Battle of the Champions: Las Vegas Recap

With an amazing three wide pass, Tony Stewart passed Jimmie Johnson to take the lead on a late restart to finally win at Las Vegas. Coming back with a new crew chief and hope of finally winning at Vegas, Stewart hoped to overcome hit late race pit road mishap of last year. This year, Stewart took the lead with 34 laps to go and did not look back even with a few late race cautions.

The race also continued the Johnson Daytona comeback even after suffering a wreck in Saturday practice that cause him to go to a back-up car. This cause him to start at the back but soon saw him leading around lap 83. Johnson managed to hold on to second place to bring him back in the top 35 in points after his horrible Daytona race and the point penalty from NASCAR for failing pre-race inspection during speedweeks.

On another note, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was on fire during the beginning of the race as we saw him lead more than 70 laps (more than he led all last season) only to find himself in the back as he took a four tire pit stop putting when others took two. Junior managed to get 10th place out of it as he tried climbing his way back up extending his winless streak.