Burton leads team sweep at Food City 500

BRISTOL, Tenn. -- Jeff Burton raced past Denny Hamlin on a two-lap sprint to the finish Sunday to give Richard Childress Racing a 1-2-3 sweep at Bristol Motor Speedway, and deny Joe Gibbs Racing a victory after its three drivers dominated the race.

Burton scored his first win at Bristol, the first win of the season for Chevrolet and led teammates Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer across the finish line in the first podium sweep in RCR history.

"We did the little things right," Burton said. "That's the sign that this team's matured. That's the sign of a team that's ready to take advantage of situations. I won't lose sleep tonight because somebody says, 'We had a faster car.'

"All I know is we've got the trophy."

In sweeping the podium, RCR stole a race that was dominated by JGR drivers Tony Stewart, Hamlin and Kyle Busch. The trio combined to lead 372 of the 506 laps, but Hamlin's sixth-place finish was the best of the group.

"It's just a shame. We had another win taken away," said Hamlin, who blamed a fuel pickup problem on the final restart as the reason the RCR cars passed him.

"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. This is so frustrating to have days like this."

Stewart led a race-high 267 laps -- 10 more than he did in this event last year -- but was overtaken by Hamlin, then made contact with Harvick and went skidding into the wall.

Stewart's accident set up the two-lap overtime sprint to the finish.