Carl Edwards tied Jeff Gordon for most poles on the season with his 4th, as the 99 team rolled into Texas trying to turn their momentum around and take back the championship. 

Fast speeds and little off-throttle time at Texas made for close racing with a lot of lead changes. It was fairly rare for one driver to really take control of the race. Jimmie Johnson, who came in having won 3 of the last 4 Texas races, was able to get out front for 26 laps straight before a set of green flag pit stops, where the 48 would be burned by a caution for teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. crashing. To make matters worse, Johnson sped on pit road, forcing him to go to the rear of the field and stay a lap down rather than take the wave around. 

Championship leader Kurt Busch was a driver who got burned and had to take the wave around, and he paid for it as he wound up getting collected in one of the scarier crashes of the season that saw David Stremme get injured after turning down on Aric Almirola on the ba

[2011 Race 34] Carl Edwards makes history with Texas win, crash hurts Kurt Busch's title hopes