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For Johnson, it's effectively a one-race Chase. He'll deny it, of course, and point to a million possible doomsday scenarios, as any driver in his position would. But the 90-point lead he carried away from metro Charlotte on Saturday is the biggest any competitor has enjoyed at the halfway mark of the playoff series. Johnson is in a stronger position now than he's been in any of three most recent title runs. He's bound for his best track, tiny Martinsville Speedway, where he's won six of his last seven starts. Barring the kind of catastrophic mechanical failure that his No. 48 team has managed to avoid over its magical run, it all comes down to one final hurdle.
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Much like dominoes falling, NASCAR's high-speed machines could not withstand the collective forces of nature in the sport's most bouncy race track. Boom, boom, boom, cars kept dropping out on a muggy Sunday afternoon. Engines... more »
The stage has been set. An unexpected – and somewhat unlikely – collection of circumstances has coalesced around Sunday's Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway, a race which now has the potential to provide a significant... more »
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