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Narrowing the Gap; EDWARDS'S TEXAS WIN GETS HIM CLOSER TO POINTS LEADER JOHNSON.(NEWS)
Byline: AL PEARCE
Jimmie Johnson didn't come close to clinching his third consecutive Sprint Cup in the Dickies 500. Instead, he wallowed around the Texas Motor Speedway like a man who knew his feet were down there somewhere, but he wasn't sure where. And when he finally found them, he just couldn't make them work.
So, the two-time and defending champion must wait another week orif NASCAR has its wayanother two weeks before he can hoist the Cup. He lost 77 points from the 183-point lead he took into Fort Worth, leaving him up by 106 going to Phoenix. (He can clinch there by gaining 56 points on whoever's in second place.)
"I always knew it would be a battle to the end, he said. "There's still 300 miles at Phoenix and 400 at Homestead, and a lot can happen. Even at 183 points over Carl, I wasn't comfortable.
Little wonder about that. Carl Edwards dominated Texas, leading five times for 212 of the 334 laps, including the final 13. Even so, it took a fuel-economy gamble to get from fourth to first in the final laps. Edwards agreed when crew chief Bob Osborne chose to run the final 69 laps (103.5 miles) on one 18-gallon tank of fuel. He slowed appreciably in the final laps as Jamie McMurray, Greg Biffle and Dale Earnhardt Jr. made gas-and-go stops.
At the end, he was more than eight seconds clear of Jeff Gordon (another gambler) and top-10 finishers McMurray, Clint Bowyer, Biffle, Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex ...
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