If any of the eight drivers still eligible to win NASCAR's 2014 Sprint Cup Series Championship had won last week at Martinsville, he would have locked into the final four drivers who will battle for the title in the final race of the year. But it didn't happen.
Barring major disaster on Sunday, Jimmie Johnson will pick up his 6th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship. But there is much more to this final weekend of the season.
It couldn't get any closer than this....NASCAR has a tie at the top of the standings as the Chase for the 2013 Championship comes down to the final three races of the year.
Jimmie Johnson's finish last week at Talladega Superspeedway vaulted him into the points lead with four races left in NASCAR's Chase for the Championship and this week he starts on the front row in Martinsville.
The unpredictable nature of Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway makes it what many call a "wild card" in the Chase of the Championship.
Matt Kenseth raced past teammate Kyle Busch with 23 laps left and held on to win a rain-delayed Geico 400 at Chicagoland Speedway in Illinois on Sunday night.
Matt Kenseth won his fifth race of the season by holding off Kasey Kahne at the Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee on Saturday.
The annual mid-season event of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series takes place in Daytona Beach tonight. Toyota teammates Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth will lead the field to green for the Coke Zero 400 just before 8:00 p.m.