Food City 500 NASCAR Bristol 3.21.10

Jimmie Johnson raced into historic territory Sunday, scoring the 50th Sprint Cup victory of his driving career by charging to the front late to win the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Johnson led the final six laps after taking the lead from Tony Stewart. The final 10 laps of the race were run under green. During the last caution period, Greg Biffle, Matt Kenseth, Carl Edwards and Stewart pitted for two tires; Kurt Busch and Johnson took four.

The four-tire cars were clearly stronger. Johnson sprinted from sixth to first in only three laps and beat Stewart to the finish by .895 of a second.

We have worked so hard for this, Johnson, a winner at BMS for the first time, said in victory lane. I thought we were in trouble. But the four tires were everything.

The failure to win was especially painful for Busch, who finished third. He led 278 laps. On the final restart, he was bottled up behind two-tire traffic and didnt get a shot to challenge for first.

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[Monkeyball480]

I noticed in his post race interview he said that he thought he was in trouble at one point, and I just had to think, "Why would you think you're in trouble? It's not like you weren't going to win. You always do." From now on, I'm going to only care about who finishes second. They will be the winner for me.

[JCPADRON1]

Come On Jimmie!!!!!

[nascaraddicted24]

Johnson winning was the absolute worst thing to happen on my 14th birthday.

[ChrisBaltimore81]

@Monkeyball480 Not going to happen hate Johnson but he is truly that good

[daeclipse03]

looked just like a repeat of the dover race from 2009 where jimmy had to chase down Biffle and Stewart and passed stewart for the win.. watch that race and youll see he had to do the exact same thing :) 5 consecutive championships here we go baby!!!

[discodarth]

@Monkeyball480

I was actually just thinking that, and it would be priceless. I heard from somebody that everybody in NASCAR cheats, Jimmie Johnson is just the best at it. that was pretty good too.

[ASargent300]

That debris caution and the restart position just handed Kurt's moment to win to Jimmy on a silver platter.

[checkfoldcallraise]

nascar needs cole trickle back lol.

"harry! this guy is going down!"

[RealRacer2442]

@Viscosity86, so what you're saying is that you're comparing Jimmie Johnson's driving style to Dale Sr. but you're not actually comparing Jimmie's driving style to anybody. Interesting.

[Knox48x]

Sorry to say but Jimmie Johnson is probally the best NASCAR has ever seen and he's not even close to done yet

[Knox48x]

How you gonna move him when you can't catch him? lol

[88nascarracer]

he wins to many times