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CHICAGO -- The Chicago Cubs find themselves on the brink of history as they return to Wrigley Field on Thursday.The Cubs -- owners of baseballs best record, 93-52 -- would clinch their first division title since 2008 with a victory over the Milwaukee Brewers in the opener of a 10-game homestand.The division crown would only be the Cubs sixth since Major League Baseball split into divisions 47 years ago. Chicago is on pace for 103 wins, which would be its first season with 100 or more victories since 1935.Cubs manager Joe Maddon is ready to lock it down.Lets do it, he said Wednesday after the Cubs 7-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. I think itd be a nice thing to do. The sooner, the better. Then we can make our appropriate plans going forward and really set things up to make our best push.Jon Lester (17-4) worked eight innings on a hot afternoon at Busch Stadium while the Cubs wrapped up a 6-3 record in St. Louis this season, beating the Cardinals in all three series.Lester wont see his next action until early next week as the Cubs continue with their late-season, six-man rotation. Left-hander Mike Montgomery (1-1, 3.67 ERA) goes against Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Jimmy Nelson (7-14, 4.42 ERA) on Thursday evening.Montgomery, 4-5 with a 2.74 ERA overall between the Seattle Mariners and the Cubs this season, makes his fifth start with Chicago and second straight against the Brewers.He didnt get a decision on Sept. 7 at Milwaukee in a 2-1 Cubs loss after allowing just two hits and one run while striking out six over five innings. Montgomery has given up just 12 hits in four starts with Chicago since arriving in a late-July trade.Nelson is making his 30th start of the season and fifth against the Cubs.He has repeatedly struggled against Chicago, going 0-3 with a 3.59 ERA in four starts this season. Nelson is 0-3 with a 4.32 ERA in five career games (four starts) at Wrigley Field. He has an 0-6 record with a 3.59 ERA in 11 career games (nine starts) against the Cubs.He has been similarly unsuccessful against the Cardinals, posting an 0-7 record in eight career starts, including a 4-3 loss in his last appearance. He allowed four runs on five hits over six innings Friday in St. Louis.Its just a crazy game and stuff happens, Nelson said. Theres never really just one answer in this game to anything. You dont want to think theres something wrong and start over-analyzing stuff, so you just try to keep it simple.The Brewers (65-81) snapped a two-game losing streak and salvaged one win in the three-game series with the Cincinnati Reds by earning a 7-0 victory Wednesday. Milwaukee is just 26-45 on the road.The four-game series at Wrigley Field is the last leg of an 11-game Milwaukee road trip. The Brewers will be back at Miller Park on Tuesday to face the Pittsburgh Pirates.Chicagos homestand includes four games with Milwaukee, three with Cincinnati and three against St. Louis. The Cubs close the regular season with seven road games beginning Sept. 26. Cheap Warriors Jerseys . Halladay signed a one-day contract with the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday that allowed the veteran right-hander to retire as a member of team with which he broke into the majors and spent the bulk of his distinguished 16-year career. 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Prior to the decision the FIA produced a presentation for drivers and teams underlining the readiness of the Halo, but now it has called for further on-track tests to take place at the remaining races ahead of the introduction of the device in 2018.I dont think we should doubt the [FIAs] research, Vettel said. I think the way it was explained to us, the main point is that not all of us had a chance to test the system and so I think thats fair to give that chance to everyone.dddddddddddd I think theres a plan probably in Spa, Monza, to be given the chance to all of us and make us run with the system for this one session to see how it feels.Although changes to the technical regulations for the following season are not usually made so late in the year, Vettel sees no reason why Halo cannot be introduced if the tests in practice sessions prove positive.The way I understood it is that its still open for 2017 as well, I mean if everything goes right, why not? In the end we are trying to change something for the better. I think at this point its fair to say OK let everyone have a go and go from there. ' ' '