October 15, 2012 Tough night for Brad Keselowski at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The Chase for the Sprint Cup points leader led the most laps, but for the second night in a row his crew miscalculated, and he ran out of gas. So for what looked like a sure victory, Keselowski found himself a lap down and he ended up 11th.
October 12, 2012 Dale Earnhardt Jr. used to like restrictor-plate racing at Talladega, but after the big crash on Sunday he’s not especially thrilled about racing there anymore. After the race he said if they raced that way every week – he wouldn’t be doing it, he’d find another job.
October 5, 2012 When it's Chase time in the Sprint Cup Series, the one racetrack that everybody is concerned about is Talladega.
No doubt, Talladega is the "wild card" in the Chase for the championship. Big wrecks are the main concern and once Talladega is over every one of those drivers will feel a whole lot better. But there it is on the schedule, race four in this year's playoffs.
October 1, 2012 Maybe he’s tearing a page from the formula Tony Stewart used last year – just keep winning, especially when they mean so much. Brad Keselowski is the leader in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship after winning for the second time in three races. Keselowski had just enough fuel to hold on to the lead and hold off Jeff Gordon to take the victory at Dover International Speedway. It’s his fifth win of the season.
September 28, 2012 Round three in the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup championship is Sunday at Dover, Delaware’s Monster Mile.
Jimmie Johnson is the leader after two races after finishing second at both Chicago and New Hampshire. And this week he could really build on that lead with a win at a track where he’s very well over the years and where he’s won four of the last seven races.
September 21, 2012 Coming off his win last week at Chicagoland Speedway, Brad Keselowski is on top of the point standings for the first time in his Sprint Cup Series career. He has a three-point lead over five-time series champion Jimmie
Johnson after the first race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. The winner of the first Chase race has gone on to become champion just twice.
September 14, 2012 And they’re off on a 10-race run to determine this year’s Sprint Cup champion. Sunday's 400-mile race at Chicagoland Speedway starts the Chase for the Sprint Cup title.
Just 12 points separate top-seed Denny Hamlin from 12th-place Jeff Gordon. Last year’s champion Tony Stewart is three points back of Hamlin. Last year, Stewart started the Chase as the ninth seed and hadn’t even won a race
September 10, 2012 The field is set for this year’s Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. Clint Bowyer won Saturday night’s race at Richmond, but the bigger story was Jeff Gordon who drove himself into the final Chase wild card spot edging out Kyle Busch by three points.
September 7, 2012 One last chance to make the field. Saturday night at Richmond, eight drivers will be fighting for the last spots in the playoff grid for the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
September 4, 2012 A big win in Atlanta Sunday night for Denny Hamlin. His fourth win of the season will mean at least a tie for the lead heading into the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship after next week’s race at Richmond. Hamlin held off Jeff Gordon on a green, white, checkered finish to win for the second week in a row and at the same time putting a real dent in Gordon’s hopes of making the field for Chase.
August 31, 2012 With just two races left before the start of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, it's crunch time for drivers battling for a playoff spot.
The top-three drivers in the points standings -- Greg Biffle, Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. -- have already clinched a spot in the field. Matt Kenseth will likely join them. All he needs to do is finish 40th or better this Sunday night at Atlanta.
August 27, 2012 Two more races left before the start of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship and Denny Hamlin has pulled into a tie with defending champion Tony Stewart, Brad Keselowski and Jimmie Johnson each with 3 wins this season after Saturday night’s race at Bristol. Hamlin took the lead with a pass of Carl Edwards with 39 laps to go and held off the rest of the field the rest of the way for his first career victory at Bristol.
