With only four races to go in the 2010 Chase for the Sprint Cup, counting Sunday’s Amp Energy Juice 500 at Talladega Speedway, three drivers have pulled away somewhat from the rest of the Chase field and set themselves apart as the true championship contenders heading into the final stretch of races to decide this season’s champion—Jimmie Johnson, Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick.
As has been commonplace the last few years, Johnson heads into this final stretch as the championship points leader, with Hamlin in second and Harvick holding down third. The three, along with the rest of the Sprint Cup competitors, face what is most certainly the biggest wild card of the Chase—Talladega—on Sunday. Anything can, and more often than not does, happen at Talladega Superspeedway.
If you overlook Talladega’s unpredictability and take a look at statistics, these top-three drivers are pretty evenly matched heading into Sunday’s race at Talladega. Johnson and Harvick each have a win at the Alabama track. They also each have four top-fives there and their Talladega top-10 tallies are just one apart—Harvick with eight and Johnson with seven. Hamlin is lagging behind just slightly with no wins and one fewer top-five with three.
They also each have their own kind of momentum heading into Talladega. Johnson is the points leader and is the reigning champion four times over, Hamlin comes into this weekend as the most recent race winner, and Harvick heads into Sunday’s race as the most recent winner at Talladega.
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