Reo Speedwagon sang, "Time for me to Fly" before the Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.  When the green flagged dropped, Carl Edwards took that song to heart.  Edwards started sixteenth and from the drop of the green flag, Edwards started making his move to the front.  When most cars started their green flag pit stops at lap 50, Edwards stayed on the track.  By lap fifty-seven, Edwards took the lead and led 198 of the next 206 laps.  Edwards gave up the lead for a four-tire-change and a full tank of gas sixty nine laps from the finish.  During the final laps of the race, Edward's crew chief, Bob Osborne came over the radio, first asking Edwards that they were a lap short on fuel, then seconds later saying they were four-laps short from making it to the end.  In his post race interview, Edwards said that, "he had an idea that Osborne had no clew as to how much gas Edwards had or didn't have, so he decided to take a chance and finish the race instead of coming in one last time for fuel".  While others a head of Edwards did ahve to take on fuel, Edwards kept moving along and end the end finished with his second consectutive win in the race for the Nascar Sprint Cup Series championship.  Chase leader, Jimmei Johnson started seventh in the field, but was no factor in the race as Johnson delt with handling problems most of the race, falling a lap down ans as far back as thirty-third place.  Johnson did rally lat to finish fifteenth.

2008 CHASE FOR THE SPRINT CUP: