He’s one of four drivers in contention to win the Sprint Cup, and a few feel his experience could give him an edge in winning his first title since 2001.
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Buescher needed to finish 13th or better without leading a lap to win the championship in Homestead.
Gordon, awaiting his time at the podium, yelled from the back of the room: “I was shocked!” “Am I still going to be eligible for (the Chase)?”
“I wouldn’t say that I could have (imagined the moment)”, Busch said during the Chase media day on Thursday.
When the first multiyear blanket contract was signed with TV executives to the tune of $2.4 billion before the 2001 season, it was the presence of an accomplished young Gordon, as comfortable on the David Letterman Show as he was in the cockpit, who helped drive the deal as much as seven-time champ Earnhardt.
If anything, the disadvantage for Truex on a single-car, Denver-based team may come on race day. “I mean, never anything about money, just, he’s just special”. “Not quite fast enough”, said Logano of just missing out on pole.
Joey Logano, who was eliminated from the Chase last Sunday will start second.
“Life is short. This is a drop in the bucket”. “Hopefully, I have a long career in this and I can be doing this for a while”.
Not that this dulled his eagerness to round of 2015 with one final win. “You’ll know if you’re ahead of them, and that’s where you’ll want to be”. “We were pre-planning for sure”. A dynamic track map keeps viewers aware of Championship 4 driver positions and changes throughout the field, while a pane of race facts and figures illustrates live point differentials and key shifts in the race.
“Well, it’s not bad”.
“We had good meetings, I think we’re all in a good place right now”, Gibbs said. “Unfortunately, it wasn’t a tick better”.
“That’s insane”, he said of the possibility of ending his career as champion. “I just totally messed up”. And tire fall off from new to old tires is so dramatic that comparing practice times is meaningless.
“Yeah, I mean, things are good”. By winning at Martinsville to put us in this, that was just incredible. Plus, Truex has only one top-five finish in the Chase. “That’s awesome. I’m really proud of that”.
The Final Four: Martin Truex Jr. For us, it’s more about personal goals and wanting to prove people wrong and just go out there and really just do a great job…. “That’s all you can ask for besides getting the pole”. NASCAR banned collusion among teammate drivers – a 2013 controversy at Richmond indirectly snared Truex and led to him losing his ride – but a winner-takes-all race likely favors the big boys.
It’s all about the possibility of a fairy tale finish to one of the greatest racing careers ever. I didn’t run a good line on the last run.
Since when does Harvick care what others think?
Matt Kenseth, who is making his first start since coming off his two race suspension, will start the race in 19th position after a time of 30.820 seconds in the second qualifying round. “It will always be if we start the race, we expect that we’ve got a shot to get the full race in, and then you never know what happens radar-wise or popup showers, but that’s the intent”. “We didn’t fall into it. We’ve run well all year”. I think he was ready. “You look at Martin and everything that those guys have done with what they’ve got in Colorado and here they are, and you look at Kyle breaking his leg and fighting back, and Jeff who’s going to retire and run the last race, there’s really no reason to create a story”. The 10-lap average is considered the best judge of race readiness. He hadn’t even practiced a qualifying run because light rain arrived earlier than expected. “I think our balance was, too”.
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“It’s still going to be a hell of a battle”.
