It was a good day at Homestead-Miami Speedway for Carl Edwards on Nov. 21, who won his second consecutive race, leading 190 of 267 laps and becoming the sixth Ford driver in the past seven years to win the race. (Photos: Getty Images)
- It took Jimmie Johnson 327 races to win five championships. It took Dale Earnhardt 390. It took Richard Petty 654.
- In Petty’s defense, the seasons were quite a bit longer in his heyday.
- Johnson has never won at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He finished second in 2004, when he fell by eight points to Kurt Busch in the Chase, and this year.
- The popular notion that the champion needed to win the final race proved laughable. Of the three contenders – Johnson, Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick – only Johnson led a lap, and he led only one.
- Winning the final two races would appear to give Carl Edwards quite a jumpstart on 2011. Edwards went winless in 2009 after winning nine times in 2008 and also winning at Homestead. Asked about being cast as title contender in 2011, Edwards said, “Don’t do that again. It didn’t work worth a damn (in 2009).”
- Only Petty and Earnhardt, each with seven titles, have won more than Johnson. His, of course, have been in a row.
- How can NASCAR tinker with the Chase, given the results of the season just ended?
- A Ford driver has won the Ford 400 six times in the last seven years. Coincidence?
- Edwards’ new gimmick is greeting the fans by joining them in the grandstands after his celebratory back flip. Wonder how that’s going to work if a victory is, shall we say, controversial?
- Kyle Busch’s overall victory total in 2010 was 24: three Sprint Cup, eight Camping World Truck and 13 Nationwide.
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