Hendrick Motorsports started the race 1-2 and finished that way. However, it was four different drivers filling those spots.
Jeff Gordon was the Coors Light Pole-sitter with Kasey Kahne on the outside pole. Those cars are produced in the same shop.
Then Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Jimmie Johnson, whose cars are produced in another shop, were 1-2 at the finish line.
“Hats off to Dale Jr. and that whole team, and everybody at Hendrick Motorsports,” Gordon said. “Boy, we had amazing cars this weekend.”
“The Hendrick cars and engines were just extremely tough today,” Denny Hamlin said.
Kahne’s day was ruined when he was trapped in a 14-car crash on lap 47 and Gordon’s hopes for victory were scuttled when he was caught speeding down pit road during a late caution period.
Ironically, Gordon was a guest analyst on FOX’s XFINITY race broadcast on Saturday and talked about how “you’ve got to get to pit road without locking the tires up,” he said. “I thought I was plenty conservative there but the tires were worn out and I just carried too much speed to pit road and kind of locked the tires up I was just speeding. I couldn’t get the car slowed down.”
Source: NASCAR Wire Service
