Johnson wound up 36th and, combined with Biffle's 14th-place finish, his bad day cost him the series lead that he had held since the fourth race of the season at Atlanta. Biffle now leads by 22 points heading into next Saturday night's race at Daytona.
Pole-sitter Paul Tracy was able to skirt around trouble and won Champ Car's Grand Prix of Cleveland on Sunday, one year after a first turn crash knocked him out.
Tracy, who hadn't won on the Burke Lakefront Airport track since 1993, finished 3.113 seconds ahead of A.J. Allmendinger, who was carried from the track on a stretcher on Saturday after a nasty wreck during qualifying.
Oriel Servia finished third, 3.913 seconds behind Tracy, who won for the 30th time in his career. It was also Tracy's second win this season and gave him the lead in the series points championship with 128, one more than two-time defending Cleveland champion Sebastien Bourdais, who finished fifth -- 13.262 seconds back.
In brutally hot conditions, Tracy made it cleanly through the course's treacherous Turn 1, where several Cleveland races have been won or lost in the past, and avoided several other trouble spots on the bumpy 3.39kmlayout.
A year ago, Tracy started on the pole but was rear-ended in the first turn and sent to the garage.
"It was tough out there," Tracy said. "I never had a chance where I could set my own pace. I was just chasing, chasing, chasing."
Tracy led the first 29 laps before going to the pits for the first time. He didn't retake the lead until the 86th lap when Alex Tagliani was forced to stop for fuel and new tires. Tagliani finished fourth.
Tracy then led the final five laps of the race, which was shortened to 91 laps from 94 to accommodate TV coverage.
Sebastien Loeb won his fifth straight World Rally Championship race, powering his Citroen Xsara to victory at the Acropolis Rally.
The Frenchman was followed by Finnish driver Toni Gardemeister in a Ford, and Spanish former world champion Carlos Sainz, also in a Citroen, in third.
Marcus Gronholm of Finland settled for fourth in his Peugeot 307 after suffering drive shaft problems Saturday.
Defending champion Loeb covered the rally's 19 special stages in 4 hours, 12 minutes, 53.7 seconds, while Gardemeister was 1:36.2 behind. Sainz finished 34.9 seconds behind Gardemeister.
Ford's Finnish driver Mikko Hirvonen and Finn Hari Rovanpera in a Mitsubishi came fifth and sixth.
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