Saturday, July 12, 2008

Kyle Busch Wins the LifeLock.com 400

You'll never guess who won the Lifelock.com 400 that took place at Chicagoland?  Yep. 

On a late race restart with 2 laps to go, with Jimmie Johnson in the lead, he couldn't make his car wide enough to hold back Kyle Busch who had started behind him as Johnson ducked to the low lane and Busch went high.  His car held the high line and he got by Johnson to take the lead and keep it for the last lap and a half.

Coming around turn 4 to the checkered flag, Johnson was driving the No. 38 Lowe's Chevy so hard, it got a wee bit sideways and he didn't have a chance to catch Busch.

The race had a few cautions.  Debris, blown engines, car spins.  The usual.

An interesting note was as the race got underway, J.J. Yeley was black flagged.  I don't remember the term used to describe the penalty, but basically they used lead weighted Gatorade bottles that they were going to toss out as the race got under way.  This got the No 96 car a pass through penalty, putting them off the lead lap almost immediately.  They ended up in 24th after all was said and done.  I guess had he won, he'd be thanking be thanking Gatorade profusely.

Kyle Busch won the race, followed by
Jimmie Johnson,
Kevin Harvick,
Greg Biffle,
Tony Stewart,
Brian Vickers,
Matt Kenseth,
David Ragan,
Martin Truex Jr., and
Ryan Newman rounded out the top ten.

Of note: 
Jeff Gordon finished 11th,
Dale Earnhardt Jr - 16th,
Carl Edward - 32nd.  (Broke his front splitter just past the half way point, affecting his down force.)

With Kyle Busch winning the race, he swept both races of the weekend.

Results for the race, unofficial at this time.


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