By Bill Marx
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service
(October 27, 2009)
After two consecutive wins, Jimmie Johnson came up short and finished … second. Superman now leads the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup by 118 points heading into Talladega. Johnson is four races from his fourth straight Cup championship. Here’s the breakdown of the top 12 after Sunday’s race at Martinsville Speedway.
1. Jimmie Johnson, 6,098. Only a four-tire call at Kansas—when most of the other cars in the top 10 took two—has kept Johnson from having top-five finishes in each of the first six Chase races. Instead, that ninth-place day has dragged down his average finish in the Chase to 3.0. Horrors!
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