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Sunday’s Pure Michigan 400 gives four competitors the opportunity to clinch a top-10 spot in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup™. The current top four in NASCAR Sprint Cup standings – Jimmie Johnson, Greg Biffle, Matt Kenseth and Dale Earnhardt Jr. – can lock themselves into the post season by leaving Michigan with a lead of at least 145 points over the 11th-place driver with three races remaining in the Race to the Chase. Biffle, who trails Johnson by a single point, is the only one of the four failing to make the Chase a year ago.

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A third-place finish at Watkins Glen International has placed Jimmie Johnson in the championship lead for the ninth consecutive season, marking the longest streak since the current position-based points structure went into effect in 1975.

Johnson was 37th in the standings following a 42nd-place finish in February’s Daytona 500. He last led the points nearly one year ago following the Sept. 6 Advocare 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Johnson, Tony Stewart and Brad Keselowski remain the top contenders for the No. 1 seed for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup™. Each has three victories worth nine bonus points that would be added to a base of 2,000 points when the standings are reset following the Sept. 8 Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond International Raceway.

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Marcos Ambrose notches Watkins Glen repeat in wild finish

Aug. 12, 2012

VIDEO: SEE THE EXCITING FINISH

By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — On a track too greasy to provide traction, Marcos Ambrose surged from third to first on the final lap of Sunday’s Finger Lakes 355 at Watkins Glen International and won the race in a slugfest with runner-up Brad Keselowski.

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RACE RECAP | WATKINS GLEN
10 Martin Truex Jr.
9 Regan Smith
8 Matt Kenseth
7 Kyle Busch
6 Greg Biffle
5 Sam Hornish Jr.
4 Clint Bowyer
3 Jimmie Johnson is the new points leader
2 Brad Keselowski

VICTORY LANE

1 Marcos Ambrose goes back to back winning at the Glen two years in a row

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