Ambrose goofs, Johnson capitalizes for Infineon win

Race Recap / Infineon

10 Juan Montoya
9 Tony Stewart
8 Boris Said
7 Greg Biffle
6 Marcos Ambrose
5 Jeff Gordon
4 Kasey Kahne the pole sitter gets his 2nd straight top 5
3 Kevin Harvick keeps the points lead
2 Robby Gordon with his best finish since 2005

Victory Lane

1 Jimmie Johnson is now a road course winner with his first career, it’s his 4th win of the season, and 51st career win. He rockets back to 2nd in the point standings. Jimmie also led the most laps.

Other stories on the day

-Jamie McMurray, Clint Bowyer got spun. Kyle Busch went to the garage with heavy front end damage

-Denny Hamlin’s hood flew up over his windshield from earlier damage. He finished 34th

-Jeff Gordon spun David Ragan and Martin Truex Jr. inside a half a lap, he didn’t make many friends out there.

-A big wreck on a restart involving Sam Hornish Jr., Denny Hamlin, Regan Smith, Max Papis, and Martin Truex Jr. with many others getting damage as well.

-Marcos Ambrose while leading with under 10 laps to go, cut his engine to save fuel under caution, it stalled and he restarted with 5 to go in 7th. This was one of the biggest racing mistakes in quite a while.

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