Chad Knaus and Jimmie Johnson: The Perfect Weekend

In an article published earlier today on Bleacher Report, I wrote about one of the greatest goals, if not the greatest goal, of Chad Knaus' career—the "perfect weekend." As he has described it in various interviews and on various shows over the years, a "perfect weekend" consists of being the fastest in qualifying practice, winning the pole, being the fastest in both race practices, then winning the race. He has discussed this as a "goal" as far back as 2004, but defined it even more strongly in an interview with David Newton in August 2006: "Until we go out there and we have a perfect weekend will I ever think that we've actually completed any type of task," said Knaus. It seemed most fitting then that this weekend, at the final race the...

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