Not a good day for Chase drivers

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Only four of the drivers in NASCAR's Chase for the Nextel Cup finished in the top 10 at Dover International Speedway. Carl Edwards won the race, but will most likely be penalized because his car did not pass post-race inspections. He will probably be fined and lose at least 25 points in the Cup standings.
Kyle Busch looks like he had the best race among the Chase drivers. He finished fifth and escaped the late-race wreck that collected a number of drivers in the Chase.
"It definitely was an adventure out there today," said Busch, driver of the No. 5 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. "Our car was pretty good. Our Kellogg's/CARQUEST Chevrolet was all right the beginning of the race and towards the middle part of the race, we were near the front and got up as high as fourth I think. We started fading a little bit, battling the way the handling was on the car. It wasn't all that great, but we were working on it. We got through that big wreck luckily somehow, some way, with just a little cosmetic damage there to the left rear and the wing plate torn off. But all in all, it was a good day for us and a well deserved finish but maybe even a few spots better than what we deserved."
Only six cars finished the race on the lead lap. The other Chase drivers who finished in the top 10 were Jeff Burton, in seventh, and Tony Stewart, in ninth.
"Oh gosh, I was on suicide watch for the first 200 laps, but we finally hit on something that the car liked and got ourselves in a position that we were already a lap down, but we kept getting boxed in in the pit box," said Stewart, driver of the No. 20 Chevrolet for Joe Gibbs Racing. "That's just one of those pit roads where there are very short boxes. We'd get in and then we'd lose position -- not necessarily positions on the scoreboard, but positions on the track and then we'd have to fight our way through."

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