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It's do-or-die time as the Countdown turns to Memphis

By John Schwarb
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, September 14, 2007

When the NHRA announced its new Countdown to the Championship format a year ago at Indianapolis, it figured to add renewed drama to the title drives of familiar drivers. Mainstays such as John Force, Warren Johnson and Angelle Sampey amassed multiple titles through the old points format, so who would have believed they would do anything but shine in the new system? Yet with one race in the books in the Countdown to Four -- the second stage of the three-pronged title chase -- those legends and ...

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