August 25, 2009
New this Week
Kyle Busch, Greg Biffle Dropped Out
Matt Kenseth, Clint Bowyer |
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Gain of the Week |
Kyle Busch
Re-entered at No. 6 |
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Drop of the Week |
Matt Kenseth
Dropped out from No. 11 |
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| 1: | Jimmie Johnson | If you're looking for who the favorite is heading into the Chase, consider this: JJ has led 1,235 laps this season; Tony Stewart has led 275. | | 2: | Tony Stewart | If momentum means anything, then Smoke is slumping at the absolute wrong time. Then again, better now than in three weeks. | | 3: | Denny Hamlin | It's easy to have a quiet season when you're teammates with KyBusch. Did anyone even notice that Denny finished fifth at Bristol? | | 4: | Jeff Gordon | Don't read too much into Gordo's mediocre performance at Bristol. He was just happy to leave there not in traction. | | 5: | Mark Martin | The idea that Martin was soft in the closing laps at Bristol is absurd. Just goes to show that no matter what you do, there's always a critic. | | 6: | Kyle Busch | We're leapfrogging him to sixth because that may have been the smartest, most respectful race KyBusch has ever run. | | 7: | Brian Vickers | Did what he had to do, which is leave Bristol without taking a huge hit in the standings. Huge, HUGE weekend for B-Vick. | | 8: | Juan Pablo Montoya | Employing a points-racing strategy can't save you from blowing a tire. If JPM winds up missing the Chase, it will be because of bad luck. | | 9: | Kurt Busch | KuBusch sits at the top of the doing-more-with-less category, which is why one has to think Brad Keselowski won't be with Penske long. | | 10: | Kasey Kahne | Want to know how tight the standings are? One 28th-place finish dropped Double K from 8th to 11th in the standings. | | 11: | Greg Biffle | Weird stat of the Week: A year ago at this time, Biffle had 2,984 points, zero wins and 10 top 10s; currently, he has 2,986 points, zero wins and 11 top 10s. Guess you are what you are. | | 12: | Carl Edwards | Cuz is having a Subway kind of season: good enough to fill you up but you still know there are better options out there. | | Lucky Dog: | Marcos Ambrose | Considering it took JPM three years to finally "get" NASCAR and Dario Franchitti lasted only a few months, how talented is Ambrose? | | DNF: | Clint Bowyer | Clint can't point to Bristol where his Chase chances fell apart, but really it started way back in April when he began a nine-race stretch without a top 10. |
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