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Sunday's Auto Club 400 at the Auto Club Speedway was a race to forget for Jeff Gordon. Gordon's DuPont Chevrolet looked to be one of the contenders for the win in the first half of the race as Gordon had spent the majority of it in the top five. Unfortunately, things got bad in a hurry for the 24 car. While leaving his pits during a scheduled green flag pit stop on lap 107, Gordon's fuel man was dragged out of the pit box with his fuel can forcing Gordon to serve a stop and go penalty. The day ended up being even more frustrating as Gordon's crew again cost their driver in the pits with a tire violation during the race's only caution flag. Gordon had no chance to make up for the miscues as rain came and eventually forced NASCAR to call the event short of the scheduled distance. The DuPont Chevrolet was scored as finishing 26th, the last car on the lead lap.
Number/Driver, Lap, Infraction, Penalty
#32 Ken Schrader, Pre-Race to the rear, tail end, transmission change
#78 Regan Smith, 33, Speed-Exiting pits, pass thru
#1 Jamie McMurray, 65, Lug nut(s) not installed, pit
#20 Joey Logano, 67, Speed-Entering pits, pass thru
#47 Bobby Labonte, 68, Speed-Exiting pits, pass thru
#2 Brad Keselowski 101, Speed-Entering pits, pass thru
#49 J.J. Yeley, 103, Speed-Entering pits, pass thru
#24 Jeff Gordon, 107, Removing equipment from assigned pit area, stop and go
#17 Matt Kenseth, 125, Outside half of the pit box tire violation/Team member not in contact with the outside tires, tail end
#24 Jeff Gordon, 126, Tire violation-Removing outside tire acceptable/Rolling a tire(s) beyond the center of pit road