With their roster mostly intact, the Yankees have two months to prepare for the championship chase.

"I'd think there are more people expecting us not to win it," he said of the championship chase, "than expect us to win it."

So Mayfield, 466 points behind Earnhardt, is not out of the championship chase, either.

Kahne and Busch said they were all but eliminated from the championship chase.

He is Arazi, who ran eighth in the Kentucky Derby and withdrew from the year's championship chase.

It was a big day in the championship chase.

And yet this championship chase feels different from the others, Hendrick said.

His championship chase lasted about one hour.

The lines in the 61-year-old Riley's angular face are like the hands of a clock that tell us time is winding down on his all-consuming championship chase.

He won one race and finished runner-up in the championship chase.