Season Review: Carl Edwards

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2016 Race-by-Race Results | Video Recap Carl Edwards won three races in 2016 and made the Championship 4 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, but came up short in his bid for his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship after crashing late in the season finale Ford EcoBoost 400. Edwards started his sophomore season with Joe Gibbs Racing with a new crew chief in Dave Rogers and eight top-10 finishes, including wins at Bristol and Richmond, in the first nine races of the season. Edwards dominated at Bristol Motor Speedway, leading 276 laps in the Food City 500 and then ran up front for much of the afternoon the following week at Richmond International Raceway. After falling behind teammate Kyle Busch late in the going, Edwards bumped Busch in Turn 3 on the last lap to get by and score the victory. “Kyle’s an amazing teammate and it’s like he got really slow there at the end,” Edwards said after the win. “Something happened that last lap. He went down into (turn) one and I dove it in and I got to him and I thought, ‘Man, I’ve got something.’ And he went to get down to the bottom and park it in three and four and I had already decided to go down there so I thought, ‘Man, I’m going to give him a little nudge.” The win propelled Edwards to the top of the standings and firmly secured his berth in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. Edwards would be a constant at the top of the leaderboard week in and week out throughout the summer months and into the Chase, never falling below seventh in points during the 26-race regular season. He would limp through the Round of 16 with a 15th-place effort in the Chase opener at Chicagoland Speedway, sixth …

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