6-30-10 —     Jimmie Johnson has four NASCAR Sprint Cup championships, but until

Sunday, he had been winless on road courses.

    That¹s all history now, as he won the Toyota/Savemart 350 ahead of Robby

Gordon.

    Marcos Ambrose was leading the race when the caution came out with eight

laps remaining. Ambrose, trying to save fuel, cut off his engine under

caution and accidentally stopped on the course. He ended up rejoining the

field in seventh. Johnson inherited the lead.

    ³I thought Marcos (Ambrose) was really going to give us a hard time,²

said Johnson. ³I don¹t know what happened to him, I just saw him pulling

off.

    ³We had the fastest car at the end, but it was because Chad (crew chief

Chad Knaus) kept on me to save my tires. It really paid off.

    ³It really feels good to finally win on a road course. I¹ve worked hard

to be a better road course driver and it finally paid off.²

    The win was Johnson¹s 51st, and it moved him from sixth to second in

Chase points.

    Robby Gordon¹s runner-up finish was his best since 2005 at Watkins Glen.

    ³We came up about 10-laps short on tires,² said Gordon. ³The team did a

great job, and if we could have had a few more caution laps, it might have

been a different race for us. The tires were the difference in winning the

race and finishing second.²

    There were lots of incidents between different drivers. One of them

involved Jeff Gordon and Martin Truex Jr. Gordon got into Truex and knocked

him off the track.

    Truex was furious.

    ³There he (Gordon) is, out there still racing and I¹m wrecked,² said

Truex.

    Gordon, who finished fifth, said afterwards that he did some things on

the track that he wasn¹t proud of.

    ³We had an awesome race car on the long runs,² said Gordon. ³But it was

wild out there. On the restarts there were guys making it three wide. I¹m as

guilty as they are. When they started doing it to me, I started doing it to

them.

    ³I completely messed up Martin, and I¹m going to try and patch that up

with him.²

    Kevin Harvick, Kasey Kahne, Jeff Gordon, Marcos Ambrose, Greg Biffle,

Boris Said, Tony Stewart, and Juan Montoya were the remaining top-10

finishers.

    Top-12 Chase contenders after 16 of 36: 1. Harvick-2334, 2.

Johnson-2194, 3. Kyle Busch-2193, 4. Hamlin-2183, 5. J. Gordon-2142, 6. Kurt

Busch-2118, 7. Kenseth-2092, 8. Burton-2027, 9. Biffle-2011, 10.

Stewart-1983, 11. Martin-1947, 12. Edwards-1932

EDWARDS GETS NATIONWIDE WIN

    Carl Edwards ended Ford¹s winless streak, as he won the Nationwide

Series race at Road America for the manufacturer¹s first victory of 2010 in

any of NASCAR¹s top three series.

    The remaining top-10 finishers were Ron Fellows, Brendan Gaughan, Brad

Keselowski, Owen Kelly, Brad Coleman, J.R. Fitzpatrick, Jason Leffler, Steve

Wallace, and Trevor Bayne.

    Top-10 points leaders after 15 of 35: 1. Brad Keselwoski-2466, 2.

Edwards-2229, 3. Allgaier-2051, 4. Kyle Busch-1945, 5. Menard-1860, 6.

Harvick-1852, 7. Gaughan-1685, 8. S. Wallace-1674, 9. Leffler-1597, 10.

Logano-1593