The 2009 Chase for the Championship invades Dover Delaware, the infamous “Monster Mile” for its second race. Dover is a whirling blender that can scramble a team’s fortunes in just a matter of seconds as the high banked excitement becomes an instant graveyard for machinery fighting over the same spot on the track. Simple physics – BOOM, WHAP, DOINK, POW!!!
Chase leader Mark Martin has been one driver who has tamed the monster with four career wins, 21 top fives, and an average finish of 12.7. Jimmie Johnson in second place is one of those smart drivers who can lie low and avoid trouble better than most. Still, Johnson owns four wins and an average finish of 10.4, an absolute awesome accomplishment for a track so generous with its DNF’s. It gets more interesting in 3rd place. Dover has been hell for Denny Hamlin who has but one top 5 and a dreadful 25.6 average. Likewise, Juan Montoya will find Dover a chance to prove he is truly championship caliber in Cup racing. This will be his sixth race at Dover where he has not done well so far.
Roush teams have a solid history in Delaware. This would be a good place for Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle to assert themselves if they are going to be players in this year’s chase. Jeff Gordon is another driver who’d especially love to perform well as his career long sponsor, DuPont is a Delaware based company that will have lots of corporate spectators at the event.
After last week’s blown engine and miserable finish, Kasey Kahne must do well at Dover. His fortunes at Dover have been dismal win no wins or top fives, only two top 10’s and an average finish at 24.1. It’s tame the monster time or else for the #9 car.
Outside the chase, surely Kyle Busch is looking for every chance to show up the field having more wins than most of the chasers. They’re also smarting having been fined and docked 25 driver and owner points after failing inspection at New Hampshire. Other teams could well be racing for survival.
Meanwhile, in this year’s most annoying distraction, the Jeremy Mayfield affair that most fans and drivers would love to have put well behind them, NASCAR has asked a judge to order a full mental and physical exam of the disgraced driver who finds more witnesses calling him out for his drug abuse. NASCAR is interested in signs of drug addiction and the possibility of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Chase leader Mark Martin has been one driver who has tamed the monster with four career wins, 21 top fives, and an average finish of 12.7. Jimmie Johnson in second place is one of those smart drivers who can lie low and avoid trouble better than most. Still, Johnson owns four wins and an average finish of 10.4, an absolute awesome accomplishment for a track so generous with its DNF’s. It gets more interesting in 3rd place. Dover has been hell for Denny Hamlin who has but one top 5 and a dreadful 25.6 average. Likewise, Juan Montoya will find Dover a chance to prove he is truly championship caliber in Cup racing. This will be his sixth race at Dover where he has not done well so far.
Roush teams have a solid history in Delaware. This would be a good place for Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle to assert themselves if they are going to be players in this year’s chase. Jeff Gordon is another driver who’d especially love to perform well as his career long sponsor, DuPont is a Delaware based company that will have lots of corporate spectators at the event.
After last week’s blown engine and miserable finish, Kasey Kahne must do well at Dover. His fortunes at Dover have been dismal win no wins or top fives, only two top 10’s and an average finish at 24.1. It’s tame the monster time or else for the #9 car.
Outside the chase, surely Kyle Busch is looking for every chance to show up the field having more wins than most of the chasers. They’re also smarting having been fined and docked 25 driver and owner points after failing inspection at New Hampshire. Other teams could well be racing for survival.
Meanwhile, in this year’s most annoying distraction, the Jeremy Mayfield affair that most fans and drivers would love to have put well behind them, NASCAR has asked a judge to order a full mental and physical exam of the disgraced driver who finds more witnesses calling him out for his drug abuse. NASCAR is interested in signs of drug addiction and the possibility of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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