NASCAR Results from Kansas

2007 Kansas - Race 3 of the Chase
Matt Kenseth's #17 DeWalt Ford led most of the first 46 laps until the Miller Lite blue deuce of Kurt Busch passed him for the lead. By lap 60, Busch had a 2-second lead over Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Greg Biffle and Denny Hamlin. Pole-winner Jimmie Johnson was up to sixth despite starting from 43rd place after switching to his backup car.

On lap 70 Chase contender Jeff Burton lost fuel pressure to his car and stalled on the track to bring out the caution. Stewart and Busch passed Kenseth on the restart, then Busch passed Stewart three laps later. By the next caution on lap 86 four of the best cars were out front with Busch leading Kenseth, Stewart and Johnson. Fifth thru tenth place featured most of the days best drivers; Gordon, Truex Jr, Hamlin, Bowyer, Dave Blaney and Biffle.

The race went green from lap 104-145 and by lap 120 Stewart was within .2 seconds of Busch and Johnson was 2.7 seconds back in third. Kenseth was fourth followed by Hamlin, Harvick, Blaney, Gordon and Biffle.

Cautions dulled the outcome of the race for the second weekend in a row. Heavy rain brought out the red flag on lap 148, but prior to that Busch looked like one of the cars to beat. On lap 133, he held a one-second lead over Tony Stewart and was four-seconds ahead of third-place Jimmie Johnson. Shortly afterward the lead drivers pitted, but Stewart's team decided to stay out knowing that rain was looming. They were right and it looked Stewart was going to walk away with the win if he didn't run out of fuel before the cars went down pit road.

The weather cleared up and NASCAR decided to shorten the race to 225 of 267 laps. Stewart pitted when the red-flag was lifted, but some drivers in the back of the field stayed out leaving the leaders behind them for the restart on lap 154. One lap later Kenny Schrader spun by himself starting a melee that caused damage to three Chase contenders; Stewart, Truex Jr and Kenseth who all ran in the top ten.