Jimmie Johnson continued his mastery of Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday, winning his third straight race and fifth in his last seven starts on the Fort Worth oval. In the process, Johnson denied Brad Keselowski automatic advancement into the next round of the post-season Chase. Keselowski started from the pole and led 312 of the 334 laps run. A win would have put him into The Championship Four with Jeff Gordon at the season-ending Ford EcoBoost 400 on November 22nd. Instead, Keselowski had to settle for second place and is now nineteen points below the fourth-place cutoff with one event remaining in the Eliminator Round – next weekend at Phoenix International Raceway. Entering that final race, Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex, Jr. have the points necessary to join Gordon for the championship. Carl Edwards is seven points behind Truex. Keselowski and Kurt Busch will need either a win or help from the other contenders during next week’s race. Joey Logano will have to win at Phoenix to advance after finishing 40th Sunday.
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