Jimmie Johnson does a victory spin in the infield after winning Saturday's NASCAR Nextel All-Star Challenge in Concord, N.C. Photo by The Associated Press.

CONCORD, N.C. -- There's a very clear reason why Jimmie Johnson considers Lowe's Motor Speedway his own personal playground: He owns the track.

Johnson won the Nextel All-Star Challenge and its $1 million prize Saturday night, his seventh victory at the suburban Charlotte track.

"Good job driver! Good job!" crew chief Chad Knaus radioed. "This is your house!"

Indeed it is.

Johnson, who also won the All-Star race in 2003, has won three-straight Coca-Cola 600s and will try to make it four in a row next Sunday night. He's also won the past four points races at Lowe's.

"When the money's on the line, this race team steps up and we get it done," Johnson said.

This one capped a lucrative week for Johnson, the Nextel Cup points leader, who signed a three-year contract extension that keeps him at Hendrick Motorsports through 2010. That's bad news for the competition, especially when Johnson is racing at Lowe's.

"He's just really, very comfortable here and Chad really pays attention to detail," said teammate Jeff Gordon, who finished third. "That's just a deadly combination to try to beat. That's what we are all chasing right now."

Kevin Harvick, who won the second segment of the event, took only two tires on the final pit stops while everyone else took four. It was a risky gamble, and Johnson wasted no time passing him for the lead when the final 20-lap sprint began.

Johnson then pulled away and Harvick finished a whopping 1.729 seconds behind. Gordon was third, Carl Edwards was fourth and Ryan Newman was fifth. Bobby Labonte, Dale Jarrett, fan-vote winner Kyle Petty and Dale Earnhardt Jr. were the only other drivers to finish on the lead lap.

Scott Riggs, who raced his way into the event by winning the preliminary race hours earlier, finished one lap down in 10th. He was the last car to finish the race, as the other 10 drivers were knocked out of the race.

Seven good cars were eliminated on a crash during a restart in the second segment. Kasey Kahne and Mark Martin were side-by-side at the front of the pack when Kahne seemed to lose control of his Dodge coming out of the second turn and wiggled directly into Martin's driver side.

The two cars bumped and banged for a few feet, then slid into the wall.

"We got to the front there and I just was trying to race with Mark and just lost grip," Kahne said. "It's tough, there's not a lot of grip out there. Next thing I knew I was backwards, and that's not good when you are in front like that."

Las Vegas native Kyle Busch, Jeremy Mayfield, Jamie McMurray and Greg Biffle couldn't avoid the carnage. Stewart did slide through, only to get hit by Mayfield's careening car.

Irritated with the wreckage, Stewart drove by Mayfield and revved his engine in anger as he passed. Mayfield then stopped by to assure Stewart he wasn't at fault.

"I just told him I didn't have nothing to do with it," Mayfield said. "We're cool."

Although Stewart returned to the track, his night ended early in the final 20-lap sprint when he ran into Matt Kenseth to send them both into the wall.

Busch, who won the first segment of the race, ended up 16th, and brother Kurt Busch was 20th, his day over after a blown engine in the first segment.

• CHAMP CAR -- At Monterrey, Mexico, Sebastian Bourdais broke his own course record, finishing his best lap in 1 minute, 13.253 seconds at an average speed of 103.401 mph to capture the pole for the Monterrey Grand Prix.

It will be the fourth straight year Bourdais has started first in the 76-lap event.

His time was 0.279 seconds faster than Justin Wilson, who took the provisional pole Friday.

• NHRA -- At Kirkersville, Ohio, two-time defending series champion Tony Schumacher led Top Fuel qualifying for the fifth time in eight events with a 4.476-second pass at 331.53 mph in the Pontiac Performance NHRA Nationals.

Robert Hight (Funny Car), Chip Ellis (Pro Stock Motorcycle) and Allen Johnson (Pro Stock) led their divisions.

• AMA SUPERBIKE -- At Sonoma, Calif., Ben Spies raced to his fifth straight AMA Superbike victory at Infineon Raceway, beating Suzuki teammate Mat Mladin by 6.989 seconds in the first leg of the Kawasaki AMA Superbike Showdown doubleheader.