{"id":26465,"date":"2016-04-25T09:49:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T16:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=26465"},"modified":"2016-04-25T09:49:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T16:49:09","slug":"carl-edwards-charges-to-the-win-at-toyota-owners-400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/carl-edwards-charges-to-the-win-at-toyota-owners-400\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Edwards Charges to the Win at Toyota Owners 400"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n

It was Carl Edwards who made a last lap charge against Kyle Busch\u2019s bumper to at first push him and then move him high to pass to the inside in clearing his path in winning the Toyota Owners 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Richmond International Raceway.\u00a0 The pair of Joe Gibbs Racing teams that have won the last four races in a row had been running 1-2 with 36 laps to go and stayed consistent matching their equal horsepower until the white flag lap when it appeared that Busch might have had a problem. \u00a0With Busch reducing his speed, Edwards had \u00a0a chance to catch up and go for the lead.<\/p>\n

It was Edwards’ second straight NASCAR Sprint Cup win, capturing last week\u2019s Bristol race granting race fans in the Old Dominion State an Edward\u2019s back flip special at the start\/finish line bringing the packed crowd to their feet with approval.\u00a0 It was also the first last lap pass for a win in RIR history that dates back to 1950s.<\/p>\n

“Kyle\u2019s an amazing teammate, and it\u2019s like he got really slow there at the end,” Edwards said in Victory Lane after leading for 151 laps. \u00a0“Something happened on that last lap.\u00a0 It was like his rear tires went off or something. \u00a0He went down into [Turn] 1, I drove it in getting to him, and I thought, \u2018Man, I\u2019ve got something.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n

“He went to get down to the bottom and park it in 3 and 4 and I had already decided to go down there, so I thought, \u2018Man, I\u2019m going to give him a little nudge.\u2019\u00a0 I wish it were anybody but my teammate that we had to race like that, but big picture to me is we both have some wins, we’re in the Chase, and it’s fun to have to race your teammate for the win.\u00a0 If the roles were reversed, I would have expected him to bump me the same way.”<\/p>\n

Busch got the lead during the last caution period after a lightning fast 12-second pit stop for four tires and fuel on lap 360 that moved him from third to first with Edwards trailing in second.<\/p>\n

After the race, Busch was biting his lip giving adroit answers to almost every question that came his way in the media center, not really offering his opinion on anything that happened on the track, but would only say the same thing in a manner of thinking of what not say that could come out as critical.<\/p>\n

\"NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n

“Our Banfield Camry was real awesome today,” said Busch in a deadpanned tone.\u00a0 “We had a great race car. \u00a0My guys made some awesome adjustments to it.\u00a0 It was really good for us to have an opportunity to run and race for the win like that.\u00a0 My guys give me great race cars each and every week.\u00a0 We continue to have fast Camrys.\u00a0 We’ll be continuing to run up front and race for wins.”<\/p>\n

For car owner, Joe Gibbs, he stated that his team will regroup, but will first discuss about what happened between the two dedicated racers.<\/p>\n

“I think when something like this happens, I don’t think there’s a game plan for it,” said the three-time Super Bowl champion coach, Gibbs.\u00a0 “You have no real organized way of handling it.\u00a0 What you do is you start out and work your way through it.\u00a0 That’s what we’ll do.<\/p>\n

“So, you know, it’s a tough thing because it’s certainly painful for one side.\u00a0 You’re on such a high with the other side.\u00a0 It’s a tough thing.\u00a0 What we’ll do is go to work and work our way through it.”<\/p>\n

Finishing third was Jimmie Johnson, who had at times had a competitive car, losing some of his handling towards the end.\u00a0 His Hendrick Motorsports teammate, Kasey Kahne was fourth, racing to his first top five finish since last October.\u00a0 Rounding out the top five was Kevin Harvick.\u00a0 Sixth through 10th<\/sup> belonged to Denny Hamlin, Matt Kenseth, Joey Logano, Martin Truex, Jr. and Kurt Busch.<\/p>\n

\"NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n

The return of Tony Stewart after his back injury and surgery produced a 19th<\/sup> place finish at Richmond, despite losing time due to a cut tire fighting off then leader, Edwards to stay on the lead lap.<\/p>\n

The average speed of the Toyota Owners 400 was 97.070 mph following eight caution flags for 49 laps.\u00a0 There were 23 lead changes among eight drivers.<\/p>\n

Up next for the NASCAR Sprint Cup series is the 2.66-mile Talladega SuperSpeedway for the running the GEICO 500 on Sunday, April 30, airing on the FOX Network at 12:30 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n

Follow me on Twitter @jaywells500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carl Edwards charged ahead against Kyle Busch to take the win at Richmond.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,3424,3470,22],"tags":[3116,1531,3186,1529,1193,1528,2844,682,2849,3115,3429,1192],"class_list":["post-26465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-column","category-nascar","category-news","category-event-coverage","tag-carl-edwards","tag-denny-hamlin","tag-jimmie-johnson","tag-joey-logano","tag-kasey-kahne","tag-kevin-harvick","tag-kurt-busch","tag-kyle-busch","tag-martin-truex-jr","tag-matt-kenseth","tag-nascar-sprint-cup-series","tag-tony-stewart"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/RIR_NSCS_VL_0424161.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-6SR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26471,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26465\/revisions\/26471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}