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Tony Stewart |
He became the first driver in history to win a NASCAR race after eating 23 hot dogs. But he paid the price. |
| 2 |
1 |
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Jeff Gordon |
How come they can fix a transmission in Days of Thunder without losing a lap, and Gordon's team can't fix it at a road course? Haven't they seen the movie and learned from it? |
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2 |
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Kasey Kahne |
He says he hopes he can go ahead and nail down the Rookie of the Year award, which is like Greg Maddux saying he hopes he has a shot at the Hall of Fame when he retires. |
| 4 |
8 |
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Mark Martin |
Man, he's driving good. Y'all sure you didn't put Matt Martin in the car yet? |
| 5 |
9 |
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Jeremy Mayfield |
If he finished seventh at a road course, where he doesn't do too well, then don't count on him slipping out of the top 10. |
| 6 |
4 |
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Jimmie Johnson |
You back from vacation yet? |
| 7 |
5 |
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Dale Jarrett |
Lost another one to Ditech.com. |
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7 |
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Kurt Busch |
It’s tough when you get a top ten finish and still drop a spot in the Power Rankings. Although we're just going by Jimmy Spencer's advice. |
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11 |
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Matt Kenseth |
Three DNFs this season and has still completed 96.6 percent of all laps. Plus, the last we saw, there were still a bunch of Matt Kenseths in the back of his team’s hauler. |
| 10 |
6 |
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Elliott Sadler |
He is starting to like road courses. So much so that he's asked his team members to start calling him Boris. |
| 11 |
16 |
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. |
He must be racin' better, because People magazine ain't got no stories on him this week. |
| 12 |
10 |
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Jamie McMurray |
Can you believe it's already been two years since he got hired by Ganassi? |
| 13 |
15 |
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Kevin Harvick |
His lead on 10th place is thickening. Unlike the hair. |
| 14 |
12 |
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Ryan Newman |
He's so mad at Morgan Shephard that he threw an Ensure bottle at him after the race. |
| 15 |
20 |
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Casey Mears |
In the last three weeks, he's got two Bud Poles and his first top-five finish. Which means Mears is the only man to get a boost from the Democratic National Convention. |
| 16 |
13 |
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Michael Waltrip |
He leads the Nextel Cup Series in 20th-place finishes (3). |
| 17 |
18 |
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Robby Gordon |
So he's thinking about going back and owning his own team. We hope he doesn't plan on pulling into the garage after the fourth lap every week. |
| 18 |
14 |
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Terry Labonte |
He is having a season as exciting as Dubya’s speaking style, albeit a lot quicker than Dubya’s speaking style. |
| 19 |
14 |
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Bobby Labonte |
With Fatback, an average finish of 14th. Without Fatback, 18th. Which means the team doesn't necessarily go faster if it's lighter. |
| 20 |
17 |
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Greg Biffle |
Even the best of us get a little bug-eyed after hauling a 3,400 lb. stocker down from top speed to about 50 mph, down a steep hill, while down shifting from fourth-to-third-to-second, and sliding side-by-side through a ninety degree right hander. |
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22 |
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Jeff Burton |
As part of his buyout to Roush, Burton was forced to take the 1,256 AOL disks the team had in its mailbox. |
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21 |
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Brian Vickers |
Don’t look now, but there’s a big, brown truck pulling right up against your left-rear bumper. |
| 23 |
23 |
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Rusty Wallace |
When Scott Wimmer takes no less than three off-course sightseeing excursions through the upstate New York countryside -- and still finishes six places ahead of you -- you stay at No. 23. |
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25 |
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Sterling Marlin |
We'll move you up one spot merely for the fact that you're the best quote in NASCAR. |
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Ricky Rudd |
First top 10 of the season. Only 590 points out of 10th place. And not mathematically eliminated. |
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