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By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

(November 19, 2011)

HOMESTEAD, Fla.—Polesitter Brad Keselowski may have won Saturday’s Ford 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, but Roush Fenway Racing had a better night, winning two Nationwide Series championships in one race.

Keselowski held off a furious charge from series champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr. on the final lap to secure his fifth victory of the season and the 17th of his career.

Third-place finisher Carl Edwards clinched the owners’ championship for Roush Fenway, leading the most laps and finishing two positions ahead of Denny Hamlin’s No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, which entered the race with a one-point lead.

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1 99 Carl Edwards Aflac Ford 30.775 175.467
2 56 Martin Truex Jr. NAPA Auto Parts Toyota 30.891 174.808
3 4 Kasey Kahne Red Bull Toyota 30.931 174.582
4 22 Kurt Busch Shell Pennzoil Dodge 30.942 174.520
5 2 Brad Keselowski Miller Lite Dodge 30.947 174.492
6 17 Matt Kenseth Crown Royal Ford 30.950 174.475
7 24 Jeff Gordon Drive To End Hunger Chevrolet 30.957 174.436
8 16 Greg Biffle 3M/Novec Ford 31.015 174.109
9 48 Jimmie Johnson Lowe’s Chevrolet 31.017 174.098
10 11 Denny Hamlin FedEx Express Toyota 31.040 173.969
11 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. National Guard/AMP Energy Chevrolet 31.051 173.907
12 43 A J Allmendinger Best Buy Ford 31.082 173.734

AUDIO: THE FINAL LAP PODCAST #183 – EDWARDS VS. STEWART
13 6 David Ragan UPS My Choice Ford 31.092 173.678
14 39 Ryan Newman U.S. ARMY Chevrolet 31.147 173.371
15 14 Tony Stewart Office Depot/Mobil 1 Chevrolet 31.154 173.332

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SHANNON SPAKE: Now the fun begins. Congratulations for being the two who made it to this point and supplying one of the best championship Chases yet.
Tony, you won the title twice. Only eight drivers have won it three or more times. What would it mean to be in elite company? I would imagine this year would be special knowing you’re the one writing the checks.

TONY STEWART: It’s definitely an awesome opportunity for us. Still very appreciative that Gene Haas for even giving us this opportunity to not only drive for him but be a co-owner with him. At the same time it’s a pretty cool opportunity this weekend to be the other side of the bookend of Jimmie’s dynasty, to be the only guy that could win a NEXTEL Cup championship, a Sprint Cup championship, and a Winston Cup championship, being the first time since Allen Kulwicki as an owner/driver. That would be probably be the best part of it.

THE FINAL LAP PODCAST #183 – EDWARDS VS. STEWART

SHANNON SPAKE: You said at one point, We don’t deserve to be in the Chase. If you could have imagined being in this chair with one race to go, what would you have said?

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Guest Column By Cathy Elliott

Thirty-five weeks a year, one of the most fun and challenging things about this column is the fact that it can often be quite speculative in nature.

Based on what happened the previous week or month in NASCAR, we have the luxury of utilizing what has gone before in order to predict what might happen next. Each week is an important link in a chain that begins when the season is tossed overboard in February, and ends in November when a champion lands to anchor it for the next 12 months.

But this is Week 36. As of this writing, mere hours separate us from the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and NASCAR’s championship anchor is dangling so close to the ocean floor that the sand is already swirling. After the closest and most exciting year in recent memory, all that stands between this moment and the end of the 2012 season is the simplest of toddler math, countable on a single hand: one race, two drivers and three points.

Continue reading “Giving Thanks For NASCAR Now And Next Year”

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Author: Dwight Drum racetake.com

FYI WIRZ: NASCAR’s Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart talk finale at Homestead
Much talk will happen before the green flag in Homestead on Sunday Nov. 20 when Carl Edwards takes his skinny three point lead over Tony Stewart to the 1.5-mile oval track Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida.
That talk will include the playful comments between Edwards and Stewart as they toy with one another’s mind while the media focuses on them like eagles on prey.
But when the flag drops the public words cease and radio words begin between drivers, spotters and crew chiefs.
ESPN will bring the hi-definition excitement to waiting millions who are not in the stands starting at 3 p.m.
The pleasant south Florida weather is expected to bring warm sun and rainless moments as this time of the year is generally dry for the area.