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I need to start by congratulating Jimmie Johnson, Chad Knaus and the 48 Lowes team for winning their fifth NASCAR championship title in a row. We've run the NASCAR race game for 10 weeks through the chase and it's pretty obvious that it's almost impossible to predict the winner each week. In fact, the most anyone got right in any one week was two correct picks. I did manage to pick 8 of the top 10 in one week with all of my 10 picks being inside the top 12 which was pretty good, but on the whole, most picks only resulted in about 6 of the top ten with many people regularly having picks finishing worse than 30th. I mention this because it goes to show how tight the competition is. This isn't one of those competitions where the same person/team wins week on week which makes Jimmie Johnson's achievement even more unbelievable. A lot can be said about the fact that the team is stable with Chad Knaus and the Lowes sponsorship having been there throughout these championships, but is it really that stable? The entire pit crew was swapped out during the Texas race. I think you've just got to look at the talent for what it is.

So, to the race game. Congratulations to me for finishing on top of the 2010 NASCAR Chase Race leader board. For those of you who weren't playing, the note I sent out had words in it to the effect of me having invented a game that nobody else is interested in and I've won, now declaring myself the world champion. It would appear that my integration into American society is all but complete.

I'm happy to take any criticism around the fact that I picked the same drivers as Owen in the last week to make sure I won. Playing the player and not the game maybe, but it got the results. I did actually write down what I would have picked and it would have made little difference. I would have scored 40 points instead of 10 which would have still meant I won the overall competition, but wouldn't have won the last week regardless. Anyway, I have to get off to party with the San Francisco Giants as world champions!