The Monster made a mess of things at Dover

Wow, what a mess at Dover.  I think Edwards and Gordon were the only ones not bit by the monster today.  Edwards was able to hold off a hungry Mark Martin on the last restart and sailed on to a win.

The rest of the Chasers weren't that lucky and the points got shook up a bit.  Only six cars finished on the lead lap, mainly because of the leaders lead and green flag stops.

I think Gordon was the only one besides Edwards to not have bad luck or get caught up in someone else's mess. 

Some just had bad handling cars and got caught a lap down early because of it, like Tony Stewart and Jeff Burton.

Denny Hamlin hurt himself when he ran over Kyle Petty, Petty wasn't too happy either and did "talk" (animatedly I might add) to Hamlin about it. 

Matt Kenseth was doing great, lead the most laps and still had a chance to catch Edwards and get the lead back, but he blew his engine on lap 374.

Then there were the ones caught in the big wreck on lap 386,  twelve cars involved, including four in the Chase, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Jimmie Johnson and Martin Truex Jr, although Kyle Busch's and Johnson's cars weren't too badly hurt.

And then there was Kevin Harvick, who seems to still have that black cloud following him.  Another flat tire, as if he needed that, but if that wasn't bad enough, his crew didn't get the wheels tight twice, which ended up putting him down a total of four laps because of those mistakes.  When it rains it pours, as Harvick said on the radio once during a caution - is there anything else left that can go wrong with the car?  That kind of sums up his luck lately.

The points are closer at the top, Gordon in 1st, and at the far end, Hamlin in 12th, is 158 points behind.  Not an insurmountable amount, but a big uphill battle.

Your thoughts?