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NATIONWIDE DOMINANCE.(Competition)
Byline: AL PEARCE
Seven straight and nine of the last 10 Nationwide (formerly Busch) Series champions raced for Sprint (formerly Nextel) Cup outfits that overwhelmed the series' grass-roots teams. Unless something dramatic happens, that will continue this year.
Defending champion Carl Edwards and 2007 rookie of the year David Ragan (both with Roush Fenway Racing), as well as Clint Bowyer (Richard Childress Racing) and David Reutimann (Michael Waltrip Racing) will contest the full 35-race Nationwide and 36-race Cup schedules. That's down from recent years, when six to eight Cup drivers did the double.
Full-time Cup drivers Edwards, Reutimann (second), Kevin Harvick (fourth), Ragan (fifth), Greg Biffle (ninth) and Matt Kenseth (10th) dominated last year. Jason Leffler (third), Bobby Hamilton Jr. (sixth), Stephen Leicht (seventh) and Marcos Ambrose (eighth) were the only non-Cup drivers in the top 10. And Leffler, Leicht and Aric Almirola were the only non-Cup drivers to win last year.
Given the gap between Cup-based teams and everyone else, there's no reason to think Edwards won't win it again. He's back with the same Ford-powered Roush Fenway team that won four races and was first in points from round three, in Mexico City in March, until the end of the year. He won the title by 618 points after flirting with the largest margin in series history (Harvick's 824 in 2006).
Bowyer is among the few drivers (maybe the only driver) who might stand in the way. His Chevy-based, RCR-backed team returns intact after winning a pole and two races (plus 19 top-10s) last year. Despite only 22 ...
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