Winning when it counts
With a win at Texas Motor Speedway, Carl Edwards punched his ticket into the final round of the 2016 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Check out these drivers with the most Chase race wins:
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Brad Keselowski, 5 wins
Keselowski won at Chicagoland and Dover on his way to earning the 2012 Sprint Cup title.
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Clint Bowyer, 5
A driver without a championship, Bowyer has still been able to make a valiant effort.
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Joey Logano, 6
Logano has won all five races with Team Penske.
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Jeff Gordon, 7
Although Gordon won all four of his championships before the Chase era, he fought hard to get a fifth title under the format.
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Matt Kenseth, 7
Kenseth won his only championship in 2003, the final year under the old points system.
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Greg Biffle, 7
Biffle has never earned the title, but he been known to win a few come Chase time.
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Denny Hamlin, 7
Hamlin has always been strong during the Chase, but he’s still searching for that first championship.
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Carl Edwards, 9
Surprisingly, Edwards doesn’t have a championship to his credit despite all the Chase success. The most heartbreaking moment for Edwards came in 2011, when he tied with Tony Stewart in the points, but lost the tiebreaker because Stewart had more wins on the season.
But with his win in Sunday's rain-delayed and rain-shortened AAA Texas 500, Edwards advanced into the Championship 4 and will have another shot at a title.
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Tony Stewart, 11
Two of Stewart’s three Sprint Cup Series championships have been earned under the Chase format – 2005 and 2011.
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Kevin Harvick, 11
The 2014 Sprint Cup champion is no slouch when it comes to winning races during NASCAR’s version of the playoffs. Harvick has won two races in the 2016 Chase at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and Kansas Speedway.
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Jimmie Johnson, 28
This is just one of the reasons why Johnson is a six-time Sprint Cup champion. Johnson earned his ninth win at Martinsville Speedway to advance into the Championship 4 of the 2016 Chase to compete for a record-tying seventh title.
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