SONOMA, California;
Clint Bowyer dominated all day long and it paid off with his first victory on a road course. Bowyer held off a charging Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch in a green-white-checkered finish that took the event two laps past it's scheduled distance of 110 laps.
Clint started 6th and ended up in victory lane at end of the race. There was only 2 cautions in the whole race; a couple of people spun out, but there was no damage to their cars. Kurt Bush was the second fastest to Clint at the end of the race.
This Victory was Bowyer's first of the year and sixth of his career. Tony Stewart passed Kurt Busch for the second position after the final restart and finished .829 sec. with Brain Vickers and Jimmie Johnson finishing out the top five.
After a look at Bowyers record at Sonoma, road-course victory seems more less surpring then busch at first blush. "He's shown consistency, so it was matter of time before he would get one," said Stewart, who caught a break when the caution flag waved. Stewart's crew hadn't filled the fuel cell in the No. 14 Chevrolet and chance to pit for fuel and tires.
Bowyer did a majestic job of driving in the closing laps to hold off Kurt Busch, who harried him lap after lap until the No. 51 hit the tires on Lap 102.
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