Jimmie Johnson had the car to beat today for sure, but on the last green flag start it didn't look like he was going to make back to the lead. Starting in 8th on lap 374many of the cars ahead of Johnson only took on two tires including race leader Tony Stewart which caused Jimmie to be better in the long run. Tony held off Johnson until two laps to go and then Jimmie made his move.

"Fortunately, I had such a good car that I could run around the top," said Johnson, who climbed one position to third in the series standings. "My hat's off to Tony Stewart. That was one heck of a race. I had to drive so far over my head to get by him. I'm just very proud of what we did out there on the racetrack [Sunday].
"I wasn't going to give up. I had no idea what was going to happen, but I knew I had a great race car. I knew there were some laps left, and it was just time to go -- and I got it done. To have to run that hard to pass that many good cars to get the lead, that's a challenge. I really had to suck it up and get going. I thought I was going to pound the wall a couple of times on the top. I cooked it off in there too fast and slid right up to the crumbs, and I'm like, 'Please stay, please.' And it stuck, and I made it back around."

Tony finished second but not all was lost, he took over the current NASCAR Sprint Cup Series point lead, moving ahead of Jeff Gordon. Tony also became the first since Alan Kulwicki to lead the points as a driver/owner in 1992.

"We had an opportunity," said Stewart, "We got to the lead there and got by Biffle and just couldn't hold off Jimmie. He was like a freight train coming. I mean, I was surprised I could hold him off as long as I did, but I was pretty happy that we were able to do it for that long."I mean, when you're the fastest car and you're coming as fast as he was, it was just a matter of getting the opening that he needed, and we did everything we could to take his line away from him as often as we could, but just couldn't do it long enough."