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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Phoenix International Raceway :Championships On The Line


Phoenix International Raceway

  November 5, 2012


  Week of Nov. 5
 
Two things are crystal clear. Jimmie Johnson can’t play defense to win a sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship. And Brad Keselowski, the least-experienced member of this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup™ is not about to fold under pressure.
 
The pair went door-to-door, trading paint on one late restart, before Johnson edged Keselowski in Sunday’s AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. Johnson made a statement with his second consecutive maximum point performance but so did Keselowski, who nearly scratched and clawed his way to a sixth season victory.
 
The points remain close: Johnson by seven with two races remaining. The next race is Sunday’s AdvoCare 500 at Phoenix International Raceway where the California driver won Chase races in three consecutive championship years (2007-2009).
 
Texas mathematically eliminated Kevin Harvick and Dale Earnhardt Jr. from the championship hunt. Phoenix will pare the field further.
 
Zero. That’s the point separation between NASCAR Nationwide Series championship rivals Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Elliott Sadler as the pair enter Saturday’s Great Clips 200 at Phoenix International Raceway. Stenhouse recorded his 18th top-five finish of the season in Texas to overhaul leader Sadler. The reigning series champion holds the current tie-breaker: six wins to four, with two races remaining.
 
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series standings leader James Buescher looks for redemption in Friday night’s Lucas Oil 150. Buescher failed to qualify for last year’s race (held in February) – missing the field by two-hundredths of a second – which may have cost the Texas driver the championship. Buescher heads to Phoenix with a 15-point advantage over Ty Dillon. Timothy Peters is third, 25 points off the lead.

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