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• Track Smack: With Chase looming, can Bowyer be caught?
  1. The largest deficit ever overcome by a driver to make the Chase with two races remaining was 90 points, by Kasey Kahne in 2006. Jamie McMurray is 100 back. Can he do it?
• Track Smack: No one taking hold of role as favorite or 12th man
  1. Three races to go until the Chase, and Clint Bowyer and Mark Martin are separated by 35 points for the 12th and final spot. Who gets in?
• Early trouble at Michigan drops Martin to 13th
  Mark Martin fell out of Chase position Sunday at Michigan International Speedway because he was too aggressive too soon.
• Inside Line: For Martin, Kahne resolution removes 'grinding' burden
  Mark Martin had every right to walk into the media center at Michigan International Speedway and tell everybody he told them so. For months, he insisted that he'd be back in Hendrick Motorsports' No. 5 car next season, even as speculation swirled to the contrary. It all made him bristle. It made him angry. A few times, it made him lash out at reporters who were trying to find some clarity in a story that only grew murkier by the minute.
• Head2Head: Martin or Bowyer for the final Chase position?
  Michigan, Bristol, Atlanta and Richmond -- those are the final four races before the Chase field is set and the 10-race postseason begins. The top 11 in points all have a 100-point cushion from 13th, so barring a major collapse, look to be in the Chase field.