Harvick to start Chase on the pole

He is happy he’s made the Chase and has the opportunity to go out as a champion. This is what drivers say is not being watched close enough, and not being called when it should be. Harvick has been locked in since week 3, but hasn’t won since March. SHR’s top driver, Kevin Harvick, was the class of the field in the beginning of the season battling Team Penske for pole positions and showing top speed on the track on raceday. All the questions are being asked: ‘What’s wrong?’ ‘What’s up?’ And we get to those final 10 tracks, and things turn around for us.

For Bowyer, clinching a berth is bittersweet as he will represent Michael Waltrip Racing (MWR) in its last Chase appearance before closing shop after this season.

Why he won’t: Dale Jr.is one of the Sprint Cup’s best superspeedway racers, boding well for him at Talladega, but he’s been poor at Martinsville (36th) and Phoenix (43rd) this season, where he’ll need to succeed to get to Homestead.

It’s a far cry from how the four JGR drivers have looked over the last 11 weeks as they cemented themselves as the favorites in the championship race.

Slice Bread himself is in the middle of one of his best seasons. He has said that he will come back for a few Xfinity races next year.

Sixteen drivers are in the Chase, which unfolds over four segments and 10 races, winding up in November in the season-finale at Homestead-Miami.

Logano needs to keep running top-10, squeak in some top-5’s, and maybe steal a win or two, but then again Logano doesn’t really steal wins these days he takes them! A year ago the company won its 12th consecutive manufacturers’ trophy and its 38th since Sprint Cup series got its start in 1949. “I’m not surprised. It’s just Kevin’s personality”.

Matt Kenseth was 13th fastest, Carl Edwards was 19th and Denny Hamlin was 30th. He’s been stuck on 92 career wins since last year’s fall race at Dover. Though I don’t fully believe in Kenseth’s ability to win the title, he should have a shot. (10.2), whose 12 top-fives are also third in Cup. “I’d really hate to see him blow a motor here the first week”. Newman last won a race in July 2013, and it’s hard to see him surviving three cuts without ending the drought. So, prove me wrong Martin.

Hope this helps you better under the race for the NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup.

Kyle “Shrub” Busch has impressed us all.

“But our performance has been there, and if we can get the results to match the performance, we’re going to be right there”, he added. He has to step up his game or he might be an earlier Chase casualty. With 4 wins already under his belt, the injury is no longer an excuse, and Busch should be fully recovered now. Busch goes into New Hampshire in a four-way tie for fifth place as the 10-race Chase begins. Though I could end up eating my words, this system does not fit Busch.

The New Jersey native provided one of the feel-good stories of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup season when he drove Furniture Row’s No. 78 Chevrolet to victory at Pocono Raceway in June.

Chicagoland Speedway now will have two Saturday races.

Good ole 6-time. How could anyone possibly count this guy out? Another finalist looking for a strong finish is Gordon, who is retiring from Sprint Cup competition at the end of the season.

Johnson put the blame on Clint Bowyer and Matt Kenseth for kicking off the birthday celebration. Johnson wasn’t even a threat past year , at which he can thank NASCAR for.

By all rights, Jimmie Johnson ought to be front and center in the Chase conversation, and not just because he has won six titles under changing Chase formats, five of them consecutively from 2006 through 2010.

“I think today is a unique scenario because everybody thought it was going to rain, and predicted that it was going to rain”, Harvick said. He has been quiet and names like Harvick, Kenseth, and Logano are all standing in the way of his record tying seventh championship.