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PIT STOPS
WHO'S HOT: Jeff Gordon's victory Sunday at Talladega was the sixth in the 9-race-old season for red-hot Hendrick Motorsports. Hendrick cars might have finished first through fourth in the Aaron's 499 if one hadn't taken out another and still another hadn't wrecked. Gordon and Jimmie Johnson finished 1-2, but fellow Hendrick drivers Casey Mears and Kyle Busch also were strong. Johnson took out Mears after Mears, who led a race for the first time this year, failed to signal that he was slowing to enter pit road. Busch crashed out a few laps later. ... A Joe Gibbs Racing news release this week actually compares 16-year-old Joey Logano with Richard Petty. The release points out Petty won a record 200 races and suggests Logano, 2-0 in his NASCAR regional races after a Busch East victory Saturday at Greensville-Pickens (S.C.), could eventually "shatter" Petty's record. There's no denying that Logano, a Mark Martin protege, is one of stock-car racing's best young prospects.
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WHO'S NOT: At least Toyota has an excuse for struggling mightily in Nextel Cup; this is the Japanese manufacturer's first season in NASCAR's top division. Dodge has no excuse for its terrible showing so far. There's only one Dodge driver in the top 12 - 10th-place Kurt Busch - and Dodge's only top-five finishes of the year were rookie Juan Pablo Montoya's fifth at Atlanta in March and Busch's third Sunday at Talladega. ... When Ken Schrader failed to qualify the No. 21 Ford for the Aaron's 499, Wood Brothers Racing found itself outside the lineup for the first time in seven years. The Woods had a streak of 249 consecutive starts, dating to the spring Talladega race in 2000.
PIT STOPS
WHO'S HOT: Jeff Gordon's victory Sunday at Talladega was the sixth in the 9-race-old season for red-hot Hendrick Motorsports. Hendrick cars might have finished first through fourth in the Aaron's 499 if one hadn't taken out another and still another hadn't wrecked. Gordon and Jimmie Johnson finished 1-2, but fellow Hendrick drivers Casey Mears and Kyle Busch also were strong. Johnson took out Mears after Mears, who led a race for the first time this year, failed to signal that he was slowing to enter pit road. Busch crashed out a few laps later. ... A Joe Gibbs Racing news release this week actually compares 16-year-old Joey Logano with Richard Petty. The release points out Petty won a record 200 races and suggests Logano, 2-0 in his NASCAR regional races after a Busch East victory Saturday at Greensville-Pickens (S.C.), could eventually "shatter" Petty's record. There's no denying that Logano, a Mark Martin protege, is one of stock-car racing's best young prospects.
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WHO'S NOT: At least Toyota has an excuse for struggling mightily in Nextel Cup; this is the Japanese manufacturer's first season in NASCAR's top division. Dodge has no excuse for its terrible showing so far. There's only one Dodge driver in the top 12 - 10th-place Kurt Busch - and Dodge's only top-five finishes of the year were rookie Juan Pablo Montoya's fifth at Atlanta in March and Busch's third Sunday at Talladega. ... When Ken Schrader failed to qualify the No. 21 Ford for the Aaron's 499, Wood Brothers Racing found itself outside the lineup for the first time in seven years. The Woods had a streak of 249 consecutive starts, dating to the spring Talladega race in 2000.
