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Brendan Gaughan: Season
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Gaughan, 29, has driven in all 19 NEXTEL Cup Series races this season and been running at the finish of all but two of them. He qualified fifth and finished sixth in the Auto Club 500 at California Speedway, but most of his finishes have been further back. He stands 29th in the point standings and is fourth in the rookie standings behind Kasey Kahne, Brian Vickers and Scott Wimmer.
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Gaughan currently drives the #10 MaxxForce Diesel Ford F-150 for Circle Bar Racing in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Previously he had driven for his family-owned team, South Point Racing (which folded in the 2007-08 offseason), and had spent one season in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series driving for Penske Racing.
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With three poles, six wins (two more at Texas), 14 top-fives and 18 top-10 finishes, Gaughan was a championship contender all season. He carried a points lead into the final race of the season, but a mid-race accident relegated Gaughan to a fourth-place finish in the final championship points standings.
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At Indianapolis, Gaughan will be piloting the same truck that has raced at Martinsville, Mansfield and Memphis earlier this season. It's a truck that has been good for the South Point team, one that Gaughan has called “the best short track piece he has ever driven - in any Series.”
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In his second full season, Gaughan proved nay-sayers wrong – a team based on the West coast could compete and win in NASCAR. From the drop of the green flag at Daytona, Gaughan showed competitors that his team would be a force to be reckoned with.
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Penske Racing South president Don Miller realizes he is subjecting Gaughan to a quicker apprenticeship than Newman, who made his stock car debut in 2000 and ran his first Cup season in 2002. But you can't argue with the results. Newman won rookie of the year.
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