Although Kahne had been the dominant driver on the night he still had to deal with recent Lowe's Motor Speedway King Jimmie Johnson and Roush Racing's Carl Edwards in the final 33 lap green flag run to the chequered flag. On lap 369 Kahne used his preferred high line to wrest second away from Johnson in turn four and just one lap later and in true ‘Days of Thunder' style he tricked Edwards into defending the high line into turns three and four before promptly grabbing the lead on the low line.
Johnson followed Kahne passed Edwards some five laps later, by which time Kahne was two seconds up the road and on his way to victory lane with a lead that even Johnson couldn't breach.
While Kahne's win moves him up to sixth in the championship, Johnson's runner up finish helps pad his points lead to 109 over Matt Kenseth, who lost fourth place to his Roush teammate Mark Martin in the final four laps as Jack Roush's team placed all five of its cars in the top eight finishing positions.
Jeff Burton was the best-placed Chevrolet finisher in sixth place with Greg Biffle and Jamie McMurray completing the Roush runners in seventh and eighth places respectively.
Rookie duo Denny Hamlin and Reed Sorensen completed the top ten in a race where many drivers made mistakes on the track or in pit road and where there was an extra focus on the pit crews.
Among those who could have finished higher had it not been for penalties and/or mistakes were Dale Earnhardt Jr, who was penalised a lap for pitting outside his box and crossed the line in eleventh place and Riggs who couldn't make his way back to the front after his late pitstop faux-pas and finished 13th.
