Gordon wins first knockout Chase race
Jeff Gordon claimed an ultimately dominant NASCAR Sprint Cup win at Dover as the original 16-strong Chase field was whittled down to 12.
Monday, September 29, 2014 (1:50 am)

Greg Biffle, AJ Allmendinger and Aric Almirola were off the pace all day, and their title hopes duly fizzled out with 21st, 23rd and 28th place finishes.
Kasey Kahne had the most nerve-wracking afternoon, dropping two laps down with a loose wheel early on.
He mounted a steady fightback and his eventual 20th position was sufficient to get him through to the next phase at the expense of Kurt Busch, whose 18th place was not enough.
At the front, poleman Harvick led the first 147 of the 400 laps, lost the lead to Keselowski when he feared a problem at the front of his Stewart-Haas Chevrolet, and then retook it at the next pitstops.
But just after half-distance a tyre deflation caused damage and forced an extra stop. That dropped him to 21st, and 13th would be the limit of his recovery.
Keselowski then led until Gordon’s Hendrick Chevrolet overtook his Penske Ford with 94 laps to go.
They stayed close initially, before Gordon pulled clear to take victory by five seconds over Keselowski, who was chased home by Gordon’s team-mate Jimmie Johnson.
Joey Logano beat Matt Kenseth to fourth as they too kept themselves in the Chase, with Kyle Larson and Martin Truex Jr the best of those not in the title race in sixth and seventh.
Ryan Newman, Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, Harvick and Dale Earnhardt Jr also sealed their places in the next leg of the title battle.
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