NASCAR Top-10 Race Recap
If you had tuned into the Good Sam RV Insurance 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Pocono, despite the rain delay, there were a few things worth seeing, if you could muster up the patience through it all.
The top-10 finishers included
1 Brad Keselowski
2 Kyle Busch
3 Kurt Busch
4 Jimmie Johnson
5 Ryan Newman
6 Jeff Gordon
7 Carl Edwards
8 Greg Biffle
9 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
10 Paul Menard
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Brad Keselowski pulled off quite the feat of a win. Having messed up his ankle and back in a testing crash earlier in the week, he manned up, without Advil, as noted in the telecast. His manning up got him a Pocono win, giving him his second win of the season.
In those closing laps, it was getting a little exciting to see Kyle Busch close in on Brad in the corners, but then watch Brad pull away in the straights.
This Pocono win makes him the wildcard to beat now. Brad moved up three spots to 18th, but has 2 wins under his belt. If he retains the most wins amongst the competitors placed 11th to 20th, he’s in the 2011 Chase for the Cup.
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Despite an early race spin and penalty, Kyle Busch finished 2nd, pulling him up one spot, into 3rd in the standings.
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In the closing laps, Jimmie Johnson and Kurt Busch raced hard for that coveted third place finish. But after swapping fender paint, Jimmie Johnson was pretty hot under the collar at Kurt for “coming up into him” coming out of turn 1 (1/2) at one point. But once Jimmie see’s the replay, he’ll see that he came down off the wall a bit and scuffed up Kurts fender. Once he sees that, he’ll see it was a perception goof.
(It’s odd. I’ve experienced things where you think a car does one thing because you’re looking down the track, but the replay shows another. It’s a performance perception, as I like to call it. I think that’s what Jimmie had.)
Kurt Busch finished 3rd, Jimmie Johnson 4th.
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Ryan Newman pulled into the garage after the race, after having taken 5th place. He had a decent day and held his 8th spot in the driver standings.
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Jeff Gordon finished 6th and he too held onto his 7th place spot in the standings.
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Carl Edwards, fresh off a contract renewal with Roush-Fenway Racing, finished 7th. Carl holds onto his first place spot in the standings by 9 points over Jimmie Johnson.
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Greg Biffle was snagged with a penalty for getting out of line before crossing the start/finish line in one restart. It looked like a close call, but Biffle did start chaning lanes just before/as he passed the line. He still finished 8th.
Greg Biffle stays 13th in the points.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. pulled off a 9th place finish. Most of the day he was in the top-10 running order and he managed to stay there.
He barely hangs onto his 10th place spot, being 1 point behind Tony Stewart who is in 9th in the standings, who finished 11th yesterday.
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Last week’s Brickyard winner, Paul Menard, rounded out the top-10 finishers, staying in 14th in the driver standings.
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The race leader, at the time of the weather red-flag, Joey Logano, ended up in 26th when all was said and done after running over some debris and cutting up a tire.
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