So, about that time Kevin Harvick matched the number of top-fives earned in his 2014 championship season just 20 races into the 2015 season … yeah.
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Joe Gibbs Racing
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With four wins in five races, nobody is as hot as Kyle Busch right now. The only reason he hasn’t surpassed Kevin Harvick in this space is because the reigning champ has been racing right there with him.
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Hendrick Motorsports
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Joey Logano has six top-five finishes in the past seven races, which he recognizes says a lot about how strong his team is – but the Team Penske driver wants wins.
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Hendrick Motorsports
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Team Penske
Tough to say what happened to Johnson and Co. at the Brickyard, but it was a down day for Hendrick Motorsports overall. With another good track for the organization coming up, they’ll look to reboot things and get back on track.
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Truex notched his first top 10 since Michigan when he finished fourth at Indy and now heads to the site of his sole win of the season. Good mojo.
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Joe Gibbs Racing
As we all know, Junior swept Pocono last season. Earnhardt Jr.'s third win of 2015 could very well be at the Tricky Triangle.
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Keselowski nearly pulled off quite a feat and used an alternate strategy contend for the Brickyard 400 win from a 31st starting position, but cautions didn’t fall the way he needed and his plan was foiled, despite leading 17 laps.
Busch has been consistently well-above average this season, finishing worse than 15th just a single time. Oh, and he's the most recent pole winner at Pocono.
Kenseth has remained steady at ninth overall in these Power Rankings, but that’s just what Kenseth is – steady. His past three races, he’s finished fifth, sixth and seventh.
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Hamlin’s poor finishes seem to be fading into the past and he’s starting to emerge as a legitimate candidate for more race wins, he just has to earn them. Pocono (four wins) could be a start.
McMurray hasn’t finished in the top 10 since rolling off back-to-back-to-back seventh-place finishes, the second of which was at Pocono.
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Stewart-Haas Racing
What a drag. In Jeff Gordon’s final Brickyard 400, a run-in with Clint Bowyer cut short any hopes of finding Victory Lane and, in fact, created perhaps Gordon’s most frustrating day of the season.
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Sunday’s pole-winner led 20 laps but couldn’t capitalize on a late restart and fell back significantly. Still, the speed Edwards has shown in recent weeks – coupled with the success of that teammate of his who keeps landing in Victory Lane – is encouraging.
Newman wrecked out of the year's first Pocono race and he'd be well-advised to not do so again, given his shaky-at-best handle of a Chase spot right now.