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Heading into Homestead Sunday, the six-year Chase carried with it one dubious statistic: no point leader heading into the season finale had lost the championship. In fact, such a scenario had happened only twice in NASCAR's modern era: Darrell Waltrip to Richard Petty in 1979 and Davey Allison to Alan Kulwicki in 1992. That left the drama of the final race, often hyped, to fall flat instead of someone stepping up and acting out the script.
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