Jimmie Johnson: ‘Wild Asphalt Circus?’ No Thanks with Tight Chase Battle at Texas

Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth is calling this weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series AAA Texas 500 festivities the “Wild Asphalt Circus.” While the action on the track is sure to be wild, new Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship points leader Jimmie Johnson hopes it’s anything but a circus.Johnson heads to the 1.5-mile oval first in the standings by a mere two points over second-place Brad Keselowksi. While the duo is certainly in a better position with three races remaining than third-place Clint Bowyer, who’s 26 points out of the lead, and fourth-place Kasey Kahne, who’s 29 points out, even a circus clown can figure out that anything can happen in a Chase that has seen attrition claim valuable points from nearly all of its competitors at one time or another the last seven weeks. Anything can certainly happen at the wickedly fast Texas track, and Johnson knows that first-hand. In 2009, he was involved in a wreck on lap three that sent his No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet to the gar...