By Joe Dunn / joe@onpitroad.net Carl Edwards claimed a fuel mileage win at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday and took a big chunk out of Jimmie Johnson's lead, reducing it to 106 points. But that lead would have been cut even further had it not been for the actions of David Gilliland, who pulled what was undoubtedly the biggest boneheaded move of the season. Juan Pablo Montoya was at Texas with a brand new car that Chip Ganassi Racing had built ‘in house' and this new car had shown major improvements for the team. Starting 26th on the field, Montoya charged ahead early and managed to spend most of the day running in the top 10. That is, until he began having some problems late in the race with the ‘laps down' car of David Gilliland in the #38 Yates racing Ford. Montoya was attempting to get by David and claimed that David had...
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