How’s this for the definitive scary stat:
En route to taking control of the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series points lead, Jeff Gordon has averaged an incredible 181 points per race over the last six races. During that time, he has never finished lower than fourth, doing so twice and both times earning 170 points.
Gordon has placed a recent punctuation on an overall surge by Hendrick Motorsports. HMS has had at least one car in the top 10 for the last 40 races; the last outside-the-top-10 event for HMS was April 9, 2006 at Texas – Jimmie Johnson finished 11th and Kyle Busch 15th.
The last time HMS didn’t have at least one top-15 finish? That was 67 races ago, June 26, 2005 at Infineon Raceway.
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