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Byline: BILL McGUIRE
The NASCAR season has yet to reach the halfway point, but the teams with a shot at the Nextel Cup championship are already in an elevated state of anxiety. You can thank the new points system for the nervous twitch in the garage area. With 10 races to go, the top 10 drivers in points (and those within 400 points of the leader) advance to the final playoff round for the title. From there, everyone else continues to race, but out of the hunt, out of the money. While many assumed the new format might encourage teams and drivers to coast for points and save their best game for the postseason, it has had the opposite effect. Every race, every ...