Hendrick Motorsports driver and seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson scored his second consecutive win of the 2017 season at the postponed Bristol race.
It was originally set to take place on Sunday but rain forced it to be pushed back to Monday, with the grid being decided by championship standings due to the absence of qualifying.
Johnson held off Clint Bowyer in the closing stages to take victory by just one second, having featured at the front of the field for a large chunk of the race and led 81 of the 500 laps.
Behind Bowyer was his Stewart-Haas Racing team-mate Kevin Harvick, who battled with Johnson and Kyle Larson in the final part of the race after a late caution caused by Kasey Kahne.
Matt Kenseth was fourth despite featuring outside the top 10 in the first two stages, with Joey Logano fifth and Larson sixth.
Having started on pole, Larson won the opening stage and led the first 202 laps but got caught out in traffic. A pitlane speeding penalty dropped him back but he charged to sixth by the flag.
Chase Elliott was seventh, ahead of stage two winner Martin Truex Jr, who was also hit with a pitlane speeding penalty. He fell to 15th but raced back to eighth.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Denny Hamlin rounded out the top 10, while several big names suffered difficult days – including Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr., who both hit the wall, and Brad Keselowski, who suffered steering issues.
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