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Carl
Edwards does his backflip after winning at Richmond
Saturday night.
The race for the chase is over and the field is set.
Photo courtesy of nascar.com
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Edwards wins at Richmond; Chase field set
nascar.com
RICHMOND, Va. -- It was Clint Bowyer who spun with seven laps left in
Saturday night’s Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond International
Raceway, but the fortunes of four other drivers turned on a dime with
that turn of events.
Yes, Carl Edwards won the race, streaking away after a restart with
three laps left and beating Kurt Busch to the finish line by .668
seconds. But Edwards’ second victory of the season, his first at
Richmond and the 21st of his career played second fiddle to the radical
change of fortune that irrevocably altered the seasons of four of his
competitors.
After Bowyer caused the fifth caution with his spin, Joey Logano had
knocked four-time champion Jeff Gordon out of the top 10 in the
standings and out of a berth in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup by
one point.
The caution also played into the hands of Martin Truex Jr., Bowyer’s
teammate, who claimed the second of two Wild Card positions in the
Chase in a tiebreaker over Ryan Newman.
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