2009 Power Rankings: Final

...section at the bottom of the page. But 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...

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 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...

Harvicks win twice at Homestead

Kevin Harvick made a late pass to cap a dominating show to win the season-ending Trucks Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and wife Delana clinched the owners' championship when Ron Hornaday Jr. finished eighth.

Crunching numbers for Homestead

...Brian Vickers and Ragan will get into the Chase field this year, knocking out Clint Bowyer, Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart. Outcome: I got two out of three on both of these, so give...

Who will take season-ending Ford 400?

Mark Garrow previews the final race in the Chase set for Sunday at Homestead.

2009 Power Rankings: Homestead-Miami Speedway

...But remember, make your mama proud. New this week Marcos Ambrose, Martin Truex Jr. Dropped out Kevin Harvick, Brian Vickers. Biggest movers Denny Hamlin, Jeff Burton, and A.J. Allmendinger jump three spots each...

Fireworks at Phoenix in all three series

Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images Ron Hornaday Jr. and his Kevin Harvick Inc. team celebrate winning the 2009 Camping World Truck Series championship a week early. AVONDALE, Ariz...

Edwards wins; Busch fails to clinch title

Carl Edwards rolled to a dominating win at Phoenix International Speedway that staved off Kyle Busch's bid to clinch the Nationwide Series title.

Hornaday takes title, Harvick wins race

Ron Hornaday has won a NASCAR-record fourth Trucks Series championship with a fourth-place finish at Phoenix.

...Jr. (C), driver of the #33 VFW.org Chevrolet, celebrates with the series championship trophy and Kevin Harvick Inc. team members after clinching the title with a fourth place finish in the NASCAR Camping...

Cup regulars hogging the spotlight

Kyle Busch likely will lock up the Nationwide Series championship Saturday night at Phoenix International Raceway. Let's hope he's the last full-time Cup racer to do it.

RCR may be finally getting it together

...in how things sorted out at the end, but the Childress boys ran well all day. Kevin Harvick's fifth-place showing was his best finish in the last two months. Clint Bowyer was...

Crunching numbers for Phoenix

...Busch (April 2005) Average position -- 1.9 Fastest laps -- 76 Percentage of laps led -- 70.2 Kevin Harvick (November 2006) Average position -- 1.2 Fastest laps run -- 72 Percentage of laps led -- 80.8...

Will Johnson rebound in Phoenix?

Mark Garrow previews the ninth race in the Chase, set for Sunday at Phoenix.