Sylvania 300 at Loudon (9.20.2009)
Mark Martin (5) Fights Off the Horde And Claims the Honors at the Magic Mile.
A caution condition with eight laps remaining prompts one final restart that leaves both race leader Mark Martin (5 Hendrick Chevrolet) and hard charger Juan Pablo Montoya (42 Target Ganassi Dodge) in a tough scuffle for the win over the closing laps. Martin uses a brilliant outside chop move to slip past Montoya on the Turn 4 exit with two laps remaining, yet the veteran raises some brows among observers after clearly short braking the Colombian in the next curve to forestall the latter’s final lap charge. A crash moments later hands Martin a heady victory.
