Critter's Cave

What a wild ending to the Subway 400 at the Rock! .01 of a second separate the final Winston Cup champion Matt Kenseth from Rookie Kasey Kahne, who was trying to tie Jamie McMurray’s feat of getting his first NASCAR Nextel (*cough* Winston *cough*) Cup win in only his second start.
On the restart following the final wreck, Kenseth leaped out to a huge lead, assisted in part by teammate Mark Martin who managed to stay in front of Kahne and McMurray long enough to give Kenseth what turned out to be an insurmountable lead. (Martin insisted he wasn’t blocking Kahne and McMurray for his teammate – uh huh, and I’ve got a nice bridge in New York I’m selling). Kahne and McMurray eventually reeled Kenseth in – McMurray was working the bottom groove, while Kahne and Kenseth were taking the high groove. McMurray was getting such good runs off the corner , it looked like he was going to take both Kahne and Kenseth in one fell swoop. However, he lost it slightly coming out of Turn 2 on the last lap, and lost any chance of getting past either. Kahne drove hard to the bottom of turn 3, and as they were coming around turn 4 it was a toss-up as to who might win. At the line, it was Kenseth by a hairsbreadth. If the Start/Finish line had been just a foot or two further down, Kahne would have had him.
NASCAR may have abandoned the Rock for sunny California, but today proved just why the Rock is one of the most storied race tracks in all of NASCAR.