Kasey Kahne took his second victory in as many weeks at the 1.5-mile Lowe's Motor Speedway on Sunday night as he won NASCAR's longest race, the Coca Cola 600, for the second time in his career.
Last weekend Kahne became the first driver to win the annual All Star race at LMS after winning the fans choice vote and fortune was once again smiling on the driver of the #9 Gillett-Evernham Motorsports Dodge on Sunday as he gladly picked up the pieces when leader Tony Stewart blew a tyre on the 398th of 400 laps.
The longest race on the Sprint Cup calendar certainly tested the endurance of all 43 starting drivers and their teams as fortunes ebbed and flowed throughout the four-hour plus marathon. Time and time again a driver would fight their way to the front only to encounter problems leaving 2006 Coke 600 winner Kahne sitting pretty when the chequered flag finally fell.
From the outside of the front row Kahne was hardly a surprise winner, especially considering the boost his All Star win gave to both him and his #9 team, but many others, including Kyle and Kurt Busch, Jimmie Johnson, Brian Vickers, Dale Earnhardt Jr and the luckless Stewart, can rightly feel aggrieved on a night when a potential win slipped away.
The younger Busch brother, who started from pole position, started the race with a purpose after dominating the first half of last weeks non-championship event before engine failure put him out. However continuous voltage-metre problems, which eventually necessitated a change of battery coupled with a suspected puncture put the driver of the #18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota a lap down. Busch fought back to third at the finish to extend his championship lead but he was still disappointed after leading the opening 30 laps with ease.
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