The four-man chase for the Nextel Cup continues straight into Atlanta.

When looking back over the past six races namely the previous six chase races, they have all been interesting in one way or another. Starting off in New Hampshire which I watched from live in person in the pit area and on top of the #29 Shell pitbox was not what it was in past seasons, but in the same respect it showed that one team is a chase contender being Clint Bowyer, who dominated the field throughout the day and picked up his first career victory.

However, Dover was completely different and ironicly has been the theme for the chase races so far with the exception of New Hampshire, Dover was a game of survival with Carl Edwards being victorious and with that victory also fined and docked 25 points for right rear being too low which was the right call by NASCAR. Moving forward straight into the rain and darkness of Kansas where drivers, teams, owners, officials and fans found themselves experiencing a nightmare of red flags, rain, delays and one controversial finish were this race fan still doesn’t know who really won if you look at the rule book, however it was Greg Biffle’s victory and that how it was scored.

Fourth in line, Talladega Superspeedway, which in my eye’s has and always will be referred to as a "Demotion Derby", it was also the sight of three hours of top line races (boring) followed by 10 laps of excitement with what I thought was a Tony Stewart victory that was not to be as Jeff Gordon grabbed the victory over his teammate Jimmie Johnson and the Car Of Tomorrow showed it needed more work.

Next up was Lowe’s Motor Speedway, which was the sight of the Burton Smith – SMI vs. Concord, N.C. fighting over a to be built drag strip and may end with building a new Charlotte Motor Speedway over in the Charlotte area.

Two things about the one, from building new speedway in Charlotte, at first I was bothered by it expertly with the history of this 1960 built speedway, but it all depends now, if Smith is going to build a new speedway, I would be in favor if he built a ¾ to just over 1 mile speedway with about a 100,000 seats, we need better racing at that speedway period. With that said, the race wasn’t all that bad, but not nearly as excited as earlier races before they touched the race like in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Oh yeah, Jeff Gordon continued his winning ways with another victory and larger points lead over Jimmie Johnson.

Finally one of my favorite tracks on the schedule, Martinsville and what a race it was, I enjoyed this one, to me it had the “wow” factor that so many is looking for, the “wow” factor describes what the fans are looking for in racing and not every race has it, but this one did and it was topped off with a late race duel between Jimmie Johnson and Ryan Newman, along with Kyle Busch and in some cases the man Dale Earnhardt Jr. with Jimmie Johnson owning this track once again with another victory and one step closer to the points lead.

With all that said, it technically is a three (four)-man race now with J. Gordon leading, J. Johnson 2nd, Clint Bowyer 3rd and Tony Stewart 4th unless the front runners have problems. Now its off to Atlanta, another one of my favorite tracks with great finishes, I just wish this track had better attendants and that requires two dates moved out of the cold season.

Before I sign off, I wanted to answer a question (WindTunnel style), If you are a Junior fan in 2007, will you be a Junior fan in 2008? I’ve been a Dale Earnhardt Jr. fan since sometime around the 1997-1998 seasons when he was coming up in the Busch Series and I continue to be fan now, will I be next year, hell yeah and I have no intention of stopping. I’m excited about next season with a new sponsor, owner, teammates and him driving the #88, I’ve even purchased his 2008 #88 National Guard Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet diecast and next season should be interesting.

Going beyond that, in the past several years, I’ve become a Chevrolet racing fan not only with Dale Earnhardt jr., but Tony Stewart as well – Chevrolet would also including ALMS and other series, I always loved looking at Corvette and still do, how about a new Camaro… So Tony Stewart, Stewart moving to Toyota, will I continue there too, yeah I will, I watch Tony Stewart because he outspoken, he’s driver who not afraid to mix it up and I predict he won’t be driving a Toyota for very long… he bound for Chevrolet sometime in 2010. Well that’s it here, from this Dale Jr. fan, see yeah!