Penske Racing's solid "one team with two cars" effort explained

  Sam Hornish Jr. is a fulltime competitor in NASCAR Nationwide Series competition and is ineligible to earn Sprint Cup driver points.  That certainly hasn’t stopped him from accumulating his fair share of car owner points, however. “It really hit me there at Loudon over the weekend of just how much progress we’ve made since Sam was named our driver for the remainder of the season,” said Shell-Pennzoil Dodge crew chief Todd Gordon.  “Just since he was there driving for us in the July race, it’s easy to see what a great job he has done and how we’ve been able to mesh as a very respectable bunch. “NASCAR parks the team transporters in the garage area based on where you stand in the car owner points,” Gordon said.  “During the first race there back in July, we were parked way over there on the back side, just down from the ‘go-or-go-homers’ and the ‘start-and-parkers.’  This time around, we had advanced all the way over to the other side with the fast guys.  We were ahead of bot