7-21-10 —    David Reutimann got his second career victory in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Saturday night after holding off Carl Edwards to win the Lifelock.com 400. His other win came in the 2009 Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte, after rain cut the race short, with Reutimann leading.

    “The worst was that we got really free that last run,” said Reutimann. “The 99 started gaining on us. We kept pedalling. Thankfully he didn’t have enough time to get to us.

    “The team just gave me a good car all weekend. They hunkered down and gave us some really, really good horsepower here and good fuel mileage and everything we need to win races. My hat is off to them, they did a tremendous job. We win and lose as a team.”

    Carl Edwards gained on Reutimann in the closing laps, but was a second behind when the race ended.

    “I felt like we had a great car,” said Edwards. “That held true for tonight. The car was really good. It’s second, you know what I mean. It’s okay, but it’s not winning.

    “Man, he just kept getting bigger in the windshield and I didn’t have enough laps. I was trying so hard to catch him. I want to say a special congratulations to David. He is a class act, a really great guy.”

    Jeff Gordon had a strong car throughout the race, but was unable to keep up with either Reutimann or Edwards at the end.

    “At times I thought we were really, really strong,” said Gordon. “We struggled earlier in the day with the car being real loose. We seemed to fix that and became a top three or four car. We were able to chase Jamie down that one time when he was leading, get by him. I was pretty optimistic. I noticed in my mirror the 00 was following me and gaining on us. I knew he was the car to beat. He proved it those last hundred laps for sure.

    “We just didn’t have anything for those guys. We tried to make some adjustments on that last pit stop. We got really, really loose. I was just kind of hanging on for third there at the end.”

    Clint Bowyer, Jamie McMurray, Kasey Kahne, Jeff Burton, Denny Hamlin, Tony Stewart, and Paul Menard rounded out the top-10 finishers.

    Points leader Kevin Harvick fought trouble all race long, at one point bringing his No. 29 Chevrolet to the garage to change the fuel pump and fuel pump cable. He lost 16 laps in the process and finished 34th, 16 laps down.

    Jimmie Johnson may have had the fastest car, having led the first 92 laps, but he hurt his own cause twice before the race was 150 laps old. On the way to a green-flag stop on Lap 93, Johnson missed the entrance to pit road, and lost the lead to McMurray.

    Dale Earnhardt Jr. was never a factor during the race. He started 25th and finished 23rd.

    Top-15 Chase contenders with seven races before the Chase begins: 1. Harvick-2745, 2. J. Gordon-2642, 3. Johnson-2557, 4. Hamlin-2542, 5. Kurt Busch-2524, 6. Kyle Busch-2488, 7. Burton-2465, 8. Kenseth-2446, 9. Stewart-2389, 10. Edwards-2345, 11. Biffle-2292, 12. Bowyer-2286, 13. Earnhardt-2271, 14. Martin-2249, 15. Reutimann-2190