Filed under: Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart
ROSSBURG, Ohio (AP) --
Jimmie Johnson led from start to finish to win
Tony Stewart's dirt track charity race Wednesday.
Johnson, the four-time defending
NASCAR Sprint Cup champion, survived 14 cautions with
Kyle Busch on his bumper for each restart to win the sixth running of the Prelude to a Dream on Eldora Speedway's half-mile oval owned by Stewart.
Busch finally lost track position on the final restart with two laps left and finished fourth.
Clint Bowyer, who had the fastest qualifying time, finished second, and
Carl Edwards was third after starting 17th.
Twenty-seven drivers, including 18 from the Sprint Cup series, competed in late-model stock cars in the 30-lap event that benefited four children's hospitals.
Stewart started from the back, but his track knowledge and dirt-track experience helped him finish sixth. Stewart elected to start from the back because of bonus money that would have gone to the hospital designated for the winner.
"If we could've got some more laps I think we could've got a little bit further," Stewart said. "It seemed like our car got better as we went. The last restart we got to see those guys up there and it looked like a heck of a race. I wanted to be right in the middle of it."
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