Congratulations to Ron Hornaday, who already knew he was the 2009 Camping World Trucks Series champion coming into Friday's race at Miami. Congratulations are in order as well to Kyle Busch, who will win the NASCAR Nationwide Series championship just by virtue of starting today's race.
It would appear that Jimmie Johnson will be crowned with his fourth consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup championship on Sunday, and it appears that unless he has the most horrible of races, Johnson will make history by becoming the first driver to every win four Cups in a row.
It's impossible to say that Johnson is a lock for the championship, because, as he well remembers from his third lap crash at Texas, anything can happen before the checkered flag falls on NASCAR's 2009 season.
Jimmie Johnson has succeeded in performing one important duty this weekend: He has won the pole for Sunday's Ford 400 at Miami-Homestead Speedway. Starting at the front of the pack was one of crew chief Chad Knaus' main concerns going into the last race of the season. It's a lot more difficult to get caught up in someone else's accident if you're way out in front of everyone else.
Mark Martin must be thinking that yet another chance for that elusive championship is slipping away, and he can only hope for the very worst luck for his teammate Jimmie Johnson. I doubt that Mark is doing that, but somewhere, deep down, he must be thinking it. Mark has come so close before, yet has never grabbed the Cup.
Sunday's race will be the last NASCAR race of the season, and before the end of the day, a new Sprint Cup champion will be crowned.
If that champion's name isn't Jimmie Johnson, the entire racing world, including this fan, will be shocked.
Shocked, I tell you!
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