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HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) Jimmie Johnson never let up in pursuit of a NASCAR record fourth consecutive championship.
This was no easy Sunday drive for the most dominant driver of this decade, even though Johnson needed only a 25th-place finish at Homestead-Miami Speedway to hold off teammate Mark Martin in the race for the Sprint Cup title.
Instead, Johnson raced hard for 400 miles and even threatened to try to run down the leaders to better his eventual fifth-place finish.
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 | Brian Vickers’ Chase Diary: We need to finish the season off on a high note (Sporting News) - Bad luck continued to stalk Brian Vickers in last Sunday's Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway, the ninth race in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. Vickers was an innocent victim of the Lap 170 multicar melee that started when Dale Earnhardt Jr. spun off Turn 4 at the 1-mile track. Earnhardt's car had been smoking in the laps leading up to the crash with what was later diagnosed as an oil leak.
Sidelined by the wreck, Vickers finished 38th and remained 12th in the Chase standings, 666 points behind leader Jimmie Johnson. In the 10th installment of his Chase diary, Vickers talks about his misfortune at Phoenix, Earnhardt's spin, the hazards of double-file restarts and his outlook for Sunday's season-ending Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway: (MORE)
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