Jimmie Johnson won a big wrench
Jimmie Johnson closed the door on Tony Stewart with three laps remaining to win the Kobalt 500 at Atlanta for his second consecutive victory.
Side-by-side racing like the show Johnson and Stewart put on at the race’s end was one of the reasons Montoya traded in his high-tech F1 machine for a stock car.
Johnson caught Stewart on the inside lane coming off of Turn 4, nudged ahead going into Turn 1 and thought he was clear going into Turn 2.
Thought was the key word.
As Johnson slid up the track to make his exit out of the turn he pinched the hard-charging Stewart into the wall. Stewart wasn’t happy about it afterwards.
“If I pushed the issue we both would have crashed,” he said. “I wish he’d given me a little more room. I don’t think I ever pinched him or kept him from having room on the track to race.
“He had a faster car. He’s probably going to get around us anyway. I just would like to see him give us room to race us for it.”
Had Johnson and Stewart raced each other that way in F1, they both likely would have crashed regardless of what Stewart did.
