Pole sitter and three-time reigning world champion Vettel was third in a Red Bull.

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Pole sitter Brad Keselowski finished third, with hometown driver Kyle Busch in fourth and Carl Edwards fifth.

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Alonso took the lead for good with 13 laps to go and won by 10 seconds from Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen, with pole sitter Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes finishing third, just two-tenths of a second ahead of Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel.

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