What a ride: How JJ won the Cup

It started at New Hampshire and ended at Homestead-Miami. The crowning moment of the 10-race Chase for the Cup? A fourth straight title for a guy named Jimmie Johnson.

Blitz Awards and Razzies, Part IV

Drumroll, please. It's time to honor the best (and the worst) of the 2009 NASCAR season with the fourth annual Blount's Blitz Awards and Razzies … minus the red-carpet treatment, of course.

Crunching numbers after Homestead

...even a little better for a long period of time? Call me a realist. I saw Denny Hamlin come from the back and put on yet another impressive performance in the Chase. If we...

2009 Power Rankings: Final

...remember, make your mama proud. New this week Kevin Harvick. Dropped out Joey Logano. Biggest movers Denny Hamlin and Jeff Burton jump four spots each. Biggest loser Juan Pablo Montoya drops six spots from...

Can anyone stop the 48?

Jimmie Johnson's quest for five straight Cup titles begins Feb. 14 at Daytona. Will anyone be able to stop the 48?

Denny Hamlin celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Ford 400 Sprint Cup Series auto race at...

Rivalries a fun sideshow to JJ's 4-peat

Go figure. The 2009 NASCAR season ends just as the real fun begins. Now we have to wait until February for Denny Hamlin's title run and the rematch between Tony Stewart and Juan Pablo Montoya.

Johnson worked hard for fourth title

Jimmie Johnson might make it look easy, but winning his fourth straight title was anything but, right down the the final laps at Homestead.

Denny Hamlin does a burnout to celebrate winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series' Ford 400 auto race at...

Johnson finishes 5th in finale

Jimmie Johnson has won a NASCAR record fourth consecutive championship with a fifth-place finish in the finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Johnson accomplishes the unthinkable

AP Photo/Rusty Jarrett Jimmie Johnson did something that many NASCAR observers thought would never be done. HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Jimmie Johnson wa...

Busch wins title by starting finale

Kyle Busch has won the Nationwide Series championship.

...NASCAR Pennsylvania 500 auto race Monday, Aug. 3, 2009, at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. Denny Hamlin won the race. (AP Photo/Mel Evans

Homestead Chase Chances

...9 9th 88.1 Juan Pablo Montoya (6) 3 0 0 22.0 17th 76.2 Denny Hamlin (8) 4 0 2 13.0 13th 87.6 Ryan Newman (9) 7 0 2 20...

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NASCAR awards, Page 2 style

With the 2009 Sprint Cup season all but complete, Page 2 hands out its own unique awards to the NASCAR world.