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Jeff Burton wins the Sharpee 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway in a wild end of the race finish. Jeff Burton made several good moves at the end to get buy a fuel starved Denny Hamlin Toyota to take Chevrolet's first win of 2008 Sprint Cup Series points races. Kevin Harvick finished second and Clint Bowyer third in a RCR top 3 sweep. The Toyotas of Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin were leading most of ...
It is kind of interesting that the #29 car of Kevin Harvick would play a key role in the outcome of today's race. Stay with me on this one, OK? You see, 29 years ago a rookie driver won his first ever race on April 1st, 1979 at Bristol. That driver was Dale Earnhardt, who later would team up with Richard Childress and win 6 Championships together while driving the famed #3 car. So, 29 ...