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At this price, Kurt Busch isn’t going to want a win to get into the Chase.
After falling outside of the highest 10 due to a sluggish pit cease, Busch charged again by way of the field to finish third during Sunday’s race at Michigan and is now 9th within the factors standings.
“We stuck with our game plan,” Busch stated, about the team’s pit technique. “At one level we had been buried deep, 14th on one of the restarts. I was a bit annoyed at that point, understanding we had a a lot better car. But our weaknesses have been restarts as we speak, trying to maneuver in site visitors.”
“But lo and behold, obtained fired up, sometimes I get fortunate, and opening opened up on the outside. I believe I got here on that restart from 14th to sixth. It was a recreation‑changer. That one second was our race.”
Since Busch does not have a win this season, being in the prime 10 is significant, especially after Joey Logano’s win Sunday, which added another driver to the now-cavalcade of drivers with wins beneath Busch.
8. Brad Keselowski (667 factors): Keselowski needed to attempt to stretch his gasoline to the end, but crew chief Paul Wolfe and owner Roger Penske needed him to pit. Keselowski pitted under caution and completed 12th. Had he run out of gasoline, he would have ended up in Mark Martin territory. (twenty seventh)
9. Busch (-2 factors to Keselowski): One of the favorites at Bristol?
10. Greg Biffle (-four factors): The title of the sport for Biffle is to now stay forward of all of the one-win drivers beneath him. Barring a second win by any of them, that will get him in. Biffle completed ninth.
11. Kasey Kahne (-8 points): Right now, the four level distinction between Kahne and Biffle is a six point distinction in the Chase. Kahne was seventh.
12. Martin Truex Jr. (-14 factors): That Logano win has him trying over his shoulder at a distinct driver following his sixteenth place end.
13. Joey Logano (-21 points): I apologize for writing you off, Joey.
14. Jeff Gordon (-30 points): After a seventeenth place end, issues are really, actually dicey for Gordon.
15. Ryan Newman (-31 factors): It’s 17 factors to Truex and 10 to Logano. That is simple math an engineer can understand, proper? Newman was thirteenth.
16. Jamie McMurray (-forty five points): At virtually a race’s price of factors exterior of the highest 10 and with no win, this can be McMurray’s last appearance right here.
Third place at Michigan puts Kurt Busch in the top 10
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