Gamble pays off for Montoya

A gamble on fuel gave Montoya his first Cup victory.  I don't know what he was doing to conserve fuel, but somehow he did, even with his aggressive driving.  I don't think he made too many friends out there today either, it seems like he hit just about everyone he passed, sometimes more than once.  A few times he got a little bang back, but with the COT the beatin' and bangin' didn't spin as many cars as it could have like the old car.  I kept thinking of that line in Days of Thunder where they said "he's hit everything out there but the pace car."

There were quite a few spins, a lot seemed to be due to over-braking in the corners, much like we saw in practice and there were quite a few full-course cautions.  I remember when there was hardly any full course cautions, most were just in the area that had the trouble.

Montoya wasn't the only one to gamble on fuel, but he did win that battle where some others like Carl Edwards didn't, funny thing is that they had told Montoya he would be about one and a half laps short and Edwards was told he was good to go on fuel and Edwards was the one who ran out of fuel when he was running in fourth.

Harvick conserved fuel to make it to the end, hoping to finish first when Montoya ran out, but they settled for second, which was still a good points day for them and RCR teammates Burton and Bowyer finished right behind him in third and fourth.

Robby Gordon, who led the most laps looked to be the one to beat, but after he had to go in for his final pit stop under green, he was mired behind a lot of traffic and was only able to fight back and finish 16th.

Oh and what happened to the five second delay for the races?  If they had that, I don't think we would have heard Kyle Petty utter that strong language that we did on lap one when he got caught up in that wreck.  Wonder how much that'll cost him?

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