| BRISTOL, Tenn. -- The battle came down to two drivers desperately needing a win -- and Jeff Gordon was the one who took the trophy.
Gordon won the Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway for his first win since Sept. 2001 -- a span of 31 races.
With the less than three laps remaining on the .533-mile, high banked oval, Gordon's Chevrolet bumped Rusty Wallace's Ford going into Turn 3, moving past Wallace to take the lead.
Gordon, who won from the Bud Pole, dominated the early going of the race and led 235 of the 500 laps.
The move was reminiscent of 1997, when Gordon did the same thing to Wallace in the spring Bristol event. This was Gordon's fifth victory at Bristol, but his first in the night event.
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