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DOVER RECAP; JOHNSON GETS IT DONE.(NEWS)(Brief article)
Byline: Al Pearce
At first glance, the numbers say Jimmie Johnson had an easy time in the Autism Speaks 400 at Dover, Del., on May 31. On closer examination, though, his win in the 400-lap, 400-mile race was hard-earned and well played until the very end.
Johnson led eight times for 295 of the first 364 laps and virtually every lap except during the pit-stops cycle. But he dropped to ninth while the race was under caution with 35 laps remaining after his left-front-tire changers fumbled. It didn't help that a David Stremme/David Reutimann accident on the ensuing restart ate away precious laps while Johnson was mired in traffic.
When the race restarted on lap 374, though, he began a spectacular charge. Helped by four fresh tires (several drivers ahead of him took only two), Johnson quickly passed Kurt Busch for fourth and Matt Kenseth for third, and he ...
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