Johnson trumps Harvick for Texas victory

Jimmie Johnson has scored his second win of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season taking the chequered flag at the Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

In a race that was dominated by Johnson and defending series champion Kevin Harvick, it was a move after the final re-start which scored the six-time champion the victory.

Johnson and Harvick took four fresh tyres at the final caution period, while Jamie McMurray took two and was out front. As Harvick tried to pass McMurray on the outside for the lead, Johnson went low and out in clean air was never headed.

The result was Johnson’s second-straight win in the Lone Star State and fifth overall, extending his record as the track’s all-time winner.

“A great, great racecar,” said Johnson.

“We’ve had an awesome start to the year (2 wins) and having last week off was good for us. We could sit down relax, re-boot and come back to the track and it brought me a fast racecar that was good all weekend.”

Harvick tried to run Johnson down, but he scraped the wall exiting Turn 2 with three laps to run and Dale Earnhardt Jr. got into second place. Harvick then got a great run off the final corner of the race to take second by half a car-length.

Harvick has finished in the top-2 in six of the seven races contested this year and he extended his points lead with his result in Texas.

Joey Logano finished fourth after battling with Harvick earlier, while his Penske team-mate Brad Keselowski came back from a pit road violation to finish fifth.

VIDEO: Race highlights

 RESULTS: Duck Commander 500 – Texas Motor Speedway

POS.	CAR #	DRIVER	MAKE	START	LAPS	LAPS LED	STATUS	POINTS	BONUS PTS
1	48	Jimmie Johnson	Chevrolet	5	334	128	Running	48	5
2	4	Kevin Harvick	Chevrolet	2	334	96	Running	43	1
3	88	Dale Earnhardt Jr	Chevrolet	25	334	0	Running	41	0
4	22	Joey Logano	Ford	6	334	19	Running	41	1
5	2	Brad Keselowski	Ford	3	334	27	Running	40	1
6	1	Jamie McMurray	Chevrolet	10	334	9	Running	39	1
7	24	Jeff Gordon	Chevrolet	12	334	3	Running	38	1
8	5	Kasey Kahne	Chevrolet	4	334	6	Running	37	1
9	78	Martin Truex Jr	Chevrolet	15	334	0	Running	35	0
10	19	Carl Edwards	Toyota	16	334	0	Running	34	0
11	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	18	334	0	Running	33	0
12	31	Ryan Newman	Chevrolet	7	334	0	Running	32	0
13	18	David Ragan	Toyota	30	334	0	Running	31	0
14	41	Kurt Busch	Chevrolet	1	334	45	Running	31	1
15	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Ford	22	334	0	Running	29	0
16	10	Danica Patrick	Chevrolet	21	334	0	Running	28	0
17	16	Greg Biffle	Ford	19	334	0	Running	27	0
18	6	Trevor Bayne	Ford	23	334	0	Running	26	0
19	43	Aric Almirola	Ford	32	334	0	Running	25	0
20	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	14	334	0	Running	24	0
21	47	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	26	334	0	Running	23	0
22	15	Clint Bowyer	Toyota	27	334	0	Running	22	0
23	20	Matt Kenseth	Toyota	17	334	0	Running	21	0
24	14	Tony Stewart	Chevrolet	11	334	0	Running	20	0
25	42	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	9	334	0	Running	19	0
26	9	Sam Hornish Jr	Ford	29	334	0	Running	18	0
27	13	Casey Mears	Chevrolet	20	333	0	Running	17	0
28	38	David Gilliland	Ford	38	333	0	Running	16	0
29	55	Brett Moffitt	Toyota	36	333	0	Running	15	0
30	34	Chris Buescher	Ford	40	332	0	Running	0	0
31	95	Michael McDowell	Ford	39	332	0	Running	13	0
32	40	Landon Cassill	Chevrolet	33	332	0	Running	0	0
33	7	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	34	330	0	Running	11	0
34	83	Matt DiBenedetto	Toyota	42	330	0	Running	10	0
35	35	Cole Whitt	Ford	31	330	0	Running	9	0
36	32	Mike Bliss	Ford	37	328	0	Running	0	0
37	33	Alex Kennedy	Chevrolet	43	325	0	Running	7	0
38	98	Josh Wise	Ford	35	284	0	Running	6	0
39	51	Justin Allgaier	Chevrolet	24	257	0	Accident	5	0
40	46	Michael Annett	Chevrolet	28	246	0	Accident	4	0
41	27	Paul Menard	Chevrolet	8	222	1	Engine	4	1
42	21	Ryan Blaney	Ford	13	71	0	Engine	0	0
43	23	J.J. Yeley	Toyota	41	13	0	Engine	0	0

 

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