Chase For the NASCAR Sprint Cup Predictions

By Jared Turner CHASE GRID PREDICTIONS CHALLENGER Jimmie Johnson: Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet Kyle Busch: Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota Matt Kenseth: Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota Joey Logano: Team Penske, Ford Kevin Harvick: Stewart-Haas Racing, Chevrolet Dale Earnhardt Jr.: Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet Kurt Busch: Stewart-Haas Racing, Chevrolet Carl Edwards: Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota Brad Keselowski: Team Penske, Ford Martin Truex Jr.: Furniture Row Racing, Chevrolet Denny Hamlin: Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota Jamie McMurray: Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, Chevrolet Jeff Gordon: Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet Ryan Newman: Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet Paul Menard: Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet Clint Bowyer: Michael Waltrip Racing, Toyota  …

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The Chase Is Finally Here After Much Anticipation

  By Jerry Bonkowski After 26 races full of anticipation and build up, the 12th edition of NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup is here. When the green flag drops on the MyAFibRisk.com 400 at Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday afternoon, 16 drivers will begin their quest to potentially win NASCAR’s most celebrated championship. Only one will emerge from the season-ending and championship-deciding race at Homestead-Miami Speedway 10 weeks from now with the ultimate victory. Along the way, there will be excitement aplenty, as well as drama, anger and even angst as NASCAR fans watch the field get pared to 12, 8 and…

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Richmond Preview: Some Will Play It Safe, Others Need To Win

By Jared Turner The regular-season finale at Richmond International Raceway typically offers a lot of suspense as it’s the race where the 16-driver Chase for the Sprint Cup field is locked in. But, barring an unforeseen set of circumstances, Saturday night’s Federated Auto Parts 400 at RIR is going to be little more than a formality in terms of its impact on setting the championship field. With 25 of 26 regular-season races in the books, the only current Chase driver in any real danger of falling out is 16th-place Clint Bowyer. But with a healthy 29-point buffer on Aric Almirola, his closest…

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Breaking Down the Chase Picture Before Richmond

By Jerry Bonkowski It’s come down to this: win and you’re in. Anything less and you’re done. That’s the scenario for Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway, the final qualifying race for the Chase for the Sprint Cup. Fourteen drivers are left with one last chance to make the Chase: Aric Almirola, Kasey Kahne, Greg Biffle, Kyle Larson, Austin Dillon, AJ Allmendinger, Casey Mears, Danica Patrick, Tony Stewart, David Ragan, Sam Hornish Jr., Trevor Bayne, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Justin Allgaier. Given the hard-luck season most of them have had in 2015, it’s hard to envision them winning in the season’s most…

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5 Lessons Learned: The Chase Is All But Settled

By Jared Turner Joe Gibbs Racing Is Still The Team To Beat Just when you thought Joe Gibbs Racing couldn’t be any more dominant, think again. With Carl Edwards win in the Bojangles’ Southern 500, a JGR driver has now gone to Victory Lane in seven of the past 10 races. At Darlington, JGR drivers accounted for three of the top seven finishing positions, with Denny Hamlin (third) and Kyle Busch (seventh) joining race winner Edwards in the top 10. So can the JGR juggernaut be stopped? Don’t count on it happening this weekend at Richmond, a track where Hamlin and Busch…

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