Johnson takes points lead after wild race

That was a long race, a lot longer than it should have been, with two red flags and a bunch of cautions.

Jimmie Johnson took the points lead with a third place finish and a lot of Chasers have a big amount of points to make up now.

The biggest question I've heard was why NASCAR didn't call the race during the second red flag.  They were past halfway and while I'm usually in agreement that they should run a race to it's fullest, there was no way they were going to get all the laps in, in fact they only ran to lap 210 and it was called then because it was getting too dark. 

Fans hate it when they run to just halfway, but the timing of the storm that hit and how long it took to dry the track, they should have just decided to either call it or run the rest of the laps on Monday, then they could have gotten the rest of the laps in instead of what happened today.  I realize that's always a tough decision for NASCAR to make and not everyone will be happy.

As far as the points, only two drivers are close, Gordon is 6 points back and Bowyer is 9 points back, everyone else is over 100 points back, which is going to make Dega even more interesting as far as points go.  Seven Chase drivers were involved in incidents in this race, which didn't help them any, but with Dega next week, who knows what will happen.

Your thoughts on the race, rain, points, etc.?