Pocono 500 Results

Now the questions will end. Tony Stewart kept getting closer and closer with six top-fives in his previous eight attempts and during that time, he's been strong enough to win on several occasions. This week, it took a combination of speed and strategy to beat Carl Edwards to the line.

Edwards had the dominant car for most of the afternoon, but he was forced to pedal the throttle and conserve fuel as well, which made for some drama late in the Pocono 500. Still, it could have been worse, because the second most dominant driver Jimmie Johnson ran out of gas in turn two and had to coast to the finish line in seventh.

The majority of the other top-10 finishers climbed that high on the back of their own pit strategy, and fantasy owners with good instincts were rewarded. Owners who did this by the numbers suffered early after one of the favorites Denny Hamlin broke a fuel pump on the opening lap. Even with his 38th-place finish Sunday, the flat track master has an average finish of 10.71 on this track.

Results with average finish

Finish	Start	Driver	Laps	Laps Led	Status	Avg Fin
1	1	Tony Stewart	200	39	Running	12.43
2	11	Carl Edwards	200	103	Running	12.89
3	13	David Reutimann	200		Running	26.20
4	2	Jeff Gordon	200	9	Running	10.09
5	5	Ryan Newman	200	1	Running	13.33
6	20	Marcos Ambrose	200		Running	6.00
7	3	Jimmie Johnson	200	31	Running	9.60
8	15	Juan Montoya	200		Running	24.40
9	10	Jeff Burton	200		Running	16.29
10	26	Sam Hornish Jr	200		Running	26.00
11	9	Greg Biffle	200	4	Running	17.77
12	16	Clint Bowyer	200		Running	19.57
13	22	Jamie McMurray	200	1	Running	20.69
14	21	Casey Mears	200	1	Running	20.38
15	14	Kasey Kahne	200		Running	16.45
16	8	Matt Kenseth	200	6	Running	14.26
17	32	Michael Waltrip	200		Running	21.48
18	19	Martin Truex Jr	200		Running	15.57
19	12	Mark Martin	200	1	Running	10.84
20	25	Reed Sorenson	200		Running	28.86
21	17	Brian Vickers	200		Running	15.09
22	6	Kyle Busch	200		Running	22.00
23	23	Joey Logano	200		Running	23.00
24	24	Kevin Harvick	200		Running	15.82
25	27	Elliott Sadler	200	2	Running	20.90
26	31	David Ragan	200		Running	22.80
27	18	Dale Earnhardt Jr	200		Running	16.84
28	28	Bobby Labonte	200		Running	18.00
29	33	Paul Menard	200		Running	30.00
30	30	A J Allmendinger	199		Running	25.00
31	34	Robby Gordon	199		Running	27.94
32	37	Scott Speed	199		Running	32.00
33	42	Regan Smith	198		Running	28.67
34	29	David Stremme	198		Running	27.40
35	35	John Andretti	198		Running	28.52
36	43	Dexter Bean	196		Running	36.00
37	4	Kurt Busch	182	2	Running	16.94
38	7	Denny Hamlin	178		Running	10.71
39	36	Sterling Marlin	56		Quit	17.87
40	41	Dave Blaney	37		Quit	23.53
41	39	Joe Nemechek	36		Quit	25.21
42	38	David Gilliland	34		Quit	33.00
43	40	Patrick Carpentier	32		Quit	37.50