Mark Martin and owner Jack Roush didn't have the best success at the all-star race. Credit: AP

Roush's repair bill likely more than all-star purse

Four of the team's five cars end up junk at the end of the night

CONCORD, N.C. -- Heartbreak came calling in Turn 2 on Lap 50 of the 90-lap Nextel All-Star Challenge, and it touched just about every driver in the 20-car field.

Matt Kenseth almost skipped the wreckage until he and Tony Stewart tangled on Lap 71. Credit: Autostock

Nextel All-Star Challenge Unofficial Results Pos. Driver Make 1. Jimmie Johnson Chevy 2. Kevin Harvick Chevy 3. Jeff Gordon Chevy 4. Carl Edwards Ford 5. Ryan Newman Dodge 6. Bobby Labonte Dodge 7. Dale Jarrett Ford 8. Kyle Petty Dodge 9. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevy 10. Scott Riggs Dodge • Complete results, click here Victory LaneJimmie Johnson celebrates his All-Star Challenge win Final lapsJimmie Johnson holds off the field down the stretch Segment twoMichael Waltrip spins and slams the wall in segment two Multi-car wreckKahne and Martin slam each other and take out multiple cars Wreck reactionDrivers review the seven-car pile-up in the second segment In the wallTony Stewart and Matt Kenseth tangle in the final segment Sign up for TrackPass now BUY THE NEXTEL i836

It touched one team a lot harder than most.

Kasey Kahne, leading the race and running side-by-side with Mark Martin on a restart, slipped up into Martin and put both of them in the wall, triggering a crash more reminiscent of Talladega than Lowe's Motor Speedway.

By the time the smoke cleared, five of the leading cars were out of the race for good and three more seriously damaged.

Martin, Greg Biffle and Matt Kenseth -- Roush Racing's cream of the crop -- all took damage in the crash, with Biffle and Martin finished for the night and Kenseth battered but still running.

Kahne, first-segment winner Kyle Busch and Jeremy Mayfield were also eliminated in the crash. Tony Stewart sustained damage, taking a hard shot from Mayfield in the left side, just behind the front wheel and tearing the bumper cover off as he spun around.

The accident came just 10 laps after the end of the first segment on a restart for another crash involving Michael Waltrip.

Kenseth's night ended for good later against the wall. Kenseth and Stewart tangled in Turn 1 on Lap 71, hitting the wall hard and sending both to the garage, triggering some hard words between the two drivers.

One of the early candidates for heartbreak had to be Kurt Busch, who was running in the top five when the power on his Dodge went out like a Winston splashing in a glass of Miller Lite.

Scott Riggs, after a stirring victory in the Nextel Open, got the bump-and-run from Martin early in the first segment and spun without hitting anything off Turn 4. He did it again with nine laps to go in the third segment.

Martin also put a bumper on McMurray, which resulted in a flat tire for Martin's Roush Racing teammate.

As a result, the Heartbreak Award for the Nextel All-Star Challenge goes to Roush Racing. Four of the five Roush cars were eliminated in crashes, and the other one, Carl Edwards, hit the wall in the final segment.

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For Roush, the heartbreak isn't so much that he lost the chance to win $1 million. It is the fact that the repair bill for Saturday night's wreck-fest will likely total just about that much or more.

The results show that of five Roush cars in the field, only Edwards was running at the finish, and he was fourth. The others were not so lucky. Kenseth finished 11th, Biffle was 13th, Martin was 15th and McMurray 18th.

Cars of Martin and McMurray were total write-offs, and Biffle's was pretty beat up. Kenseth's wasn't as bad, but his Ford was hurt bad enough to be out of contention for a victory, a place he was flirting with.

Edwards' fourth-place Ford finished the night with a flat right side.