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Matt Kenseth held off a late charge from four time NASCAR Champion Jeff Gordon Sunday to give Kenseth his third victory of the season and closing the gap to 58 behind points leader Jimmy Johnson. Kenseth led 87 of 200 laps on his way to victory Sunday.

Jeff Gordon's second place finish is what the 24 team needed to boost its confidence for the chase. Just a few weeks ago the talk was that this team was out of the top ten. Three races till Richmond, the cut off point for the chase and they are sitting pretty good right now. What a difference a few weeks make.

Gordons teammate Jimmy Johnson came back once again from tire problems early. On the very first lap he suffered a right-front tire that went flat forcing the team to pit under green putting him back in the field. He fought his way back to the front only to have another tire leak late in the race and ended up 13th.

The biggest loser in the top 10 has to be Jeff Burton. After starting from the pole he suffered a blown engine 17 laps into Sundays race. Burton fell five spots to ninth in points. He is 35 points ahead of Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Reed Sorenson led the rookies with a eight place finish. Sorenson is third in ROY race.

Fin	Str	Driver	Laps	Pts	Bns	Status	Laps Led
1	3	Matt Kenseth	200	190	10	Running	87
2	12	Jeff Gordon	200	175	5	Running	12
3	33	Tony Stewart	200	165		Running
4	15	Kasey Kahne	200	160		Running
5	14	Mark Martin	200	155		Running
6	17	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	200	155	5	Running	40
7	6	Greg Biffle	200	146		Running
8	28	Reed Sorenson *	200	142		Running
9	9	Denny Hamlin *	200	138		Running
10	2	Elliott Sadler	200	134		Running
11	5	Kevin Harvick	200	130		Running
12	24	Robby Gordon	200	127		Running
13	8	Jimmie Johnson	200	124		Running
14	23	Scott Riggs	200	121		Running
15	27	Brian Vickers	200	118		Running
16	7	Casey Mears	200	115		Running
17	40	Jamie McMurray	200	117	5	Running	8
18	21	Ken Schrader	200	109		Running
19	25	Bobby Labonte	200	106		Running
20	36	Paul Menard	200	103		Running
21	30	Travis Kvapil	200	100		Running
22	20	Carl Edwards	200	102	5	Running	32
23	22	Michael Waltrip	200	94		Running
24	19	Dave Blaney	200	91		Running
25	4	Ryan Newman	200	93	5	Running	8
26	13	Joe Nemechek	200	85		Running
27	35	Jeff Green	200	82		Running
28	32	David Stremme *	200	79		Running
29	10	Sterling Marlin	199	76		Running
30	18	Martin Truex Jr. *	199	73		Running
31	42	Kyle Petty	199	75	5	Running	1
32	41	Tony Raines	199	67		Running
33	29	Clint Bowyer *	197	69	5	Engine	6
34	34	Derrike Cope	197	61		Running
35	43	Hermie Sadler	197	63	5	Running	2
36	37	Dale Jarrett	166	55		Engine
37	31	J.J. Yeley *	158	52		Accident
38	26	David Gilliland	145	49		Running
39	11	Kyle Busch	132	51	5	Running	3
40	16	Kurt Busch	127	48	5	Accident	1
41	39	Kevin Lepage	103	40		Accident
42	1	Jeff Burton	17	37		Engine
43	38	Todd Kluever	10	34		Accident

Caution laps 10 for 36 Laps

Lead Changes 26 among 11 drivers

Biggest Loser Jeff Burton fell 5 spots to 9th in pts.

Biggest Gainer Matt Kenseth no only 59 pts out of first place

Top Rookie Reed Sorenson finished 8th