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<\/a>The magic number is 97, any driver that is 97 points ahead of 11th place at the end of the night will officially clinch a top ten spot.<\/p>\nA win by either Keselowski or Stewart will guarantee that they are in.\u00a0 Hamlin, Kahne, and Bowyer would need to win AND get some help.<\/p>\n
Five time, NSCS Champion Jimmie Johnson can clinch his spot in the 2012 Chase if he wins, or if he finishes in second place after leading the most laps.<\/p>\n
Greg Biffle, the current points leader will clinch his spot with a finish of 28th with no laps led, 29th with one lap led, and 30th with the most laps led.<\/p>\n
The scenario for the No.17 of Matt Kenseth is he must finish 8th with no laps led, ninth with 1 lap led, or tenth with the most laps led.<\/p>\n
Dale Earnhardt Jr., will clinch his spot in the Chase if he finishes sixth with no laps led, seventh with 1 lap led or eighth with the most laps led.<\/p>\n
When a driver clinches a spot in the NSCS Chase they are awarded with a black and yellow cap with the 2012 Chase logo on it, currently no driver has one, but after this weekend that could all change.<\/p>\n
Bristol Motor Speedway won’t make that easy on the drivers though. With its newly repaved surface, no one knows what to really expect out of a track that is known for beating and banging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brad Keselowski, Tony Stewart, Denny Hamlin, Kasey Kahne, Clint Bowyer and Martin Truex Jr. are just six of the drivers hoping to lock themselves into at least a Wild Card spot in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Chase this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway. The magic number is 97, any driver that is 97 points […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[87,107,154,170,244,315,408,417],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-brad-keselowski","tag-bristol-motor-speedway","tag-clint-bowyer","tag-dale-earnhardt-jr","tag-greg-biffle","tag-jimmie-johnson","tag-martin-truex-jr","tag-matt-kenseth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}