Jimmie Johnson holds off Harvick for Auto Club 400 win

By @GucciardoJoey

Jimmie Johnson celebrates his NASCAR Sprint Cup
Series victory in Auto Club Speedway victory lane
after winning the 2016 Auto Club 400 on March 20,
2016.

(PHOTO: @MissSprintCup on Twitter)

Jimmie Johnson took advantage of a late restart to get the victory at Auto Club Speedway on Sunday.

Kevin Harvick basically had the race won at the end of the race,  but Kyle Busch brought out the caution with two laps to go. Johnson pushed Harvick on the restart and Johnson managed to pul away from Harvick. Denny Hamoin challenged the two drivers on the restart burt was not really a threat for the win.

The win was Johnson's 77th-career Sprint Cup Series victory, giving him sole possession of 7th on the list of most career Sprint Cup victory. Johnson went ahead of Dale Earnhardt, who had 76 career wins.

"It's a long year and we need to keep doing this all year long, especially late in the season."

"[The car] was the worst it's taken off on the restarts," Harvick said after the race.

Kyle Larson had a scary issue mid-race where his car careened into the inside wall on the backstretch and the car actually went airborne. He was able to get out of the car and was released from the infield care center.

Danica Patrick had a similar incident to Larson on the front stretch. She was also fine, but showed her dissatisfaction with Kasey Kahne by walking up the track towards Kahne's car. Patrick was upset with Kahne because she felt that Kahne forced her into the wall.

"Just a lot of mistakes on my part early on," Hamlin said after the race, who had to deal with two pit  road penalties before the end of the race.

FINAL RESULTS FROM NASCAR.COM

POS	CAR	DRIVER	MANUF	DELTA	LAPS	LAST LAP	BEST TIME	BEST SPEED	BEST LAP
1	48	Jimmie Johnson		Leader	205	39.183	39.183	183.753	205
2	4	Kevin Harvick		0.772	205	39.742	39.193	183.706	2
3	11	Denny Hamlin		0.258	205	39.770	39.216	183.599	2
4	22	Joey Logano		0.262	205	39.725	39.443	182.542	2
5	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.		1.217	205	40.387	39.909	180.410	2
6	24	Chase Elliott #		0.003	205	40.552	39.630	181.681	2
7	19	Carl Edwards		0.095	205	40.895	39.142	183.946	2
8	47	AJ Allmendinger		0.043	205	39.973	39.784	180.977	55
9	2	Brad Keselowski		0.119	205	41.035	39.485	182.348	33
10	1	Jamie McMurray		0.390	205	40.161	39.880	180.542	2
11	88	Dale Earnhardt Jr.		0.197	205	40.427	39.989	180.050	132
12	44	Brian Scott #		0.010	205	40.690	40.416	178.147	33
13	14	Brian Vickers		0.137	205	40.728	39.995	180.023	86
14	31	Ryan Newman		0.378	205	40.937	39.622	181.717	2
15	27	Paul Menard		0.284	205	40.436	40.104	179.533	33
16	38	Landon Cassill		0.361	205	40.929	40.639	177.170	87
17	13	Casey Mears		0.093	205	40.609	40.326	178.545	85
18	15	Clint Bowyer		0.208	205	40.990	40.385	178.284	86
19	20	Matt Kenseth		0.141	205	40.575	39.236	183.505	55
20	6	Trevor Bayne		0.023	205	41.095	39.828	180.777	2
21	43	Aric Almirola		0.200	205	41.517	40.022	179.901	2
22	23	David Ragan		0.106	205	41.304	40.360	178.394	86
23	7	Regan Smith		0.077	205	41.268	40.524	177.672	86
24	3	Austin Dillon		0.077	205	41.111	39.507	182.246	2
25	18	Kyle Busch		0.201	205	40.776	39.579	181.915	2
26	98	* Cole Whitt		0.282	205	41.278	40.818	176.393	3
27	83	Matt DiBenedetto		2.065	205	42.239	40.668	177.043	178
28	5	Kasey Kahne		2.012	205	42.879	39.949	180.230	38
29	46	Michael Annett		3.001	205	44.611	40.652	177.113	87
30	41	Kurt Busch		0.270	205	44.532	39.875	180.564	17
31	95	Michael McDowell		0.384	205	45.201	40.599	177.344	88
32	78	Martin Truex Jr.		-	204	41.743	39.381	182.829	132
33	34	Chris Buescher #		-	204	42.220	40.134	179.399	88
34	32	Jeffrey Earnhardt #		-	200	44.726	41.105	175.161	44
35	21	* Ryan Blaney #		-	195	1:32.949	39.503	182.265	2
36	30	* Josh Wise		-	195	43.782	41.196	174.774	2
37	16	Greg Biffle		-	146	59.688	40.178	179.203	3
38	10	Danica Patrick		-	120	41.746	39.927	180.329	85
39	42	Kyle Larson		-	46	42.637	40.626	177.226	3