Notebook: Dale Jr. not too happy with Eury Jr., crew (cont'd)

"The 00 [Reutimann] right-reared me at the end of the backstretch and turned me in the fence," said Biffle, who was last among the cars finishing 41st. "I guess it's payback from California, I don't know.

"I moved up a little bit to get a little air off of the 83 [Vickers] because we were side-by-side and, I don't know, he must have been splitting the difference or something. Maybe he didn't mean to do it, but those are the facts."

The car most affected was the No. 83 of Vickers. It didn't return.

More Vickers

Before Brian Vickers ended up in the garage with a 42nd-place finish, he became the first Toyota driver to lead a lap in a Nextel Cup Series race. Vickers led laps 89-91.

Vickers was making just his second start of the season in the Team Red Bull No. 83.

"Something happened to the motor early in the race and we don't really know what it was, but we had a great-handling car all day," Vickers said. "I was just trying to get to the end, get a decent finish and get some more points.

"I think that's the first time I've been wrecked on a straightaway."

With one race remaining before 2007 owner points kick in, Vickers' car stands 40th in the standings.

"We were just trying to stay out of the way there and finish as good as we can because we need the points," crew chief Doug Richert said. "The wreck was a bad break in the race, but unfortunately we also had some type of motor issue.

"We're not real sure what happened -- it started early on with a surge. What was so bad is that we would gain so much in the corners and lose so much on the straightaways. Then while we're out there trying to stay out of everybody's way, it looked to me like Reutimann tried to do a little payback to Biffle and we just got collected up with it."

Awesome Bill from Dawsonville does it again

Five-time Atlanta winner Bill Elliott didn't run in Sunday's race as originally planned, but he did come up with another victory at his "home" track.

Elliott, who had the East Turn Grandstand renamed in his honor last year, won his first Roadster race Saturday night on the Thunder Ring, the quarter-mile track on the AMS frontstretch.

Track president Ed Clark clinched his second consecutive Winter Flurry title in the Roadsters division.

Other championship winners Saturday night: Casey Roderick, Pro; Evan Swilling, Bandits; Will Prance, Young Guns; Trey Maughan, Outlaws; Billy Fulson, Semi-Pro; and Jeff Haynie, Masters.