Jimmie Johnson has scored his second win of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season taking the chequered flag at the Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.
In a race that was dominated by Johnson and defending series champion Kevin Harvick, it was a move after the final re-start which scored the six-time champion the victory.
Johnson and Harvick took four fresh tyres at the final caution period, while Jamie McMurray took two and was out front. As Harvick tried to pass McMurray on the outside for the lead, Johnson went low and out in clean air was never headed.
The result was Johnson’s second-straight win in the Lone Star State and fifth overall, extending his record as the track’s all-time winner.
“A great, great racecar,” said Johnson.
“We’ve had an awesome start to the year (2 wins) and having last week off was good for us. We could sit down relax, re-boot and come back to the track and it brought me a fast racecar that was good all weekend.”
Harvick tried to run Johnson down, but he scraped the wall exiting Turn 2 with three laps to run and Dale Earnhardt Jr. got into second place. Harvick then got a great run off the final corner of the race to take second by half a car-length.
Harvick has finished in the top-2 in six of the seven races contested this year and he extended his points lead with his result in Texas.
Joey Logano finished fourth after battling with Harvick earlier, while his Penske team-mate Brad Keselowski came back from a pit road violation to finish fifth.
VIDEO: Race highlights
RESULTS: Duck Commander 500 – Texas Motor Speedway
| POS. | CAR # | DRIVER | MAKE | START | LAPS | LAPS LED | STATUS | POINTS | BONUS PTS |
| 1 | 48 | Jimmie Johnson | Chevrolet | 5 | 334 | 128 | Running | 48 | 5 |
| 2 | 4 | Kevin Harvick | Chevrolet | 2 | 334 | 96 | Running | 43 | 1 |
| 3 | 88 | Dale Earnhardt Jr | Chevrolet | 25 | 334 | 0 | Running | 41 | 0 |
| 4 | 22 | Joey Logano | Ford | 6 | 334 | 19 | Running | 41 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 | Brad Keselowski | Ford | 3 | 334 | 27 | Running | 40 | 1 |
| 6 | 1 | Jamie McMurray | Chevrolet | 10 | 334 | 9 | Running | 39 | 1 |
| 7 | 24 | Jeff Gordon | Chevrolet | 12 | 334 | 3 | Running | 38 | 1 |
| 8 | 5 | Kasey Kahne | Chevrolet | 4 | 334 | 6 | Running | 37 | 1 |
| 9 | 78 | Martin Truex Jr | Chevrolet | 15 | 334 | 0 | Running | 35 | 0 |
| 10 | 19 | Carl Edwards | Toyota | 16 | 334 | 0 | Running | 34 | 0 |
| 11 | 11 | Denny Hamlin | Toyota | 18 | 334 | 0 | Running | 33 | 0 |
| 12 | 31 | Ryan Newman | Chevrolet | 7 | 334 | 0 | Running | 32 | 0 |
| 13 | 18 | David Ragan | Toyota | 30 | 334 | 0 | Running | 31 | 0 |
| 14 | 41 | Kurt Busch | Chevrolet | 1 | 334 | 45 | Running | 31 | 1 |
| 15 | 17 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | Ford | 22 | 334 | 0 | Running | 29 | 0 |
| 16 | 10 | Danica Patrick | Chevrolet | 21 | 334 | 0 | Running | 28 | 0 |
| 17 | 16 | Greg Biffle | Ford | 19 | 334 | 0 | Running | 27 | 0 |
| 18 | 6 | Trevor Bayne | Ford | 23 | 334 | 0 | Running | 26 | 0 |
| 19 | 43 | Aric Almirola | Ford | 32 | 334 | 0 | Running | 25 | 0 |
| 20 | 3 | Austin Dillon | Chevrolet | 14 | 334 | 0 | Running | 24 | 0 |
| 21 | 47 | AJ Allmendinger | Chevrolet | 26 | 334 | 0 | Running | 23 | 0 |
| 22 | 15 | Clint Bowyer | Toyota | 27 | 334 | 0 | Running | 22 | 0 |
| 23 | 20 | Matt Kenseth | Toyota | 17 | 334 | 0 | Running | 21 | 0 |
| 24 | 14 | Tony Stewart | Chevrolet | 11 | 334 | 0 | Running | 20 | 0 |
| 25 | 42 | Kyle Larson | Chevrolet | 9 | 334 | 0 | Running | 19 | 0 |
| 26 | 9 | Sam Hornish Jr | Ford | 29 | 334 | 0 | Running | 18 | 0 |
| 27 | 13 | Casey Mears | Chevrolet | 20 | 333 | 0 | Running | 17 | 0 |
| 28 | 38 | David Gilliland | Ford | 38 | 333 | 0 | Running | 16 | 0 |
| 29 | 55 | Brett Moffitt | Toyota | 36 | 333 | 0 | Running | 15 | 0 |
| 30 | 34 | Chris Buescher | Ford | 40 | 332 | 0 | Running | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | 95 | Michael McDowell | Ford | 39 | 332 | 0 | Running | 13 | 0 |
| 32 | 40 | Landon Cassill | Chevrolet | 33 | 332 | 0 | Running | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | 7 | Alex Bowman | Chevrolet | 34 | 330 | 0 | Running | 11 | 0 |
| 34 | 83 | Matt DiBenedetto | Toyota | 42 | 330 | 0 | Running | 10 | 0 |
| 35 | 35 | Cole Whitt | Ford | 31 | 330 | 0 | Running | 9 | 0 |
| 36 | 32 | Mike Bliss | Ford | 37 | 328 | 0 | Running | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | 33 | Alex Kennedy | Chevrolet | 43 | 325 | 0 | Running | 7 | 0 |
| 38 | 98 | Josh Wise | Ford | 35 | 284 | 0 | Running | 6 | 0 |
| 39 | 51 | Justin Allgaier | Chevrolet | 24 | 257 | 0 | Accident | 5 | 0 |
| 40 | 46 | Michael Annett | Chevrolet | 28 | 246 | 0 | Accident | 4 | 0 |
| 41 | 27 | Paul Menard | Chevrolet | 8 | 222 | 1 | Engine | 4 | 1 |
| 42 | 21 | Ryan Blaney | Ford | 13 | 71 | 0 | Engine | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | 23 | J.J. Yeley | Toyota | 41 | 13 | 0 | Engine | 0 | 0 |
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