LONG POND — Jimmie Johnson wasn’t perfect Sunday. But he nearly was in winning the Party In The Poconos 400 at Pocono Raceway.

Johnson led 128 of the NASCAR Sprint Cup race’s 160 laps and beat runner-up Greg Biffle by 1.2 seconds. In doing so, Johnson padded his lead in the Cup standings to 51 points over Carl Edwards, who started alongside Johnson on the front row but finished 18th.

Here’s how good Johnson was, statistically speaking: he had a driver’s rating of 148.1 (out of a possible 150) and his average position was 1.2.

“Jimmie was in a league of his own,” said Biffle.

Johnson’s Hendrick Motorsports teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. was third, followed by two Stewart-Haas Racing drivers in fourth and fifth - Tony Stewart and Ryan Newman.

If there was any question about Johnson winning, it was in how he would manage five restarts during the onslaught of yellow flags that cropped up in the final 34 laps.

“(It was) a great race car, clearly,” said Johnson, who won for the 63rd time in his career. “That car had a ton of speed in it.”

It was Johnson’s third victory at Pocono, but his first since sweeping both races at the track in 2004.