Jeff Gordon crashes in the 2009 All-Star raceHendrick
Mototsports drivers Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon rued losing
out on a possible win in the All-Star race after both were
involved in incidents having led much of the contest between
them.  Johnson had started the event from pole and led the first
half of it, only being challenged for victory by Kurt Busch and
Gordon in the first segment. He opted for four new tyres to
start the second part of the race and lost track position to
others only going for right-side tyres.  Later, in the third
segment, after going for four new tires again at the end of the
second one, he had a brush with the wall but still finished that
20-lap stint in fifth place. However his hopes were dashed when
he spun out of Turn 1 at the start of the final 10-lap sprint.
"Fortunately I didn't hit anything and nobody ran into us,"
Johnson said about the incident. "But we lost so much track
position and at that point we just kept coming to pit road and
making changes to the car to try to