NASCAR JACKETS

The last place Chad Knaus wanted to be was on stage, in front of a microphone. Hours earlier his No. 48 car had finished two laps down and in 29th place at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a startlingly poor performance that led some to wonder whether Jimmie Johnson's time atop the Sprint Cup tour was coming to an end. They wanted to fly home and figure out what went wrong. Instead they loaded the vehicle into the transporter, changed clothes, and walked into a tent outside Turn 3 -- where 3,000 representatives of their primary sponsor were waiting for them.

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