The yellow flag flew for the 11th and final time at NASCAR's oldest superspeedway when Clint Bowyer got into the back of Kurt Busch, turning the No. 41 car hard into the outside wall and forcing a second attempt at a green-white-checkered finish in the Bojangles' Southern 500. That meant Earnhardt would have to hold off Kevin Harvick on a third restart to close the race, knowing that the driver behind him had four fresh tires to his two, not to mention the most dominant car in the race. Earnhardt was left with a runner-up finish that proved his best career result at Darlington Raceway, a place where he'd never previously been better than fourth. "He was pretty fast," Earnhardt said of Harvick. More...