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For Johnson, a Nextel victory and a happy end to a sad week.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Jim Pedley
HAMPTON, Ga. _ Driving 3,400 pounds of steel at 190 miles per hour through the unseasonable Georgia heat for 3{ hours as 42 other cars surrounded him was the easy part of Jimmie Johnson's week.
In fact, it was a vacation.
It was a vacation from seven days of emotional agony.
When Johnson finally pulled himself together and then got out of his Nextel Cup car after winning the Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500 on Sunday afternoon, he managed a smile.
It was one of the few smiles he's been able to muster since 10 of his team members and friends died in an airplane crash a week ago.
"I definitely feel like ...
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