Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s championship hopes this season are all but gone, and he never really ever even got in the game.

Well, it worked in the video game.
Carl Edwards did everything he could Sunday, including purposely bouncing off the concrete wall at Kansas Speedway, but it wasn’t quite enough to beat two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson.

KANSAS CITY, Kansas - Flat-out, wide-open, and get the heck out of my way, or eat my bumper. That’s the approach Greg Biffle, Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards are taking in this championship chase.

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DOVER, Del. - Greg Biffle, a NASCAR Cup winner since 2003, is a well known part of the stock car racing world.

It came down to the final four laps of the 40-lap feature to decide the 2008 championship as Walker Arthur of Goode held off a late-race challenge by Stevie Long to take Round 4 of the Victory Lap Late Model $25,000 Challenge at Bill Sawyer’s Virginia Motor Speedway.

For the past three seasons, Greg Biffle has been trying to prove he can hang with his high-profile teammates, Carl Edwards and Matt Kenseth.

If Kyle Busch is to prove he’s got what it takes to dethrone two-time defending Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, now might be the time to strut his stuff.

Greg Biffle finished a middling regular season as a driver who just couldn’t win.
Now, he’s the one who simply can’t lose.
Biffle traded a lengthy winless streak for a winning one when it mattered most. He made it a sparkling 2-for-2 in the Chase for the championship Sunday, using another late pass — this time with nine laps to go — to hold off Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards and bolster his bid for the Sprint Cup title. 

LOS ANGELES - NASCAR’s venerable 358 engine is a dinosaur.