Kenseth wins at Kansas

With the fast, smooth new surface at Kansas Speedway your winner is Matt Kenseth wins his 3 career win of this season.

The recent repave cluttered Sunday's race with a record 14 cautions, a season high in the Sprint Cup Series  and contributed to issues that affected at least four title contenders. But the standings looked much the same when Matt Kenseth took the checkered flag in a battered Ford that he banged hard into the wall midway through the race.


Kenseth still managed to drive it to his second victory in three races, while Brad Keselowski dodged accident after accident to hang onto his seven-point lead over Jimmie Johnson in the standings with four races remaining in the Chase.

"I was thinking, 'Man, this has to be entertaining for everybody to watch,'" Kenseth said. "There was a lot of wild stuff happening."

That was an understatement Sunday, when the longest green-flag run was 35 laps early in the race. Some of the cautions were caused by tire problems, others were for single-car spins, including Chase drivers Johnson, Tony Stewart and Greg Biffle.

And, Danica Patrick wrecked herself when she intentionally wrecked Landon Cassill.

"You know, everybody has been asking all season long where the cautions have been," Keselowski said. "Well, they flew to Kansas and they've been hanging out here because there was caution after caution."

Biffle's spin ended his day with a hard crash into the wall.

"I lost it, man. It got away from me off of four and we wrecked it," said Biffle, who dropped five spots in the standings to 11th. "I had no indication, no little wiggle, no sideways. It just got away from me and it killed our day."

Johnson, who led 44 laps early, was far luckier.