NASCAR Chase Heats Up With Kobalt Tools 500 in Phoenix
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Chase moves to the desert with the Kobalt Tools 500 at the Phoenix International Raceway on Sunday November 14th. This race will be a huge hit among fans. The Chase has already been turned upside down by a confident No.11 FedEx team led by driver Denny Hamlin and his crew chief Mike Ford. The Joe Gibbs Racing team pulled off the win in Texas last week and is set for a good finish this weekend in Phoenix.
Denny Hamlin has finished in the top five in three of his last five races in Phoenix. The spring race Hamlin had just undergone ACL surgery and was forced to nurse a damaged car to the finish. Hamlin and the entire Joe Gibbs Racing team have nailed the set up at Phoenix and they should do well.
Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus enter this race frazzled and down 33 points to Hamlin in the title chase. The normally cool and collected Knaus lost it during the Texas race and benched his No. 48 Lowe’s team in favor of Jeff Gordon‘s pit crew. The four time championship pit crew for the No.48 will be on Jeff Gordon’s team for the remainder of the season.
The wild card in this race should be the Stewart Haas team of Ryan Newman and Tony Stewart. Newman won the spring race and is actually a long shot at 35-1 to win the race this weekend. Newman will also be a strong qualifying threat in this race and pit selection is a key to a good day in Phoenix because of the long pit road.
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