“It’s quite a bit different than what we’re up against”.
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Born in California, Gordon and his family moved to in when it became apparent he was a special talent.
In the final round the four drivers remaining race for the best finish at NASCAR’s finale at Homestead in Miami.
As the Miami Herald noted, Sunday’s race is not just about Jeff Gordon celebrating his storied career.
“Man, you just hate to have weather days like that on a big race weekend like that, especially one that is going to determine a championship”, said Rodney Childers, who will serve as crew chief for driver Kevin Harvick as he vies for his second consecutive Sprint Cup Series crown. Next season Truex and FRR will switch from Chevy to Toyota, so Hansen thinks there could be a few help from the Toyota drivers who’d love to have a championship-winning driver in their vehicle for next year.
Pollex, who is in South Florida to support Truex in his quest to win his first Sprint Cup title, has three more treatments, the last scheduled for February, right before the next NASCAR season opens with the Daytona 500.
Gordon, awaiting his time at the podium, yelled from the back of the room: “I was shocked!” That first run without making a qualifying run in practice, I just didn’t know how hard I could push it. It cost me that first run.
“Is it disappointing we aren’t racing with these guys for the championship?”
Storyline: Only driver for small Furniture Row Racing, based in Colorado. This year, those emotions boiled over, when Matt Kenseth intentionally wrecked Logano at Martinsville Speedway in retaliation for Logano’s bump-and-run on him a couple of weeks earlier at Kansas.
“Qualifying position doesn’t matter much here”, Busch said after Friday’s time trials. I mean, this is the only thing that matters.
“Right now I’m not even thinking or fathoming that”. Of course it is, ” Logano said. “You have Hendrick with four cars, you have Stewart-Haas, who is a satellite team of Hendrick, with four cars, and you have Gibbs, who has four cars”.
Sports’ Jeff Gluck breaks down the NASCAR season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Any sort of weather delays would be a disappointment, particularly after last weekend’s final elimination race at Phoenix. The race was delayed seven hours by rain, then called 93 laps from the finish when another storm rolled in.
Steve O’Donnell, vice president of operations, said NASCAR wants to run the finale to the checkered flag. “We can’t compare what we’ve done at other races. If we were going into a non-championship race, I’d have the same answer because it’s just depends on what’s happening”.
After finishing second in the final 1996 rankings, Gordon reclaimed the championship after a 17th-place finish at Atlanta on November 16, 1997. He’s sparred with Jimmie Johnson and absorbed the slings from critics who accused him of holding up a race to preserve his playoff spot.
“I thought 11th was a decent effort”, said Truex. “I messed up”, Gordon said afterwards, “We didn’t get to make a mock qualifying run in practice and I didn’t know what line to run”. “I’ve learned not to worry about those, not let those bad weekends that happened to me that I can’t do anything about bother me and make me lose sleep over”.
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Since announcing his retirement before this season, Gordon has been heaped with praise, honored with tribute after tribute and lavished with such outrageous gifts as a tour bus, streets named after him and even ponies for his two children. The only reason they didn’t like him is because he won too much.
