Brad Keselowski has a good handle on the driver standings lead (332 points over second-place Carl Edwards), but he’s got some work to do if he’s going to unify the 2010 driver and owner championship.
With only nine races to go, his No. 22 Penske Racing Dodge trails the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toy-ota, driven this season by the duo of Kyle Busch and Brad Coleman, by 83 points.
JGR has won the last two NASCAR Nationwide Series owner championships. The series record is three straight by Bill Baumgardner from 1995-97. Last year, Busch captured the driver and owner titles in the No. 18 car. In 2008, the team’s No. 20 Toyota won the owner championship — its first NASCAR Nationwide Se-ries title — while Clint Bowyer (No. 21 Zaxby’s Chevrolet) was the driver champion.
Shared championships aren’t unique to the NASCAR Nationwide Series. The first split title in NASCAR national-series history was in 2003 when Brian Vickers won the driver championship and Richard Chil-dress Racing’s No. 21 Chevrolet was the owner champion. Edwards won the 2007 driver championship but was denied the owner title by Childress’ No. 29 Chevy.
This is the second-closest margin between the leader and second-place team with nine races left since 2007, when the No. 29 team led the No. 60 by 68 points.
Should the No. 18 forge on, the Busch/Coleman tandem will represent the fewest number of drivers to capture a shared title for JGR. In 2007, the No. 20 championship team used five different drivers. In 2008, the No. 20 used four different drivers. Both of RCR’s split championships were claimed by a team of two drivers.
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