{"id":1775,"date":"2009-10-13T01:57:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T06:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/13\/is-the-chase-already-over\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T06:41:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T11:41:50","slug":"is-the-chase-already-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/13\/is-the-chase-already-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Chase already over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/proxy.espn.go.com\/rpm\/nascar\/cup\/notebook?page=notebookMondayRundown\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/proxy.espn.go.com\/rpm\/nascar\/cup\/notebook?page=notebookMondayRundown', 'article');\" target=\"new\">article<\/a> on how to keep Johnson from winning six Championships in a row.  The premise is that Johnson is so good on the Chase tracks that title number four is in the bag; title number five is a sure thing because the 2010 schedule is already set.  That leaves NASCAR with an opportunity to <em>stop<\/em> Johnson\u2019s roll in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>There are only a couple of things I agree with in the article.  The season should end at Daytona, and the <em>\u201cregular\u201d<\/em> season points leader should get some type of bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Would any of that change things right now?  Probably not, but Gordon would have the title in 2007 if not for the stupid points reset.  That year Gordon went from a commanding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/races\/cup\/2007\/25\/data\/standings_official.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/races\/cup\/2007\/25\/data\/standings_official.html', '317 points lead');\" target=\"new\">317 points lead<\/a> to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/races\/cup\/2007\/26\/data\/standings_official.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/races\/cup\/2007\/26\/data\/standings_official.html', '20 point deficit');\" target=\"new\">20 point deficit<\/a> to Johnson.<\/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=\"https:\/\/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>I thought this was an interesting article on how to keep Johnson from winning six Championships in a row. The premise is that Johnson is so good on the Chase tracks that title number four is in the bag; title number five is a sure thing because the 2010 schedule is already set. That leaves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/13\/is-the-chase-already-over\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is the Chase already over?<\/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=\"https:\/\/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-1775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}