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Don’t look now, Earnhardt Nation, but Jimmie Johnson is snapping at the heels of your No. 1 hero.

For the first time in a decade, Dale Earnhardt Jr. has won more than one race in a season.

It has been more than a day since Jimmie Johnson took the checkered flag at Dover.

With all the talk of short attention spans and compact TV windows, there is a groundswell of sentiment for shortening NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races.

Never was the concept of NASCAR as a team sport more in evidence that in was in Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

On Saturday night at Kansas Speedway, Jeff Gordon won the 89th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race of his career—third-most on the all-time list.

Denny Hamlin’s victory in Sunday’s Aaron’s 499 at Talladega Superspeedway was a surprise.

From a competition standpoint, one of the most radical changes we’ll see on the track this year will come Saturday afternoon at Talladega Superspeedway.

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season is the longest in professional sports, and breaks are few and far between.