Johnson Sprints to Win in Vegas at BetLM

Johnson Sprints to Win in Vegas

On Sun­day Jim­mie John­son passed his Hen­drick team­mate Jeff Gor­don with 17 laps to go win­ning for the sec­ond week run­ning at Las Vegas Motor Speed­way.  Four time defend­ing NASCAR cham­pion John­son now has his 49^th career vic­tory with this win in the Sprint Cup Series.

Gor­don, a part-owner in Johnson’s team and also four-time cham­pion, had dom­i­nated the race but a pit stop strat­egy back­fired on him and he came in third place. He was proud of the fact that he had lead 219 of the 267 laps. “Some­body once told me that if you’re going to get beat, make sure you’re get­ting a piece of it. That’s one pos­i­tive to take out of it,” said Gor­don, “It doesn’t mat­ter to me who it is out there, whether it’s our own team­mate or whether it’s a com­peti­tor, you want to go out there and com­pete against the best and you want to beat the best.

For the sec­ond straight week Kevin Har­vick came in sec­ond to John­son which means his run of four-year dom­i­nance on the track may be com­ing to a close.

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