Kenseth at California Speedway

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Matt Kenseth has won the past two NASCAR Nextel Cup Series races and won the February race at California Speedway. Coming into Sunday's race at California Speedway, I asked Kenseth what he thought his chances were of winning a third straight Cup race and pulling off a season sweep at California Speedway.
"I'd like to think they're good," Kenseth said.
He won the race at Michigan International Speedway two weeks ago. He followed that with a win at Bristol Motor Speedway. Michigan is a track similar in design to California Speedway. Both are 2-mile, D-shaped ovals.
"We have had good packages for those type of tracks," Kenseth said. "We ran really well the end of spring. We ran real good the first Michigan race (in June)."
In the Cup standings, Kenseth is seven point behind series leader Jimmie Johnson, who is also a winner at California Speedway. But Johnson has been struggling a bit in recent races and Kenseth has been winning.
"The season obviously feels a lot like it did in 2003," Kenseth said comparing this year to the year he won the Cup championship. In 2003, Kenseth won one race as compared to this year, when he's won four. "It's just our cars have been a lot more competitve."

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