Why do you think Jeff Gordon was so irritated after the race at Martinsville last week? I wonder if he really thought that Jimmie Johnson, who happens to be the defending Nextel Cup champion, was going to give him the inside of the track to let him win. It sure seemed that’s what he was thinking during the post-race interviews.

Johnson held his line, survived a couple of bumps from Gordon and won his third race in six tries this season. There is no doubt that Gordon could have wrecked Johnson to win the race. Doing so would have thrown up fireworks throughout the garage, so Gordon did the right thing, just as Jeff Burton did the previous week at Bristol.

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