By Jerry Bonkowski Sometimes, quick success can make you feel infallible and bulletproof. When Kevin Harvick and Rodney Childers won the Sprint Cup championship in their first season together at Stewart-Haas Racing last season, it seemed like everything that could go right did. And given the way Harvick dominated the first 26 races this season, with two wins and 10 runner-up finishes, many thought it might be a slam dunk for Harvick and Childers to repeat again as champs in 2015. But given what the pair has experienced in the first two races of the Chase, can anyone come up with…

By Jared Turner After a wild and unpredictable finish to last weekend’s opening round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup at Chicagoland Speedway, the Sprint Cup Series heads to New Hampshire Motor Speedway this weekend with a lot on the line for a lot of drivers. In by far the most coveted position among the 16 championship-eligible drivers is Denny Hamlin, who with a win at Chicagoland punched his ticket to the next round of the Chase, formally known as the Contender Round. But with only races at New Hampshire and Dover still to be run in the Challenger Round, several…

By Jared Turner This Chase Is Going To Surprise Who really expected Denny Hamlin, not even two weeks removed from suffering a torn ACL in a game of pickup basketball, to win the opening race of the Chase for the Sprint Cup? Moreover, who expected Hamlin to win at Chicagoland after spinning on the race’s second lap, losing a lap and dropping all the way to the rear of the field? The short answer to both: Virtually no one. Yet there was Hamlin, standing in Victory Lane at the conclusion of Sunday’s race. What’s the lesson to be learned in all this?…