While he gets a chance to defend his title at Homestead-Miami Speedway, he would have liked the opportunity to race for the victory at Phoenix, where he had been out front for 143 of 219 laps.
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There are no bonus points based on overall laps led or leading the most laps in the final race. Earnhardt caught a break.
Earnhardt was trying to stave off elimination with a win, but when Harvick refused to cede position as his engine failed, he triggered a race-ending accident that bounced NASCAR’s most popular driver from the playoffs.
“You don’t know if there’s another restart if we’re going to win”, Logano said. “When I set out into this season and made the announcement that I made, I just hoped that this could possibly happen, and it is, and now it’s not enough for us just to go down there and be a part of it”.
The start of the race was delayed six-and-a-half hours due to rain in the region.
“I’ve got none”, Kyle Busch said.
Kurt Busch will also miss the Chase finale. He sounded happy to get his third win of 2015, and finishing in the Top 5 in 16 races, but couldn’t mask the disappointment of not being able to contend for his first ever Sprint-Cup title. Truex beat Edwards by five points, but that’s just five positions on the track.
It’s all just spilt milk to cry over now.
Those are four great drivers that have nothing to be ashamed of.
Today’s penultimate NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race of the season was supposed to start at 12:41 PM local time.
Busch finished fourth and will be driving the lone Toyota in the final four – the other three cars in contention are Chevrolets. “I want to go race”.
Kyle Busch has a chance to toss a history of Chase underperforming aside.
Reigning series champion Kevin Harvick is really no surprise as his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing team has been the one of the best in the sport for two consecutive seasons. Were in the bills and things to do this to come competitive days we need.
Obstacles-large ones-and odds-long ones-define the process.
The four finalists enter the Ford EcoBoost 400, well, Ford-less.
When Harvick did win Dover, and damaged his auto during the celebration, his competitors cried foul and said he did it on objective to prevent NASCAR from conducting a thorough post-race inspection. The driver with the highest finish among the four Chase contenders will be declared the champion.
AVONDALE, Ariz. – Rain affecting a Sprint Cup Series race in Phoenix. It messed everything up. Logano should have won that day to earn his spot in the finale. Harvick admitted it was “kind of bittersweet”, but he can still “chase”.
He returned with a vengeance, and, after being granted a waiver by NASCAR that allowed him to be eligible despite not competing in every race, won four of five races during one stretch.
“You can’t help the weather”, Logano shrugged.
NOTABLE: How close was it when the rain came?
Back in 1998, Wallace in all likelihood would not have won the Phoenix race had it not been shortened. Seven drivers have won at least one. But Kenseth wouldn’t have it and deliberately crashed him, an act that led to a two-race suspension. Keselowski succumbed to Johnson’s victory at Texas, where Keselowski led 93 percent of the laps.
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He’s right. The entire format of the Chase isn’t fair.
