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Brian Vickers won a fuel-mileage gamble, holding off Jeff Gordon to win the Carfax 400 at Michigan International Speedway. It was Vickers’ first Sprint Cup victory since October of 2006, or 87 races. Vickers won the pole for this race and came in second in Saturday’s Nationwide event. Vickers took two tires, rather than four, on his last pit stop, which he credited with allowing him to stay up front in the Red Bull Toyota. Vickers and Jimmie Johnson were both up front late, when Johnson ran out of gas with about three laps left. With Johnson having to pit, it was just a matter of whether Vickers’ fuel would last over Gordon. Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished third, leading a race for the first time since Talladega in late April. A race that is relatively caution-free, due to this track’s wide surface, had a half-dozen stoppages in the first two-thirds of the race. That made for all sorts of pitting and fuel-mileage strategies, as various teams gambled with completing the 200 laps without run
BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) — Brian Vickers (FSY) outlasted Jimmie Johnson (FSY) in yet another fuel-mileage duel at Michigan International Speedway, taking the lead with two laps to go after Johnson ran out of gas and holding on to win his first Sprint Cup race of the season Sunday. It was the second time in two races at Michigan this season that Johnson’s crew gambled on gas and lost. Johnson also was in the lead when he ran out of fuel back in June, handing a win to Mark Martin (FSY). RESULTS: Carfax 400 Jeff Gordon (FSY) finished second, followed by Dale Earnhardt Jr.(FSY), Carl Edwards (FSY) and Sam Hornish Jr.(FSY). Series points leader Tony Stewart (FSY), who clinched his spot in the Chase by starting Sunday’s race, finished 17th. With three races left before the cutoff for NASCAR’s season-ending championship Chase, the win provided a significant boost to Vickers’ chances of qualifying. And it was the continuation of a wild weekend for Vickers, who won the pole on Friday and then spent
