arrived, prompting NASCAR officials to give the third caution. All the leaders, except Jeff Burton made pit stops on lap 228. Ten laps later, he gave up the lead to Hamlin because of him making a pit stop. Hamlin led during the restart, as Bowyer moved into second. On lap 249, Newman passed Stewart for the eighth position. Nine laps later, Kyle Busch moved into the fourth position. On lap 270, Allmendinger fell to the sixth position, as Joey Logano passed Marcos Ambrose for twelfth. On lap 273, Kenseth reported to his crew that he was having car handling problems. Eight laps later, Logano moved into ninth, after passing Stewart. By lap 285, Newman had caught Allmendinger for sixth. Fifteen laps later, Logano moved into the seventh position. On lap 306, Dale Earnhardt Jr., who was four laps behind the leader, came to pit road. By lap 309, Hamlin had a 1.3 second lead over Bowyer. Hamlin had increased his lead from 1.3 seconds to 2.21 in only eight laps. On lap 320, Montoya came to pit road, as green flag pit stops began. On lap 328, Montoya passed Hamlin for the first position after the latter came to pit road. Four laps later, Hamlin reclaimed the lead, ahead of Montoya, Bowyer, Johnson and Kyle Busch in the top five positions. On lap 336, Kyle Busch overtook Montoya for second. On lap 345, Logano moved into the sixth position. On lap 350, Bowyer overtook Montoya for third. After 359 laps, there were only eighteen cars on the same lap as the leader. On lap 366, Logano had caught Montoya (who had since fallen to fifth), but he would not pass him until four laps later. On lap 380, Johnson was in third, 2.5 seconds behind Hamlin. With twenty laps remaining, Hamlin had a lead of 1.2 seconds over Kyle Busch. Hamlin maintained this lead, crossing the line to win the race ahead of Busch, who followed in second. Johnson maintained third while Logano and Ambrose finished fourth and fifth. Post-race Hamlin appeared in victory lane to celebrate his sixth win of the season in front of 95,000 people who attended the race. Hamlin also earned $219,975 in race winnings, and he later expressed his confidence heading into the Chase: "It's been an up-and-down year, but there's been a lot of ups, and obviously we're going to enter this Chase No.