2012 Las Vegas Race Recap – Tony Stewart Wins

RACE RECAP | LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY
10 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
9 Trevor Bayne
8 Jamie McMurray
7 Paul Menard
6 Clint Bowyer
5 Carl Edwards
4 Ryan Newman
3 Greg Biffle with his 3rd, 3rd place in a row
2 Jimmie Johnson moves to 23rd in points

VICTORY LANE

1 Tony Stewart dominated and grabs his first career win at Las Vegas, 14th year in a row that Tony has at least 1 Cup win for a season

Note: Tony Stewart and his previous crew chief Darian Grubb have won the last two races after winning the 2011 Championship last year.

OTHER STORIES ON THE DAY

-Dale Earnhardt Jr. leads early to the crowd’s delight, led 70 total laps

-Brendan Gaughan pounded the wall hard early on

-Jimmie Johnson started 40th and marched to the lead in 99 laps

-Kyle Busch scraped the wall after the 93 blew an engine in front of the 18

-18 laps to go on the restart, Brad Keselowski went from 2nd to laps down due to a fuel problem

-12 laps to go, Kurt Busch pounded the wall, cut down a tire from debris

-Kyle Busch spun just laps later taking out the commitment cone

-Matt Kenseth hit the wall on the restart at the exit of turn 2