{"id":11016,"date":"2013-11-26T08:43:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T13:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=11016"},"modified":"2013-11-26T08:43:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T13:43:59","slug":"johnson-would-of-won-championship-even-without-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/11\/26\/johnson-would-of-won-championship-even-without-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson would of won Championship even without Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11017\" alt=\"johnson1\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/11\/johnson1.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/11\/johnson1.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/11\/johnson1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season has come to an end &#8211; and Jimmie Johnson has claimed his sixth Championship in the series. Fans have had multiple opinions on the setup of the 10-race Chase format to declare the Champion since its inclusion in NASCAR in 2004. As some years, going back by the classic point standings a driver different than the Chase winner would of taken home the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>This season, with or without the Chase &#8211; Johnson would of been the 2013 Champion. After all was said and done, Johnson held a 41 point lead on second place Kevin Harvick according to the pre-Chase points format after Homestead.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the official point standings<em> without<\/em> the Chase.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1) #48-Jimmie Johnson(X) [6 wins], 1248<\/li>\n<li>2) #29-Kevin Harvick(X) [4 wins], 1207, -41<\/li>\n<li>3) #20-Matt Kenseth(X) [7 wins], 1192, -56<\/li>\n<li>4) #18-Kyle Busch(X) [4 wins], 1163, -85<\/li>\n<li>5) #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr.(X), 1144, -104<\/li>\n<li>6) #99-Carl Edwards(X) [2 wins], 1118, -130<\/li>\n<li>7) #15-Clint Bowyer(X), 1115, -133<\/li>\n<li>8) #24-Jeff Gordon(X) [1 win], 1087, -161<\/li>\n<li>9) #16-Greg Biffle(X) [1 win], 1077, -171<\/li>\n<li>10) #22-Joey Logano(X) [1 win], 1071, -177<\/li>\n<li>11) #78-Kurt Busch(X), 1071, -177<\/li>\n<li>12) #2-Brad Keselowski [1 win], 1041, -207<\/li>\n<li>13) #39-Ryan Newman(X)[1 win], 1027, -221<\/li>\n<li>14) #5-Kasey Kahne(X) [2 wins], 1022, -226<\/li>\n<li>15) #1-Jamie McMurray [1 win], 1007, -241<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Las Vegas has Johnson pegged as a 3-1 odd to win the Cup in the 2014 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season has come to an end &#8211; and Jimmie Johnson has claimed his sixth Championship in the series. Fans have had multiple opinions on the setup of the 10-race Chase format to declare the Champion since its inclusion in NASCAR in 2004. As some years, going back by the classic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[786,788],"tags":[708],"coauthors":[674],"class_list":{"0":"post-11016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar-topstory","8":"category-news","9":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11016"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}