| Checker Auto Parts 500 News: |
| Checker Auto Parts 500 tickets. Jimmie Johnson has fought through mistakes, mechanical failures and the despair of losing friends in a plane crash to charge back into NASCAR's closest championship battle ever. He got some unexpected help Sunday from teammate Jeff Gordon, whose crew made an uncharacteristic mistake on pit lane. |
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Checker Auto Parts 500
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11:59 pm
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Phoenix International Raceway
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| Checker Auto Parts 500 tickets. Dale Earnhardt Jr. kept his slim Winston Cup championship hopes alive Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway.
Earnhardt passed Jimmie Johnson for the lead with 51 laps remaining in the Checker Auto Parts 500 and stayed out front through a series of restarts in a race marred by a record-tying 10 caution flags. The final restart came nine laps from the end of the 312-lap race on the 1-mile oval and Earnhardt easily pulled away from Johnson, beating the second-place car to the finish by 0.735 seconds -- about five car-lengths -- in the battle of Chevrolets. |