Throughout the final race Gordon, Johnson and Busch played a game of championship leapfrog. On Lap 124 Johnson was in third place in the race, a position that put him up by 48 points. By Lap 178 Gordon was in third place and atop the standings by 36 points. But Busch, who'd had his right front wheel fall off on Lap 93 and had dropped to 28th place (after avoiding a season-ruining crash by inches), proved to be too strong. Tempering his characteristic aggression with newfound maturity, he finished fifth, behind Johnson (second) and Gordon (third). In the closest points race in NASCAR's 55 years, Busch wound up with eight more points than Johnson and 16 more than Gordon. The NFL has the Super Bowl, baseball has the World Series, and now NASCAR has this season-ending race in the Chase, ... I've never driven so hard in my life. Man, what a couple of weeks.
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We're not going to the banking that Charlotte and Atlanta have, but what they're doing is creating a safety aspect. This track is very wide ... and the cars have too much time to turn around while they're spinning and hit driver's side first. That's when people get hurt.
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I just wanted to tell his crew chief that he started the car way too loose so, hopefully, they don't hurt anybody else in the Chase.
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If you think I'm good, wait until you see my little brother, ... He's an even better race car driver than I am.
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After the problem we had, I thought we were buried. It's very tough to come back to the front.
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