NSCS Recap: He’s Done It Again: Johnson Victorious At Lowe’s Motor Speedway
Jimmie Johnson has done it again. He won the NASCAR Banking 500 Saturday night, extending his lead over teammate Mark Martin to 90 points in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship.

Johnson drove away from the field after dicing with teammate Jeff Gordon in the closing laps of the 334-lap race.

It was Johnson’s sixth win at Lowe’s Motor Speedway and put him another step closer to a fourth consecutive championship, which would be a first in NASCAR history.

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RACE RECAP | LOWES MOTOR SPEEDWAY
10 Kurt Busch
9 Martin Truex Jr.
8 Kyle Busch
7 Casey Mears
6 Clint Bowyer
5 Joey Logano
4 Jeff Gordon
3 Kasey Kahne
2 Matt Kenseth

VICTORY LANE

1 Jimmie Johnson survived multiple restarts to win the final race for the Lowes sponsorship of the speedway. Jimmie sat on the pole, led practices, and serves notice that to win the Championship, the other drivers need to go through him.

More Johnson stats…
6th career win at Lowes
6th win this season
3rd win of the first 5 Chase races

OTHER STORIES ON THE DAY

-Some chase drivers had some problems in this one, Mark Martin and Juan Pablo Montoya got into each other on a restart, JPM finished 35th, Martin 17th

-Carl Edwards team simply missed the setup on his 99 machine for this race, and then blew a transmission, he finished 39th

-Denny Hamlin had engine problems for his second straight DNF and finishes 42nd

-Other Chase drivers finished like this: Ryan Newman 11th, Tony Stewart 13th, and Greg Biffle 16th

By Reid Spencer
Sporting News Wire Service

CONCORD, N.C. — Eleven races without a win is an eternity for Kyle Busch, but the prolific Joe Gibbs Racing driver returned to victory lane decisively Friday night at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.

Six days removed from exiting car with what was later diagnosed as pneumonia, Busch led 137 of 200 laps to win the Dollar General 300 at the 1.5-mile track. With the victory, Busch expanded his lead in the NASCAR Nationwide Series standings to 195 points over fifth-place finisher Carl Edwards with four races left in the season.

At the end of a 21-lap green-flag run to the finish, Busch crossed the stripe 1.712 seconds ahead of runner-up Mike Bliss. Dave Blaney ran third, followed by Brian Vickers and Edwards.

The victory was Busch’s seventh in the series this season, his fifth at LMS and the 28th of his career.

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1 48 Jimmie Johnson
2 5 Mark Martin
3 9 Kasey Kahne
4 17 Matt Kenseth
5 14 Tony Stewart
6 39 Ryan Newman
7 * 71 Mike Bliss
8 * 25 Brad Keselowski
9 24 Jeff Gordon
10 18 Kyle Busch
11 33 Clint Bowyer
12 20 Joey Logano #
13 47 Marcos Ambrose
14 * 02 David Gilliland
15 2 Kurt Busch
16 * 82 Scott Speed #
17 11 Denny Hamlin
18 42 Juan Pablo Montoya
19 7 Robby Gordon
20 26 Jamie McMurray

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