They can remember when Dale Earnhardt saw the air at Talladega, or when Jeff Gordon cried at the banquet, or when Tony Stewart won races in a Pontiac. Some of them can almost certainly recall the day when Richard Petty won his 200th, or when Davey Allison crashed across the finish line, or when Alan Kulwicki invented the Polish victory lap. In the span of just three NASCAR race weekends, he's nearly doubled his victory total in the sport's premier series. In seven months, he's gone from a driver who almost missed the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup -- and indeed, might have had some shenanigans not unfolded -- to someone who's virtually guaranteed himself a return trip. More...