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Jeff Gordon will win in Chicago this weekend. So says SI.com's Tom Bowles, who writes, "Averaging a 5.8 average finish in his last four starts in Chicagoland, this team is already knocking on the door with four straight top-5 finishes. With J.J. still winless at this place -- one of the more difficult venues for the No. 48 -- it's time for their shopmates to steal a little bit of the spotlight across the way." Yes, but we all know how Jimmie Johnson races right after he has had a baby. Wait. No, we don't. This should be interesting. Or at least what passes for interesting at Chicagoland.

Taking the white flag for Sunday’s Autism Speaks 400 at Dover International Speedway, race leader Kyle Busch radioed his crew saying, “I’ve never seen a flag look so pretty.” Next time by Busch took the checkered flag for the second time of the 2010 season.

Leading 131 of the 400 laps, Busch cruised to a 7.551 second victory over Jeff Burton, Matt Kenseth, Denny Hamlin and David Reutimann.

This weekend, Busch nearly won the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event, took home the trophy in Saturday’s Nationwide Series race and on Sunday he capped the weekend off with yet another win. The weekend sweep had not been done at Dover since September 1991, when "Handsome" Harry Gant won both the Saturday and Sunday events at the Monster Mile.

If one thing was learned from the finish of Saturday night’s Subway Fresh Fit 600 at the Phoenix International Raceway, it was how a team wins a Sprint Cup Series race these days has changed dramatically. Kyle Busch led 113 laps, Jimmie Johnson led 113 laps and Juan Pablo Montoya led 104 laps, yet none of them celebrated in victory lane. Ryan Newman led only four laps on the night, took two tires in the end and was able to break a 77-race winless streak.
 
As the laps clicked away, it appeared Busch was cruising to an easy victory over Johnson and the rest of the field. With just two laps to go, Scott Riggs smacked the outside wall and brought out the final caution of the night. The comfortable lead Busch enjoyed was gone and the race was open for anyone’s taking as the field headed for pit road in preparation for the green-white-checkered finish. Three cars had dominated the race on Saturday, but what it came down to was pit strategy and late-race guts – for the third race in a row.

The Sprint Cup race scheduled for Sunday in Martinsville has been postponed until Monday because of rain. 

From the Associated Press:

"Showers lingered over the track in southwest Virginia on Sunday, and the absence of lights for night racing meant the window for racing was closing quickly. NASCAR does not allow a race to start unless it's feasible for the entire event to be run, and races on the shortest, oldest track in the Sprint Cup Series can take up to four hours. The call to postpone was made about 90 minutes after the scheduled 1 p.m. start."

Fox says it will televise the race at noon on Monday.

In the meantime, enjoy these great moments in rain delay history.