NASCAR vets Gordon, Stewart look to get back into Chase - Toronto Sun
As NASCAR's so-called Race to the Chase heads to Michigan International Speedway this week for the Pure Michigan 400, we have a storyline that is shaping up to be a sort of tale of two drivers. I am talking about four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jeff Gordon and three-time champion Tony Stewart. Gordon, 44, announced at the start of this season that the 2015 campaign would be his final stock car tour and he hoped that it might coincide with a run for a fifth championship. Well, good intentions aside, Gordon's season has not gone as he had hoped, especially after coming a 2014 season where the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet team recorded four wins and was a contender for that long sought after fifth... However as he prepares for the race at MIS on Sunday, Gordon finds himself without a win in the first 22 races of 2015 and sitting precariously in 12th spot in the points parade. He knows a win at Michigan will push aside anything that happened so far and put him in the Chase and he should be looking forward to the big, two-mile oval -- where historically he has done very well, with three wins, the last coming a year ago. Gordon, speaking after the race at Watkins Glen where he had oil line woes and finished 41st, knows what he has to do to get in the Chase. "I feel like we are doing what we need to do from the point standings point of view. Source: www.torontosun.com
