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Racing against teammates keeps getting tougher as Chase field narrows

Teammates. In the world of racing, they can be the ultimate asset — someone to work with in the draft, to share information with, to help out when one's own team is falling off the pace.

It's not always a perfect world, though, this of teammates. In recent weeks, that nature of these relationships gained headlines in the NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup.

Interestingly enough, it is one group's dedication to working together that has put it under the microscope. The Joe Gibbs Racing contingent has labored to work together in chasing the championship — perhaps, in some situations, to its detriment.