{"id":1498,"date":"2009-06-29T06:19:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T11:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/06\/29\/the-race-for-the-chase-is-on\/"},"modified":"2010-12-29T08:12:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T13:12:07","slug":"the-race-for-the-chase-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/06\/29\/the-race-for-the-chase-is-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The race for the Chase is on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With only <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/rpm\/schedule?seriesId=2\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/rpm\/schedule?seriesId=2', 'nine \u201cregular season\u201d races');\" target=\"new\">nine \u201cregular season\u201d races<\/a> to go until the Chase starts, the battle is on to fill the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/rpm\/standings?seriesId=2\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/rpm\/standings?seriesId=2', '10-12');\" target=\"new\">10-12<\/a> spots.  It is hard to believe just how tight these positions are, with only 5 points separating Kenseth, Martin, and JPM.  Lurking in the wings is Kahne, who is only one point back, and Reutimann, who is within 12 points of striking distance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[position, driver, points, points back]<br \/>\n10 Matt Kenseth 2054 -470<br \/>\n11 Mark Martin\t2052 -472<br \/>\n12 Juan Pablo Montoya 2049 -475<br \/>\n13 Kasey Kahne 2048 -476<br \/>\n14 David Reutimann 2037 -487<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was disappointed yesterday that the rain kept Jeff Gordon from picking up a second win, and some much needed bonus points.  While the above drivers have to \u201cpoints race\u201d to make the Chase, under the current format, second place does not do Gordon much good.<\/p>\n<p>The next few weeks should be interesting.  I would really like JPM to make a push and secure a spot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only nine \u201cregular season\u201d races to go until the Chase starts, the battle is on to fill the 10-12 spots. It is hard to believe just how tight these positions are, with only 5 points separating Kenseth, Martin, and JPM. Lurking in the wings is Kahne, who is only one point back, and Reutimann, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/06\/29\/the-race-for-the-chase-is-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The race for the Chase is on!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}