While Day was at the
point, Mart Nesbitt got loose down the frontstretch and six others became collected. Brian Scott attained the most damage.
The crash tore off most of the left front of his No.01 machine.
When they went back to
green, Day’s No.96 machine sailed away at his home track, until lap 86. At that time, Day came off of turn two and pounded
the outside wall after he apparently broke something in the right front.
Benny Gordon became the
new leader at that time and he would keep it. The only thing that held Gordon up after that point was a lap car and then a
late charge by Chase Pistone during a green/white/checkered finish to collect the victory. Gordon won by .300 of a second.
He then praised his family
in the win. “My brother made some good calls on this car today and I can’t say enough about him,” Gordon
said.
With the win, Gordon
finally felt like he had avenged his previous Bristol experiences. He lost to Kenny Wallace one year at Bristol
and then hit the wall hard in a 1997 All-Pro event at the .533-mile facility, finding himself burned during that accident.
Trevor Bayne, Shelby
Howard, and Dobby Gill rounded out the top five.
2006 StockCar Review.
