Updated 5:58 pm, Sunday, November 2, 2014
Jimmie Johnson won his third consecutive Texas fall race Sunday, when none of the eight championship contenders were able to clinch one of the final four spots in NASCAR 's Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
Johnson emerged from a frantic finish, the second attempt at a green-white-checkered finish in Fort Worth, Texas, after his teammate and Chase contender Jeff Gordon spun out from the front after contact with Brad Keselowski.
While Johnson celebrated his fourth victory at Texas, an irate Gordon stopped his car on pit road right by Keselowski and confronted him. There were punches thrown before NASCAR officials got in the middle of crew members and others around the No. 2 car.
Gordon was leading on the first green-white-checkered attempt on lap 335, in a race scheduled for 334 laps, when he took the outside lane. When Gordon drifted up a bit, Keselowski pushed through the gap, and made contact that left Gordon's car with a cut tire.
'We were just racing for the win, I didn't wreck him, and just raced him hard. He left a hole. Everything you watch in racing, you leave a hole, you're supposed to go for it,' said Keselowski, who appeared to be spitting blood. 'I don't want to ruin anyone's day. I wanted to win the race and that was the opportunity. It just didn't come together.'
Gordon said he was on older tires when 'out of nowhere I got slammed by the 2.' He then used an expletive in referring to Keselowski.
'The way he races, I don't know how he ever won a championship. This is why everyone is fighting with him,' Gordon said. 'There wasn't any conversation. You can't have a conversation with him. There's big consequences. To me, it's just a bunch of crap. The kid is just doing stuff way over his head.'
Formula One: Lewis Hamilton got the better of Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg once again, winning the U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, to edge closer to his second world championship.
Hamilton leads Rosberg by 24 points with two races left, in Brazil and Abu Dhabi. The final race will be worth double points under a rule change this season.
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