By Jim Pedley Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service The questions were coming at Richard Childress Racing new-guy driver Paul Menard rapid-fire during a preseason press conference in Daytona last month. It was inevitable that somebody would ask about his goals for 2011. What, he was finally asked specifically, would constitute a dream season? “I think if we could make the Chase (for the NASCAR Sprint Cup), that would be a huge deal obviously, that would be a dream season,” the journeyman from Wisconsin said. As the Sprint Cup Series hits Auto Club Speedway for the fifth race of its 36-race schedule this weekend, that dream season is shaping up nicely. Menard sits fifth in points today. He has top-12 finishes in three of the four races this season and is coming off … Read entire article »