Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway...the Just Us Cupdate

Chase Race #10: The Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway

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The Race Report...All the NASCAR News That's Unfit to Print

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CONGRATS TO JIMMIE JOHNSON ON HIS NEXTEL CUP CHAMPIONSHIP!!!

Jimmie Johnson Wins the NEXTEL Cup

CONGRATS TO JASON TUCKER AND JOHN ELLISON ON SHARING THE 2007 JUST US CUP!!!

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Greg Biffle Wins at Homestead...A Season in Disarray Ends on a High Note

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Coming to Through the Cigar Smoke...

January 6, 2007 look for the 43 Days of Daytona to begin with a look ahead at next season.

And JUC Updates, News, and Reviews occasionally through the offseason.

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Spectacular Juan Pablo Montoya Fiery Crash at Homestead...In the Words of the Pointer Sisters, "Fire!"

Ryan Newman Might Have Had a Hand in Helping Montoya's Night go up in Flames

I know, I know...NASCAR is about paybacks and such. But I don't see the value in wrecking a rookie on the circuit in his first start...(his second start?)...because he made a mistake...Newman was an idiot on this one. And he was just lucky that JPM was able to get out of the car...that was a whole lot of fire.

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Owner's Putting Together the Formula for Championships

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Bob Margolis's commentary on NBC's last NASCAR coverage and the end of their contract...

Sunday's race marked the end of the NBC broadcast contract with NASCAR. Good riddance! The peacock network single-handedly did more harm to NASCAR than any other broadcast partner in the sport's history by permanently alienating a good deal of the casual race-viewing audience with its incessant commercial breaks.
It took a dedicated race fan to be able to stick with, much less follow, the race through NBC's steady pattern of running five minutes of commercials between every five minutes of racing action.

Cadi and I couldn't agree more!!! NBC's NASCAR coverage sucks!!!

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Okay, show of hands...how many of you remember Johnson's team getting caught CHEATING at Daytona and having Chad Knaus be sent to the sidelines for four races. Darian Grubb should get a lot, A LOT, of credit. He was the guy who took over as interim crew chief for those races and did the job while Knaus was gone.

And at the time, they weren't fined any points, though there was a monetary fine to go along with Knaus's suspension.

Thankfully, Johnson won by a wider points margin than would have usually been accessed had NASCAR fined him points. He won by 56 points over second place. The usual point penalty amount is 25 points.

With the way that Johnson ran the last month or two, I hope that NASCAR's inspectors were looking closely rather than looking the other way.

But thanks to that crap in the early season, I'm always going to wonder. And everytime Johnson goes to victory lane from now on, I'm going to wonder.

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Splitting the Sheets and Dividing up the Furniture...Jack Roush Buys Out Mark Martin's Share of the #17 Ownership

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Fenway Sports Group Still in Negotiations with Roush Racing

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Join the Kasey Kahne Dream Job Sweepstakes!

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Car of Tomorrow...Some Like it...Some Wish Tomorrow Would Never Come

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Complete Finishing Order

 1 Greg Biffle (16)
 2 Martin Truex Jr. (1)
 3 Denny Hamlin (11)
 4 Kasey Kahne (9)
 5 Kevin Harvick (29)
 6 Matt Kenseth (17)
 7 Scott Riggs (10)
 8 Carl Edwards (99)
 9 Jimmie Johnson (48)
 10 Clint Bowyer (07)
 11 David Stremme (40)
 12 Scott Wimmer (33)
 13 Joe Nemechek (01)
 14 Jeff Burton (31)
 15 Tony Stewart (20)
 16 Reed Sorenson (41)
 17 Paul Menard (15)
 18 Mark Martin (6)
 19 Dale Earnhardt Jr. (8)
 20 Tony Raines (96)
 21 Brian Vickers (25)
 22 Jeff Green (66)
 23 Ryan Newman (12)
 24 Jeff Gordon (24)
 25 Bill Elliott (100)
 26 Dave Blaney (22)
 27 Travis Kvapil (32)
 28 Kyle Petty (45)
 29 Ken Schrader (21)
 30 J.J. Yeley (18)
 31 Dale Jarrett (88)
 32 Casey Mears (42)
 33 David Gilliland (38)
 34 Juan Pablo Montoya (30)
 35 Jamie McMurray (26)
 36 Elliott Sadler (19)
 37 Sterling Marlin (14)
 38 Kyle Busch (5)
 39 Mike Bliss (49)
 40 Robby Gordon (7)
 41 Bobby Labonte (43)
 42 Jeremy Mayfield (109)
 43 Kurt Busch (2)

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The Chase for the Just Us Cup-date

In the table above, Purple have been mathematically eliminated. Black did not make the Chase and are out of the playoff.

Place - Driver
Finishing Points
Deduction (DNQ/Prov -5, DNF -5,
Bonus (Pole +5, Most Laps Led +5, Win +5)
TOTAL

Lined out/Strike out Drivers failed to make the Chase for the Just Us Cup

 1 Greg Biffle (16)
Finish - 45
Win - 5
TOTAL - 50

 4 Kasey Kahne (9)
Finish - 40
Pole - 5
Most Laps Lead - 5
TOTAL - 50

 5 Kevin Harvick (29)
Finish - 35
TOTAL - 35

 8 Carl Edwards (99)
Finish - 30
TOTAL - 30

9 Jimmie Johnson (48)
Finish - 25
TOTAL - 25

 18 Mark Martin (6)
Finish - 20
TOTAL - 20

 19 Dale Earnhardt Jr. (8)
Finish - 15
TOTAL - 15

 24 Jeff Gordon (24)
Finish - 10
TOTAL - 10

 29 Ken Schrader (21)

 31 Dale Jarrett (88)

 35 Jamie McMurray (26)

 36 Elliott Sadler (19)

 43 Kurt Busch (2)
Finish - 5
DNF - -5
TOTAL - 0

DNQ Michael Waltrip (55)

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