NASCAR at Kansas 2016: Preview, Prediction for the Hollywood Casino 400

Now that the clouds have risen from Charlotte Motor Speedway and Jimmie Johnson emerged victorious for the first time in 25 races, we can turn our canny eye toward America’s breadbasket: Kansas. Your correspondent ranked Johnson somewhere near the bottom of the most recent power ranking in spite of the recent speed Hendrick Motorsports has shown as a collective since the Chase for the Sprint Cup started. "Nobody ever gave up, we know what a champion Jimmie is," said team owner Rick Hendrick, per Holly Cain’s NASCAR.com story, "I've never taken the champagne bath in 30-something years, so it was like our first race (victory) again." Which invites the question, tangential as it may be, what was Hendrick doing during those lush Jef...

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