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Matt Kenseth hadn't won in 51 races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, that was until this weekend. This was his 32nd career win in the series.
The Food City 500 in Support of Steve Byrnes and Stand Up 2 Cancer was supposed to begin at 1 PM E.T. But, let's say that rain really, and I mean REALLY put this race on hold. The race was delayed by an hour. 22 laps were then run on the track, then three more stoppages occurred due to weather. One of them being four hours.
Jimmie Johnson kept giving Kenneth a run for his money, doing everything he could to get past Kenneth on the final green-white-checkered overtime finish. Johnson started in fourth on this restart, but quickly managed to get right up to second place. Kenneth held him off by 0.287 seconds at the finish.
Jeff Gordon finished second, followed by Ricky Stenhouse JR. in fourth, and Ryan Newman to round out the Top-5.
The final forty laps of the race featured many wrecks, one of them involving five cars.
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