Carl Edwards joined Jeff Burton as a two-time winner at Texas Motor Speedway Sunday afternoon. Edwards win was the sixth by a Jack Roush car on the 1.5-mile speedway located just north of Ft Worth, Texas. Jimmie Johnson finished second followed by Kyle Busch, Ryan Newman and Denny Hamlin. Jeff Burton, Tony Stewart, Mark Martin, Matt Kenseth and Clint Bowyer rounded out the top ten. Bowyer, sixth coming to the line, nosed into the outside wall trying to pass Hamlin for fifth. Fortunately not other cars were involved in the incident and Bowyer was able to regain control of his car long enough to claim tenth.
The victory was the 10th for Edwards in 128 races and his third in 2008 earning the team $541,150 for the day's effort. The win pushed Edwards up four spots in the point standing from 13th to 10th, 184 point back of leader Jeff Burton.
"That was a really good racecar," exclaimed Edwards. "It was extremely competitive out there. There were a lot of cars that were virtually the same speed, so it was really difficult to get the track position. But, once we got it, the car was really good in clean air.
"At the end, that restart might not look exciting to people watching, but it was real exciting for me in the race car to try not to spin those tires and hold off Jimmie."
While Edwards was collecting his second win in Texas, Jeff Gordon was collecting his second career 43rd place finish. Gordon, who has never won at Texas, finished 43rd in 1999 back when the track hosted a single date on the 36-race Sprint Cup schedule.
"I can't remember the last time we struggled this bad," Gordon stated while the team worked in the garage to make adjustments to the car. "Yes, it is just a bad day gone worse. We are just really, really bad and I lost control of the car and I was hanging on every single lap. We are going to fix the car and get back out there and do some testing."
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