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FRESH AIR IN TEXAS; JEFF GORDON ENDS THE LONGEST WINLESS STREAK OF HIS CAREER.(NEWS)
Byline: AL PEARCE
AMONG THE FIRST THINGS teams learned about NASCAR's twitchy Car of Tomorrow two years ago was its fondness for clean air. In crunch time, when the checkered flag is almost in sight, track position trumps everything. So it was that Jeff Gordon won the recent Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway by getting clean air and track position with a lights-out pit stop with 28 laps left in the 334-lap race.
The four-time champion was chasing Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart as the last caution waved for David Stremme's spin on lap 305. Gordon pitted for four tires and fuel and came out leading Chevrolet brand mates Stewart and Jimmie Johnson and Ford driver Greg Biffle. Both Edwards (front tires) and Biffle (dropped lug nuts) may have been faster at the time, but sloppy pit work left them mired in "dirty air. Gordon, in contrast, faced nothing but clean air and an open track and easily led the final 28 laps.
"I was pretty sure that whoever got out [of the pits] first was going to win the race, he said after his first victory this year, his first in 17 tries at Texas and his first in 47 races, dating to Lowe's Motor Speed-way in October 2007.
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