There’s a pointed message that the 11 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup contenders other than Jimmie Johnson need to heed -- right now.
It’s time to play roughhouse. It’s time to mix it up. It’s time to change the game.
Otherwise, the Sprint Cup Series will have a six-time champion rather than a five-time champion.
Johnson hasn’t had the fastest car in either of the first two Chase races. He had the second fastest car at both Chicagoland and New Hampshire and finished right where he should have in both cases -- second.
But two seconds equal first in the standings by one point over Chicagoland winner Brad Keselowski and by seven over New Hampshire victor Denny Hamlin in third.
Now the Chase goes to Dover, where Johnson has seven wins -- including one earlier this year -- and an average finish of 8.9. Hamlin, on the other hand, has two top 10s in his last 10 Dover races and a career average finish there of 20.5.
In five starts at Dover, Keselowski has a best finish of 12th and an averag...
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