Top 35 Owners Points.... With 6 To Go

What we have here is an interesting disparity!

Robby Gordon's car is in the 35th spot, but he's being bested by teams with fewer starts than him. That either bodes well for the other teams, and / or bad for Robby's team.

Then there's the team that Roger Penske dumped his drivers owners points on in the beginning of the year to give him a fighting chance, the No. 77 Dodge of Sam Hornish. We can see that the owners boost did not, in the long run, help the No. 77 car, but more than likely put Kurt Busch off balance and kept him struggling through the front of the year for no apparent reason.

Remember, Owners Points are just for starting a race, they can help determine garage spots too. That can be pretty helpful to some, while others get stuffed in the undesired spots of the garage that are too far out of the way, inconvenient, etc., etc. I don't know all the nuances, but I bet what there are, can be pretty important.

So the race in the race, we need to keep an eye on the No. 55, 22, 66, 84, 7 and 00 cars to see how they pan out. As the end of the season approaches, this 35th spot is becoming more coveted with each race. Anyone in 35th and up is guaranteed starting spots in the first few races of the 2009 season.

RANK		CAR	OWNER	POINTS	STARTS	Pts around 35th
29		#01	Teresa Earnhardt	2452	30	128
30		#41	Chip Ganassi	2425	30	101
31		#55	Michael Waltrip	2410	30	86
32		#22	Bill Davis	2387	29	63
33		#66	Joe Custer	2383	29	59
34		#84	Dietrich Mateschitz	2341	27	17
35		#7	Robby Gordon	2324	30	0
36		#00	Rob Kauffman	2285	29	-39
37		#77	Roger Penske	2147	29	-177
38		#96	Jeffrey Moorad	1996	26	-328
39		#10	George Gillett, Jr	1986	25	-338
40		#45	Kyle Petty	1935	26	-389