Johnson survives Allstate 400

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Jimmie Johnson celebrated his second victory at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a burnout. Appropriately, one of his tires exploded. He was lucky he made it that long. Tire troubles derailed one of NASCAR's crown jewel events Sunday when Goodyear's product wasn't durable to withstand more than 10 or so laps at a time. It created a chaotic and confusing caution-filled race that ended when Johnson outran Carl Edwards in a seven-lap sprint to the finish. "Every lap. Every lap I was concerned about it. Every corner, for that matter," Johnson said. "As a group, we all knew we couldn't push the envelope. I knew at the end, a seven-lap shootout, I could blast it off in there and I'd be OK." Johnson was indeed OK, earning the right to "kiss the bricks" for the second time in three years. Goodyear and NASCAR were... [read full story]