This week marks the final open week of the season for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, before a consecutive 12-race/three-month stretch that will determine the 2010 champion and include the “Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup” contested over the season’s last 10 races.
The NASCAR Nationwide Series, meanwhile, has one of its marquee events on tap – Sunday’s NAPA Auto Parts 200 Presented By Dodge at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. The GRAND-Am Rolex Sports Car Series will also be in Montreal, for Saturday’s Montreal 200.
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series heads to Chicagoland Speedway for Friday night’s Chicagoland 225.
NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES
Kyle Busch Basking In Spotlight, after Historical Weekend
His tripleheader sweep is barely in the rear-view mirror, but it’s now time for Kyle Busch to look ahead. Winning all three national series races this past week at Bristol only underscored what we already knew – Busch is a legitimate contender for the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup championship.
When racing resumes next weekend at Atlanta, Busch will come in third in the series standings. Obviously a cinch to make the Chase, Busch also has 30 bonus points locked away to start the Chase.
More On Those Bonus Points – They’re Crucial To Championship Chances
Prior to the Chase, the 12 drivers who qualify have their point totals re-set to 5,000, whereupon 10 bonus points are tacked on for each pre-Chase race win. Those adjusted point totals establish Chase seedings. Right now, Jimmie Johnson and Denny Hamlin have the prospective top two seeds locked up
via five wins apiece, which would give them Chase starting totals of 5,050.
After that come Kevin Harvick and Busch with three wins apiece and potential starting totals of 5,030.
Two races remain until the Chase begins. Twenty more bonus points are there to be had.
On The Bubble: McMurray Closing In On 12th
Jamie McMurray, who has won two of the season’s biggest races – the Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400 – is surprisingly outside the top 12 in points.
But he’s 13th – only 100 points behind 12th-place Clint Bowyer.
Atlanta Celebrating 50th Anniversary Season
Atlanta Motor Speedway, site of the next NASCAR Sprint Cup event, on the evening of Sunday, Sept. 5, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
AMS’s first year of hosting NASCAR events was 1960. The track had two races that year, won by Fireball Roberts and Bobby Johns.
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