Busch
6 23 11 Denny Hamlin
7 25 99 Carl Edwards
8 11 14 Tony Stewart
9 2 48 Jimmie Johnson
10 1 83 Brian Vickers
11 15 42 Juan Pablo Montoya
12 22 9 Kasey Kahne
13 38 12 David Stremme
14 7 00 David Reutimann
15 42 55 Michael Waltrip
16 3 26 Jamie McMurray
17 13 6 David Ragan
18 37 28 Travis Kvapil
19 21 33 Clint Bowyer
20 16 96 Bobby Labonte
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NSCS Recap: Kenseth Outlasts Gordon To Win Second In A Row

Matt Kenseth celebrates winning the Auto Club 500 at Auto Club Speedway, his second consecutive victory. (Photo credit: Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images for NASCAR)
By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

FONTANA, Calif.—Matt Kenseth is making up for lost time—with a lot of help from his friends on pit road.

Winless in 2008, Kenseth backed up his victory in the season-opening Daytona 500 by holding off Jeff Gordon in Sunday’s Auto Club 500 Sprint Cup race at Auto Club Speedway.

With a lightning-fast pit stop, Kenseth’s crew made sure his No. 17 Roush Fenway Racing Ford was first off pit road for a restart on Lap 216, after Kevin Harvick slammed the Turn 1 wall to cause the fifth and final caution of the 250-lap race.

Kenseth, who won for the 18th time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, stayed in front the rest of the way and beat Gordon to the finish line by 1.463 seconds to become the fifth driver in Cup history to win the first two races of a season. The last to do so? Gordon in 1997, at Daytona and Rockingham.

Kyle Busch finished third and fell short in his bid to sweep all three races in NASCAR’s top series at the same track in the same weekend. On Saturday, Busch won both the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and the NASCAR Nationwide Series races at the 2.0-mile racetrack.

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RACE RECAP | CALIFORNIA AUTO CLUB SPEEDWAY
10 BRIAN VICKERS – POLE SITTER
9 JIMMIE JOHNSON – Transmission jumped out of gear
8 TONY STEWART – Two top 10’s to start the season
7 CARL EDWARDS – Not really a factor…odd
6 DENNY HAMLIN – Good top 10 run
5 KURT BUSCH Using the new Dodge engine
4 GREG BIFFLE Said he should be fired for running over the air hose in the pits
3 KYLE BUSCH Couldn’t complete the weekend sweep
2 JEFF GORDON Look out, Jeff Gordon has his confidence back

VICTORY LANE

1 MATT KENSETH – Is the 4TH driver to win back to back at Daytona and the second race of the year.  Jack Roush has won the last 5 February races at Auto Club Speedway.  Matt led the most laps at 84.

OTHER STORIES ON THE DAY

-Hendrick engines blew, ending the days for Mark Martin and Dale Earnhardt Jr.

-Kevin Harvick’s streak of no DNF’s ends at 81 races after his motor expired

-Brake problems plagued David Reutimann and Jamie McMurray

-Rain caused the most cautions, slowing the pace of the race down

-A much larger crowd was on hand, after dismal predictions

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1 83 Brian Vickers (has to start in the back, engine change)
2 48 Jimmie Johnson
3 26 Jamie McMurray
4 2 Kurt Busch
5 16 Greg Biffle
6 24 Jeff Gordon
7 00 David Reutimann
8 44 A J Allmendinger
9 82 Scott Speed #
10 18 Kyle Busch

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11 14 Tony Stewart
12 7 Robby Gordon
13 6 David Ragan
14 47 Marcos Ambrose
15 42 Juan Pablo Montoya
16 96 Bobby Labonte
17 43 Reed Sorenson
18 5 Mark Martin
19 29 Kevin Harvick
20 19 Elliott Sadler

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Kyle Busch makes it two NASCAR wins in the same day. Led 238 total laps in a day, in two different vehicles, for two different race teams.

1 2 18 Kyle Busch
2 9 33 Kevin Harvick
3 7 20 Joey Logano
4 1 60 Carl Edwards
5 8 6 David Ragan
6 6 29 Jeff Burton
7 29 10 David Reutimann
8 12 32 Brian Vickers
9 11 62 Brendan Gaughan #
10 15 66 Steve Wallace
11 18 38 Jason Leffler
12 23 11 Scott Lagasse Jr. #
13 4 1 Mike Bliss
14 17 12 Justin Allgaier #
15 10 99 Michael Waltrip
16 42 15 Michael Annett #
17 19 27 Jason Keller
18 36 07 David Green
19 27 89 Morgan Shepherd
20 24 23 Ken Butler III #

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