Standings After Charlotte

[BobbyFord]

STANDINGS
2008 Unofficial Driver Standings: Coca-Cola 600
Coca-Cola 600 | Lowe's Motor Speedway | Race 12 of 36

RANK +/- DRIVER POINTS BEHIND STARTS POLES WINS TOP 5 TOP 10
1 -- Kyle Busch 1865 Leader 12 2 3 8 9
2 -- Jeff Burton 1766 -99 12 0 1 3 8
3 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. 1721 -144 12 1 0 5 9
4 -- Denny Hamlin 1611 -254 12 1 1 4 7
5 -- Clint Bowyer 1578 -287 12 0 1 3 7
6 +1 Carl Edwards 1538 -327 12 0 3 5 8
7 +2 Kevin Harvick 1517 -348 12 0 0 2 5
8 -- Tony Stewart 1511 -354 12 0 0 4 6
9 -3 Jimmie Johnson 1493 -372 12 1 1 4 4
10 -- Jeff Gordon 1486 -379 12 2 0 5 6
11 -- Greg Biffle 1478 -387 12 1 0 4 6
12 +2 Kasey Kahne 1454 -411 12 0 1 1 6

13 -1 David Ragan 1398 -467 12 0 0 2 3
14 -1 Ryan Newman 1366 -499 12 1 1 2 5
15 -- Martin Truex Jr. 1294 -571 12 0 0 1 3
16 +4 Matt Kenseth 1264 -601 12 0 0 1 6
17 -1 Juan Montoya 1263 -602 12 0 0 1 1
18 +1 Bobby Labonte 1258 -607 12 0 0 0 0
19 -1 Travis Kvapil 1240 -625 12 0 0 0 3
20 -3 Brian Vickers 1203 -662 12 0 0 1 2
21 +1 Kurt Busch 1192 -673 12 0 0 1 1
22 -1 David Gilliland 1131 -734 12 0 0 0 1
23 -- Jamie McMurray 1123 -742 12 0 0 0 1
24 +2 Mark Martin 1121 -744 9 0 0 2 4
25 +3 Elliott Sadler 1119 -746 12 0 0 0 2
26 +3 David Reutimann 1101 -764 12 0 0 0 1
27 -2 Scott Riggs 1085 -780 12 0 0 0 0
28 -1 Casey Mears 1081 -784 12 0 0 0 2
29 -5 Paul Menard 1067 -798 12 0 0 0 0
30 -- Robby Gordon 980 -885 12 0 0 0 1
31 -- Reed Sorenson 966 -899 12 0 0 1 1
32 +1 Regan Smith* 938 -927 12 0 0 0 0
33 -1 Michael Waltrip 933 -932 12 0 0 0 0
34 -- Sam Hornish Jr.* 930 -935 12 0 0 0 0
35 -- Dave Blaney 910 -955 11 0 0 0 1
36 -- J.J. Yeley 751 -1114 11 0 0 0 0
37 -- Joe Nemechek 543 -1322 9 1 0 0 0
38 +1 Kyle Petty 540 -1325 9 0 0 0 0
39 +2 Patrick Carpentier* 524 -1341 9 0 0 0 0
40 -2 Jeremy Mayfield 490 -1375 7 0 0 0 0
41 +2 Michael McDowell* 484 -1381 7 0 0 0 0
42 -2 Dario Franchitti* 483 -1382 7 0 0 0 0
43 -1 Mike Skinner 423 -1442 6 0 0 0 0
44 -- Dale Jarrett 367 -1498 5 0 0 0 0
45 -- Bill Elliott 350 -1515 5 0 0 0 0
46 +2 A.J. Allmendinger 311 -1554 4 0 0 0 0
47 -- Ken Schrader 295 -1570 5 0 0 0 0
48 -2 Aric Almirola 243 -1622 3 0 0 0 1
49 -- Sterling Marlin 228 -1637 4 0 0 0 0
50 +1 Johnny Sauter 174 -1691 3 0 0 0 0
51 -1 John Andretti 149 -1716 3 0 0 0 0
52 -- David Stremme 84 -1781 1 0 0 0 0
53 -- Jon Wood 55 -1810 1 0 0 0 0
54 -- Kenny Wallace 34 -1831 1 0 0 0 0
55 -- Jeff Green 0 -1865 0 0 0 0 0
56 -- Chad McCumbee 0 -1865 0 0 0 0 0
57 -- Scott Wimmer 0 -1865 0 0 0 0 0
58 +1 Johnny Benson 0 -1865 0 0 0 0 0
59 +1 Tony Raines 0 -1865 0 0 0 0 0
60 -2 Burney Lamar 0 -1865 0 0 0 0 0
61 -- Boris Said 0 -1865 0 0 0 0 0
62 -- Eric McClure 0 -1865 0 0 0 0 0
63 -- Jacques Villeneuve* 0 -1865 0 0 0 0 0
64 -- Stanton Barrett 0 -1865 0 0 0 0 0
65 -- Carl Long 0 -1865 0 0 0 0 0

* Denotes Rookie

 

[PettyBlue]

Kasey's in the Race for the Chase! Pretty darn good comeback from his early season troubles.

 

[tkj24]

Pretty good comeback for J Gordon in the race today after running around 20th all day.

 

[Magnethead]

nice to see some different names in the top 12. Hendrick boys are picking up the game, but looks like equality is showing it's head.

The 5/25 shop has never been good. Is it now the 5/88 shop and the 24 and 48 are still together? Because that 25 car is doing pitiful, and even with Ky in it, it did bad, and with Terry in it, it didnt go bad, but not good either.

 

[barelypure]

It would be interesting to look at multi-car teams and see if there is a similar pattern of 1 car not doing well. Mears got the 5 equipment (supposedly) and yet you're right, he can't do crap for the most part. Obviously it's not the driver, Kyle is having a banner year and even Vickers is running better than he did at Hendrick.
But before everyone runs off with some conspiracy theory, with the year Jeff is having he either forgot how to drive, Steve Retard forgot how to crew chief (that's my vote) or he's getting bad equipment. He finished 4th due to strategy not because he had a 4th place car.
Jimmie is showing consistency and I attribute much of that to Chad knowing what he is doing. Why? Put Jimmie behind the wheel of a car without Chad and he doesn't know how to drive out of a MickeyD's parking lot without hitting 3 cars.

 

[Ward Burton]

Still solid at 2nd in the points.

 

[Betsy]

If it hadn't of been for the "lucky dog" Jeffy might have finished 30th or worse. And yet the one time he started up front he ran with the faster cars, and was able to keep up.
Something about the cot that allows the car in front to run away from the field and the cars behind can't pass or keep up most of the time.
Is it all "driver daring"? Or is it the car itself? And how can a slight change make the passing easier?
Betsy