The Stewart Haas driver continued to close on the series points lead after beating Chase leader Carl Edwards with a categoric win, taking home a perfect score that now places him only three points behind his Roush Fenway rival.
Edwards tried putting the pressure on Stewart in the final laps as both spent most of the race at the sharp end of the field but in the end he did not have anything for him despite Roush Fenway cars looking like the class of the field for most of the event.
Full report to follow
Results - 334 laps: Pos Driver Team/Car Time/Gap 1. Tony Stewart Stewart Haas Chevrolet 3h16m51.000s 2. Carl Edwards Roush Fenway Ford + 1.092s 3. Kasey Kahne Red Bull Toyota + 6.053s 4. Matt Kenseth Roush Fenway Ford + 6.369s 5. Greg Biffle Roush Fenway Ford + 6.920s 6. Jeff Gordon Hendrick Chevrolet + 11.046s 7. Dale Earnhardt Jr Hendrick Chevrolet + 11.525s 8. Martin Truex Jr Waltrip Toyota + 12.826s 9. Clint Bowyer Childress Chevrolet + 14.984s 10. AJ Allmendinger Petty Ford + 17.392s 11. Marcos Ambrose Petty Ford + 17.786s 12. David Ragan Roush Fenway Ford + 20.684s 13. Kevin Harvick Childress Chevrolet + 21.070s 14. Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Chevrolet + 21.285s 15. Paul Menard Childress Chevrolet + 23.776s 16. Ryan Newman Stewart Haas Chevrolet + 24.416s 17. Trevor Bayne Wood Brothers Ford + 27.457s 18. Juan Pablo Montoya Earnhardt Ganassi Chevrolet + 29.298s 19. Mark Martin Hendrick Chevrolet + 30.176s 20. Denny Hamlin Gibbs Toyota + 1 lap 21. Brian Vickers Red Bull Toyota + 1 lap 22. David Reutimann Waltrip Toyota + 1 lap 23. Regan Smith Furniture Row Chevrolet + 1 lap 24. Brad Keselowski Penske Dodge + 1 lap 25. Casey Mears Germain Toyota + 1 lap 26. Landon Cassill Phoenix Chevrolet + 2 laps 27. Jeff Burton Childress Chevrolet + 2 laps 28. Bobby Labonte JTG Daugherty Toyota + 2 laps 29. Andy Lally TRG Chevrolet + 2 laps 30. Kurt Busch Penske Dodge + 3 laps 31. Travis Kvapil Front Row Ford + 3 laps 32. David Gilliland Front Row Ford + 3 laps 33. Michael McDowell Gibbs Toyota + 3 laps 34. Mike Bliss FAS Lane Ford + 5 laps 35. Dave Blaney Baldwin Chevrolet + 18 laps 36. Jamie McMurray Earnhardt Ganassi Chevrolet + 39 laps Retirements: Joey Logano Gibbs Toyota 258 laps Geoffrey Bodine Baldwin Chevrolet 215 laps Scott Speed Whitney Ford 30 laps Josh Wise HP Toyota 23 laps Mike Skinner Max Q Ford 19 laps Joe Nemechek NEMCO Toyota 14 laps JJ Yeley Front Row Ford 10 laps
