Four-time Nascar champion Jeff Gordon won Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Martinsville and has guaranteed his spot in the final Chase for the Cup race at Homestead in three weeks. It was Gordon’s 93rd career victory. Jamie McMurray finished second, followed by Denny Hamlin and Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
Earlier in the day, Matt Kenseth and Joe Gibbs Racing found a way to put the brakes on Joey Logano’s three-race winning streak when Kenseth drove into the back of race leader Logano less than fifty laps from the finish – sending Logano into the wall and to the garage for repairs as the Eliminator Round of the post-season Chase began. Kenseth’s car was crippled from earlier contact with Brad Keselowski and he was running laps down to Logano when they made contact, likely a retaliatory move on Kenseth’s part after the two also got together two weeks ago at Kansas Speedway. Logano started Sunday’s race from the pole and led 207 of the 454 laps that were run before Kenseth sent him into the wall and to the bottom of the Chase standings.
Matt Crafton’s bid for a record third straight Truck Series championship gained new life Saturday at Martinsville Speedway when he drove to his fifth victory of the season in the Kroger 200. Crafton entered the weekend third in the standings, twenty-three points behind Erik Jones. He comes out of it second in the championship chase, now just ten points behind the Kyle Busch Motorsports rookie entering the final three races of the season.
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