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Dodge future
Kasey Kahne has been the only Dodge driver to have much success this season with the second-year Dodge Charger.
He’s 11th in the standings entering Richmond, where he’ll start in 20th position. Penske drivers Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman are next in the standings at 14th and 16th.
But Scott Riggs, one of Kahne’s Evernham Motorsports teammates, says better times are coming.
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“I’ve done a lot of the testing for our team with the Charger with next year’s nose, and it’s going to be real good,” Riggs said. “The car we have now has a lot of downforce. When we’d go to the wind tunnel, the numbers would be real good. In fact, we’d keep winning the Wind Tunnel 500. But, on the track, you’d get air coming from the side and the front end would wash out or just get real loose.
“The new nose doesn’t have as many curves and doesn’t react as much to the side forces. I think everybody will be happier with it.”
Spark plugs: NASCAR awards a five-point bonus for leading at least one lap and five more points for leading the most laps in a race. Kenseth has 95 bonus points to 45 for Johnson. Fourth-place Jeff Gordon has a series-high 105. ... Johnson, third-place Kevin Harvick and ninth-place Mark Martin are the only drivers in the top 18 who have been running at the end of all 25 races this season. ... Chevrolet (Dale Earnhardt Jr.), Ford (Kurt Busch) and Dodge (Kahne) each have won once here in the last three races.
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