2009 NASCAR Driver Review: Jeff Gordon
Undoubtedly, most people will decide Jeff Gordon’s spring win at Texas Motor Speedway will be marked as the highlight of his 2009 season.
Undoubtedly, most people will decide Jeff Gordon’s spring win at Texas Motor Speedway will be marked as the highlight of his 2009 season.
Coming into the 2009 season, Kurt Busch and the No. 2 team looked to put their abysmal performance from 2008 behind them to start fresh. The team did just that.
The high point in 2009 for Denny Hamlin was his emotional hometown victory at Richmond International Raceway in the final race before the Chase.
What Tony Stewart delivered was a legitimate title run, leading the standings from late May until the start of the Chase in September.
All the teams compete to make the Chase, something Greg Biffle and the Roush No. 16 outfit accomplished by the skins of their teeth.
Following a ghastly opening month to the season, Ryan Newman and the No. 39 SHR team went on a tear from late March through early June.
Making the Chase has to go down as Juan Pablo Montoya’s highlight of the year.
It looks as if the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is in the hands of some up and coming drivers who have the potential to do great things.
Despite a shaky fall, the Brian Vickers train is still on track and steaming along nicely.
Unfortunately, the only high points of 2009 were Carl Edwards’s never-ending optimism and the amount of air between his car and the track at Talladega.