The #31 pit crew of Robby 𒁏Gordon squeaked by Dale Earnhardt Jr's line-up to capture the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by POWERade in Sunday's 500-mile꧃ Nextel Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

While Gordon's crew grabbed the $20,000 weekly prize, former champion Tony Stewart's team moved into first place overall with 154 points on the season, taking over from Elliott Sadler. Kurt Busch's crew now sta🧔nds second, one point behind at 153. Earnhardt's crew, the reigning McDonald's/POWERade champion, is third with 148 points, while Sadler's crew dropped to fourth with 143.

Though Earnhardt's #8 Chevrolet eventually found its way to winner's circle in Atlanta, it was Gordon's Cingula💎r Wireless Chevy that spent the least amount of time on pit-road. Gordon's accumulated pit time of 281.691secs was just over a second quicker than Earnhardt's 282.864secs. Jeff Burton's Ford was third at 284.833secs.

"Thᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe guys work hard at the shop and at the track," said Chris Andrews, crew chief for the #31 Cingular Wireless Chevrolet, "Between working on cars, spending time in the gym and at pit-stop practice, they've managed to bang out 13 to 14-second, and sometimes even twelve-second stops every weekend.

"We made seven stops Sunday and gained track position every time we came down pit-lane. Our over-the-wall crew is a competitive group of guys, andꩲ I don't think this will be the last time I will be asked to comment about their performance this year for the McDonald's/POWERade championship."

Gordon's crew consists of front-tyre team Ira-Jo Hussey and Kevin Nervegna, Timmy Ladyga and Matt Kreuter on the rear tyres, gasman Ron Liddell, jackman Mike Moore and Coy Hedrick on the c🦩atch can.