Bass Pro Shops MBNA Running Order Among Chase Drivers
Actual finish in parentheses.
- Carl Edwards (1)
- Mark Martin (3)
- Matt Kenseth (5)
- Greg Biffle (7)
- Tont Stewart (9)
- Jimmie Johnson (16)
- Ryan Newman (23)
- Kurt Busch (36)
- Rusty Wallace (37)
- Jeremy Mayfield (38)
Standings with three races to go:
- Stewart 6,100 pts (unchanged)
- Johnson -43 pts (unchanged)
- Biffle -75 pts (+1 place)
- Edwards -107 pts (+1)×
- Newman -107 pts (-2)
- Martin -143 pts (+1)
- Kenseth -155 pts (+2)
- R. Wallace -257 pts (-2)
- Kurt Busch -260 pts (-1)
- Mayfield -310 pts (unchanged)
×—Owns tiebreaker with more wins (3).
Note: Some media outlets said R. Wallace, Kurt Busch, and Mayfield were mathematically eliminated from the championship. That is not true. The most points a driver can make up in a race is 156 points, and in theory, all three drivers would have to have big points days when the leaders falter. However, no driver can be eliminated officially until a driver is behind the leader by 156 points multiplied by the number of races remaining. A driver is still in contention as long as the difference between the leader and such driver is no greater than 156 points (the difference between first and 43rd) multiplied by the number of races remaining, provided said drivers start all remaining races.
Read more about this topic: 2005 Chase For The NEXTEL Cup
Famous quotes containing the words bass, pro, shops, running, order and/or chase:
“How are we to know that a Dracula is a key-pounding pianist who lifts his hands up to his face, or that a bass fiddle is the doghouse, or that shmaltz musicians are four-button suit guys and long underwear boys?”
—In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The upbeat lawyer/negotiator of preadolescence has become a real pro by now—cynical, shrewd, a tough cookie. You’re constantly embroiled in a match of wits. You’re exhausted.”
—Ron Taffel (20th century)
“Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself—life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“... the sentimentalist ... exclaims: “Would you have a woman step down from her pedestal in order to enter practical life?” Yes! A thousand times, yes! If we can really find, after a careful search, any women mounted upon pedestals, we should willingly ask them to step down in order that they may meet and help to uplift their sisters. Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few.”
—Bertha Honore Potter Palmer (1849–1918)
“Did ye not hear it?—No; ‘twas but the wind,
Or the car rattling o’er the stony street;
On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)