Luck hasn’t really been on Jimmie Johnson’s side at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Now would be a good time to rethink that.

In a race where Goodyear’s tire could not endure hardly any amount of laps in this year’s Allstate 400 at The Brickyard, Johnson beat the bad luck haunting on Sunday when he pulled off a first place finish in front of Carl Edwards concluding a seven lap shootout to the checkered.

"Every lap. Every lap I was concerned about it. Every corner, for that matter," Johnson said of the tire issues. "As a group, we all knew we couldn't push the envelope. I knew at the end, a seven-lap shootout, I could blast it off in there and I'd be OK."

"I was worried the stop before that maybe we had to go two less to win this thing," Johnson said.

Second place finisher, Edwards, did not hesitate to say that it was a long race and noted that everyone tried their best to put on a good show.

"That's a long day. I know everybody's trying to do their best," Edwards said. "I just, personally, (want) to say to the fans, everybody's doing their best to make that race, at least we got to run at the end."

Rounding out the Top-5 of the caution filled day were Denny Hamlin, Elliott Sadler and Jeff Gordon.