Kevin Harvick, Jeff Gordon Vie for Win Over Jimmie Johnson in Chicagoland

All that talk about preseason favorites, who'll dethrone Jimmie Johnson, and who'll be inducted into the Class of 2010 in the NASCAR Hall of Fame is all in the past, because Saturday night's Lifelock.com 400 marks the first race of the second half of the Sprint Cup season. So far, it's been a season of surprises, with a new face leading the tour in points, another driver who's been nearly as dominant and strong as a certain four-time champion, and a manufacturer that's been a relative no-show this year. That said, all eyes will be on a select group of drivers who, no pun intended, step up to the plate at this nine-year-old facility known as Chicagoland Speedway. A one-and-a-half-mile sweeping track, its corners are brutal on both man and...

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