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Johnson’s Bid For Title No. 6 In High Gear But Keselowski Hangs Tough

It hardly was easy but Jimmie Johnson scored maximum points – 48 – for the second consecutive race to open a seven-point advantage over primary championship rival Brad Keselowski.

Johnson passed leader Keselowski on the final, green-white-checker restart to capture Sunday’s AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. Keselowski finished second. Is Johnson on his way to a sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup title? You can look at it two ways.

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by Dwight Drum at Racetake.com

NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series has a season 36 races long that begins in winter and stretches about one month short of the start of the next winter. But that long schedule is down to two races with only three of the top leaders with a good shot at winning the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

With 96 total points up for grabs, only two of 12 contenders are mathematically eliminated, but seven of that dozen are 58 to 83 points back with little chance of advancing.

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1 1 48 Jimmie Johnson Lowe’s Chevrolet
2 8 2 Brad Keselowski Miller Lite Dodge
3 3 18 Kyle Busch Snickers Toyota
4 10 17 Matt Kenseth Ford EcoBoost Ford
5 21 14 Tony Stewart Office Depot/Mobil 1 Chevrolet
6 4 15 Clint Bowyer 5-hour Energy Toyota
7 19 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. National Guard/Diet Mountain Dew Chevrolet
8 18 78 Kurt Busch Furniture Row Chevrolet
9 23 29 Kevin Harvick Rheem/Budweiser Chevrolet
10 2 16 Greg Biffle 3M Ford

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Keselowski lost the points lead, but there’s no need to fret just yet.

His deficit now stands at a scant two points, a miniscule figure for someone like Keselowski who gobbles up top-10 finishes by the bunch (he has six top 10s in the seven Chase races).

Plus, Keselowski need only look to recent history for comfort. Last season with three races to go, Tony Stewart trailed then-leader Carl Edwards by eight points.

But there’s a potential problem. Most circled Martinsville as Keselowski’s highest hurdle for capturing the championship. But maybe it should’ve been Texas.

Continue reading “Brad Keselowski’s Texas Record – No Top 10’s”