NASCAR at Martinsville 2016: Winners, Losers from the Goody’s Fast Relief 500

A year ago, Jeff Gordon won for the ninth time at Martinsville Speedway punching his ticket to Homestead. A year later, Jimmie Johnson won for the ninth time at Martinsville Speedway punching his ticket to Homestead—this time racing for a special seventh championship. Johnson can no longer ignore it. NBCSN’s Kyle Petty, whose father Richard Petty has seven titles, said: "If you want to ignore it, just don’t win six. You can’t ignore it. Jimmie Johnson is in that rarified air since he won that sixth championship. When you look at what he’s done, he deserves to be there. He goes in week in, week out, he’s that kind of driver. This is history-in-the-making of our sport." Johnson’s fate, for the time, i...

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