Take 5: Five Takeaways From The Second Race In The Chase

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Take 2 – Mistakes and bad luck have shaped the chase thus far.

For many of the drivers in the chase this season has been filled with good fortune and many of the chase drivers have been mistake free. Well, the fortune for most has seem to gone out the window and the mistakes for some seem to keep piling up. In almost every single car in the chase was involved in some sort of wreck or committed a mistake on pit road; some drivers had more than one issue take place during the race. For drivers like Denny Hamlin and Jeff Gordon it was bad fortune that hurt them. Hamlin with a fuel intake failure and Gordon cutting a tire while in the top-10 with less than 10 laps to go. Neither of them were able to battle back and both finished outside of the top-20. Other drivers like Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr were more fortunate and were able to bounce back. Busch was involved in a late wreck and drove through the field from 26th place sans a hood or most of the front of his No. 18 machine. Earnhardt Jr. battled back from some mid-race contact and being a lap down after having a loose tire. I believe that Greg Biffle is the only chase driver to not have any issues thus far in the chase, aside from the fact that Roush Fenway Racing keeps building him crappy cars.