Jimmie Johnson won the QuikTrip Folds of Honor 500 at Atlanta on Sunday, taking his 71st Sprint Cup Series win. Johnson, who did not get his first win last year until May, started back in 37th after not being able to qualify on Friday due to being stuck in inspection. Johnson held off drivers with better cars including Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano, and led several of the race's later laps.
The start of the race was delayed about an hour due to rain in the Atlanta area. There was then a competition caution after 25 laps, coming just after a salute to Jeff Gordon on lap 24 where every position on the scoring pylon was displayed with "24" rather than the actual running order. The race was also stopped after an eight-car crash on lap 303 of 325. Gordon would be caught up in an earlier multi-car crash with Denny Hamlin and Jamie McMurray, hitting a wall without a SAFER barrier, just like Kyle Busch in last week's Daytona Xfinity race. Gordon and Busch both expressed their frustrations on Twitter after the race.
Harvick and Earnhardt finished second and third for the second week in a row. It was also Harvick's fifth straight top-two Cup points race finish, dating back to the 500-mile Texas race in November also won by Johnson.
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