No. 3 - Clint Bowyer

Clint Bowyer's hanging in there. And it looks like the racing gods were smiling on him at Atlanta Motor Speedway. He finished sixth in the Cup race at Atlanta and maintained his third place position in the Chase for the Nextel Cup standings.
He is 111 points behind Jeff Gordon for the lead and 102 behind Jimmie Johnson for second.
Bowyer will be the first to admit he probably shouldn't be in as good a position as he is.
"We definitely didn't deserve the finish that we got, nonetheless, the guys worked hard to get us in contention," said Bowyer, driver of the No. 07 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing. "That is what you have to do. You have to at least be there to take advantage of if somebody does have trouble. Unfortunately we weren't as good as we like, but it was a decent finish."
It was his fifth top-10 finish in the Chase and his third in a row.
"I would say we got a lot of a break today. I feel bad for (Martin) Truex and Kyle Busch and those guys, clearly they had the cars to beat today and ended up way back and Truex didn't finish," Bowyer said. "Fortunate things are going our way, when it is your day, it is your day, when it is not, it is not."



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