QUESTIONS & ATTITUDE

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June 15, 2018 - 11:00 PM

Compelling questions … and maybe a few actual answers

Shouldn’t a team trifecta get more hoopla?

Probably, considering it had been 10 years since a NASCAR team swept the top three finishing positions in a Cup race. The Clint Bowyer-Kevin Harvick-Kurt Busch sweep at Michigan was a feat to recognize and something that will likely be memorialized in the Stewart-Haas team shop (though a photo of the three rain-soaked cars sitting behind a red flag isn’t exactly dramatic). It’s also testament to how much things can change in 10 years.

Where are they now?

The last team sweep came courtesy of Roush Racing, at Dover in the fall of 2008: Winner Greg Biffle (now retired), runner-up Matt Kenseth (semi-retired) and third-place Carl Edwards (retired and seemingly off the grid somewhere). Of those in the rest of the top 10 that day, only Harvick, Bowyer and Jimmie Johnson are still in Cup racing, while just seven of that day’s top 20 are still full-timers. Yes, take plenty of photos, because you never know when sunset on the horizon beckons.

— Ken Willis, [email protected]

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