After Dale Earnhardt Jr. got into the wall with 100-or-so laps to go, the Coca-Cola 600 looked like it would belong to Tony Stewart and the No. 20 Home Depot team. But, that wasn't to be as Stewart would suffer the leader's jinx and cut down a right front tire with three laps to go, leaving the door open for Kasey Kahne to bring the No. 9 Budweiser Dodge to Victory Lane.It was called the leader's jinx because throughout the evening nearly every driver that got out in front of the pack suffered some sort of problem. It happened to Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, Kurt Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Brian Vickers.
"I saw him up high and when I came off two he was slow, low and slow and I thought he ran out of gas," Kahne said. "He had a problem and we were in position and the luck was on our side.
Greg Biffle, who finished in second, said he getting a good finish wasn't easy and that his car wasn't right throughout the evening.
"This was a hard-fought effort," Biffle said. "Man, we were hitting the race track. We had some issues going on there with the bump stops, or tires, or something else. The car was just a handful to drive one way or the other. We couldn't ever hit it. We know they are temperamental but jeez. We couldn't do anything to hit it. What a long night. Just came up a little bit short. Just wish we had another 50 laps."
Kahne said his successful evening has changed his opinion of Lowe's Motor Speedway and now, he has a new favorite track.
"I enjoy this track now," Kahne said. "It was Atlanta but after last week and this week it is my favorite now."
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