Owners Points Scramble for Atlanta Weekend

The season is wrapping up and we've got ourselves a tight points race going on at the 35th spot as a few teams are scrambling to get the automatic starting spot for the first 6 races in 2009.

Right now, there are 15 points between 34th and 35th. Part of this was due to an early exit at Martinsville by Robby Gordon, but nonetheless, he needs to make sure that doesn't happen anymore... somehow.

The No. 22 car seems to be confidently in 33rd, BUT if anything happens to them in the next 4 races, that could be a different tale of stress for the Bill Davis team. The same could be said for the 01, 66 and 41 cars. They need to make sure they don't DNF a day away.

The No 00 car is only 75 points behind 35th. They need to be more dependent on someone having a bad day as much as a lucky top-10 finish to get them up there in contention. Or do they? Actually, no. Keep in mind that Michael Waltrip Racing swapped car numbers and points around so they're looking pretty for the upcoming '09 season. That means he'll be applying the No. 44 car owner points to the No 00 Toyota. The No. 44 car is 26th in points right now and Waltrip is returning the car number to Petty Enterprises. So there's no real pressure on Michael McDowell, except to pad his resume with the best results possible!

30	-1	#41	Chip Ganassi	2606	32	161
31	1	#66	Joe Custer	2594	31	149
32	-2	#01	Teresa Earnhardt	2583	32	138
33	--	#22	Bill Davis	2566	31	121
34	1	#84	Dietrich Mateschitz	2460	29	15
35	-1	#7	Robby Gordon	2445	32	0
36	--	#00	Rob Kauffman	2370	31	-75
37	--	#77	Roger Penske	2305	31	-140
38	--	#10	George Gillett, Jr	2174	27	-271

Owner Points Table on NASCAR.