KANSAS CITY, Kansas--Dale Earnhardt, Jr. was again charge in the hope that this time he would come to battle at the top in a frantic late fuel mileage.

But leaders stretched his tank Sunday to win to extend the Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway - and Earnhardt's winless 106 race Brad Keselowski.

Keselowski led the last nine laps for his second Sprint Cup victory in 66 races and also a surprise victory at the Talladega Superspeedway in only his fifth Cup career start was the first for Penske Racing since Kurt Busch of last year in the Coca-Cola 600. Keselowski 2009.

"There are too few secrets and I all only maximized." I much [gasoline] had left, "said Keselowski."

Earnhardt set appeared to make a late charge on Keselowski. That push never came, but Earnhardt to bewegen-- third in the overall classification and is only a point behind Jimmie Johnson.

For the second week in a row in a fuel mileage race, Earnhardt was only briefly. He ran out of gas in the vicinity of the arrival in Charlotte and wound up seventh.

"Every time you win a fuel mileage race you something as a driver did," said Earnhardt. "We do not know, what we do really try to save gas or how much we save." "But [Keselowski] had a hand in it."

Denny Hamlin finished third, followed by Jeff Gordon and Carl Edwards, the a 40-point lead over Johnson holds.

Johnson fought from 31st position and finished seventh.

Pole sitter Busch led 152 round and finished ninth. He had to stop links for gas as a market leader with 10 rounds.

Brad Keselowski scores career win no. 2, his first coming in 2009 at the famous Talladega. (Getty Images) "I was all smiles." I felt the Groove again, to lead the race. It was great. "It was solid," said Bush. "It was always something in the back of my head, that we were not to win but I am proud of the fact that Brad Keselowski Act."

Keselowski won the pole position last week in Charlotte and was on a Monthlong recovery for Penske.

He seemed to live as his teammate Kurt Busch his Latin, reaches its peak at the end with his displeasure in an expletive-laden rant against the team management.

This led to behind the scenes personnel changes at Penske, including the announcement that technical Tom German team a graduate program at MIT visit leave was.

But Keselowski took also exception to a comment, the Bush made that there are some years have been, because he had a team-mate to run the same pace as he.

Since logged a third place, rode his way into the all star race and, on Sunday, Keselowski earned a profit, which give him wild card spot nab could help in the hunt for the Sprint Cup Championship.

"It's surface and the struggles that we get, that I really win this had to estimate, due to the bad" said Keselowski. "We are in good shape." "A few more WINS like this and we chase can make."

The buzz before the Sprint Cup race was on between team owner Richard Childless and Kyle Busch, on Saturday truck series race.

NASCAR said, Kyle did violate nothing against his probation Busch, as deleting the driver of a fault in the incident President Mike Helton "unacceptable". Childless, though, be further sanction of this week and had restricted its rail connections.

Kyle Busch, the 11th round, wound up 12th led after his eventful weekend.

"It was a solid day," he said. "Qualified front and ran much of the race decent." "Probably we had a seventh or it eighth place car [Sunday] and just kind of got off fuel mileage at the end."

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