Fort Worth, TX, United States (AHN Sports) – Some gambled on gas, but the one who didn’t have to gamble and was out front when the checkered flag flew was Matt Kenseth, who won Saturday night’s Samsung Mobile 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.
Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart ran out of gas on the last lap and it was Stewart who dropped all the way from third to a 12th-place finish.
Kenseth, who snapped a 76-race winless streak, led a race-best 169 of 334 laps and finished just ahead of charging Clint Bowyer.
“After over two years I didn’t know if I’d ever have a chance to get here again,” said Kenseth. “It was great racing all night and thank Ford Motor Company for this.”
Kenseth had seen heartbreak two previous times at this track after winning here in 2002.
Rounding the top-five finishers on the night was Carl Edwards, Greg Biffle and Paul Menard, giving Roush Fenway Racing three cars among the top-five finishers one day after the fourth driver, David Ragan won the pole for the race.
“I think we chose the wrong package,” said Edwards. “Matt and them did a great job and congratulations to them.”
Marcos Ambrose, Ragan, Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kurt Busch, who gave up the lead when he pitted with 13 laps to go, rounded out the top-10 finishers.
Stewart might have seen a different outcome on the evening if not being flagged for too fast entering the pits and ended up 15 seconds behind for enduring a drive-thru penalty’.
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April 11th, 2011 
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