CHASE FOR THE NASCAR NEXTEL CUP  Week 8 Dickies 500 Texas Motor Speedway

This week’s Nextel Cup competition in Texas will have to sort the contenders from the pretenders.
NASCAR Nextel Cup Dickies 500 - Texas Motor Speedway - Fort Worth, TX There are merely three weeks left in the “Chase for the Nextel Cup” and its time to discover who is serious regarding victory and who is there to pack out the lawn. Tony Stewart’s relentless power invaded NASCAR’s postseason corps Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway, where he won Week 7 of the Chase for the Nextel Cup.
Stewart, the two-time and ruling series victor, did not qualify for the ten-race Chase. But Stewart bagged his fourth triumph of the year and second during the Chase in the Bass Pro Shops 500 . Stewart In addition won Round 3 at Kansas Speedway on Oct. 1 in the identical No. 20 Home Depot Chevrolet.. Crew chief Greg Zipadelli said he intends to be entered at Texas Motor Speedway for Sunday’s next annual Dickies 500. Matt Kenseth will carry a 26-point lead above Jimmie Johnson into Fort Worth, where the spread from leading to seventh-place Jeff Gordon WEEK 8 is 146 points.

The eighth rivalry in the 2006 Chase for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup, Sunday’s Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, will start with a reshaped contest at the top of the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series standings. Just 84 points separate the top five drivers, the closest such margin after eight events in the Chase’s three-season history. Anticipate additional spectacles at Texas, one of the course’ fastest tracks and a site where myriad Chase participants go beyond.  7 of the ten Chase competitors switched positions following previous Sunday’s happening at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Just 146 points separate the top seven drivers, the closest such margin in favour of eight events in the Chase’s three-season narration.

Outlook From the Back End. 

Next to three races left in the Pursuit, Jeff Gordon finds himself seventh in the standings, 146 points out of primary site. In order for him to attain his fifth NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Tournament, Gordon needs to deliver first-rate performances at the only current series tracks that he has yet to deliver a victory: Texas Motor Speedway, Phoenix International Raceway, and Homestead-Miami Speedway.

About Texas Motor Speedway

Texas Motor Speedway’s erection began in 1995 . The earliest configuration called for an bizarre dual banking structure that had 24 degrees of banking for stock cars and 8 degrees for open-wheel cars.
On April 5, 1997, Mark Martin won the first NASCAR affair at TMS, a Busch Course episode. Jeff Burton won the commencing Cup Series contest in front of a sellout swarm on the next afternoon.
In 1998, Turn 4 at Texas Motor Speedway was reshaped to ease the transition from the turns to the front straightaway. That April, Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s career got a raise after his first Busch Series triumph.
But after that race, a second refurbishment started and was completed in less than two months. The design eliminated the dual banking and gave the circuit its present build.  In 2005, TMS was awarded a fall Nextel Cup date to go with its April date. The 2005 Dickies 500 was the 34th race of that season’s 36-competition agenda. Ivers have visited Victory Circle at Texas: Jeff Burton, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Kasey Kahne, Matt Kenseth and Mark Martin.

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