Talladega, Ala. • Clint Bowyer pushed teammate Jeff Burton around and around Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday.

With the checkered flag in sight, he bailed.

Bowyer pulled around Burton as they closed in on the finish line, grabbing his first win of the season while giving Richard Childress Racing its 100th victory in the Sprint Cup Series.

"I knew he was going to make a move," Burton said. "He was supposed to make a move. He ain't expected to push me to the win."

It was redemption for Bowyer, too. He lost the spring race here when Dale Earnhardt Jr. pushed Jimmie Johnson past the Bowyer-Burton tandem and Bowyer settled for second. At New Hampshire last month, he led late but ran out of gas in the closing laps as Tony Stewart took the victory.

Bowyer, the defending race winner, snapped a 34-race losing streak and thanked Burton from Victory Lane.

"We just were really good together. We thought about it, we talked about it a lot before the race and things really did play out just how we planned," said Bowyer, who is moving to Michael Waltrip Racing at the end of the season.

"It was a pretty calm day, to be honest, kind of methodical. We wanted to stay up front. I told him we needed to stay up front, that way when the time comes, we're ready for it and we can race the way we should race. I was trying to figure out where to pass him, and said 'I'm at least going to give a shot at it.' And I knew it was going to be a drag race." —

Sprint Cup standings

Pts. Beh.

1. C. Edwards 2237 -

2. M. Kenseth 2223 -14

3. B. Keselowski 2219 -18

4. T. Stewart 2218 -19

5. K. Harvick 2211 -26

6. Kyle Busch 2197 -40

7. J. Johnson 2187 -50

8. Kurt Busch 2185 -52

9. D. Earnhardt Jr. 2163 -74

10. J. Gordon 2155 -82

11. D. Hamlin 2153 -84

12. R. Newman 2149 -88