There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a possibility that Mark Martin could miss the Chase despite having the most wins. This would lead to possible changes in the Chase-qualifying format.<\/p>\n
Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how I would change it: To qualify: Top 12 in standings (or top 10) plus any driver with one win. This would make every race count and give the smaller teams a realistic chance at the Chase. Winners would still get 10 bonus points for every win to start the Chase, but now, on any given weekend a driver could qualify. This could lead to Cinderella stories like George Mason in NCAA basketball. Looking back to 2007 and 2008…\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a possibility that Mark Martin could miss the Chase despite having the most wins. This would lead to possible changes in the Chase-qualifying format. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how I would change it: To qualify: Top 12 in standings (or top 10) plus any driver with one win. This would make every race count and give the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17029,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17028\/revisions\/17029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}