Jeff Gordon kept waiting and waiting, but no one made a move. As Sunday’s race at Talladega rolled toward the finish, no one wanted to jump out of the single-file line at the top of the track and risk getting freight-trained.
“Shocking, shocking,” Gordon said after the race. “You never know. I mean it’s smart for those guys up front to do that, because it eliminates a lot of cars out of the running for the win. But I’ve never seen guys have that much patience here in my life.
“So I was pretty shocked to see them just holding that line like they did. Of course, they hold that line that one time when we were back there in 25th or whatever it was, so I wasn’t real happy at that moment. But we just hung in there and made a couple of moves there at the end.”
Gordon finished 14th but lost ground to teammate Jimmie Johnson who ran 13th and took the series lead from Matt Kenseth.
“We didn’t really gain anything, but we didn’t really lose anything,” said Gordon, who is fifth in the standings, 34 points behind his teammate. “So it was sort of a wash. And in that sense, we didn’t tear up a race car. I’m standing here. And we just move on to the next four (races).”
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