Denny Hamlin’s once-comfortable lead in the Sprint Cup Chase has evaporated into nothingness. After Greg Biffle and Jimmie Johnson’s 1-2 finish at the Price Chopper 400, the third race in the Chase, Hamlin finds himself in unfamiliar territory – looking up at the points leader.
Hamlin finished a respectable 12th. But ‘respectable’ doesn’t win championships. Winning wins championships. And when seven of your eleven Sprint Cup Chase competitors take the top seven spots in a race, 12th will cost you severely.
Biffle’s convincing victory moved him up to within striking distance of the front runners at 85 points behind the new
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Junior’s Bad Day
October 6th, 2009 - by Ronald A. Rowe | NASCAR, Racing News
It looked like it was going to be a good day for Dale Earnhardt, Jr. He started in the front row and held the lead for 41 laps of the Price Chopper 400 on Sunday, until a loose lug nut turned into a monkey wrench for the number 88 car. As Junior pulled away from a routine pit stop, the NASCAR official in the pit pointed emphatically to the tire left behind in pit row. The crew had not reattached one of the lug nuts on the left rear tire. In short order, the
