*ick* Rental bowling shoes.

You can't go to this much trouble to change the format of how you determine your champion and end up with a scenario of having a guy who hasn't had a win taking the title. The NA$CAR media has been all over this, "It's all about WINNING to make the Championship" all year. It's kind of like the NFL allowing an 8-8 team that didn't make the playoffs to suddenly play an AFC or NFC title game winner play for the right to go to the Super Bowl. Nothing against Newman at all, he has put the car where it needed to be all season, while all of the "drama" revolved around everyone else. Having 4 tops 5's is only a mediocre season, even by bowling standards. If he wins today with the pressure on then you could justify it, but if he pulls a top 5 and everyone else finishes behind him, he's your champ? Either way, I hope he takes the title.

Just to quiet the hype, and put the pundits in their place.

All these new "rules" are making Jeff Gordon cry.

I think NA$CAR needs another rule:

No wet paper bags in the pit area, until these guys figure out how to fight their way out of one!

There is a REASON here why Jimmie Johnson is a six-time champion, and it's really simple. Johnson repeatedly is able to finish a race, and put that race behind him. It's all about how quickly, you can wipe the sh*t off your shoes. If Newman has that quality too...so it follows that he should have the championship.