Newman held onto the lead for three quarters of a lap on the restart until a great three-wide move from Bowyer’s teammate Jeff Burton propelled the #31 Chevrolet to the front. Just as Burton surged ahead the four wide racing behind the leaders ended with Kevin Harvick shoving Dave Blaney into the outside wall in turn three, taking Mark Martin with him and bringing out yet another yellow flag.
Eight laps remained when the race restarted with all eyes now back on Kyle Busch, who had got back up to third place despite slipping to 12th during the most recent round of stops. Burton, Biffle, Busch, Newman and Casey Mears made up the top five but less than two laps later it was Mears who found himself in the wall after he tried to block a fast approaching Stewart in turn one to bring out the seventh and final caution flag of the day, which had now turned into a cool, crisp spring evening.
This set up a three lap dash to the chequered flag with Burton taking the final restart ahead of Busch, Stewart, Newman, Earnhardt Jr and Kurt Busch. Kyle Busch dove low on Burton as soon as the green waved but he dipped below the out of bounds line and had to drop back, which in turn spoiled Earnhardt Jr’s run. This allowed Stewart, with help from the two Penske Dodge’s to grab the lead on the high line and he continued to lead as the field took the white flag.
![New Penske teammates Ryan Newman and Kurt Busch confer with crew-chief Roy McCauley in the Vegas garage. [Pic Credit Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/192834.jpg)
