0 Jimmie Johnson is the king of Texas

Jimmie Johnson won the seventh race of the season in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series after resisting Kevin Harvick and Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the closing laps of the race.

Chad Knaus has never changed strategy at Texas Motor Speedway during the Duck Commander 500, he always preferred fresh air to the position on the track. Thus, at each stop Jimmie Johnson changed four tires. Several team leaders opted for this strategy and took out their, as they finished ahead of those who tried to paris.

Traditionally very good at Texas Motor Speedway when tested in November that takes place during the Chase, since he has won four victories (2007, 2012, 2013 and 2014 - ed), Jimmie Johnson is required to the first time during the test of the spring, after four second places (2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012 - ed.)

After the test of Atlanta, so Jimmie Johnson won his second win of the season Kevin Harvick joining the ranks of the most successful drivers after seven races in the 2015 championship.

"We had a great car. Everyone has done an incredible job. The week off has done us much good. We were able to relax and meet us around a table to discuss what worked and did not. "

- Jimmie Johnson 

Kevin Harvick was nice to try everything in the later rounds, including type the exterior wall, it has not been able to deal with the velocity of his opponent early in the run. The driver of the Stewart-Haas Racing finished in second place, not without having had to fight until under the checkered flag with Dale Earnhardt Jr. was third. The champion of the discipline has even rubbed Joey Logano at the last restart, leaving the driver of the Team Penske trajectory while he was blocking. After the race, Joey Logano explained that it was just a racing maneuver and there was nothing scandalous in this movement.

Joey Logano finally finished the race in fourth position as the top Ford driver. He beat his teammate Brad Keselowski. Jamie McMurray and Jeff Gordon, who took only two tires on the last pit stops burst, following the eighth neutralization caused by Cole Whitt lap 309, ending six and seventh respectively, while Kasey Kahne, Martin Truex, Jr. and Carl Edwards completed the top-10 of the seventh show of the season.

Taking only two new tires at the eighth and final caution of the race, Jamie McMurray spring ahead of Jeff Gordon. If the driver of Chip Ganassi Racing manages to maintain the lead on the restart resisting quadruple champion and Kevin Harvick, this will last for a few moments while Jimmie Johnson is the front opening of emulation Kevin Harvick seconds later.

Part of a day, the seventh race of the season ended at night and had three long periods of green flag over 70 laps each. While Kevin Harvick and pole-sitter Kurt Busch dominated the start of the race, Jimmie Johnson has gradually increased in intensity for the lead at the end of the first third of the race, before winning as strongman of the last part of the race.

Overall, Kevin Harvick Guard command for the fifth consecutive week. It is now twenty-six points ahead of Joey Logano.

Some statistics:

- Kevin Harvick led 96 laps at Texas Motor Speedway, this is the first time he leads over two laps on this track in Cup. Previously in 24 races, he had led eight laps ...

- Kevin Harvick has surpassed the 700 laps led this season. This is his third season with over 700 laps in the lead after 2006 and 2014 ...

- Jimmie Johnson led over a hundred rounds in Texas for the fifth time in his career ...

- Three drivers have seven top-10 this year: Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano and Martin Truex Jr ...

- David Ragan is in the top-10 overall for the second time in his career, the first time since the second 2009 race.