Johnson Wins at Kansas–Takes Over Points Lead

by Steve Wronkowicz

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September 29, 2008 10:39 pm CDT 1 Comment

Kansas continues string of good racing in the Chase.

Greg Biffle wasn’t able to pull off the triple and win the first three races of the Chase. But he was able to offer fans some great racing at the finish of the Campers World RV 400 by passing an ailing Jeff Gordon at the finish line. Biffle secured a third place finish in the race and moved to third in points only thirty points behind new points leader Jimmy Johnson and had this to say:

At the end there it felt like Dover all over again, me and Jeff Gordon fighting for third place, third and fourth. It was a pretty hard fought battle. We ended up getting by him on the last lap coming to the stripe. We’re pretty excited to finish up third.

The most spectacular battle though was the battle for the win that saw Carl Edwards reel in Johnson over the last three laps and finally make an all out hell-bent-for-leather pass for the lead. Edwards however, went in too hard on the pass underneath JJ and ended up into the outside retaining wall. Edwards kept his foot in the pedal, peeled his Ford Fusion off the wall and tried to cut the race track and get past the new points leader.

Edwards gave this account of the crazy pass attempt:

He saw what I was doing, so he went up there to block. That last lap, I just figured, hell with it, I don’t want to finish second here, I want to win this race more than anything in the world, so I kind of bonsaied it in there. I wanted to make sure I cleared Jimmie. I went probably just a little too far and hit the wall harder than I planned on hitting it, he got back by me. It was fun. Always wanted to kind of try to do that. Now I know it doesn’t work quite the same as video games. But it was fun.

And that leads us to this week’s BUZZ ON PIT ROW:

Will Carl Edwards last lap pass attempt go down in history as career defining or just plain reckless?

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One Response to “Johnson Wins at Kansas–Takes Over Points Lead”

2008 OPeR Award: Best Post Race Interview | On Pit Row on December 22nd, 2008 1:19 pm

[...] favorite one in 2008 was Carl Edwards’ explanation of his “video game pass” attempt for the lead on the final turn at Kansas Motor [...]

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