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NASCAR Sprint-Cup Series
CUP: Roush Fenway Squad Beginning To Flex Muscle
Roush Fenway Drivers swept positions 4-6 at Bristol...
Tom Jensen  |  Posted March 21, 2010   Bristol, TN
Matt Kenseth is fifth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup standings heading into the final race. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
Roush Fenway Racing is mounting up points the same way a technically skilled boxer does in the ring: By being consistent round after round after round, the team is positioning itself to win a heavyweight fight, or at least get into championship contention.

LINK > UNOFFICIAL RESULTS: Food City 500 - BRISTOL

In Sunday’s Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, RFR drivers Greg Biffle, Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards finished fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively, making for another solid points day for the team.

Five races into the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup season, Kenseth is second in points, just a single marker behind leader Kevin Harvick. Biffle is fourth, just 24 points back of the leader. More impressive, perhaps, is the fact that Kenseth and Biffle have each finished in the top 10 in every race this season, the only two drivers who have done so.

And despite his well-publicized run-in with Brad Keselowski, Edwards picked up seven spots in the standings on Sunday to move all the up to 13th in points.

The team clearly is on course to have an excellent season, even if it still has a little ways to go to catch the current heavyweight champ, four-time defending Sprint Cup title holder Jimmie Johnson.

But progress is being made. Sunday at Bristol, all three of the RFR drivers got to where they were by gambling on tires on the day’s final pit stops on Lap 485.

Biffle, Kenseth and Edwards took two tires each under that caution period, as did Tony Stewart, putting the four of them ahead of the day’s dominant car, Kurt Busch’s Penske Racing Dodge, and the Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet of Johnson. Both Busch and Johnson took four fresh Goodyears, and in the end that was the difference.

Once the track went green, Biffle was able to lead a lap, but no one had anything for Johnson, who won for the third time in five races this season.

Still, the Roush drivers got excellent finishes and weren’t about to second-guess themselves after the fact.


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