| Jimmie Johnson scored his second straight | | | | top five. |
| NEXTEL Cup Series victory last Sunday in Atlanta | | | | Edwards advanced one spot in the series |
| and moved within 9 points of Jeff Gordon. 4 time | | | | standings to fourth in points. Kenseth moved |
| series champion Jeff Gordon, came in with a 7th | | | | from 12th to 11th in the Chase standings and |
| place performance. | | | | Burton ascended one spot in the series standings |
| Johnson took his only lead on Lap 322 of a | | | | to eighth. |
| scheduled 324-lap battle and crossed the finish line | | | | Clint Bowyer stayed within championship range |
| in front of 2nd place Chase contender Carl | | | | with a sixth-place finish. |
| Edwards under caution in a green-white-checkered | | | | Tony Stewart fell from 4th to 5th in the point |
| flag finish on Lap 329. Johnson completed his third | | | | standings following his 30th-place Atlanta showing |
| track sweep of the season with his second | | | | while Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick stayed in the |
| Atlanta win of 2007. | | | | sixth and seventh Chase spots even after their |
| Atlanta native Reed Sorenson placed third, Matt | | | | lousy race finishes. |
| Kenseth took fourth and Richard Childress Racing | | | | Kurt Busch moved up from 10th to ninth in the |
| veteran Jeff Burton closed out the Atlanta race | | | | standings with an eighth-place finish. |