For the 25-year-old Team Penske racer, the negative comments and beer can shower he received on Sunday constitute a badge of honor.
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“We don’t see anything there that is suspect so far”, NASCAR vice chairman Mike Helton said.
Nothing suggests Jeff Gordon is on the cusp of a fifth Sprint Cup championship in this his final season before retirement. Runner-up Jeff Gordon paced the most laps, 130…
“You gotta be kidding me”.
“I will always love the sport, so I am hoping that the decisions that have been made will be beneficial to racers as well as the great fans that watch our sport”, said Dunn, son of veteran competitor Jim Dunn.
Yes, Joey Logano, has arrived. “(He) knew he was blowing up and told everybody he was going to stay in his lane”, Kenseth said. A controversial ending has left many upset at NASCAR and now things are about to reach a boiling point as the third round of The Chase begins with this week begins with the Goody’s 500 at Martinsville this week. Dale Earnhardt Jr. goes for his second straight fall win at “The Paperclip”. After observing the driver’s “raw potential and talent”, Keselowski became an advocate for Logano’s hiring. “You can’t roll over and be done with it and say, ‘We tried our best, ‘” Harvick said. But I think if we can run strong at Martinsville, and we run strong at Texas, we make it through this round, I think people will think different. He’s a good person.
Past year: Erica Enders won to regain the Pro Stock lead en route to the season title.
Denny Hamlin echoed the sentiments of his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate. Kevin Harvick, Jeff Gordon and Joey Logano are in in the Chase at 6/1.
Logano won for a series-best sixth time this season adding to wins the previous two weeks on the 1 1/2-mile tracks of Charlotte and Kansas.
“We’re carrying a lot of confidence and momentum and pride right now knowing that we’ve had to grind it out just to get ourselves in the Chase”, Gordon said.
“I can’t imagine it”, he said. “That’s why I haven’t allowed myself to really go there”.
“Harvick is a really good driver”, Bayne said. Post-race fireworks ensued on pit road. I think that whole thing was very cloudy. “We’ve shown that we know how to do it. We just got to keep going out there and do what we know how to do”. In the second round, when the pole is awarded, Kyle Busch was fastest at 99.674.
Busch thinks Logano, who swept all three races in the Contender Round, might have reason to look over his shoulder in the next few weeks. “Now he’s going to have to worry about that all the way to Homestead”.
Martinsville needs no introduction – it is a short, unforgiving track that makes predicting results a very hard proposition.
Is revenge on Kenseth’s mind?
“Don’t hate the player, hate the game”, said Busch, who felt he might have been punished by NASCAR if he had done the same thing but Harvick got by based on his status as champion.
Traditionally, Logano has not been strong at the final four tracks.
Event: O’Reilly Auto Parts Challenge, Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, Texas, Saturday, November 7, 3:30 p.m., NBC. Of the cluster, the No. 88 has the best average track finish and is the only one of the group with a win.
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Junior was making a move on Joey Logano’s vehicle when the caution came out, ending the race. Last season, Dale Earnhardt Jr. played spoiler at Martinsville by denying the eight remaining Chase drivers a win; Hamlin and Johnson are in the same position this week. He’s keeping the blinders on through the season finale. “Our team has won there twice in the last two years so I am confident in the weekend being successful”. That was definitely the beginning point of what happened. “We’ve not been the dominant cars and team”. I don’t consider too many of ’em my friends, because we get in situations like this. “On one hand, I’m excited and confident; and on the other hand, I know we’ve got to work our butts off to make it happen”. You have to stay focused in on the ultimate goal, which is hoisting the trophy in Homestead.
