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Johnson's finish as good as a win

By Ed Hinton
ESPN.com

Sunday, November 1, 2009

TALLADEGA, Ala. -- Jimmie Johnson opened the drain NASCAR poured its season down Sunday. Now get this for working a system and a screwball race made screwier by NASCAR's pre-race antics (I mean edicts): Riding around 30th or worse for most of the afternoon, Johnson blew the Chase to smithereens and turned the rest of it into his personal, three-city victory parade through Fort Worth, Phoenix and Miami. All that's left to mop up is a little math. He'll likely clinch at Phoenix in two weeks, sho ...

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