A rainy race ends the NASCAR season

November 20th was a rainy day at the Ford 400 in Homestead-Miami during the last race in the NASCAR Sprint Cup season. The race was very important for the two top drivers in the season, Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards. They entered the race with nearly the same amount of points, as Stewart was only three points behind Edwards. The race was also had importance for other drivers like Jimmie Johnson and Brad Keselowski, who fought for fifth place in the season.

Stewart had a bad start in the season, but about halfway through; he started winning a lot of races. Edwards had been one of the top drivers the whole season. Stewart won the three more points that he needed to tie Edwards at the Homestead-Miami race. Stewart gained the title even though they were tied, because he had more wins (five as opposed to one that Edwards had). “I drove to the edge and beyond, and that is all I had. Truly, we’ve never run any better than this,” stated Edwards to Sacbee.com.

Instead of being disappointed about not winning, he is looking forward to next year’s opportunity to win his first championship. “It would be crushing, if we didn’t get to go race next year. I am being 100 percent, completely honest with you, I am more excited about next year than I have ever been about going into the next season,” he said.

Johnson, who before this season has never ended below the top five, had a horrible race that made Keselowski snatch fifth place away from him. Due to the rain, Johnson’s engine started having problems. He ended in sixth season place with 2304 points behind Keselowski’s 2319. “It is disappointing… Our cars are running really fast, even today our car was plenty fast but we just had some unfortunate racing situations happen and it took us out of it,” Johnson said to Scenedaily.com.

Finishing in fifth place, Keselowksi and his team believes that, they can win a championship in the near future. "You look at the No. 14 (Tony Stewart) and the No. 99 (Carl Edwards) and they just had a lot of speed… If we can get a little more speed in our cars, I feel like we can go out there and win a championship," he said to NASCAR.com.