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More Spills than Thrills in Atlanta

Kurt Busch won the Kobalt Tools 500 for the sec­ond time in a row at Atlanta Motor Speed­way. The race was more like an endurance race with restarts and crashes caused by tire problems.

There were two dra­matic and fright­en­ing crashes that pro­longed the race by 16 extra laps. Carl Edwards caused the first by clip­ping Brad Keselowski’s car and send­ing it upside down into the grand­stand. Spec­u­la­tion is that this was retal­i­a­tion for a race last year at Tal­ladega, in which Keslowski won after col­lid­ing with Edwards. Luck­ily Keselowski was ok and Edwards was ordered off the track and rep­ri­manded by NASCAR.

The sec­ond crash involved 7 cars, this halted the fin­ish and the race ran another two clean laps with Busch lead­ing until the fin­ish. This was his third race in Atlanta and his 21st career win.

Matt Kenseth reached the line half a sec­ond behind Busch, fol­lowed by Juan Pablo Mon­toya in third, then Kasey Kahne and Paul Menard.  The Hen­drick team was nowhere near the top ten. Dale Earn­hardt Jr. fin­ished in 15th place as Busch broke Jim­mie Johnson’s two-race win­ning streak.

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