Top 6 Things To Watch In The 2011 Chase

The Trifecta- My Kind Of Town Edition

Greetings, race fans! This week, the Trifecta rolls into Chicago with races in all three NASCAR series. There is also an optional side trip to Japan for the IndyCar race.

This week's starting line up:

1 tez

2 dwindy

3 hanny

4 cr

5 jon

6 moseby

7 kristen

8 sb

The races:

1.) The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race from Chicago, Friday September 16; green flag drops at 8:19pm ET. (entry list)

2.) The NASCAR Nationwide Series race from Chicago, Saturday, September 17; green flag drops at 3:46pm ET. (entry list)

3.) The IndyCar race from Japan, Sunday September 18; green flag drops at 12:00am ET.

4.) The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race from Chicago, Sunday September 18; green flag drops at 2:14pm ET.

One more thing- the Beagle isn't buying your explanation for calling Tony a beefcake, Kristen(extremely overweight???? I think NOT!!!)

Let's go racing!!!

With Just a Little Bit of Luck

The King is dead?

Long live the King!

Click that title!

And here's Smoke going off...

Poor poor Jenna Fryer had a tough week at Richmond with the bad boys of NASCAR beating her up.

Best Presser EVER!

Unfortunately NASCAR.com cut out a few other questions to Smoke, Ryan and Kyle who could barely contain their discomfort...just watching their faces is priceless!

Rating the Wonderful Pistachios 400

Kevin Harvick won on a crazy final night of the 2011 regular season and the Chase field is set. Click on the title for the Monday Morning Crew Chief Rating.

View From The Flagstand: Harvick Rolls at Richmond

From Zero on Friday, to Hero on Saturday....

Click to cluck.