Martin survives Dover chaos

It was the 34th of Martin's career. In a season with more attention paid to young newcomers, both Martin and Rusty Wallace have broken long losing streaks.

The race lasted nearly five hours - nearly two hours for the final 100 laps, which were twice interrupted by the red flag.

Martin took the lead when rookie Kasey Kahne, bidding again for his first career victory and with the race seemingly in the bag, slipped on oil dropped by Casey Mears's Ganassi Dodge and crashed on lap 383, just 17 from home. The race was red-flagged for a second time while track crews cleaned up the oil, which also caused champion Matt Kenseth crash out from fourth place.

When the race was restarted on Lap 391, Martin led Tony Stewart, Jeff Burton, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and rookie Scott Riggs - the only drivers still running on the lead lap.

Martin got away cleanly on the restart, with Stewart unable to catch him. Earnhardt passed Burton for third and closed on Stewart. The DEI Chevrolet driver twice tried to work to the inside of Stewart, on lap 397 and again on the last lap, but Stewart held him off. Burton finished fourth and Riggs fifth - the best for each this season.

A huge crash on lap 347, triggered when Dave Blaney's car drifted up into the car of Michael Waltrip on a restart, following a length caution period, destroyed or damaged 18 cars, including those of leader Jeremy Mayfield and third-place Jimmie Johnson. Kahne, Kenseth and Martin got through that one, barely.

Former champion Stewart dominated the first 300 laps, leading 234 of them, but like many others, had his race disrupted by the first race-stopping shunt and, in the end, ran out of time.