#48-Jimmie Johnson won the Texas AAA 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway for second consecutive win, his 5th of year and 60th career win. He took the lead from Keselowski at the start of a green white checker restart.
#48-Jimmie Johnson is the first driver to win two races in a row from the pole since #24-Jeff Gordon won consecutive races at Phoenix and Talladega from the pole in April 2007.
#2-Keselowski held on to finish 2nd followed by #18-Busch, #17-Kenseth, #14-Stewart, #15-Bowyer, #88-Earnhardt, Jr., #78-Busch, #29-Harvick, and #20-Logano.
#48-Johnson led the most laps to maximize his points on the day. He now has a 7 point lead over #2-Keselowski.
There were 9 cautions for 49 yellow flag laps. There were 20 lead changes among 7 drivers. The average speed was 136.117mph.
The estimated attendence was 146,000, down from 159,000 in the spring race and down from 151,000 last November.
See race results, awards, money won, laps led, cautions and more on the Texas Race Results page (pdf) (11-4-2012)
