Bowles-Eye View: 5 Reasons Why Johnson’s Chase for History is Chasing Away NASCAR’s Fanbase
Tony Stewart won the NASCAR race at Kansas, but much of the focus continues to revolve around the man who finished ninth.
Tony Stewart won the NASCAR race at Kansas, but much of the focus continues to revolve around the man who finished ninth.
Tony Stewart and his team elected to change two tires on the final stop to take the lead and held off a determined challenge from Jeff Gordon to win at Kansas.
The presumed two-horse race for the title seems to have now opened up to at least a handful of drivers after this weekend’s race at Kansas.
It didn’t take long for the bubble teams to find trouble at Kansas. A lap 7 spin by Paul Menard collected several cars.
Brad Keselowski was clearly the class of the rookie field on Sunday, and would have done even better if it weren’t for the bad luck in the pits.
Tony Stewart was running great late in the race on Sunday but was over seven seconds out of the lead and couldn’t make it to the end of the race on fuel.
Nine of the top-10 finishers at Kansas were chase drivers-and then there was David Reutimann.
With all apologies to 48 fans, a dominating Jimmie Johnson win just bores the snot out of me.
The Chase is terrible, the races are boring and NASCAR doesn’t care about the fans.
Richard Petty Motorsports and Yates Racing intended to merge for the 2010 Cup season and both teams would be running Fords. How about that?