Denny Hamlin Takes the NASCAR Sprint Cup Point Lead
After a late race caution saw Jeff Burton put Jeff Gordon in the wall, Hendrick Chevy hierarchy replaced the championship crew of the Lowes Chevy team with Gordon's Dupont Chevy crew. Johnson's #48 crew had made several errors on pit road that had cost the driver, going for his fifth NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship, multiple positions on the track.
The wreck took Gordon and Burton out of the race and out of the championship run. Gordon approached Burton and started throwing punches. Gordon, NASCAR's 'Golden Boy' since 1992 and Burton, often referred to as the 'Mayor of NASCAR', brawled on the track before NASCAR officials got between the two and broke the fight up. There was more action out of the cars in today's race, than there has been in the cars this whole season. The fight was reminiscent of the fight between the Alabama Gang and Cale Yarborough in the 1979 Daytona 500.
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