NASCAR At Kansas: Greg Biffle Wins, Jimmie Johnson Takes Over Points Lead

Here are the Chase standings after Race No. 3 of 10:

Biggest gainers: Jeff Gordon (+3), Kevin Harvick (+2), Carl Edwards (+2).

There’s been weeks when Kasey Kahne said he’s questioned whether Richard Petty Motorsports was really putting its best foot forward for his No. 9 team.

With Kahne leaving RPM at the end of the season for Red Bull Racing and ultimately Hendrick Motorsports, the driver said “I go through stages where I wonder” how much a part of the organization he really is.

In 2003, second-year driver Jimmie Johnson won both races at New Hampshire but ran into a problem with veteran Ward Burton.

During one of the Loudon races, Johnson had lost his track position on pit road, forcing him to drive back up through the field. But when Johnson reached Burton’s car, he unintentionally wrecked the now-retired driver.

With everything Clint Bowyer has been through in the last couple weeks – going from the highs of winning at New Hampshire and moving to second in Chase points to the lows of being virtually eliminated by a severe NASCAR penalty – the Kansas native has learned one thing: There’s no place like home.

Bowyer returned to Kansas earlier this week and went all over the state to visit his old stomping grounds. He went to Topeka, Lawrence, then returned to Kansas City to prepare for another race weekend.

Get used to what you’ll be seeing on your TV screens this weekend, NASCAR fans: You’re going to be seeing a lot more of Kansas Speedway in the years to come.

Next season, NASCAR will have two races per year at Kansas. Not because the racing is so great at the cookie cutter track, but because International Speedway Corp. (the France-family controlled company that owns Kansas Speedway) is building a casino/hotel at the track.