2010 NASCAR Driver Review: Kasey Kahne
Despite the 10 top-10 finishes, getting out of Richard Petty Motorsports may have been the high point of Kasey Kahne’s season.
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Despite the 10 top-10 finishes, getting out of Richard Petty Motorsports may have been the high point of Kasey Kahne’s season.
That second place at Sonoma was a high point. Robby Gordon used a combination of pit strategy and road-course savvy to work his way up front.
Is a contract extension the right thing to do for both sides in light of Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s recent performance?
Team owner Rick Hendrick is still looking to make Dale Earnhardt Jr. a contender again and has pulled out all the stops this time.
Bill Elliott and the Wood Brothers’ second year running a part-time schedule was an up-and-down one.
Sam Hornish Jr. came within a thundercloud of winning the June Pocono race when rain started falling and crew chief Travis Geisler left the team out.
In the only race he competed for TRG Motorsports in 2010, Mike Bliss piloted the No. 71 TaxSlayer.com Chevrolet to a ninth-place finish at in Daytona in July.
Marcos Ambrose was strong on the road courses, as he always is. He looked to have a victory chance at Watkins Glen, but the last set of tires did not perform.
The lowest point for Dave Blaney came as he left PRISM Motorsports after completing only a single race and failing to qualify for six including the biggest.
Although his best finish of the season came at The Glen, where he started and finished fourth, AJ Allmendinger’s best race took place at Dover in September.