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Motorsport News: Russ Bond's Weekly Report

Well, it's finally over, and just as I predicted last week, the Nextel Cup for the chase got a lot clearer after the UAW-Ford 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Well, sort of.You see, with all the talk of the 'big one' leading up to the race, and how many of the contenders such pileup would take out, no one, but no one would have predicted that two rivals running neck-to-neck in the chase for the cup would initiate what turned out to be not one, but two 'big ones'.

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Motorsport News: Russ Bond's Weekly Report

Well, it's finally over, and just as I predicted last week, the Nextel Cup for the chase got a lot clearer after the UAW-Ford 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Well, sort of.You see, with all the talk of the 'big one' leading up to the race, and how many of the contenders such pileup would take out, no one, but no one would have predicted that two rivals running neck-to-neck in the chase for the cup would initiate what turned out to be not one, but two 'big ones'.