Who’s Hot/Who’s Not in Nextel Cup: 2006 Banquet 400 at Kansas
After 400 laps at Dover, which Cup Series contenders are still hot on the trail of the championship and which ones are chilling out heading to Kansas?
After 400 laps at Dover, which Cup Series contenders are still hot on the trail of the championship and which ones are chilling out heading to Kansas?
The Chase is on and what a better way to honor it then with some useless facts? That’s right, race fans, I said useless.
As Jeff Burton pulled into victory lane on Sunday, it was hard to ignore the irony surrounding the end of his 175-race winless streak.
For the first time since November 2001, Jeff Burton took the checkered flag in a Nextel Cup race, scoring the win in Sunday’s Dover 400.
Clint Bowyer has come oh-so-close so many times, racking up four second-place results heading into the Dover 200. This time, he finally sealed the deal.
It occurred to me that with all the things there are to complain about with the Busch and Truck series, they both have one great rule: no Chase.
The Dover 400 is the 28th race on the 36-race NASCAR Nextel Cup Series schedule and the second in the Chase for the Nextel Cup.
This Week’s Question: Can the first race in the NASCAR Chase for the Championship seal a team’s fate for the next nine races?
The first Chase race has passed and there were clear winners and losers. Up next is Dover’s Monster Mile … who will slay the beast and who will be beaten?
You may finish Sunday in victory lane, but the next weekend you can go from hero to zero once the green drops. Ask Jimmie Johnson about that; he can relate.