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Victory helps the healing for Johnson, Hendrick team.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Ryan Gilchrest
HAMPTON, Ga. _ Jimmie Johnson raised the checkered flag and pointed to the sky, the late afternoon sun shining behind him.
After a week of sadness, it seemed the only fitting end.
Johnson, his Hendrick Motorsports team still reeling from a plane crash that killed 10 friends and family a week ago, passed Mark Martin with 15 laps to go to win the Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500 on Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
"There is no medicine like this," Johnson said. "That doesn't change anything, and we sure don't get back our friends we lost. But it sure makes us all feel a little better to do something like this."
Johnson had to hold off a furious charge from Mark Martin, who led 227 laps and dominated the race before a late caution put him in a difficult spot. With just nine cars remaining on the lead lap, everyone behind him pitted after a caution flew when Kevin Harvick's car stalled on pit lane with 25 laps to go.
"We were beat right there," adding that had he pitted, the rest of the cars would've stayed out. "I'm not sure we needed to have a caution there. There wasn't anybody on the track. If (Harvick's) car was stuck on pit row they should've pushed it off.
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