Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick dominated the Duck Commander 500, but Johnson was better when it mattered most, winning Saturday night at Texas Motor Speedway.
Jimmie Johnson wins the 2015 Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway
Jimmie Johnson took the checkered flag Saturday night at Texas, winning for the second time in 2015.


A caution jumbled the running order with 24 laps remaining, vaulting Jamie McMurray, Jeff Gordon and Martin Truex Jr. who all took just two tires, into the top positions. But when the race resumed, Harvick and Johnson wasted little time maneuvering back to the front with Johnson completing the winning pass of McMurray 14 laps from the finish.
Over the final laps Harvick and Dale Earnhardt Jr. closed on Johnson, though neither could ever pull alongside. Harvick’s bid for victory ended when he scraped the wall. He placed second, the sixth time in seven races he’s finished second or better this season. Earnhardt was third.
“(Harvick) all of a sudden was in second and coming hard on the top, so I moved up top to try and make that work and I looked in the mirror off to (Turn) 2 and I saw (Harvick) in the wall,” Johnson said. “Just good fun. I think that (Earnhardt), (Harvick), all of us that were involved in that there at the end just had a blast.”
The victory was Johnson’s second of the season and 72nd of his career. He now has won multiple races in 14 consecutive years. The record is 18 held by Richard Petty from 1960-1977.
Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski completed the top-five. Keselowski incurred a late penalty for a commitment cone violation on lap 267 of 334 and dropped from sixth to 23rd on the ensuing restart. The violation occurred when he faked as if to pit, but swerved at the last minute back onto the track.
“I was trying to make my mind up and chose poorly,” Keselowski said about the violation.
Harvick, Logano and Martin Truex Jr., who finished ninth, are the only drivers to finish in the top-10 in all seven races this season.











