Coke Zero 400 Results with avg. finish

The debut of double-file restarts on a restrictor-plate superspeedway was dramatic. For the most part, it added action to the race without significantly altering the results, the same as with the first road course race at Infineon Raceway. Still, with a victory on the line, the drivers found a way to get into trouble.

With a finish eerily similar to Talladega's Aaron's 499, one driver tried to block on the way to the checkered flag and another was not intimidated. Kyle Busch ran a cautious race until the end, but no one can play it safe with the checkered flag in the air. So, he passed Tony Stewart on the white flag lap and tried to make his Toyota as wide as possible on the front stretch. Clipping Stewart's nose and spinning into the wall, he experienced one of the more dramatic crashes his season, but Busch managed to skid past the finish line. The ensuing pileup was impressive, but since most of the contact occurred after the finish line, the results were largely unaffected by the last-lap catastrophe.

Stewart won his second race of the season and now has a six-race streak of finishes seventh or better. He's a place-and-hold driver until further notice.

Jimmie Johnson was second, which was a bit of a surprise given his bad luck on plate tracks recently and the rest of the top five went to drivers who needed strong runs to reverse their fortune as well. Denny Hamlin was third, Carl Edwards finished fourth and Kurt Busch came home fifth.

Marcos Ambrose in sixth and Juan Montoya in ninth were the best dark horses of the weekend, and both of them should be able to carry that momentum on to Chicago next week.

Results with average finish

Finish	Start	Driver	Laps	Laps Led	Status	Avg. Fin
1	1	Tony Stewart	160	86	Running	16.50
2	3	Jimmie Johnson	160		Running	14.19
3	6	Denny Hamlin	160	63	Running	23.75
4	5	Carl Edwards	160		Running	19.70
5	4	Kurt Busch	160	1	Running	17.17
6	18	Marcos Ambrose	160		Running	11.50
7	17	Brian Vickers	160		Running w/ crash damage	20.09
8	10	Matt Kenseth	160	3	Running	17.90
9	12	Juan Montoya	160		Running	24.00
10	23	Elliott Sadler	160		Running	17.00
11	22	Jamie McMurray	160		Running w/ crash damage	25.57
12	43	Regan Smith	160		Running	23.50
13	31	David Ragan	160		Running	13.83
14	8	Kyle Busch	160	1	Running	18.00
15	13	Kasey Kahne	160		Running w/ crash damage	17.83
16	16	Jeff Burton	160	2	Running	17.75
17	30	A J Allmendinger	160		Running	20.67
18	9	Greg Biffle	160		Running	22.14
19	21	Joey Logano	160		Running	31.00
20	7	Ryan Newman	160	1	Running w/ crash damage	20.94
21	28	Bobby Labonte	160		Running	22.44
22	34	Robby Gordon	160	1	Running	20.30
23	33	Paul Menard	160		Running	23.80
24	36	Brad Keselowski	160		Running w/ crash damage	24.00
25	24	Martin Truex Jr	160		Running	21.56
26	27	Kevin Harvick	160		Running w/ crash damage	15.71
27	35	John Andretti	160	1	Running	27.35
28	2	Jeff Gordon	160	1	Running w/ crash damage	15.50
29	15	Clint Bowyer	159		Running w/ crash damage	13.38
30	42	Tony Raines	158		Running	31.20
31	37	Scott Speed	152		Accident	33.00
32	25	Sam Hornish Jr	152		Running	27.00
33	26	Reed Sorenson	146		Running w/ crash damage	23.38
34	20	Casey Mears	144		Running	22.29
35	32	David Stremme	129		Running w/ crash damage	24.17
36	14	David Reutimann	127		Running w/ crash damage	25.50
37	29	Michael Waltrip	124		Running w/ crash damage	20.80
38	11	Mark Martin	79		Running	18.14
39	19	Dale Earnhardt Jr	76		Accident	15.55
40	38	David Gilliland	76		Accident	25.40
41	39	Joe Nemechek	25		Start and Park	26.13
42	41	Patrick Carpentier	18		Start and Park	28.00
43	40	Dave Blaney	2		Start and Park	26.47

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