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10/21/2007 - Martinsville, VA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jimmie Johnson survived a record number of cautions (21) to capture Sunday's Subway 500 at the Martinsville Speedway. The No.48 Chevrolet crossed the finish line ahead of Ryan Newman after a green- white-checker finish was ended by a final caution flag.
The victory was Johnson's seventh of the season, third straight at Martinsville and 30th of his Nextel Cup career.
Pole winner and points leader Jeff Gordon took the green flag to start the race and off he went. He wouldn't give up the lead on the first lap and he didn't' want to give it up after that either. The No.24 Chevy settled into a rhythm and led every lap through the first caution flag (Robby Gordon cut tire).
He was still the leader after the stop and kept piling up laps led, trying to clinch the "most laps led" bonus early. But Johnson wasn't going away anytime soon and the winner of the spring race was sitting in third place. On lap 65 Johnson made his way past Kevin Harvick and just like in the first race at Martinsville it was the two Hendrick Motorsports cars at the top. But of course this one still had 435 lap to go and a lot could happen between lap 65 and the checkered flag.
One car on the move was Tony Stewart in the No.20 Home Depot Chevrolet. He qualified just 34th, but was up to 16th after 75 laps.
Gordon finally yielded the lead to Johnson on lap 109 and the No.48 Chevy driver earned five important bonus points.
Another caution flag and some cars decided they needed to change strategy if they wanted to compete with the Hendrick Motorsports team. Jeff Burton, Jeff Green, Juan Montoya, Bobby Labonte and David Reutimann led a dozen cars that stayed out. It left Johnson and Gordon in the middle of the pack and behind cars for the first time all day.
Slowly Johnson was working his way back through the field, but Gordon was having a much tougher time of it. Johnson was up to eighth place by lap 150, but Gordon was still back in 12th. They were sixth and eighth, respectively when Kurt Busch blew a right-front tire to bring out a caution flag.
The top-10 was jumbled again as some of those who hadn't stopped last time did. It left Kyle Busch in the lead with Matt Kenseth and Jamie McMurray behind him. More importantly, Gordon had to make a second stop because one of his rear tires was still loose after he left pit lane. He was now stuck in 33rd place.
Busch was enjoying the clean air, but Kenseth was staying right with him. Then another caution flag and more jumbling of the lead pack.
On lap 225 Dale Earnhardt Jr. put the "chrome horn" to Juan Montoya and slid underneath him for the lead. Montoya slipped to fourth as Stewart and Martin Truex Jr. took advantage of "Junior's" move.
Earnhardt Jr. was suddenly the "class of the field" opening up a lead of more than two seconds by lap 240. It was almost three seconds when a debris caution flag waived. Earnhardt Jr. and Gordon were among those who pitted and Kyle Busch retook the lead with Johnson in sixth place, Clint Bowyer in eighth and Gordon in 19th place.
At lap 300, 200 to go, Johnson was leading with Greg Biffle, Harvick, Stewart and Gordon. Gordon was the fastest of the group and by lap 323 he was right behind his teammate once again, just as they were earlier in the race and a few months ago in the spring race.
A well-timed caution flag for Johnson on lap 340 (Jeff Green spin) sent him down pit road. He was just 15 laps from having to pit under green. All the leaders came in, possibly for the last time. If there were enough caution flag laps (about 30 needed), they might be able to reach the checkered flag from here.
After the pit stops, Kyle Busch who didn't stop, was back in the lead, but by lap 360 Johnson and Gordon had gotten around their teammate.
A caution flag with 105 laps to go (David Stremme spin) sent all the leaders for fuel and tires. No mistakes from the Gordon or Johnson pit crews and they came back in first and third positions, respectively.
Stremme caused another caution flag on lap 412 with no changes in the top- three - Gordon, Newman, Johnson.
With 66 laps to go Johnson began to pressure Newman, who took only two tires on the last stop. Three laps later he was in second place and once again it was the two Hendrick Motorsports teammates racing for the win.
More caution flags slowed the race and allowed Johnson to close right on Gordon's rear bumper. On the restart Gordon got off to a great jump, despite telling his crew chief that he didn't think he had the best car.
It was a telling statement as just a few laps later Johnson got underneath Gordon and took the lead. A lap after that Ricky Rudd was sent spinning to bring out still another caution flag. More caution flags slowed the race to a crawl.
With 20 laps to go, Gordon was all over Johnson, who couldn't seem to keep it on the bottom of the track. But as he was going for the pass, the caution flag came out again, tying the record at 19.
The green flag came with 11 laps remaining. Again Gordon hugged the bottom line and Johnson was holding to the high line. But this time Johnson fought him off and built a three-length lead as Newman got alongside Gordon for second place. With seven laps left Newman completed the pass .
But the fight for second left Johnson with almost a one-second lead and five laps to go. Then Bobby Labonte was sent spinning and Johnson would have to hold off Newman one last time.
They began the green-white checker finish and Newman was right on Johnson's bumper. It would have been a great finish but just then David Ragan spun in the middle of the track and Johnson was declared the winner.
"The longer the run, the slicker the track gets the better I am," said Johnson. "That's what hurt me at the end. The No.12 and the No.24 were really good on the short runs."
Kyle Busch, Gordon and Kenseth completed the top-five.
Johnson cut Gordon's lead to 53 points with the win. Bowyer, who finished ninth, is 115 points back.
The next race in the "Chase" is scheduled for Sunday, October 28th at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.
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Two playoff teams from 2007 take center stage on the NFL Network Sunday night in a Week 2 NFL betting match-up when the (0-1) New England Patriots betting head south to Florida for a contest with the (1-0) Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
New England HC Bill Belichick couldn’t care less about the way his team plays in the preseason. With a chance to tie last week’s game with the Baltimore Ravens betting, He elected to go for the two-point conversion and outright victory. The conversion failed, and the Pats ended up falling to the Ravens by a 16-15 final count.
New England rolled off twelve unanswered points to give it a chance at securing the victory, but it never threatened to cover the 3.5-point spread. NFL bettors saw this one coming, as they bet the Ravens down from +6 to +3.5 as the week progressed. QB Tom Brady didn’t take part in the Patriots first preseason clash, but could see action this weekend.
His three replacements all put up embarrassing numbers. They went a combined 17 for 33, and threw three interceptions and no touchdowns. The New England defense was encouraging, as they held the Ravens to 2/12 third down conversions and surrendered just ten first downs. That ‘D’ should be bolstered with the addition of former Bucs and Denver Broncos betting safety John Lynch, who could make his Patriots debut on Sunday against his former mates.
HC Jon Gruden had to be impressed with the way his Bucs played on both sides of the ball in their dominating 17-6 victory over the Miami Dolphins in Week 1’s NFL pre-season betting action. Bucs bettors were quite happy with the effort, as they made a mockery of the fact that they were underdogs in the game.
The logjam at the quarterback position didn’t get any easier to separate for Gruden, as all four of his QBs had positive experiences in the first exhibition of 2008. The four combined to complete 28 of their 40 passes for 204 yards and a touchdown, and that was without starting QB Jeff Garcia in the lineup.
RB Michael Bennett had 19 carries and four receptions, totaling 90 yards and a touchdown. Expect to see more of Bennett, Kenneth Darby, and Earnest Graham, as they all compete for playing time with Warrick Dunn in the backfield this season. Defensively, the Bucs recorded four sacks and held the Fins offense in check all day.
First round draft pick Aqib Talib was impressive in the secondary, recording a tackle and two pass defenses in his debut. Don’t be surprised to see Talib in the starting lineup opposite Ronde Barber for the Bucs in ’08.
The betting trends suggest that NFL bettors should be backing the Bucs in this intra-conference exhibition.
These two teams hooked up last year in Tampa Bay, with the Bucs winning that game 13-10. The Buccaneers have only lost one preseason game at home dating back to the beginning of the ’05 preseason. The Patriots have had a mixed bag of results in their recent exhibitions. They have gone 2-2 ATS and SU each of the last three years.
New England currently sits as modest 1-point favorites in this preseason showdown with the ‘total’ now sitting at 34.5.
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