CHANGING LANES
Crazy Woman Driver By Kay Bell
Racing Report Card
Jimmie Johnson's recent win at Darlington win was the 200th victory Hendrick Motorsports. The various race series have been running long enough now to be graded on how well they and their drivers are doing.
We're only halfway through the racing season, but I'm as impatient as Carl Edwards was in jumping the restart at Richmond back in April. So forget about waiting until the end of the season. I'm handing out some mid-term racing grades.
Trouble for Traditional
NASCAR Titans NASCAR's powerhouse Hendrick Motorsports team got off to an uncharacteristically slow 2012 start, with all four of its big-name drivers struggling out of the gate. Hendrick went to Daytona with 1999 career
26
wins, and didn't get its landmark number 200 until Jimmie Johnson won at Darlington in mid-May. And saying that if he didn't have bad luck, he wouldn't have any luck at all.
Meanwhile, Chip Ganassi Racing, long a dominant force in the IndyCar series, stumbled to a similarly surprising slow start. None of its drivers, including three-time champion Dario Franchitti, found the portion of the schedule. Meanwhile, Ganassi's chief rival, Penske Racing, started with a bang, putting Ganassi
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