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2004 Chase for the Nextel Cup

Inaugural running of the NASCAR playoffs

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ4602627 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2004 Chase for the Nextel Cup served as the premiere ten-race playoff series among the top ten drivers in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. After the Chevy Rock and Roll 400 on September 11, 2004, the ten drivers atop the standings were locked into the playoff. Kurt Busch won the driver's championship for the first time in his career.

Participants

Jeff Gordon — Hendrick Motorsports No. 24 (Rick Hendrick) 5050

Jimmie Johnson — Hendrick Motorsports No. 48 (Jeff Gordon 1) -5

Dale Earnhardt Jr. — Dale Earnhardt, Inc. No. 8 (Teresa Earnhardt) -10

Tony Stewart — Joe Gibbs Racing No. 20 (Joe Gibbs) -15

Matt Kenseth — Roush Racing No.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2004 Chase for the Nextel Cup” is inaugural running of the NASCAR playoffs. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Chase, Nextel and Inaugural, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Chase, Nextel and Inaugural is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “inaugural running of the NASCAR playoffs” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4602627. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “2004 Chase for the Nextel Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.