DOVER, Del. (AP) -- Jimmie Johnson dominated again at Dover International Speedway, winning the second race of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship on Sunday for his sixth victory of the season.
Johnson has owned Dover the last two years, winning for the third time in four races on the mile concrete track. He shook off a rare poor finish in last week's Chase opener at New Hampshire to take the pole, win the race and shoot up to second in the points standings.
"It's the weekend we dream of," Johnson said.
Jeff Burton was second and non-Chase driver Joey Logano was third. Chase drivers Kurt Busch and Carl Edwards were fourth and fifth.
Johnson's drive for a fifth straight championship is alive and well.
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"They're good," Burton said. "Well, they're not good, they're great."
Danny Hamlin kept his points lead with a ninth-place finish. He holds a 35-point advantage over Johnson heading into next week's race at Kansas Speedway. The points leader after Dover has never gone on to win the championship since the Chase's inception in 2004.
"A lot of people are waiting for us to slip up like we have in the past but I don't see it this time around," Hamlin said. "I think it's going to all the way to the wire."
Hamlin is a strong favorite to thwart Johnson's drive for five. Hamlin's average finish at Dover was 22.8 in nine previous races -- only Daytona at 23.1 is a more troublesome spot for the Joe Gibbs Racing contender -- so Sunday was a positive sign for his points lead over the final eight races of the season.
"We're going to take it, it was a good day for us, but legitimately we had a second-place car," Hamlin said.
