Talladaga had one of the most exciting finishes on a green-white-checkered flag.  Push Grip Turn thought that the last 5 laps were like watching the best finishes in a long time.    .002 seconds decided the win.  And the win came with the tag team pushing one and another to the finish line.

The tandem to take the initial lead was the Chevrolets driven by # 24 Jeff Gordon and #5 Mark Martin.  Then they fell back and paced the rest of the race avoiding all the crashes to stay intact.  There were only six cautions.  The one that this tandem had to avoid was when the two Red Bull cars got together and Brian Vickers spun out.  And then later Kasey Kahne’s car burst into flames.  They pasted by without a scratch.  And then we were at about  35 laps to go when Kyle Busch spun into Matt Kenseth and wiped out about 8 cars.  This duo came out of that without any problems.  When there was about 20 laps to go, Jeff Gordon and Mark Martin started making their move, until they peaked into the 3 and 4 spots.  They laid low again until, with 2 laps to go,  they rocketed past the on the low side and took the white flag in the lead, past  Clint Bowyer in the #33 being pushed by #29 Kevin Harvick.  This was all happening under a green-white checker.  Jeff Gordon and Mark Martin was fighting, Clint Bowyer and Kenvin Harvick,  thru out this lap finding Carl Edwards being pushed by Greg Biffle coming next to them.  As these three were coming towards the checkered flag another team came down low.  The all saw them, but were looking at the other teams.  So now coming four wide to the finish, the #48 Jimmie Johnson with his teammate #88 Dale Earnhardt Jr., who gave Jimmie a big push past the finish line to beat out Clint Bowyer by .002 seconds.  Jeff Gordon took the third spot.  Now the pushers followed in with Dale Jr., Kevin Harvick.  The team of Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle followed in, and the last pusher of this 8 car finishers Mark Martin round it out.  This finish with came with all of these 8 drivers finishing with a mere 0.145 seconds apart.   

This race at Talladaga had 88 lead changes among 26 drivers.  And in the end, you had Hendrick’s Racing winding up with 6 of his Chevrolet cars in the top eight, and with 2 fords in there also.

Jimmie Johnson thanked his teammate Dale Jr. for his win.  They were going to do a little celebrating together.

Push Grip Turn  thought this was a pretty exciting race.  And the outcome was not as expected.  Jimmie wants to keep listening to Jr.’s radio communications, says very entertaining.