After watching what looked like a very twitchy set of practice sessions this weekend, we saw that Marcos Ambrose almost had what it takes to get the pole for the Kobalt Tools 400, but at the last minute Matt Kenseth took advantage of his running later and snatched it from his grasp.
The front few rows for the start of the Kobalt Tools 400 include Matt Kenseth, Marcos Ambrose, Carl Edwards, Greg Biffle, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano.
Other select starters include Allmendinger (7th), Newman (8th), J. Gordon (13th), Johnson (14th), Stewart (15th), Hamlin (17th), Vickers (19th), Kurt Busch (22nd), Harvick (26th), Dale Earnhardt Jr., 33rd.
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The first caution came out shy of 10 laps in when Robby Gordon spun down out of turn 4 by himself. On the restart Matt Kenseth experienced a flat tire and made a green-flag pit early in the race. Then on lap 15 Andy Lally spun, with help from the No. 34 car and Robby Gordon got the first lucky dog pass.
Around lap 75, Jimmie Johnson was outside the top-20 as he struggled with a bad set up from his pit stop previous to this lap. There are 15 cars off the lead lap at this time. On lap 90 race leader Tony Stewart lapped Johnson.
Lap 99 Kyle Busch’s RF tire went down, and luckily, a debris caution erupted right after that. On the restart, Kurt Busch lost it coming out of turn 4 and Kasey Kahne also got caught up in the spin world. No damages.
Then Kyle Busch’s engine flamed out on him around lap 107, with Stewart, Biffle, Edwards, Montoya & Harvick leading the pack.
With less than 100 laps to go in the race, the top-five are Edwards, Martin Truex jr., Montoya, Dale Jr and Menard. Lap 194 saw Jeff Gordon blow his RF and crater the car.
After that, with 58 laps to go, the top cars are Stewart, Monotoya, Truex Jr., Edwards and Earnhardt Jr.
With only 20 laps to go, we saw Edwards, Montoya, Stewart, Ambrose, Newman and Hamlin led the pack.
The top contenders pretty much stayed up front all day and Carl Edwards won the race handily. Followed by Tony Stewart in 2nd, J. Montoya, M. Ambrose, R. Newman filled out the top five finishers.
Unofficial NASCAR Race Results.
