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 CONCORD, N.C. (AP) - Jimmie Johnson overcame every problem thrown his way — including tire troubles that turned Saturday night's event into a laughingstock — to win his fourth consecutive race at Lowe's Motor Speedway and move into a tie with Tony Stewart in the Chase for the championship.
Johnson started 41st, battled a failing alternator, a cut right rear tire and overtime to prove no one can beat him on the track his Lowe's-sponsored team considers its own private playground. Johnson has won five of the past six events at the suburban Charlotte facility.
"I can't believe that we always end up somehow toward the front at the end of a race ... this one in the closing laps after a long night of adversity," Johnson said. "We changed batteries, the alternator had some troubles, flat tire, all kinds of crazy things."
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