NASCAR: Carl Edwards Wins, Jeff Gordon Has “Test Session”

His dominating performance (psst, he has a secret - ed) was his series leading third win of the year and vaulted his Roush-Fenway Ford four spots to tenth in the standings.

At the other end of the finishing order was Jeff Gordon. His efforts on the day can be best described as going from the sublime, starting the day 12th in points, to the ridiculous. The #24 started as a piece of junk from the green flag, backpedaled from 18th to 34th and finally doing a spin-a-rama on lap 109 creating the second caution of the day.

It led Gordon to remark to crew chief Steve Letarte, “We need to change everything and turn this into a test session.” Gordon has a long history of getting Texas snake-bit, Sunday was no different.

The two big movers of the day went in opposite directions, Mark Martin gained 6 spots with an eighth place finish and Greg Biffle lost six spots although he remains within the top twelve in the nine hole.

Others of note, both Yates Racing machines had good days. David Gilliland finished 15th and Travis Kvapil just behind in 18th. Both performances might help the team’s ad campaign in search of sponsorship.

IN LATE NEWS, the #12 Dodge of Ryan Newman, who finished fourth, failed postrace inspection because the right rear was too high. NASCAR officials said any penalties would be forthcoming this week.

Have a Happy Fine Tuesday™ Ryan!

P.S. “Shut up and Drive! Yes, that means you Baby Busch and J.J.

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