Jimmy Johnson led the final 45 laps of the event after a call by crew chief Chad Knaus to short-pit for tires with 49 to go, but had to survive an overtime restart after a blown tire sent Ryan Newman spinning with two laps to go in the scheduled distance.

Former track champion Dean Catlin and his wife Donna have purchased the Cortland, New York-based facility from Frank and Audrey Payne, who had operated the 3/8-mile clay oval for 28 years; Catlin won the local pure stock title there in 1996.