NSCS Recap: Kurt Busch Wins At Texas Motor Speedway
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By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service
FORT WORTH, Texas (Nov. 8, 2009) — In recent weeks, Jimmie Johnson has worn out the already threadbare phrase, “Anything can happen in our sport.”
On Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway, it finally did.
Capitalizing on superior fuel mileage, Kurt Busch drove his No. 2 Dodge to victory in the Dickies 500, after disaster struck Johnson like a lightning bolt and made a race of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup after all.
Johnson suffered a Lap 3 wreck that sidelined his No. 48 Chevrolet for more than an hour as his team made extensive repairs. With a 38th-place finish, Johnson lost 111 points of his 184-point lead in the Chase to second-place Mark Martin, who finished fourth and trails Johnson by 73 points with two races left.
Busch won the race at the expense of brother Kyle Busch, who ran out of fuel three laps short of completing an unprecedented weekend sweep of races in NASCAR’s top three divisions. Busch had won the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Friday and the NASCAR Nationwide Series event on Saturday.
