NASCAR was holding a great race and hoping that its fans stick around when the NFL's regular season kicks off this week.
The People's Pitstop managed to rack up 295 points during Sunday night's Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The season total rose to 6,720, good enough for 38,286th overall on Yahoo Sports and lifting us 19 spots, to 48th, in the Fans of From the Marbles league.
Here's how the Internet's favorite fantasy NASCAR team did it.
Tony Stewart: Started 5th, finished 1st, 176 laps led and 110 fantasy points, including 20 for leading the most laps. He should have this much trouble with restarts every week.
Kasey Kahne: Started 10th, finished 32nd (15 laps behind the leaders), 16 laps led and 38 fantasy points, including the 10-point bonus for leading a lap. A late get-together with Kurt Busch caused a flat tire that pretty much ended Kahne's chances.
Ryan Newman: Started 2nd, finished 8th, 9 laps led and 91 fantasy points, including the 10-points lap-leading bonus. His score would have been higher if Kahne, who blamed Newman for his get-together with Busch and tried to settle the score. It's never good for your fantasy team to have a driver involved in a dispute like this; it's even worse when your team is on both sides of one.
A.J. Allmendinger: Started 16th, finished 18th and 56 fantasy points. You know you had a quiet race when your most exciting citation in the NASCAR lap-by-lap report shows you breaking into the top 10 -- on lap 26.
Ten drivers have clinched a spot in the Chase; the others have one race to do so. NASCAR takes its act to Richmond on Saturday night. The polls are up and will close Thursday evening. Most of the football polls (located right below the NASCAR ones) will close Sunday morning. The one involving the Minnesota Vikings defense will close Thursday morning. Please vote now.
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