By Tim Sharp, APNASCAR Sprint Cup driver Clint Bowyer says the series is increasingly competitive.
By Tim Sharp, APNASCAR Sprint Cup driver Clint Bowyer says the series is increasingly competitive.
"Obviously, people say, ' Jimmie Johnson won five years (Championships). It cannot be so competitive, ' "Richard childress Racing driver Clint Bowyer says."But every year it's gotten harder for him to win, and it is just like the one this season. "Johnson captured his first victory of Sprint Cup 2011 weekend at Talladega Superspeedway, snapping a streak of 15 races without winning it was the second longest of his illustrious career and he said winning proven "veryvery difficult to do. This year is proof that a measure even more ".Consider the 2011 numbers driving Saturday in Matthew and Daniel Hansen 400 at Richmond International Raceway: • There were seven different winners in eight races, mostly for ranging from 2003. • The top 10 in points has seven teams represented (three years atrásquatro teams controlled all 12 spots in the Chase for the Sprint Cup). • There have been 14.6 leaders and changes of lead 38.5 by race, both highs series through the first eight races. Four races has broken or tied records for lead changes. • Races have an average of 4.511 green-flag passes and 54 passes green-flag for leadership (anywhere on the track), which also are highs through eight races since NASCAR began statistics expanded control for six years.It comes on the heels of a season with records of green-flag passes and changes of lead and leaders per event, as well as the three-way battle in the history of maximum seven years of Chase. Bowyer says that is the result of a mixture of rule changes (such as double-file restarts in 09) and a car for next generation (inducted 2007) whose features standardized breed parity by quelling the gray areas of the body and suspension adjustmentswhere teams often worked to find advantages. "It is so competitive that you're on the edge of the entire weekend, not just on race day, but practice, qualifying, '' Bowyer said. "We are starting to look on and do things we'd never done before finding this border. I thought last year was the best race since I've been in this sport, and this year has proved to be even better. "Some of the best competition could be assigned to a team: Roush Fenway Racing. After winning only two of the first 34 races last year, Roush won the last two with Carl Edwards, and their Fords took the momentum for this season. Edwards, who won again at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, leads the championship points, and teammate Matt Kenseth (eighth in points) added a victory at Texas Motor Speedway three weeks ago.Bowyer says that is the nature of the teams fortunes of multicar that teammates are interlinked. His Chevrolet nº 33 jumped 10 points in points with four consecutive top-10s (including consecutive runner-up finishes in Texas and Talladega) after Bowyer began experimenting with settings similar to Paul Menard (who joined RCR this year in a car new quarter). "When my teammates find success, I'm going to go and put the things he has in his race car, and if I don't like the way he is driving, I'm going to learn how to drive it, "says Bowyer. "That way I can have the same success because it is proven that the installation. There are a lot of rhyme and the reason why people get on a roll. The Roush organization fought last year and found the final, and they were able to continue that success in (superspeedways). It's because they came up with a better "package.So has RCR, which also has Kevin Harvick (two WINS, fourth in points) sitting pretty on a wave of Chase. The last time the team expanded to a fourth car, the team does not qualify anyone for the game title. Bowyer and Menard (11 points) still have a shot and Jeff Burton (22) has a chance, if he can creep into the top 20 in points (the Chase will consist of the top 10 drivers and two 11 through XX with more WINS). "We've got pretty much where we left off (2010), and I would say that is too large, considering that brought in another team," says Bowyer. "I feel that we can improve and get us some more WINS." For more information about reprints & permissions, visit our FAQ. To report corrections and clarifications, contact standards Editor Brent Jones. For consideration of publication in the newspaper, send comments to letters@usatoday.com. Include name, phone number, city and State for verification. To view our corrections, go to corrections usatoday.com. We've updated the guidelines of the conversation. Changes include a brief review of the moderation process and an explanation of how to use the "report abuse" button. Read more.
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