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Jimmie Johnson scored his fourth NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win of 2015 in the 400-mile race at Dover.

Johnson took the lead away from Kevin Harvick at a restart with 17 laps to go, when the pair had been the only leading drivers not to head to pitlane after Kyle Busch had crashed out of third place while trying to lap Brian Scott.

Johnson kept hold of the lead through two further caution periods – the first when Denny Hamlin was tapped into a spin and into the outside wall by Clint Bowyer, and the second with two laps to go when Greg Biffle ran into a slow Casey Mears and left AJ Allmendinger with nowhere to go.

Points leader Harvick had been relegated from second to fourth at the penultimate restart behind Kasey Kahne and Martin Truex Jr, but retook second before the end – his seventh such result from 13 races this season.

Kyle Larson came through to third to claim his best finish of the season, with Kahne pushed down to fourth and Truex falling to sixth behind Aric Almirola.

Front row starters Hamlin and Truex were the drivers to beat in the early stages of the race, and while Hamlin dropped back before his incident, Truex was still leading at the mid-point of the race before losing out to Harvick in green-flag pitstops.

RESULTS – 405 LAPS:

Pos Driver Team Car
1 Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
2 Kevin Harvick Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet
3 Kyle Larson Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet
4 Kasey Kahne Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
5 Aric Almirola Richard Petty Motorsports Ford
6 Martin Truex Jr. Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet
7 Jamie McMurray Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet
8 Paul Menard Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
9 Clint Bowyer Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota
10 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
11 Joey Logano Team Penske Ford
12 Brad Keselowski Team Penske Ford
13 David Ragan Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota
14 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
15 Danica Patrick Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet
16 Tony Stewart Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet
17 Greg Biffle Roush Fenway Racing Ford
18 Ryan Newman Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
19 Carl Edwards Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
20 Alex Bowman Tommy Baldwin Racing Chevrolet
21 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
22 Sam Hornish Jr. Richard Petty Motorsports Ford
23 Landon Cassill Hillman Smith Motorsports Chevrolet
24 A.J. Allmendinger JTG Daugherty Racing Chevrolet
25 David Gilliland Front Row Motorsports Ford
26 Cole Whitt Front Row Motorsports Ford
27 Casey Mears Germain Racing Chevrolet
28 Brett Moffitt Front Row Motorsports Ford
29 J.J. Yeley BK Racing Toyota
30 Jeb Burton BK Racing Toyota
31 Kurt Busch Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet
32 Matt DiBenedetto BK Racing Toyota
33 Austin Dillon Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
34 Brendan Gaughan Premium Motorsports Chevrolet
35 Mike Bliss Go FAS Racing Ford
36 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
37 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Roush Fenway Racing Ford
38 Brian Scott Circle Sport Chevrolet
39 Matt Kenseth Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
40 Josh Wise Phil Parsons Racing Ford
41 Michael Annett HScott Motorsports Chevrolet
42 Justin Allgaier HScott Motorsports Chevrolet
43 Trevor Bayne Roush Fenway Racing Ford
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Johnson wins for the fourth time at Dover

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