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The weekend couldn’t have gone much better for Juan Montoya and his #42 Target team. Sure he could have won the race, and he had a shot too had he bumped, race winner Mark Martin out of the way. However he did win the pole, lead the most laps, and raised himself six places in points in the first week of the NASCAR playoffs. Not a bad way to start his first ever chase for the Championship.

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It seems as if Dale Earnhardt Jr. has lost something. It seems that just a few years ago Dale Jr. was the up and coming NASCAR driver that was set to dominate the Sprint Cup series for years to come. Then the bottom fell out at DEI, and Junior was forced to join the most successful team in NASCAR history. Many thought that driving Hendrick equipment he would once again dominate the Sprint Cup series. Apparently Junior has lost his passion, or his will to win. Since joining Hendrick Motor Sports more than a season and a half ago, Dale Junior has only been able to win one race.

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About the last thing, any employee of Roush Fenway racing can do is lose. Team co-owner Jack Roush just won’t stand for it. Anytime one of his team’s goes on a long winless drought changes are made. Generally speaking guys are not fired, but Roush is quick to shake up his teams when they do not meet expectations.

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Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth have one two things in common, they both won multiple 2009 Sprint Cup races, and they both failed to qualify for this year’s chase. Since there are four drivers; Car Edwards, Greg Biffle, Ryan Newman, and Juan Montoya all made the chase without winning a single race, the question must be asked, should a team with multiple regular season wins earn an automatic Chase birth?

Let the debate begin.

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RCR may have a seat to fill, and may need to secure some additional sponsorship for its #07 team in 2010. Current Sponsor Jack Daniel’s wants to come back, but as a part time sponsor. To securee them coming back RCR will have to improve that team’s performance.

The current driver of the #07 car is Casey Mears. He sits 21st in the standings having only scored 2 top ten finishes in 2009. At this point in 2008 the #07 car with driver Clint Bowyer was 13th in the points, having scored a win, 4 top 5’s and 10 top 10 finishes. This is a team moving in the wrong direction.

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When Mike Bliss got out of his car at Iowa he was sitting sixth in the Nationwide Series Drivers standings, had won a race in 2009, had 4 top ten’s and 10 top ten finishes, and had won nearly 700,000 dollars in purse money. In a lot of ways this was his best season in the Nationwide series, but then the phone rang and owner James Finch let him know his services would no longer be needed.

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Let’s be honest here, each and every one of us NASCAR junkies complains about the racing at Pocono. It gets too spread out, it often comes down to a fuel mileage strategy, and we have all used these arguments either with ourselves or with our friends.

While the racing at Pocono isn’t always the best, and it does tend to get strung out a lot We must collectively admit to ourselves that this last race, run Monday afternoon was one of the most exciting Pocono races ever.

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Kyle Busch and the officials over at Joe Gibbs racing have a lot to be concerned with right now. With six races left until the chase begins Kyle sits 14th in the points, 82 markers behind 12th place and the last spot in this year’s chase for the championship.

While Kyle is certainly capable of making those points up, but the upcoming tracks have not exactly been all that kind to Kyle. His best chances at scoring maximum points will be at Watkins Glen, Bristol Motor Speedway, and Atlanta Motor Speedway. For the other races Kyle must insure he does not lose further ground.

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It is not news that the Ford’s in NASCAR have so far underperformed not only in the Sprint Cup series, but arguably in the Nationwide series as well. While Ford went out and won the first two races of the 2009 season they have, as of yet, failed to return to victory lane. That should be a large concern but rolling out a new engine program during the race to the chase and the chase itself doesn’t seem to be that great of an idea.

The team owners that run Ford’s are now up against getting teams into the chase, and running well in the chase all the while the ban on testing limits the testing options available to these teams.

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Instead of focusing on the never ending Soap Opera that the Jeremy Mayfield situation has become, instead of focusing on the tries, or who will be where let’s take some time today to talk about the racing. In all honesty it seems the NASCAR media as a whole has been hijacked this year, and instead of focusing on the great racing, we have become tabloid journalist.

For today let us focus on the racing, the one thing all NASCAR fans love.

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