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Johnson has stranglehold on Cup title

By Richard Durrett
ESPNDallas.com

Monday, November 2, 2009

The Chase for the Sprint Cup arrives at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend, but there's really nothing left to chase. Jimmie Johnson took all the drama right out of NASCAR's championship playoff format. All he did was avoid a couple of typical Talladega wrecks Sunday -- something his chief competitors couldn't do -- and used a little luck to finish sixth. He takes a commanding 184-point lead into Sunday's Dickies 500 at TMS. Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus did what they seem to do with amaz ...

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