Ok here goes. Once a point a time there was Richard Childress, Nascar came to him and said build us a race truck. Childress built the race truck and he said here is your race truck NASCAR GODS and they said the truck is good. Childress knew what and how he built his race truck and made millions for showing other lower forms of race truck building how to build such race trucks. Childress ultimately won the first Truck Championship, imagine that, along with millions more in the years after before everyone caught up. Now Childress in race trucks have a hard time of it all.
Hence, Big Ricky Hendrick came to NASCAR looking all sheepishly shy and brimming with enthusiasm, "You know what you all did for Childress and the millions you brought to him, please let me and my teams test all the COT cars and be of service to NASCAR. NASCAR said, "Ok Hendrick but quit drooling all over our crotch and humping our leg.
Notice the 2006 season Gordon didn't do anything that year, almost the same problems as this year... But on the reality of it he was testing the COT on the side at all the tracks... He had the insider on every track and every tweak already before the 2007 season. Hence the many wins and almost Championship for himself and also a team championship for Hendrick with Jimmy Johnson, which is a win also for Gordon also since he has stock in Jimmy's team...
Now say it ain't so... The other teams started to catch up way sooner than Hendrick had inticipated and now have caught, passed and now Dominate team Hendrick...