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Kasey Kahne: Jimmie Johnson
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Without question, Kasey Kahne's career is on the rise. Going into the 2007 season, Kasey has had 42 top 10 finishes with seven victories in the Nextel Cup Series. Kasey was ... the driver to dethrone superstar Jimmie Johnson's three season long streak at the Coca-Cola 600 in 2006.
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Kahne wins Coca-Cola 600: Jimmie Johnson's reign ended in frantic - but fruitless - pursuit of Kasey Kahne. There's finally a new Coca-Cola 600 winner, and somebody other than Johnson celebrated in Lowe's Motor Speedway's Victory Lane for the first time in six races. Kahne snapped Johnson's streak of dominance by taking the lead with 29 laps to go, then pulling out to such a huge lead that Johnson never had a chance to catch him. Johnson, the winner of the past three Coca-Cola 600s and seven of the last 10 races at Lowe's, finished second. He was well over 2 seconds behind Kahne, who stopped his car at the finish line to grab the checkered flag and celebrate with his team. It was Kahne's third victory of the season, and the first win for a Dodge at this track since Richard Petty in 1977.
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Many fans have found it difficult to believe that Kasey Kahne reacted so violently. Since his arrival to NASCAR’s top series in 2004, he has been considered one of the good guys. He is one of the golden boys of NASCAR, kind of like Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson were when they first entered the sport. Kahne is typically mild mannered and sometimes appears awkwardly shy. He has built a sizeable fan base in short period of time.
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Kahne’s lap of 175.838 mph in the #9-Dodge Dealers/UAW was the quickest of the 48 cars out on the track for the first practice leading to Sunday’s Ford 400. #12-Ryan Newman, #31-Jeff Burton, #24-Jeff Gordon and #48-Jimmie Johnson were the rest of the top 5 on the speed chart for this practice. #21-Bill Elliott was the slowest (171.233 mph) in this session.
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On Monday, March 20, 2006, Kahne won the rain delayed Golden Corral 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Nearly three weeks later, he won the Samsung/Radio Shack 500 at Texas. He won four races after that, among them a season sweep at Lowe's Motor Speedway in the Coca-Cola 600 and the Bank of America 500, holding off Jimmie Johnson, who would go on to finish second in both events. He ... won at California and Michigan.
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Kahne ran a quick lap of 130.733 mph in the Evernham Motorsports #9 Dodge to lead the 50 cars on the track for the practice session. Dale Earnhardt Jr., Tony Stewart, Matt Kenseth and Jimmie Johnson rounded out the rest of the top 5 on the speed chart.
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