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1 4 14 Tony Stewart Office Depot / Mobil 1 Chevrolet
2 7 48 Jimmie Johnson Mylowes Chevrolet
3 10 24 Jeff Gordon Drive to End Hunger Chevrolet
4 5 29 Kevin Harvick Budweiser Chevrolet
5 11 11 Denny Hamlin FedEx Ground Toyota
6 23 31 Jeff Burton Caterpillar Chevrolet
7 9 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Diet Mt. Dew Paint the 88 / National Guard Chevrolet
8 24 56 Martin Truex Jr. NAPA Auto Parts Toyota
9 1 99 Carl Edwards Scotts Winterguard Ford
10 12 39 Ryan Newman HAAS Automation Chevrolet
11 16 43 A J Allmendinger AdvoCare Ford
12 33 13 Casey Mears GEICO Toyota
13 26 78 Regan Smith Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet
14 8 22 Kurt Busch Shell Pennzoil Dodge
15 15 16 Greg Biffle 3M Filtrete Ford
16 35 38 Travis Kvapil(i) Long John Silver’s Ford
17 3 2 Brad Keselowski Miller Lite Dodge
18 22 20 Joey Logano Interstate Batteries Toyota
19 13 33 Clint Bowyer American Ethanol / Cheerios Chevrolet
20 28 00 David Reutimann Aaron’s Dream Machine Toyota
By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service
(October 30, 2011)
MARTINSVILLE, Va.—Tony Stewart passed Jimmie Johnson on a restart with three laps left in Sunday’s Tums Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway and held off Johnson’s desperate bid for the win on the final lap.
The victory was Stewart’s third in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup and vaulted him into second place in the standings, eight points behind leader Carl Edwards. Stewart won for the 42nd time in his career.
By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service
(October 29, 2011)
MARTINSVILLE, Va.—Making excellent use of a fresh set of tires, Denny Hamlin drove through the field after a pit stop on Lap 134 and won Saturday’s Kroger 200 Camping World Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway in his only start this year.
Ron Hornaday Jr. ran second to make a small dent in the advantage on series points leader Austin Dillon, who finished third. Johnny Sauter ran fourth, followed by rookie Joey Coulter and Kevin Harvick.
The victory was Hamlin’s first in the series in 12 starts, adding the driver of the No. 18 Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota to the list of drivers, now 23 in number, who have won at least one race in each of NASCAR’s top three series.
“It’s a big deal for me, more than what people probably think,” said Hamlin, who has run one truck race per year in 2009, 2010 and 2011. “When they think we go down to these different series—Nationwide and truck—and we’re just going down there to try to get wins, from my standpoint, it’s very, very tough.
