Jimmie Johnson's win at Martinsville is his seventh victory this year. It also gave him some bragging rights in joining an elite few that have won 3 or more consecutive races there: Fred Lorenzen, winning 4, Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough, Darrell Waltrip, Rusty Wallace and now Johnson, all winning three in a row.

As a matter of fact, this victory gives Hendrick Motorsports a total of 15 wins this year, nearly half of all the races run. It's no wonder I am sick of seeing Gordon or Johnson celebrating in victory lane.

Ten of the Chasers finished in the top 15. Not bad, considering it is the shortest track on the circuit and there was a record number of cautions, 21.

Kurt Busch was the biggest loser in the Chase, finishing 31st and I'm not even clear on what happened to him. I guess I missed it. Can anyone fill me in? Martin Truex Jr. couldn't keep his car going straight. He spun around a handful of times. He managed to finish 19th.

Just an observation a bit off topic: Maybe it was nerves, but during one of the last cautions of the day the camera went to Jeff Gordon's wife, Ingrid Vandebosch. It looked to me like she would rather have been anywhere other than at that race. She didn't look all that enthused at all. Like I said, it was just a thought that crossed my mind when I saw her on the television. Did anyone else think that or was it just me?

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