Don’t Look Back: Kasey Kahne is Charging into Chase Contention.

The drivers currently eligible for this year's Chase better not look now because there’s something getting bigger in their rear view mirror. Kasey Kahne, driver of the No. 9 Budweiser Ford for Richard Petty Motorsports, has suddenly caught fire. He’s begun to look a little like his old self. Maybe not the Kahne of 2006 who won six races, but certainly the one who qualified for NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup last year. After Pocono four races ago, Kahne looked as hopeless as his teammates at RPM. He was 23rd in the standings and 240 points outside of this year’s Chase cutoff. With 12 races to go until the Chase, those are near insurmountable numbers even for a driver in normal circumstances. Kahne is leaving RPM af...

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