Bristol is always about surviving, and that is what Jeff Burton did to earn his 20th career victory, something Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and Tony Stewart couldn't do.

All three cars had issues that prevented them from visiting victory lane. Kyle Busch, the points leader, was leading when the power steering on his car failed, causing his car to collide with the inside retaining wall. Busch would fall two laps down and finish 17th.

His teammate Stewart was the next to be knocked out of contention, when with just two laps left he was spun by Kevin Harvick while racing for 2nd.

"I thought I left him enough room," Stewart said. "I'm sure somehow it was my fault. I'm sorry I got in his way."

"I just lost it there underneath of Tony. Just made a mistake," Harvick said. "They can take it for what it's worth, and move on."

Harvick sent an apology to Stewart through his spotter after the incident, but the exchange went downhill from there.

"The first thing his spotter did was say he was going to whip somebody's (behind) and if Tony didn't do it, then he was going to do it," Harvick said. "If his spotter wants to have a bad attitude about it, then we can all come down here and we'll handle it."

The accident would leave Stewart with a 14th place finish, and the incident set up a green-white-checkered finish with Hamlin leading Burton.

Hamlin had recovered from an earlier incident where he was trying to avoid a wreck and had contact with both Juan Pablo Montoya and Casey Mears, damaging his car enough to the point where he had to make two pit stops.

However, the recovery would be in vain as a fuel pick-up issues would cause Hamlin's car to sputter on the restart, allowing Jeff Burton and four other cars to get by, leaving Hamlin with a disappointing 6th place finish.

"It's just a shame. We had another win taken away," Hamlin said. "Our cars just won't pick up fuel. Everyone else's does. It cost us the race. I could have held those guys off, as fast as the car went after it picked back up."

With the Gibbs cars eliminated, Richard Childress Racing earned it's first 1-2-3 finish, led by Burton who was followed by Harvick and Clint Bowyer. The victory was the first for Burton since his win at Texas in April last year.

"Harvick and Stewart got together there, and that opened the door for me to squeeze in," Burton said. "When that happened, I viewed that as the opportunity. That was the door that opened. If we had any shot to win, then we had to jump through it."

The Sprint Cup Series has the Easter weekend off, then there will be more bumping and ####ing at Martinsville on March 30th.