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With NASCAR on a rapid hiatus, files goes to be gradual in the approaching weeks. To encourage occupy the NASCAR void, we opinion on taking you on a on a regular basis time out down reminiscence lane spanning the years for the reason that Jayski’s situation inception. The utilization of our files archives pages, here’s a seek files from abet at what’s came about on this date by the last 23 years in NASCAR:

At the unusual time in NASCAR history: April 10

Years we now have pulled on the unusual time’s indispensable items from: 2018, 2015, 2011, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2001, 1999

Top gawk the entire lot from this date over old years: 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997

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2018:

  • Monster Energy to live entitlement sponsor of NASCAR premier sequence by 2019:  NASCAR® and Monster Energy have signed an settlement that will lengthen the entitlement sponsorship of NASCAR‘s premier sequence. The extension retains NASCAR and Monster Energy partners by 2019. As piece of the settlement, the logo also continues because the Real Energy Drink of NASCAR.[More](4-10-2018)

2015:

  • Bristol bustle renamed to honor Steve Byrnes:  In recognition of FOX Sports broadcaster Steve Byrnes‘ heroic and ongoing fight with head-and-neck cancer, FOX Sports, in coordination with Bristol Motor BRISTOL, TN - APRIL 19: Fans hold Stand Up 2 Cancer signs supporting Steve Byrnes during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway on April 19, 2015 in Bristol, Tennessee. (Photo by Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images) | Getty ImagesSpeedway, Speedway Motorsports Inc., Stand Up To Most cancers and NASCAR, is naming the April 19 NASCAR Go Cup Series bustle from Bristol the Food City 500 In Make stronger Of Steve Byrnes And Stand Up To Most cancers. The tournament, which is in a space to be aired live on FOX at 12: 30pm/et, pays tribute to Byrnes, a NASCAR tv mainstay for 30 years, while also serving as a automobile of make stronger and awareness for all those combating cancer. Byrnes, co-host of “NASCAR Dawdle Hub” and play-by-play announcer for the NASCAR Tenting World Truck Series, is on a scientific gallop away of absence while he undergoes remedy. He has been piece of the FOX NASCAR broadcast group since its inaugural twelve months of NASCAR Go Cup Series protection in 2001. “The make stronger I in actuality have got from my teammates at FOX Sports, drivers, group contributors, music officers, NASCAR and the fans has been overwhelming,” Byrnes said. “So many families are tormented by cancer, and to play a tiny piece in raising awareness is an honor to me.”(FoxSports)(4-10-2015)

2011:

  • Bayne admitted to clinic: UPDATE:  Trevor Bayne modified into as soon as admitted to Carolinas Medical Middle-University in Charlotte, NC, on Sunday morning after returning home from the Go Cup bustle at Texas Motor Speedway.
    2011 11 Mich 21In step with a Roush Fenway Racing group spokesman Corey Wynn, Bayne‘s illness has no longer been identified. Nonetheless the 20-twelve months-passe winner of this twelve months‘s Daytona 500 had tweeted earlier: “No longer certain if its a spider chunk or a tick chunk . . . Nonetheless either draw I‘m in a clinic bed with a needle in my arm! #nobueno”.
    Bayne began exhibiting symptoms Tuesday. On Friday, he modified into as soon as taken to the infield care center at Texas Motor Speedway, where he modified into as soon as administered antibiotics.
    Then, Saturday night, he went to the emergency room when the Roush plane returned to Charlotte, and he modified into as soon as admitted to the clinic.
    (Fox Sports)(4-10-2011)
    UPDATE:  Roush Fenway Racing‘s Trevor Bayne modified into as soon as handled and released Sunday from Carolina Medical Middle University Health center in Charlotte after a reaction from an apparent insect chunk on his left elbow that the 20-twelve months passe driver suffered last week while at home.
    “Trevor has been handled and released from the clinic and is k to continue alongside with his on a regular basis actions — including riding a bustle automobile,” said Roush Fenway president Steve Newmark. “Doctors are silent waiting for the test results to search out out for certain what precipitated the reaction, nevertheless Trevor has been handled, is at home and he’s doing supreme.”
    Extra files ought to silent be available on the kill of the week.
    Bayne competed in both the Nationwide and Go Cup races at Texas Motor Speedway over the weekend. He is scheduled to compete in both events this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway (Ala.).(Roush Fenway PR)(4-10-2011)

2011 Go Cup Schemes


2010:

  • PHOENIX - APRIL 10: Ryan Newman, driver of the #39 Tornados Chevrolet, celebrates with a burn out after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series SUBWAY Fresh Fit 600 at Phoenix International Raceway on April 10, 2010 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images for NASCAR) | Getty ImagesNewman wins at Phoenix: #39-Ryan Newman received the Subway Original Match 600(okay) at Phoenix International Raceway for his first possess of the season and 14th of his career. Newman‘s possess modified into as soon as his first with Stewart Haas Racing and first since Newman received the 2008 Daytona 500, when he modified into as soon as with Penske Racing. Newman is the foremost driver ever to possess a bustle running the automobile quantity 39. #24-Gordon, who modified into as soon as the leader when the bustle restarted below a inexperienced-white-checker cease, modified into as soon as passed by Newman on the restart and accomplished 2nd. #48-Johnson accomplished 3nd, adopted by #5-Martin, #42-Montoya, #17-Kenseth, #99-Edwards, #18-Kyle Busch (who modified into as soon as leading the bustle when the closing warning came out with 3 laps to gallop), #33-Bowyer, and #20-Logano. Pole sitter #43-Allmendinger accomplished 15th. There had been 9 cautions for 59 yellow flag laps and there had been 20 lead modifications among 13 drivers.(4-10-2010)

2010 Go Cup Schemes


2008:

  • 2008 Sorenson BudAim leaving Ganassi at kill of 2008? There are persistent rumors that Chip Ganassi would be in financial deep water, alongside with his long-time sponsor Aim [sponsor of #41-Reed Sorenson and sometime sponsor of #40-Dario Franchitti] likely asserting by the kill of the twelve months this can even be ending its affiliation with the bustle group.(Yahoo!Sports — NOTE, it seems this piece of the ‘blog‘ modified into as soon as removed for some motive, no opinion why. It modified into as soon as there when in the open posted)(4-10-2008)

2008 NASCAR Go Cup Schemes


2006:

  • Nice Plans by ESPN MORE later times:  ESPN plans to pull out the total bells and whistles when NASCAR returns to the cable sports network in 2007. “ESPN has in actuality morphed or grown since we had been last in the game,” said ESPN president George Bodenheimer, who modified into as soon as at Texas on Sunday. “We‘re in actuality belief a few multimedia network now. We‘re seeking to possess this property and blow it out, if you will.” The network will provide masses of protection in studio exhibits, analysis and a heavy online presence. Powerful of it has but to be formalized, said Bodenheimer, also president of ABC Sports. ESPN and ABC will broadcast 17 Cup races initiating in 2007, the foremost twelve months of an eight-twelve months contract the networks signed with NASCAR. ABC modified into as soon as judicious one of the principal foremost networks to televise stock automobile racing in the 1960s, and ESPN launched flag-to-flag bustle telecasts in the 1980s. The network modified into as soon as NASCAR‘s leading carrier by the 1990s, nevertheless has no longer aired a bustle since 2000, when it lost the rights to NBC and Fox. Bodenheimer said the return of NASCAR to ESPN marks an emotional reunion after both grew to national prominence.(ESPN.com/AP)

2005:

  • Villeneuve in NASCAR? haven‘t heard this rumor in a few years……Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve has 2007 27unicef Side Cokerexpressed an pastime in riding in NASCAR, in response to some who’ve talked with him, and that can even be a proper tag for NASCAR‘s proposed Canadian racing project. Last spring, when Villeneuve‘s F1 career regarded all nevertheless over, and he modified into as soon as looking out out out a gallop, Villeneuve inquired about NASCAR alternatives. Nonetheless last fall he managed to land one other F1 gallop, despite the indisputable fact that it wasn‘t a tall one. At 34, Villeneuve might presumably well moreover merely smartly be nearing the kill of his career on the global circuit. Some yell that Villeneuve might presumably well moreover merely no longer have the attitude for NASCAR‘s “received-to-glean-alongside” world, or the gumption for the grinding 38-week-a-twelve months tour. An intelligent facet to NASCAR‘s Canadian challenge is that Vancouver would be a player, attributable to that ravishing city, proper two hours north of Seattle, might presumably well give the game its long-awaited Northwest anchor. Given the problems that NASCAR has had finding 800 acres and political make stronger for building of a music in the Seattle space itself, Vancouver can even be a resolution. And Vancouver has a racing tradition with road-course CART Indy-automobile races.(Winston Salem Journal)(4-10-2005)

2001:

  • Seat Belt News UPDATE 2:  No person modified into as soon as extra astonished than Invoice Simpson when NASCAR officers advised at a files conference in February that a substandard seat belt made by his company might presumably well moreover had been accountable for the loss of life of racing icon Dale Earnhardt. Troubled, the longtime maker of racing safety equipment polled his manufacturing facility workers and suppliers in regards to the nylon belts and optimistic support an eye on. He despatched six sets of lap belts, made of the equal batch as those in Earnhardt‘s automobile, to an self reliant trying out laboratory. The verdict: They don’t desire sheared when Earnhardt‘s automobile crashed on the last lap of February‘s Daytona 500. Seven weeks after the accident, then all another time, Simpson knows little extra in regards to the belt in Earnhardt‘s mangled Chevrolet than what he learned for the period of that files conference. Assume about paunchy record on the Orlando Sentinel: NASCAR‘s lips sealed on seat-belt analysis, some tall photography and explanations on the placement(4-9-2001)
    UPDATE:  Seat-belt failure did no longer motive the pinnacle accidents that killed NASCAR tall Dale Earnhardt for the period of February‘s Daytona 500, a court-appointed scientific examiner who studied the racer‘s autopsy photography reported Monday. Dr. Barry Myers, a Duke University expert in rupture accidents, said Earnhardt died when his head whipped violently forward in the moments after his #3 Chevy struck a concrete wall at 150 mph. Rejecting NASCAR‘s theory of the rupture, Myers said that, even assuming what he termed “a worst-case relate,” Earnhardt‘s head doubtlessly would have suffered the equal afflict even supposing his lap belt had no longer torn on affect. Assume about paunchy record on the Orlando Sentinel: Expert: Seat belt no element in Earnhardt loss of life
    UPDATE 2 — NASCAR Observation:  “Now we have said old to and re-iterated Monday we‘re conducting our possess detailed review with a bunch of consultants ranging from occupant safety-restraint analysis, and rupture analysis to scientific and biomechanical consultants,” said NASCAR president Mike Helton. “This most up-to-date file is no longer going to alter that. “Contrary to quite so much of reviews in the media, this file is no longer an opposing theory to the rest NASCAR has introduced. Since the Daytona 500, NASCAR has made certain that we is no longer going to counsel or speculate on the circumstances surrounding Dale Earnhardt‘s accident till our peep is entire. No person from NASCAR has ever advised what might presumably well moreover merely have came about on this accident rather then to suppose in our preliminary investigation we realized problems of challenge fascinating the occupant restraint system. “As referenced in the file compiled by Dr. Barry Myers, higher thought can even be done by biomechanical, sled and rupture trying out, which is in step with the formulation we launched Monday. “We appreciate the varied theories from the scientific enviornment and welcome their input as to what likely can have came about and we live dedicated to an intensive, comprehensive review.”(NASCAR PR) and That‘s Racin‘ has a bunch of columns up about this
    BROOKLYN, MI - JUNE 16: Team owner Jack Roush walks on pit road during qualifying for the NASCAR Nationwide Series Alliance Truck Parts 250 at Michigan International Speedway on June 16, 2012 in Brooklyn, Michigan. (Photo by Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images) | Getty ImagesAND: Invoice Simpson, president of Simpson Dawdle Merchandise, says he plans to refer to alongside with his lawful group old to commenting on the file on Dale Earnhardt‘s fatal rupture at Daytona, released on the unusual time by the Orlando Sentinel(SpeedVision)(4-10-2001)
  • Four Roush CTS Groups in 2002:  Roush Racing on Monday launched its plans to enviornment as much as four teams in 2002 in the CTS. Roush at screen fields two teams, with drivers Chuck Hossfeld and Nathan Haseleu. Roush plans to add teams for 18-twelve months-passe Jon Wood, son of Wood Brothers Racing owner Eddie Wood, and Tim Woods, a 24-twelve months-passe African American driver from California. No longer judicious one of the principal teams at screen has sponsorship in remark for the 2002 season. (That‘s Racin‘)(4-10-2001)

1999:

  • Real Postponement of Monte Carlo:  In an announcement despatched to Speedwords this morning Kurt Ritter, Chevrolet advertising and marketing and marketing frequent manager at General Motors launched they would no longer bring the 2000 Monte Carlo to NASCAR in 1999. Ritter‘s observation says that with the most up-to-date revisions requested by NASCAR the teams imagine the original Monte Carlo would be uncompetitive on the music. Due to the this and the fact the teams would want to jeopardize their most up-to-date efforts to originate the original Monte Carlo so the original version has been postponed. Assume in regards to the paunchy announcement on Speedwords at Chevrolet Postpones NASCAR debut of 2000 Monte Carlo Dawdle Automobile (4-10-1999)

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April 10, 2019

  • Bass Anglers Sportsman Society joins Truex as affiliate sponsor: Joe Gibbs Racing publicizes that it has entered into an settlement with Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (B.A.S.S.) to support as an affiliate sponsor on its No. 19 Toyota Camry pushed by Martin Truex, Jr. B.A.S.S. is the sphere‘s supreme fishing organization with a rising…
  • Sonoma bustle stage lengths: Sonoma Raceway will exercise the carousel for this twelve months bustle. With the increased length of the music, the bustle will now be 90 laps (it had been 110). Stage lengths will likely be 20 laps, 20 laps, and 50 laps. Click on here for all 2019 bustle stage lengths.(4-10-2019)…

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April 10, 2018

  • Restrictor plates at All-Megastar Dawdle? NASCAR is planning to make exercise of next month‘s Monster Energy NASCAR All-Megastar Dawdle as a test of the Xfinity Series aero kit debuted last season at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Motorsport.com has learned. The aero kit historical in the Xfinity Series last season included a restrictor-plate, nevertheless even extra importantly, aero ducts on the front spoilers and a taller rear spoiler.[More](4-10-2018)
  • Suarez injures thumb in Texas accident UPDATE:  Daniel Suarez had his left thumb set in a splint following the NASCAR Cup Series bustle at Texas. He said in a video posted on Twitter he afflict the thumb in an accident on the 2d lap of the bustle. He persisted to compete after the accident and accomplished 29th. He’ll discuss with a doctor Tuesday.[More](4-9-2018)
    UPDATE:  Suarez noticed a doctor on Tuesday and modified into as soon as cleared to bustle.[More](4-10-2018)
  • Monster Energy to live entitlement sponsor of NASCAR premier sequence by 2019:  NASCAR® and Monster Energy have signed an settlement that will lengthen the entitlement sponsorship of NASCAR‘s premier sequence. The extension retains NASCAR and Monster Energy partners by 2019. As piece of the settlement, the logo also continues because the Real Energy Drink of NASCAR.[More](4-10-2018)
  • Tony Stewart, oldsters of Kevin Ward attain confidential settlement: Tony Stewart and the fogeys of Kevin Ward Jr. have asked for a settlement listening to scheduled for Thursday in the wrongful-loss of life lawsuit filed to be canceled or postponed attributable to “they’ve done a confidential settlement settlement for which no additional stream by this court is required.” The stream cites a 2004 U.S. appeals court thought that honoring the parties‘ disclose favor for confidentiality might presumably well moreover merely facilitate settlement, which courts are certain to encourage.[More](4-10-2018)
  • VehicleKEYS.com expands sponsorship of Smithley:  Fans can seek files from forward to seeing the No. 0 VehicleKEYS.com Chevrolet Camaro no longer off course loads extra for the period of the 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series season. After sponsoring Garrett Smithley and group JD Motorsports with Gary Keller for the period of the Roseanne 300 at Auto Club Speedway, VehicleKEYS.com has decided to return on board for a few races, starting with the Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway on April 14th, 2018.[More](4-10-2018)
  • Lombard Brothers teams with RSS for additional races:  RSS Racing is extremely happy to welcome Lombard Bros. Gaming because the foremost sponsor for Ryan Sieg at a few races. Following a particular response from the sponsorship at Auto Club Speedway, the company has elected to enroll in Sieg at Bristol, Michigan, Iowa, and Motorway The US. Moreover, RSS Racing has employed Mike Ford to encourage oversee the #39 automobile for the the rest of 2018. The used crew chief modified into as soon as with the group last weekend in Texas.[More](4-10-2018)
  • Michael Tyler to remark Nationwide Anthem at Kansas:  It seems simplest fitting that an artist with the song “Hello Mama” would be a part of Kansas Speedway‘s Would possibly presumably well merely bustle weekend. In any case, it is miles Mother‘s Day weekend. And Michael Tyler, who hails from Thayer, Mo, will remark the Nationwide Anthem for the Kansas 400 at his “home” music on Saturday night, Would possibly presumably well merely 12.[More](4-10-2018)
  • Original enviornment of expertise menu items available at Bristol:  The sizzle of burgers cooking on the grill and the smell of french fries crisping in the deep fryer possess on a original which draw as Bristol Motor Speedway introduces original equipment and menu items to modernize the concessions ride. Original remark of the art work grills and fryers had been set in at procure front and abet stretch concession stands concourse stage for the Food City 500 weekend.[More](4-10-2018)

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April 10, 2017

  • Would possibly presumably well maybe need to warning laps count between bustle phases? A NASCAR govt said Monday that sequence officers will seek files from at no longer counting warning laps between stage breaks for 2018. Steve O‘Donnell, NASCAR govt vp and chief racing pattern officer, made the feedback on “The Morning Drive” on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.[More](4-10-2017)
  • Sunday Texas Notebook:  Ryan Blaney couldn‘t have asked for a higher open up to Sunday‘s O‘Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. Nonetheless Blaney‘s bustle modified dramatically when crew chief Jeremy Bullins opted to possess care of him on the music when debris from Grey Gaulding‘s automobile in Flip 1 precipitated the sixth warning of the day on Lap 163.[More](4-10-2017)
  • Texas TV commercial breakdown:  For those of you NASCAR fans that love stats and love to despise commercials, here is the breakdown for Sunday‘s bustle.[More](4-10-2017)
  • Dell partners with JTG Daugherty Racing:  Dell EMC publicizes that, for the foremost time ever, the company is sponsoring a NASCAR group, JTG Daugherty Racing. By draw of this partnership, Dell EMC is working with JTG Daugherty Racing to encourage present a aggressive edge by the implementation of craftsmanship within the racecar, on the music and on the shop.[More](4-10-2017)

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April 10, 2016

  • Low downforce kit will get first night bustle test:  The crumbled and taped nose of the #48 Chevrolet illustrated Jimmie Johnson‘s point bigger than the amount of leaders or passes in the Duck Commander 500 on Saturday at Texas Motor Speedway. It had to. The downforce-lowering aerodynamics kit that NASCAR vetted efficiently last season and applied to many of the venues on the 2016 schedule had produced results mostly aesthetic to fans and compelling to drivers by 5 applications up to now. The outcome early Sunday morning felt decidedly much less exhilarating with Martin Truex Jr. leading 141 of 334 laps, Carl Edwards 124 and Kyle Busch producing the principal gallop for the eventual possess by virtue of a decisive sequence that had extra to entire with pit scheme and tire set on than aerodynamics. Nonetheless, Johnson said, this modified into as soon as progress, then all another time refined.
    “I passed a good deal of automobiles tonight in a vary of conditions and getting out and looking out on the nose of my automobile, it‘s pretty hammered,” said Johnson, whose tribulations en path to a fourth-remark cease included a pit road collision, a approach-spoil, and being caught a lap down for the period of an inopportune warning. “I believe having a beat-up bustle automobile and being down a lap and taking the wave-by, a vary of other problems that went on and passing that many automobiles I believe that‘s a tall tag of where this kit is at.”
    Nonetheless in the foremost night bustle of the season, amid frosty temperatures and on a music that modified into as soon as washed of rubber old to the bustle by rain, there resulted a demonstrate that outwardly regarded much less dazzling or on the least no longer commensurate with the anticipation stage. “Truly, we‘ve received to be reliable in regards to the issues that contribute to developing grip,” Johnson said. “A nice cool evening goes to originate grip. The slicker the bustle music, I believe, the extra the automobiles will shine is where we‘re at. I believe Vegas modified into as soon as frosty and crisp ad proper grip and no longer exactly what we wanted. Right here modified into as soon as silent proper nevertheless I believe when we glean in the original summer season months we‘ll set on a proper demonstrate.”(USA This day)(4-10-2016)
  • Resolution no longer to pit dooms Truex, Jr.:  When the yellow flag waved on Lap 289 of 334 Truex‘s #78 Bass Expert Shops/TRACKER Boats Toyota modified into as soon as in reveal of the bustle. The resolution at that point modified into as soon as to pit or no longer to pit for tires. Truex‘s crew chief Cole Pearn opted no longer to pit while the majority of the automobiles came down pit road for fresh rubber. Truex persisted to manual, nevertheless when one other warning came out a few laps later the Furniture Row Racing driver received passed on the restart by automobiles with brisker Goodyears, and he indirectly fell abet to cease sixth in the Duck Commander 500 Go Cup Series bustle. “I hoped extra automobiles would have stayed out, nevertheless if you would possibly presumably well moreover merely have the dominant automobile that‘s the supreme likelihood they’ve to beat you,” said Furniture Row Racing crew chief Cole Pearn. “By staying out and leading, we felt that having luminous air would be an equalizer. Nonetheless in that relate it‘s more straightforward to manufacture the resolution if you‘re running 2d and no longer first. We‘ve viewed this happen regularly in NASCAR when the bustle leader is generally in a no possess relate. It modified into as soon as a bummer to cease where we did tonight.” Truex never ran decrease than third old to the closing restart and at one point of the bustle had a whopping eight-2d lead.(Furniture Row Racing)(4-10-2016)

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April 10, 2015

  • Pit Stall Selections:  The alternate choices of pit stalls for the Duck Commander 500 Go Cup Series bustle at Texas Motor Speedway had been made.
    Pole sitter #41-Busch chose pit stall 1 [as do most pole sitters].
    Out of doorways pole sitter #4-Harvick took pit stall 14, the foremost pit stall with a gap in front of it.
    #2-Keselowski, who begins Third took the 43rd and closing pit stall.
    To gawk where the drivers/teams pit stall is, gawk the pit selection chart on the Pit Stall Different chart.(4-10-2015)
  • Kurt Busch wins Texas pole:  #41-Kurt Busch received the Coors Light pole for the Duck Commander 500 Go Cup Series bustle at Texas Motor Speedway with tempo of 193.847mph for his 2nd pole of 2015, 1st at Texas and 18th of his career.
    #4-Harvick is on the out of doorways pole adopted by #2-Keselowski, #5-Kahne, #48-Johnson, #22-Logano, #31-Newman, #27-Menard, #42-Larson, and #1-McMurray.
    Missing the bustle had been: #62-Gaughan and #26-Burton.
    Assume in regards to the starting lineup, round-by-round qualifying results and extra on Jayski.com‘s Texas Qualifying Page.(4-10-2015)
  • Second Round of Qualifying for the Duck Commander 500 Go Cup Series bustle at Texas Motor Speedway is over after 10 scheduled minutes.
    #4-Harvick 194.021
    #41-Busch 193.653
    #42-Larson 193.653
    #27-Menard 193.112
    #2-Keselowski 193.036
    the the rest of the head 12: 1 31 22 5 24 48 14;
    out of the head 12 and no longer advancing to round 3: 21 3 78 19 20 11 16 13 10 17 6 51
    (4-10-2015)
  • First Round of Qualifying for the Duck Commander 500 Go Cup Series bustle at Texas Motor Speedway is over, after 20 scheduled minutes.
    #24-Gordon 194.981
    #4-Harvick 194.581
    #42-Larson 193.986
    #41-Busch 193.694
    #14-Stewart 193.507
    the the rest of the head 24: 7 13 16 5 6 11 21 1 22 78 10 2 17 19 31 51 48 3 20;
    out of the head 24 and no longer advancing to round 2: 88 47 15 46 9 18 35 43 40 7 98 55 32 38 95 62 26 34 83
    Drivers who will gallop away out the bustle: #62-Gaughan, #26-Burton.
    (4-10-2015)
  • Closing note for the Duck Commander 500 Go Cup Series bustle at Texas Motor Speedway is over after 80 minutes, the head 5, slowest two and some notes:
    #5-Kahne 190.975
    #48-Johnson 190.523
    #1-McMurray 189.653
    #11-Hamlin 189.560
    #13-Mears 189.062
    Most laps scamper: #4-Harvick 62, #1-McMurray 56
    slowest: #33-Kennedy 181.014 & #32-Bliss 180.126.
    notes: Qualifying is scheduled for six: 45pm/et tonight and might presumably well moreover merely be shown on FS1.
    Assume about fastest speeds, laps scamper, simplest 10 Consecutive Lap Realistic on the Texas note 2 speeds web page (pdf).(4-10-2015)
  • Fashioned Plumbing Provide sponsoring Whitt at Texas:  Fashioned Plumbing Provide will gallop racing with Cole Whitt for Saturday‘s NASCAR Go Cup Series bustle at Texas Motor Speedway, partnering with the #35 Ford group for judicious one of the principal fastest events on the sequence‘ circuit. The Utah-based mostly mostly company operates wholesale stores at bigger than 80 locations in eight western states, offering residential and commercial plumbing, heating and cooling, and hydronics merchandise to contractors, cities, states, colleges and the general public. The family-scamper company celebrates 63 years of provider this twelve months. Whitt enters the Texas Motor Speedway bustle weekend with three consecutive top-25 finishes alongside with his #35 group.(Entrance Row Motorsports), gawk an image of the automobile on the #35 group paint schemes web page.(4-10-2015)
  • First Friday note for the Duck Commander 500 Go Cup Series bustle at Texas Motor Speedway is over after 90 minutes, the head 5, slowest two and some notes:
    #78-Truex, Jr. 191.096
    #5-Kahne 190.463
    #4-Harvick 189.773
    #13-Meards 189.182
    #18-Ragan 189.129
    Most laps scamper: #33-Kennedy 65, #88-Earnhardt, Jr. 62
    slowest: #32-Bliss 182.235 & #33-Kennedy 179.134.
    notes: Go Cup teams can have a 2d (and closing) note on the unusual time at 2: 00pm/et. Qualifying is scheduled for six: 45pm/et tonight.
    Assume about fastest speeds, laps scamper, simplest 10 Consecutive Lap Realistic on the Texas note 1 speeds web page (pdf).(4-10-2015)
  • Bristol bustle renamed to honor Steve Byrnes:  In recognition of FOX Sports broadcaster Steve Byrnes‘ heroic and ongoing fight with head-and-neck cancer, FOX Sports, in coordination with Bristol Motor Speedway, Speedway Motorsports Inc., Stand Up To Most cancers and NASCAR, is naming the April 19 NASCAR Go Cup Series bustle from Bristol the Food City 500 In Make stronger Of Steve Byrnes And Stand Up To Most cancers. The tournament, which is in a space to be aired live on FOX at 12: 30pm/et, pays tribute to Byrnes, a NASCAR tv mainstay for 30 years, while also serving as a automobile of make stronger and awareness for all those combating cancer. Byrnes, co-host of “NASCAR Dawdle Hub” and play-by-play announcer for the NASCAR Tenting World Truck Series, is on a scientific gallop away of absence while he undergoes remedy. He has been piece of the FOX NASCAR broadcast group since its inaugural twelve months of NASCAR Go Cup Series protection in 2001. “The make stronger I in actuality have got from my teammates at FOX Sports, drivers, group contributors, music officers, NASCAR and the fans has been overwhelming,” Byrnes said. “So many families are tormented by cancer, and to play a tiny piece in raising awareness is an honor to me.”(FoxSports)(4-10-2015)
  • Qualifying Picture for the Duck Commander 500 Go Cup Series bustle at Texas Motor Speedway is posted. 45 automobiles/drivers are listed.
    The first of the drivers scheduled to gallop out is #83-DiBenedetto.
    The closing driver scheduled to gallop out is #62-Gaughan.
    Qualifying notify will rely on a random plan, held about an hour old to the foremost note.
    Assume in regards to the paunchy qualifying notify on Jayski.com‘s Texas Qualifying Page.(4-10-2015)
  • Maxwell Home sponsoring MWR:  Michael Waltrip Racing and Maxwell Home launched a partnership which names the enduring espresso maker as foremost racing sponsor for five Go Cup races for the period of the 2015 season and the prestigious DAYTONA 500 in February 2016. The 10-month settlement officially kicks off on Aug. 2 with the Pennsylvania 400 on the Pocono Raceway. Clint Bowyer will power the #15 Maxwell Home Toyota at Watkins Glen International, Pocono Raceway, Martinsville Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway in the 2d half of of the 2015 season. Waltrip, a two-time DAYTONA 500 champion, will carry the Maxwell Home colours at Talladega Superspeedway in October and in the 2016 DAYTONA 500 at Daytona International Speedway. Maxwell Home is no stranger to the racing circuit, having partnered with a few of basically the most smartly-identified drivers in good racing between 1989 and 2003, including Michael Waltrip. Different ingredients of the sponsorship will consist of special appearances by the Michael Waltrip Racing group, outlandish in the abet of-the-scenes glean admission to for procure fans, special in-season and meals market promotions and sampling at procure races. Maxwell Home might presumably be an affiliate sponsor of the closing Go Cup races.(MWR), gawk an image of the automobile on the #15 group paint schemes web page.(4-10-2015)
  • Buescher to live in the #34 at Bristol & Talladega:  Chris Buescher carries some proper files with him to his home music of Texas Motor Speedway this week. The 22-twelve months-passe driver will pilot the #34 CSX “Play It Well-behaved” Ford for fan-current NASCAR Go Cup Series races at Bristol Motor Speedway on April 19 and Talladega Superspeedway on Would possibly presumably well merely 3. The affiliation will lengthen Buescher‘s scamper with Entrance Row Motorsports‘ #34 group to 5 races. He has been filling the seat for Entrance Row typical David Ragan, who continues to sub for the injured Kyle Busch in the #18 automobile. Buescher is welcomed by CSX as an additional spokesperson for the transportation company‘s safety advertising and marketing and marketing campaign, which reminds of us to “Play It Well-behaved” round railroad tracks and to brake for trains. CSX, with its network covering 21,000 miles of railroad tracks in 23 states, has partnered with Entrance Row Motorsports and the #34 group for three consecutive seasons, focusing on males age 18 to 34 with its safety message.(Entrance Row Motorsports)(4-10-2015)
  • Larson feels supreme:  #42-Kyle Larson smiled with a bottle of an electrolyte drink in his hand Thursday, exhibiting no ill effects from a fainting spell that kept him out of the March 29 bustle at Martinsville Speedway. Relating to the supreme lingering effects from his March 28 fainting spell are texts from automobile owner Chip Ganassi on what to eat. The 22-twelve months-passe Larson fainted following an autograph session March 28, a day old to the Martinsville bustle, and modified into as soon as held out of the tournament so docs might presumably well scamper tests to rule out any serious health problems. The tests came out damaging and has docs theorizing that he fainted from dehydration. He is decided to appear at Friday and bustle Sunday in the Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. “That morning, I had tacos and chicken noodle soup,” Larson said Thursday at TMS. “Later that night after I went to the clinic, I had pizza attributable to that‘s all that they had there. [Ganassi] says I need to extend the pizza and tacos food plot. … My nutritionist Chip Ganassi is on me.” Larson already has returned to the seat of the bustle automobile. He spent all day Wednesday trying out a Go Cup automobile at Richmond International Raceway after which piece of Thursday in a Legends automobile as piece of a mentoring program for sponsor Axe. “I in actuality feel supreme,” Larson said. “I‘m proper. I‘m staying hydrated. All is proper. It modified into as soon as nice to glean a day in old to I received out here — they ran all those tests — proper to manufacture certain the entire lot is proper in the bustle automobile. It went supreme. It went silent. No problems at all.”(ESPN.com)(4-10-2015)
  • Accell Construction returns to TBR:  Heading into the Duck Commander 500 bustle weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, Tommy Baldwin Racing is welcoming abet a long-time sponsor for the 2015 NASCAR Go Cup season. Accell Construction returns to support as foremost sponsor on the #7 Chey SS at Texas as smartly as both races at Kansas Motor Speedway. The Oklahoma-based mostly mostly company will continue its partnership with TBR for the fifth consecutive season. “We’re relaxed with the connection that our group has built with Steve and Accell Construction for the previous 5 seasons,” said group owner Tommy Baldwin. “For a tiny group love ours, this relationship is purposeful. It enables Accell Construction to have a presence in NASCAR and produce their company to a original market while it enables TBR to take care of sources to live aggressive.”(TBR), gawk an image of the automobile on the #7 group paint schemes web page.(4-10-2015)
  • Sorting out at Kentucky:  Eight NASCAR Go Cup drivers and teams are scheduled to take part in the April 15 open test at Kentucky Speedway forward of the music‘s Quaker Utter 400 in July. The open test will likely be preceded by a closed Goodyear tire test on April 13 and 14 with one group each and every from the next organizations: Chip Ganassi Racing, Michael Waltrip Racing, Richard Childress Racing and Roush Fenway Racing. On April 15, #16-Greg Biffle, #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr., #20-Matt Kenseth, #22-Joey Logano, #1-Jamie McMurray, #10-Danica Patrick, #31-Ryan Newman and #9-Sam Hornish Jr. are scheduled to take part in the open test with April 16 serving as a rain date old to the Go Cup Series heads to Bristol Motor Speedway next weekend.(NASCAR.com)(4-10-2015)
  • Texas Motor Speedway Notes & Info — Friday — drivers:
    · 140 drivers have competed in on the least one NASCAR Go Cup Series bustle at Texas; 115 in bigger than one.
    · Jeff Gordon is the supreme driver to have made all 28 NASCAR Go Cup Series begins at Texas Motor Speedway.
    · 18 totally different drivers have received at Texas Motor Speedway, led by Jimmie Johnson with four victories.
    · Seven drivers have a few wins at Texas Motor Speedway: Jimmie Johnson (four), Carl Edwards (three), Greg Biffle, Jeff Burton, Denny Hamlin, Matt Kenseth and Tony Stewart each and every have two.
    · Jimmie Johnson leads the sequence in runner-up finishes at Texas Motor Speedway with 5; adopted by Matt Kenseth with four and Jeff Gordon with three.
    · Matt Kenseth leads the sequence in top-5 finishes at Texas Motor Speedway with 13; adopted by Jimmie Johnson with 11, Jeff Gordon with 9 and Greg Biffle with eight.
    · Matt Kenseth and Jimmie Johnson lead the sequence in top-10 finishes at Texas Motor Speedway with 17 each and every; adopted by Dale Earnhardt Jr. with 14.
    · Jimmie Johnson leads all active drivers in the NASCAR Go Cup Series in moderate starting space at Texas Motor Speedway with an 8.5. Johnson is the supreme active driver with a mean starting space at Texas in the head 10.
    · Two active drivers have a NASCAR Go Cup Series moderate cease in the head 10 at Texas: Matt Kenseth (8.9) and Jimmie Johnson (9.0).
    · Casey Mears has participated in basically the most NASCAR Go Cup Series races at Texas Motor Speedway without posting a DNF (21).
    · Jeff Burton (4/06/1997) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (4/02/2000) received their first NASCAR Go Cup Series career bustle at Texas Motor Speedway.
    · 2012 NASCAR Go Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski (11/02/2008) and Trevor Bayne (11/07/2010) made their first NASCAR Go Cup Series career begins at Texas Motor Speedway.
    · Two NASCAR Go Cup Series drivers have posted consecutive wins at Texas Motor Speedway: Carl Edwards (2008 sweep) and Denny Hamlin (2010 sweep). Jimmie Johnson has received the last three consecutive Lunge races at Texas Motor Speedway (2012, 2013 and 2014).
    · 11 of the 12 active NASCAR Go Cup Series drivers who’ve received at Texas Motor Speedway participated in on the least two or extra races old to visiting Victory Lane. Dale Earnhardt Jr. received at Texas in his first look; Carl Edwards and Ryan Newman received in their 2d study TMS.
    · Jeff Gordon competed at Texas Motor Speedway 16 times old to successful in the spring of 2009; the longest span of any the 12 active NASCAR Go Cup Series winners.
    · Easiest three of the 12 successful drivers have made 10 or extra attempts old to their first possess at Texas Motor Speedway: Jeff Gordon (16) Kyle Busch (15) and Kurt Busch (13).
    · Kevin Harvick leads the sequence among active drivers with basically the most NASCAR Go Cup Series begins at Texas Motor Speedway without visiting Victory Lane at 23.
    · Two female drivers have made NSCS begins at Texas Motor Speedway: Shawna Robinson and Danica Patrick.
    · Jimmie Johnson leads the NASCAR Go Cup Series in Laps Led at Texas Motor Speedway with 889 laps led in 23 begins.
    · Jeff Gordon leads all active NASCAR Go Cup drivers in Laps Done at Texas Motor Speedway with 8,330 laps.
    · One NASCAR Go Cup Series driver has received at Texas Motor Speedway in two totally different manufacturers: Jeff Burton (1997 — Ford; 2007 — Chevrolet) (NASCAR)(4-10-2015)
  • Jones wins XFINITY bustle at Texas:  #20-Erik Jones received the O‘Reilly Auto Parts 300 at Texas Motor Speedway. It’s a ways his first XFINITY Series possess in barely his Ninth open up. #22-Brad Keselowski accomplished 2d, adopted by #88-Dale Earnhardt, Jr., #7-Regan Smith, #33-Austin Dillon, #6-Darrell Wallace, Jr., #54-Denny Hamlin, #9-Lunge Elliott, #60-Chris Buescher, and #2-Brian Scott.
    There had been 6 cautions for 30 laps and 15 lead modifications among 8 leaders. Total results are on the Texas bustle results web page (pdf).
    (4-10-2015)
  • Texas XFINITY Dawdle Speedily Info:
    Erik Jones received the 19th Annual O‘Reilly Auto Parts 300, his first victory in 9 NASCAR XFINITY Series races.
    At 18 years, 10 months, 11 days, Jones is the 2d youngest winner at Texas (Lunge Elliott).
    A NASCAR Next graduate, that is Jones‘ fifth NASCAR national sequence possess. He also has four wins in the NASCAR Tenting World Truck Series.
    Brad Keselowski (2d) posted his 11th top-10 cease in 15 races at Texas Motor Speedway. It’s a ways his third top-10 cease in 2015.
    Dale Earnhardt Jr. (third) posted his sixth top-10 cease in eight races at Texas Motor Speedway.
    Darrell Wallace Jr. (sixth) modified into as soon as the absolute best finishing rookie.
    Ty Dillon leads the purpose standings by 2 parts over Chris Buescher.
    (NASCAR Integrated Advertising and marketing)(4-10-2015)
  • XFINITY Driver standings following Texas:
    1) #3-Ty Dillon 219
    2) #60-Chris Buescher 217, -2
    3) #9-Lunge Elliott 208, -11
    4) #6-Darrell Wallace Jr. 204, -15
    5) #16-Ryan Reed 197, -22
    6) #7-Regan Smith 197, -22
    7) #1-Elliott Sadler 181, -38
    8) #62-Brendan Gaughan 176, -43
    9) #2-Brian Scott 169, -50
    10) #18-Daniel Suarez 160, -59
    Assume about entire owner and driver standings on the driver standings(pdf) and owner standings web page (pdf).(4-10-2015)
  • Erik Jones on XFINITY pole at Texas:  #20-Erik Jones received the pole for the O‘Reilly Auto Parts 300 at Texas Motor Speedway with a tempo of 185.166mph. #22-Brad Keselowski will open up 2d. The the rest of the head 10: #33-Austin Dillon, #18-Daniel Suarez, #88-Dale Earnhardt, Jr., #7-Regan Smith, #2-Brian Scott, #6-Darrell Wallace, Jr., #9-Lunge Elliott, and #60-Chris Buescher. Did No longer Qualify: none. The starting lineup is posted on the Texas starting lineup web page (pdf).(4-10-2015)
  • Texas XFINITY Qualifying Notes:
    Erik Jones received the Coors Light Pole Award for the 19th Annual O‘Reilly Auto Parts 300 with a lap of 29.163 seconds, 185.166 mph.
    Right here is his 2d pole in 9 NASCAR XFINITY Series races. He also received the pole at Auto Club Speedway.
    Right here is his 2d pole and fifth top-10 open up in 2015.
    Right here is his first pole in a single races at Texas Motor Speedway.
    Brad Keselowski (2d) posted his 2d top-10 open up of 2015 and his eighth in 15 races at Texas Motor Speedway.
    Austin Dillon (third) posted his sixth top-10 open up at Texas Motor Speedway. It’s a ways his fifth in 5 races this season.
    Daniel Suarez (fourth) modified into as soon as the fastest qualifying rookie.
    (NASCAR Integrated Advertising and marketing)(4-10-2015)
  • Dukes of Hazzard stars host pre-bustle live performance at Bristol:  Autotrader will bring Tom Wopat and John Schneider, stars of the original Autotrader TV commercials and the hit TV sequence The Dukes of Hazard to Bristol Motor Speedway as hosts of the Autotrader Pre-Dawdle Concert. Two-time Grammy winners Feeble Crow Medication Veil will headline the Autotrader Pre-Dawdle Concert for the Food City 500, Sunday, April 19. Company on the Food City 500 will likely be entertained by the community some name the supreme string band in the sphere with punk-rock stride and an passe college nation sound. The proficient artists that are simplest identified for “Wagon Wheel” will originate a 30-minute need to-gawk demonstrate. Earlier than the Autotrader Pre-Dawdle Concert, hosts Tom Wopat and John Schneider will manufacture an look from 9: 30 — 10: 15a on the Autotrader demonstrate in the Fan Zone on the Speedway grounds. The celebrities of The Dukes of Hazzard can even cheer on Joey Logano in the Group Penske #22 Autotrader Ford Fusion. Autotrader unveiled a totally different paint plot showcasing their original logo on the #22 for the Food City 500.(BMS)(4-10-2015)
  • Earnhardt, Jr., Elliott to appear at Observe Takeover in Richmond:  Whilst you hear the names Earnhardt and Elliott many issues formulation to thoughts. Generations of history, endless wins, and intense battles are proper to title a few. These names have grow to be piece of NASCAR, and fans all the draw by the game have grown to appreciate them. Nonetheless, you love to need to know extra about them, don‘t you? Properly, Richmond International Raceway is offering you the likelihood. Both Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Lunge Elliott will likely be doing Q&A‘s on the indispensable stage at Observe Takeover powered by Nationwide. All Saturday, April 25 NASCAR Go Cup Series bustle tag holders are invited to abet Observe Takeover powered by Nationwide, where you would possibly presumably well moreover set your toes on the pavement proper hours old to NASCAR‘s simplest combating it out in the TOYOTA OWNERS 400. Two legendary last names in NASCAR on one stage answering questions that we all want to know. What‘s higher than that? Add a rising story in the nation music scene to the list, that‘s what. Eric Lee Beddingfield will manufacture his RIR debut, taking the stage at Observe Takeover powered by Nationwide to entertain fans.(RIR)(4-10-2015)

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April 10, 2014

  • Chassis alternate choices for this weeks bustle:  gawk the list of many teams [that report or post them] and what chassis had been selected by the group to scamper at Darlington Raceway on the Darlington Dawdle Records web page — Chassis selection space.
  • Edwards to sport Ford EcoBoost plot at Darlington:  The #99 Ford of Carl Edwards will characteristic a Ford EcoBoost plot at Darlington Raceway this weekend. For 2014, EcoBoost will likely be available on bigger than 90% of the FORD nameplates, rising to 95% by 2015. EcoBoost expertise combines smaller total dimension with turbocharging, train injection and variable valve timing for worthy performance and gas financial system. Better gas efficiency and decrease gas funds are the head causes for EcoBoost engines. Edwards on Darlington: “Now we have EcoBoost on the automobile this week, it‘s simplest the decals despite the indisputable fact that attributable to EcoBoost is so technologically tremendous I don‘t think they‘d enable it. It might presumably well be an unfair help if we in actuality had an EcoBoost engine. Darlington is a good deal of stress-free. It‘s a 500 mile bustle so it is miles a correct test of man and machine, and it is miles judicious one of the principal hardest races of the twelve months. It‘s a like a flash bustle music, there might be so mighty history there, and to possess there would be tall.”(Roush Fenway Racing), gawk an image of the plot on the #99 Group Schemes web page.(4-10-2014)
  • Original From Florida debuts on the #43 at Darlington:  The #43 group needs to possess each and a week, nevertheless this week, they’ve an additional incentive. Crew Chief Trent Owens grew up proper a few miles from Darlington Raceway and says a possess on the music “Too Tricky To Tame” would despicable up with a Daytona 500 possess. Aric Almirola will seek files from to continue Owens‘ success on the music. With consecutive top-10 finishes in the last 5 seasons as crew chief, Almirola would truly like to add a Go Cup Series top-10 to the list. This weekend, the Original From Florida advertising and marketing and marketing campaign will makes its debut on the smartly-known #43. The advertising and marketing and marketing campaign, led by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Individual Providers and products, is fascinated about building awareness and sales of fresh seafood, originate and other Florida merchandise (RPM), gawk an image of the plot on the #43 Group Schemes web page.(4-10-2014)
  • Sherwin-Williams Car Finishes to Sponsor #51 at Darlington:  HScott Motorsports launched that Sherwin-Williams Car Finishes will sponsor the #51 Chevy pushed by Justin Allgaier on this weekend‘s NASCAR Go Cup Series bustle at Darlington Raceway. Sherwin-Williams is the good provider of automotive paint and transportation finishes for NASCAR and affords these merchandise to HScott Motorsports as smartly. The Sherwin-Williams Car Finishes logo will likely be on the hood of the #51 automobile, while the quarter-panel will characteristic the Sherwin-Williams product AWX Efficiency Plus Waterborne Refinish Intention. AWX Efficiency Plus Waterborne basecoat is an easy-to-put together, swiftly drying basecoat that offers graceful coloration match while assembly the strictest VOC limits in North The US. “We’re contented to be on the No. 51 automobile at Darlington Raceway,” said Bobby Temperamental, Director of Motorsports for Sherwin-Williams Car Finishes. “We designate our partnership with HScott Motorsports, and we‘re looking out forward to watching a Sherwin-Williams automobile bustle below the lights at Darlington.”(HScott Motorsports), gawk an image of the plot on the #51 Group Schemes web page.(4-10-2014)
  • Darlington Notes and Info — Thursday: drivers
    · NASCAR Hall of Famer Richard Petty leads the sequence in begins at Darlington with 65. Jeff Gordon leads all active drivers with 33 begins; adopted by Joe Nemechek with 27.
    · Buddy Baker and Richard Petty are tied for the sequence most runner-up finishes at Darlington with eight each and every. Jeff Gordon leads all active drivers in 2d-remark finishes at Darlington with four.
    · Richard Petty leads the sequence in top-5 finishes at Darlington with 25. Jeff Gordon leads all active drivers with 19.
    · Invoice Elliott leads the sequence in top-10 finishes at Darlington with 35. Jeff Gordon leads all active drivers with 22.
    · Denny Hamlin leads all active drivers in the NASCAR Go Cup Series in moderate finishing space at Darlington with a 5.375.
    · Two active NASCAR Go Cup drivers have a mean cease in the head 10 at Darlington: Denny Hamlin (5.3) and Jimmie Johnson (8.8).
    · 13 drivers in the NASCAR Go Cup Series have posted consecutive wins at Darlington; Dale Earnhardt (1989-1990) and Jeff Gordon (1995-1996) are tied for the sequence lead in consecutive wins at Darlington with three each and every.
    · All six active NASCAR Go Cup Series winners at Darlington Raceway participated in on the least two or extra races old to visiting Victory Lane. Among active drivers, Kyle Busch received at Darlington in the fewest old appearances (three).
    · Matt Kenseth competed at Darlington Raceway 19 times old to successful last season; the longest span of any the six active NASCAR Go Cup Series winners.
    · Joe Nemechek leads the sequence among active drivers with basically the most NASCAR Go Cup Series begins at Darlington without visiting Victory Lane at 27.
    · Jeff Gordon leads all active drivers in the NASCAR Go Cup Series in laps led at Darlington with 1,736 laps led in 33 begins.(NASCAR)(4-10-2014)
  • Edwards exhibits his tempo with first pitch at Royals-Rays game:  Carl Edwards, in a blue Royals jersey alongside with his #99 on the abet, stood atop the pitcher‘s mound at Kauffman Stadium and let it rip. It might presumably well moreover merely had been the ceremonial first pitch old to Tuesday night‘s Royals-Tampa Bay game, nevertheless Edwards modified into as soon as all business, proper as he’s in a bustle automobile. The supreme-hander‘s fastball blistered Billy Butler‘s mitt … proper slightly out of doorways. “You‘ve received a moderately proper arm,” Butler, an avowed NASCAR fan, shouted to Edwards. Edwards, from Columbia, modified into as soon as supposed to possess some batting note and shag drift balls for the period of his look promoting the Would possibly presumably well merely 10 Go Cup bustle at Kansas Speedway. Nonetheless his plane modified into as soon as delayed out of Charlotte, where he modified into as soon as taping a commercial, and the Royals‘ batting note had ended. That didn‘t diminish the enjoyment of his first time out to Kauffman Stadium, a remark Edwards has pushed previous endless times en path to Kansas Speedway the last 14 years nevertheless never visited. “That‘s judicious one of the principal coolest issues I‘ve ever performed,” a starry-eyed Edwards said as he came off the enviornment and fist-bumped a cadre of Royals gamers, coaches and manager Ned Yost, one other NASCAR buff. “I modified into as soon as a little apprehensive in regards to the foremost pitch. I warmed up a little bit (Monday) night. I haven‘t thrown a baseball for a truly very long time. My scheme modified into as soon as to throw it as laborious as I might presumably well.”(Kansas City Megastar)(4-10-2014)
  • Boeing Constructed Marines an Osprey Jeep with NASCAR Connection:  Among the drawbacks of the Marines‘ MV-22 Osprey has been its lack of ability to possess aboard an all-terrain, multi-characteristic fight automobile and produce it to the fight. The auto would ought to silent be simplest 5-toes extensive to suit the tight confines of the lean-rotor plane and likewise have ample energy to tackle the 60 p.c grade of the off-on ramp. Boeing and MSI Defense Solutions, of Mooresville, N.C., have developed the Phantom Badger Internally Transportable Automobile as a resolution to the Marines‘ relate. MSI Defense Solutions worked with NASCAR teams old to it began working with the Pentagon. The 60-lag extensive Badger has a 240 horsepower multi-gas engine, can ford 3 toes of water and can hit 80 mph on paved roads, in response to the manufacturers. The auto is a mighty more straightforward match into the extra massive cabins of the CH-47, the C-130 and the C-17. Boeing conducted up the modularity of the Badger that will presumably well enable it to be configured for a vary of missions, including reconnaissance, explosive ordnance disposal, mounted weaponry, and fight search and rescue.(defensetech)(4-10-2014)
  • Mike Wallace in the #93 at Darlington:  Mike Wallace returns to JGL Racing in the #93 this weekend in the Sport Clips Serve A Hero 200 at Darlington with sponsorship from Unker‘s. Wallace accomplished 13th at Daytona in the JGL Racing #28 with sponsorship from Unker‘s. Mike and the group are hoping to glean one other proper cease this weekend. Unker‘s is a therapeutic salve that is made by a tiny company out of Upton, Wyoming owned by Patricia Pendleton. JGL is contented to partner with tiny firms. It’s a ways indispensable to augment Mother & Pop firms. That is what our sport modified into as soon as began on.(JGL Racing)(4-10-2014)

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April 10, 2013

  • 2014 NASCAR Hall of Standing Nominees Launched:  Higher than life figures who built NASCAR lap by lap and rush by rush from the put up-World War II expertise into the 21st century comprise the 25 nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Standing Class of 2014. NASCAR launched those 25 nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Standing‘s fifth induction class, and included among the many various community are 5 inexperienced persons whose achievements are cornerstones of the game‘s origins and continue to gas its progress in as much as the moment times. Of the 25 nominees, 20 return from last twelve months‘s community. 5 are first-timers with varying backgrounds in the game: 2d expertise NASCAR premier (now Go Cup) sequence champion Dale Jarrett; Maurice Petty, for bigger than three a long time the manager engine builder for Petty Enterprises; 5-time NASCAR weekly sequence national champion Larry Phillips; bustle music builder and owner Bruton Smith; and 1960 NASCAR premier sequence champion Rex White. From that list, 5 inductees will likely be elected by the NASCAR Hall of Standing Vote casting Panel, which incorporates a nationwide fan vote on NASCAR.COM. Vote casting Day for the 2014 class will likely be Would possibly presumably well merely 22. Fans can abet the announcement on the NASCAR Hall of Standing in Charlotte, N.C. The NASCAR Hall of Standing‘s 2014 inductees will make certain by a 54-member Vote casting Panel, which contains the total Nominating Committee, media contributors, producer representatives, retired competitors (drivers, householders and crew chiefs) and known commerce leaders. As well, the fan vote will lead to the Vote casting Panel‘s closing ballot. Following are the 25 nominees, listed alphabetically:
    Crimson Byron, first NASCAR premier (now Go Cup) sequence champion, in 1949
    Richard Childress, 11-time automobile owner champion in NASCAR‘s three national sequence
    Jerry Cook dinner, six-time NASCAR Modified champion
    H. Clay Earles, founder of Martinsville Speedway
    Tim Flock, two-time NASCAR premier (now Go Cup) sequence champion
    Ray Fox, legendary engine builder and owner of automobiles pushed by Buck Baker, Junior Johnson and others
    Anne Bledsoe France, helped construct the game with husband Invoice France Sr. Affectionately identified as “Annie B.,” she is the foremost girl to be nominated for induction into the NASCAR Hall of Standing.
    Rick Hendrick, 13-time automobile owner champion in NASCAR‘s three national sequence
    Jack Ingram, two-time NASCAR Busch (now Nationwide) Series champion and three-time Late Mannequin Sportsman champion
    Bobby Isaac, 1970 NASCAR premier (now Go Cup) sequence champion
    Dale Jarrett, 1999 NASCAR premier (now Go Cup) sequence champion and three-time Daytona 500 winner
    Fred Lorenzen, 26 wins and winner of the Daytona 500 and World 600
    Raymond Parks, NASCAR‘s first champion automobile owner
    Benny Parsons, 1973 NASCAR premier (now Go Cup) sequence champion
    Maurice Petty, chief engine builder for Petty Enterprises
    Larry Phillips, simplest 5-time NASCAR Whelen All-American Series national champion
    Les Richter, extinct NASCAR govt; extinct president of Riverside International Raceway
    Fireball Roberts, 33 NASCAR premier (now Go Cup) sequence wins, including the 1962 Daytona 500
    T. Wayne Robertson, helped increase NASCAR recognition as R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Firm senior VP
    Wendell Scott, NASCAR trailblazer modified into as soon as the foremost African-American NASCAR premier (now Go Cup) sequence bustle winner, and first to be nominated for induction into the NASCAR Hall of Standing.
    Ralph Seagraves, shaped groundbreaking Winston-NASCAR partnership as govt with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Firm
    O. Bruton Smith, builder of Charlotte Motor Speedway and architect of Speedway Motorsports Inc.
    Curtis Turner, early personality, called the “Babe Ruth of stock automobile racing”
    Joe Weatherly, two-time NASCAR premier (now Go Cup) sequence champion
    Rex White, 1960 NASCAR premier (now Go Cup) sequence champion
    (NASCAR)(4-10-2013)
  • Dillon in the #51 at Texas UPDATE: Nationwide Series driver Austin Dillon will power the #51 Chevy for Phoenix Racing Saturday night at Texas Motor Speedway. The auto will likely be backed by Bruce Lowrie Chevy and Realtree. Assume about an image of the automobile on the #51 group paint schemes web page.(4-9-2013)
    UPDATE: Austin Dillon will partner with James Finch‘s Phoenix Racing Group at Texas Motor Speedway to power the #51 Bruce Lowrie Chevrolet/Realtree Chevrolet in the Go Cup Series. The 2011 NASCAR Tenting World Truck Series Champion last raced the #51 Chevy at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March, where he accomplished 21st and helped support the group in the head 10 in the owner‘s point standings. Realtree and Bruce Lowrie Chevrolet will support as co-foremost sponsors on the entry. Affiliate sponsors consist of Cain industries, “Crimson Barn Steaks, BBQ and Sports” and TAG Heuer Avant Garde Eyewear.(Dillon PR)(4-10-2013)
  • SPEED‘s Dawdle Hub and SiriusXM to reveal NASCAR Hall of Standing Nominees: NASCAR Dawdle Hub, the current Monday by Thursday files, characteristic, interview and files demonstrate on FOX Sports‘ SPEED, is teaming with SiriusXM NASCAR Radio on Wednesday to reveal the 25 nominees with 2014 eligibility for election into the NASCAR Hall of Standing. The demonstrate begins at 6: 00pm/et, with part of this broadcast being simulcast by both NASCAR Dawdle Hub and SiriusXM Speedway, which is originating its live on a regular basis demonstrate from the FOX Sports‘ SPEED studios in Charlotte starting at 3: 00pm/et. SPEED co-hosts Steve Byrnes, Danielle Trotta, alongside with NASCAR analysts Kyle Petty and Larry McReynolds will likely be joined by SiriusXM Speedway‘s Dave ‘The Godfather‘ Temperamental and Angie Skinner in asserting this twelve months‘s 25 nominees. A 21-member panel selects as much as 25 of us to be eligible for the NASCAR Hall of Standing nominating pool. These notables gallop up for a vote by an induction process that entails 55 entire ballots.(SPEED)(4-10-2013)
  • Tire test at Daytona: Goodyear will habits a tire test at Daytona International Speedway on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 16 & 17. Drivers scheduled to participate consist of: #1-Jamie McMurray, #5-Kasey Kahne/Regan Smith (Hendrick Motorsports), #10-Danica Patrick, #16-Greg Biffle, #17-Ricky Stenhouse Jr., a driver from Joe Gibbs Racing, #21-Trevor Bayne, #33-Austin Dillon, and #99-Carl Edwards. The music will likely be closed to fans.(DIS)(4-10-2013)
  • Pit Crew Danger cancelled:  NASCAR is no longer going to habits its All-Megastar Pit Crew Danger this twelve months because it modified into as soon as unable to land sponsorship for the tournament. The tournament, a staple of NASCAR‘s all-principal person week since 2005, featured pit crews competing in an enviornment surroundings where they would jack automobiles, change tires and push automobiles all the draw by the enviornment ground. The results of the pit crew relate had been historical to search out out the notify that teams selected pit stalls for the all-principal person bustle. NASCAR will exercise qualifying results-proper because it does for all typical-season events-to search out out pit-stall selection notify for the all-principal person bustle, which is scheduled for Would possibly presumably well merely 18 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Craftsman after which Go had backed the pit crew relate during the years, nevertheless Go reallocated its cash to sponsor the season-opening exhibition Go Unlimited bustle at Daytona International Speedway. NASCAR officers have said since January that they had been looking out out out a sponsor to continue the tournament.(Wearing News)(4-10-2013)
  • Like’s Poke Stops on the #34 at Texas: The red and yellow colours of Like’s Poke Stops will likely be abet on a Entrance Row Motorsports Ford this week – this time below the lights on the constantly-swiftly Texas Motor Speedway with David Ragan and the #34 group. Saturday night’s tournament will likely be a “home game” for group partner Like’s, which is primarily based mostly in close by Oklahoma City, Okla. The company is family-owned and operated with bigger than 290 locations in 39 states and is at screen ranked #9 on Forbes’ list of The US’s Most intelligent Non-public Companies. This week’s bustle is the 2d of three in which a Entrance Row automobile will carry the Like’s colours.(Entrance Row Motorsports)(4-10-2013)
  • Eckrich making first look of the twelve months with Almirola: Aric Almirola and the Richard Petty Motorsports group will gallop to the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway this weekend with acquainted logos. Returning for its first of six foremost events, Eckrich, piece of the John Morrell Food Community, a subsidiary of Smithfield Meals, will as soon as all another time be featured on the hood and facets of the smartly-known #43. The auto will continue to showcase the Petty Blue nasty that Smithfield Meals returned abet to the #43 earlier this season. As well, Eckrich, by its persisted partnership with Operation Homefront, will as soon as all another time showcase the nonprofit colours on the automobile to augment defense power families in want.(Richard Petty Motorsports), gawk an image of the automobile on the #43 group paint schemes web page.(4-10-2013)
  • Jeremy Clements will get Texas sponsor:  ETS OilField Providers and products L.P. and US Petroleum Consultants LLC will likely be on board the #51 Chevy of Jeremy Clements for this weekend‘s NNS bustle at Texas Motor Speedway. Both sponsors are on board for a few races this season. ETS Oilfield Providers and products, L.P., modified into as soon as shaped in 1996 to originate Power Sorting out companies and products in Texas. Crane companies and products had been added in 2005. In 2008 Mulching and Land Clearing equipment modified into as soon as purchased and added to the list of companies and products offered. The Firm then expanded all another time into Completion Fluids and Water Switch companies and products in 2010. ETS at screen has operations in Texas, Wyoming, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.(Clements PR)(4-10-2013)
  • Burton and Labonte to appear at Talladega Trip:  The list of appearances for the approved Talladega Trip continues to grow, and this week‘s additions continue to be the supreme – and most beneficial – names in NASCAR. Bobby Labonte, who will likely be making history alongside with his 700th career NASCAR Go Cup Series open up, alongside with Jeff Burton, identified because the “Mayor of the NASCAR Storage,” are scheduled to appear in the Talladega Trip on Sunday, Would possibly presumably well merely 5, the morning of the Aaron‘s 499. They’re going to enroll in an already principal person-studded lineup which includes Brad Keselowski and Dale Earnhardt Jr. The Talladega Trip offers fan hospitality unrivaled by every other carrying tournament. As well to driver appearances, guests of the Talladega Trip are handled to unlimited catering and beverages, up-terminate and deepest glean admission to to driver anticipate and acknowledge lessons, pre-bustle pit road tours, music glean admission to for the period of driver introductions, VIP parking, tournament souvenirs, and extra. The Talladega Trip is designed for the FAN, with the closing goal of offering each and every guest with a world-class ride and reminiscences to last a lifetime. The kit, which ought to silent be accompanied by a Frontstretch Grandstand or Tower tag, is $145.(TSS)(4-10-2013)

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April 10, 2012

  • Spring Spoil on the NASCAR HOF UPDATE:  Guests can glean away with spring fever and family stress-free on the NASCAR Hall of Standing for the period of the 2d annual Spring Spoil from the Habitual, Saturday, March 24 – Monday, April 9. With original special events and actions, Spring Spoil From the Habitual offers students and their oldsters “Grade A” entertainment with scavenger hunts, racing simulator competitions, pit crew challenges, crafts, online game competitions plus bigger than 50 palms-on reveals on the 150,000 sq.-foot entertainment facility. In a category by itself, Spring Spoil From the Habitual choices on a regular basis bodily challenges and games for varsity students (Okay-12). On a regular basis for the period of Spring Spoil From the Habitual guests have a possibility to compete in a series of excessive-octane actions and contests for prizes including NASCAR memorabilia, Okay‘NEX building sets, Shuffle Master toy automobiles, NASCAR Hall of Standing Memberships and extra.(NHOF).(3-24-2012)
    UPDATE:  Due to the current demand, the 2d annual Spring Spoil from the Habitual on the NASCAR Hall of Standing has been prolonged by Sunday, April 15 giving families one other likelihood to ride the added actions on the current entertainment appeal in Uptown Charlotte, N.C. Spring Spoil From the Habitual, which began Saturday, March 24, offers students and their oldsters “Grade A” entertainment with scavenger hunts, racing simulator competitions, pit crew challenges, crafts, online game competitions plus bigger than 50 palms-on reveals on the 150,000 sq.-foot entertainment facility. More files on the tournament and tickets at NASCARHall.com.(4-10-2012)
  • Sad News — Dot Owens:  Dot Owens, the wife of racing story Cotton Owens, died Monday evening at her Spartanburg home following a prolonged illness. She modified into as soon as 83. Funeral companies and products are to make certain. Cotton Owens, 88, modified into as soon as judicious one of NASCAR‘s top engineers relationship to the kid phases of the game and built automobiles that received races and championships on the game‘s absolute best ranges.(). From 1950 — 1964, Owens ran 160 Go Cup races and received 9. Owens modified into as soon as a automobile owner for 405 races, his drivers received 38 races and 1 championship with David Pearson in 1966.(4-10-2012)
  • Kenseth to return to Daytona for Daytona 500 Champion‘s Breakfast:  Roush Fenway Racing‘s two-time DAYTONA 500 Champion, #17-Matt Kenseth, is decided to return to the placement of his historical possess this week for a rescheduled fan tournament celebrating the group‘s victory. The possess in the 54th “Big American Dawdle” also earned a milestone victory for Roush Fenway Racing because the organization earned its 300th NASCAR possess in the formulation. In the open scheduled because the Champion‘s Breakfast for the morning of February 27, 2012, the tournament wanted to be rescheduled after rain showers compelled the DAYTONA 500 to be scamper Monday night on February 28th. The tournament is open to fans and entails a fan forum anticipate and acknowledge tournament with Kenseth, group owner Jack Roush, and crew chief of the #17 Most efficient Pick group, Jimmy Fennig. Doors open at 10: 45 a.m. and fans can have the different to have their image alive to in regards to the successful No. 17 Most efficient Pick Ford Fusion which is on demonstrate on the ability for the next twelve months. Lunch can even be available for those in attendance, and guests can have the different to glean a tour of Daytona International Speedway. Tickets for the distinctive Champion‘s Breakfast tournament for February 27, 2012 will likely be honored for the Champion‘s Lunch on April 11th. Tickets are also available for $40 by calling 1-800-PITSHOP or online at daytonainternationalspeedway.com.(Roush Fenway Racing)(4-10-2012)
  • Particular plot for Martin at Texas:  The #55 Toyota of Designate Martin carries a totally different paint plot this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, celebrating Aaron‘s 2011 Most efficient of the Most efficient staff, divisions, areas, stores and franchises. All are from Texas. Winners, in response to operational results for the 2011 calendar twelve months and acting on the #55, consist of: Division of the twelve months: Dave Buck — Southwestern Division (Houston, Tex.); Franchise Division of the twelve months: Wallace Vernon / Tom Blassingame / Charles Hollinger — Gain Condo Protect (Killeen, Tex.); Space of the twelve months — Firm: Ryan Malone – South Texas (Corpus Christi, Tex.); Space of the twelve months – Franchise: David Foster – Alliance North (Decatur, Tex.); Store of the twelve months – Firm: Joe Borrego – C1024 (Odessa, Tex.); Store of the twelve months – Franchise: Joey Dolberry – F684 (Early, Tex.)(MWR), gawk an image of the automobile on the #55 Group Schemes web page.(4-10-2012)
  • Dr. Pepper plot for Kvapil:  the #93 BK Racing Toyota of Travis Kvapil will carry the colors of Dr. Pepper at Texas Motor Speedway. Assume about an image of the automobile on the #93 Group Schemes web page.(4-10-2012)
  • Historical previous and Notes at Texas Motor Speedway:
    � Construction began in 1995.
    � The first NASCAR bustle modified into as soon as a NASCAR Nationwide Series tournament on April 5, 1997.
    � The first NASCAR Go Cup bustle modified into as soon as on April 6, 1997.
    � There had been 22 NASCAR Go Cup Series races at Texas Motor Speedway, one per season from 1997 by 2004 and two races per twelve months since 2005.
    � Four drivers have competed in all 22 Texas races: Jeff Burton, Jeff Gordon, Bobby Labonte and Designate Martin.
    � Jeremy Mayfield modified into as soon as the foremost pole winner, in 1998. Qualifying for the inaugural bustle in 1997 modified into as soon as canceled.
    � Jeff Burton received the foremost NASCAR Go Cup bustle.
    � 16 drivers have scored poles, led by Dale Earnhardt Jr., Bobby Labonte, Ryan Newman and Jeff Gordon with two.
    � 16 drivers have received races, led by Carl Edwards, with three. Denny Hamlin, Matt Kenseth, Tony Stewart and Jeff Burton each and every have two wins.
    � 16 of 22 races had been received from a top 10 starting space. Easiest one has been received from the pole — Kasey Kahne in 2006.
    � Matt Kenseth began 31st en path to his victory at Texas in 2002, the deepest in the enviornment that a bustle winner has began.
    � Both Jeff Burton (1999) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (2000) scored their first NASCAR Go Cup Series possess at Texas, and 2011 Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne made his first sequence open up at Texas (11/07/10).
    � Martin Truex Jr. (11/04/07) and David Ragan (04/09/11) scored their first sequence poles at Texas.
    � Matt Kenseth (8.7) is the supreme active driver to moderate a top-10 cease at Texas.
    � Jimmie Johnson (9.2) is the supreme active driver to moderate a top-10 starting space at Texas.
    � Roush Fenway Racing leads all householders in victories, with eight. Joe Gibbs Racing and Hendrick Motorsports have three wins each and every.
    � There modified into as soon as two season sweeps, by Carl Edwards in 2008 and Denny Hamlin in 2010.(NASCAR)(4-10-2012)
  • Ganassi to be honored:  The Heinz Historical previous Middle will honor NASCAR, Apt-Am and IndyCar group owner Chip Ganassi for his contributions to the [Pittsburgh] remark and the nation on the 20th Annual Historical previous Makers Award Dinner on April 13.(Pittsburgh Post Gazette)(4-10-2012)
  • Pastrana named Apt Marshal for Samsung Mobile 500:  Travis Pastrana, X Video games icon and judicious one of NASCAR‘s most up-to-date superstars, will support because the Apt Marshal for Saturday‘s Samsung Mobile 500 Go Cup Series bustle. PastranaPastrana, an 11-time X Video games medalist, grew to grow to be his consideration to NASCAR in 2011 and might presumably well moreover merely compete for Pastrana 199 Racing in procure Nationwide Series races this twelve months. However, Pastrana will live correct to his erroneous sports roots, competing in the 2012 World Rallycross Championship that makes a cease at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday, June 9, to combine for a doubleheader with the Firestone 550 IZOD IndyCar Series bustle.(TMS)(4-10-2012)
  • Tickets available for Rockingham Truck Series bustle; special Hame of Standing kit:  Due to the a partnership between the NASCAR Hall of Standing and Rockingham Speedway, bustle fans will likely be in a space to glean a double dose of racing history in the approaching weeks. TheNASCAR Hall of Standing is offering a 20% nick price on admission to anybody presenting a tag, on the NASCAR Hall of Standing box remark of job, for the April 15, 2012 running of the Appropriate Sam Roadside Assistance 200 introduced by Cheerwine NASCAR Tenting World Truck Series (NCWTS) bustle at Rockingham Speedway. With ease positioned in uptown Charlotte, N.C., the 150,000-sq.-foot NASCAR Hall of Standing is an interactive, entertainment appeal honoring the history and heritage of NASCAR. For extra files on the Appropriate Sam Roadside Assistance 200 introduced by Cheerwine, or to take tickets for any of Rockingham Speedway‘s events, contact the speedway at 910.205.8800 or discuss with online at www.rockinghamspeedway.com. This special designate might presumably well moreover merely no longer be blended with every other provide and is available till December 31, 2012, apart from Would possibly presumably well merely 12 — Would possibly presumably well merely 28 and October 6 — 14, 2012.(Rockingham Speedway)(4-10-2012)
  • Feeble Rockingham Speedway boss honored by alma mater:  As the Rockingham Speedway is honored with the return of NASCAR to its music, a extinct president of the speedway is receiving honors of her possess. Ellerbe native, Jo DeWitt Wilson, has been given the title of Trustee Emerita from Queens University of Charlotte. “My father, L.G. Dewitt, modified into as soon as president of the speedway till he passed away in 1990,” said Wilson. “Frank Wilson – no relation – took over the distance till he had a stroke four years later.” Wilson said her mom, Carrie DeWitt, called her and asked her to return to Richmond County and support as president for the speedway. “The board of directors elected me, and I served from 1994 till 2002,” she said. “We cleaned up, made a good deal of enhancements, built extra stands and did some landscaping,” she said. “As soon as I realized there wasn‘t ample cash coming in to pay for the total upgrades, I contacted Roger Penske, who purchased the music from my mom. He allowed me to halt on by the kill of my contract.” After leaving the music, Wilson retired and began to pursue deepest interests. Wilson, who got her degree in home economics from Queens University of Charlotte in 1959, decided to return to her alma mater. She modified into as soon as elected to the board of trustees in 1999, and served till 2011. No longer too long in the past, the college named her Trustee Emerita. “I now no longer support as a fiscal trustee for the college, nevertheless I live very active,” said Wilson. “I also silent closely put together the ideas of Rockingham Speedway.” Wilson said that she will be able to likely be in Georgia on business for the period of the NASCAR Tenting World Truck Series Appropriate Sam Roadside Assistance Carolina 200 introduced by Cheerwine, on April 15 at The Rock, nevertheless her sister Nancy Daugherty, also a Queens alumni, will likely be working at a concession stand for the period of the bustle. “So my family will likely be represented on the speedway when NASCAR returns,” she said.(Richmond County Day after day Journal)(4-10-2012)
  • Ryan Truex in the #09 at Texas:  RAB Racing with Brack Maggard and two-time NASCAR Okay&N; Expert Series East champion Ryan Truex will group up for this weekend‘s NASCAR Nationwide Series bustle at Texas Motor Speedway. Grime Boss, a division of Nice-Pak Merchandise, Inc., will sponsor Truex as he pilots the #09 Grime Boss Toyota Camry in his first open up on the 1.5-mile oval. The 20-twelve months-passe driver has compiled one top-5 and six top-10 finishes in 26 NASCAR Nationwide Series begins. Kenny Wallace, who drove the #09 Toyota Camry in the foremost 5 races of the 2012 season, will return to the group at Talladega Superspeedway next month.(RAB Racing)(4-10-2012)
  • Kurt making first open up for Kyle Busch Motorsports:  Week six of the 2012 NASCAR Nationwide Series bustle season brings the #54 Monster Energy group to Texas Motor Speedway with a original face in the abet of the wheel. Kurt Busch, the 2004 NASCAR Go Cup Series Champion and older brother to group owner Kyle Busch, looks to add a victory to the record e-book for the newly shaped Kyle Busch Motorsports Nationwide Series group, and to his possess NNS resume that already entails three wins and three poles in 13 career sequence begins. This weekend‘s TMS tournament will likely be the foremost of an estimated 17 Nationwide Series events in which the elder Busch will power the #54 Monster Energy entry for KBM.(Kyle Busch Motorsports)(4-10-2012)
  • Ty Dillon heads to Rockingham with ARCA possess history:  Ty Dillon will pilot the #3 Bass Expert Shops Chevrolet Silverado from the Richard Childress Racing proper in Sunday‘s Appropriate Sam Roadside Assistance 200 at Rockingham Speedway. Dillon is no stranger to the one-mile bustle music incomes a possess in 2010 on the Rockingham, NC, Speedway in ARCA Racing Series. The 20-twelve months-passe racer began from the sixth space and lead 41 laps old to taking the checkered flag for the 2d time in barely his third look in the ARCA Racing Series. After Dillon‘s 2d-remark exhibiting at Martinsville Speedway, he at screen sits fourth in the Tenting World Truck Series driver‘s championship point standings proper four markers in the abet of the leader. Dillon is tied for the lead with John King for the 2012 Sunoco Rookie of the twelve months honors. The 2 drivers have a entire of 32 parts after two races on the Tenting World Truck Series schedule.(Richard Childress Racing PR)(4-10-2012)
  • Lofton returns to situation of 2009 ARCA Championship Occasion:  This week Justin Lofton returns to the placement of judicious one of basically the most memorable moments of his racing career — Rockingham Speedway, because the NASCAR Tenting World Truck Series ushers in NASCAR‘s return to the historical music. Etched with history, the 47-twelve months-passe music is special to the 26-twelve months-passe Lofton after he smartly-known the ARCA Racing Series championship at “The Rock” in 2009. Appropriate love in 2009, Lofton will likely be piloting a #6 entry for Eddie Consuming Racing as he wheels the #6 College Total.com Chevrolet within the NASCAR Tenting World Truck Series. Though this week will likely be his first in a truck on the music, Lofton has raced at “The Rock” three times within ARCA competition. The supreme scamper on the eastern North Carolina music in October of 2009 offered basically the most challenges. Getting into the bustle Lofton had a tiny 15-point lead over Parker Kligerman in the championship standings When it modified into as soon as all said and performed, Kligerman took the checkered flag, nevertheless Lofton took the championship trophy courtesy of a Third remark cease. He wrapped up the championship with a slim 5-point margin over Kligerman. The Appropriate Sam Roadside Assistance 200 Offered by Cheerwine is decided for Sunday, April 15th at 1: 00pm Jap.(ESR/Justin Lofton PR(4-10-2012)
  • George remark for first RCR 2012 open up:  Tim George Jr. will pilot Chassis #047 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Tenting World Truck Series proper on this weekend‘s Appropriate Sam Roadside Assistance 200. This weekend‘s 200-miler marks Tim George Jr.‘s first look in the abet of the wheel of the #2 Applebee‘s Chevrolet Silverado for the 2012 season. George Jr. is slated to compete in a entire of 12 Tenting World Truck Series races for RCR this season. The 31-twelve months-passe driver can even gawk on-music stream at Kansas Speedway, Texas Motor Speedway, Iowa Speedway (both races), Kentucky Speedway, Pocono Raceway, Michigan International Speedway, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Talladega Superspeedway and Situation dwelling-Miami Speedway. George Jr. has three old begins on the historical one-mile music in the ARCA Racing Series. Earlier than competing in the Appropriate Sam Roadside Assistance 200, George Jr. will pilot the No. 2 Applebee‘s Chevrolet UARA Late Mannequin for Group Dillon Racing on Saturday, April 14. George Jr. is slated to scamper 12 events below the TDR banner this season in the UARA Late Mannequin.(Richard Childress Racing PR)(4-10-2012)
  • ThorSport remark to smash record at Rockingham:  ThorSport Racing, the Truck Series‘ longest-standing organization, is breaking but one other record this weekend at Rockingham Speedway. When the inexperienced flag waves, this will designate the 350th consecutive tournament in which ThorSport Racing has had on the least one truck entered, breaking Roush Fenway Racing‘s old record of 349. Matt Crafton has been in the abet of the wheel of the #88 truck for 249 of those begins. Johnny Sauter has been in the abet of the wheel of the #13 for 77 of those begins.(ThorSport Racing PR)(4-10-2012)

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April 10, 2011

  • Bayne admitted to clinic: UPDATE:  Trevor Bayne modified into as soon as admitted to Carolinas Medical Middle-University in Charlotte, NC, on Sunday morning after returning home from the Go Cup bustle at Texas Motor Speedway.
    In step with a Roush Fenway Racing group spokesman Corey Wynn, Bayne‘s illness has no longer been identified. Nonetheless the 20-twelve months-passe winner of this twelve months‘s Daytona 500 had tweeted earlier: “No longer certain if its a spider chunk or a tick chunk . . . Nonetheless either draw I‘m in a clinic bed with a needle in my arm! #nobueno”.
    Bayne began exhibiting symptoms Tuesday. On Friday, he modified into as soon as taken to the infield care center at Texas Motor Speedway, where he modified into as soon as administered antibiotics.
    Then, Saturday night, he went to the emergency room when the Roush plane returned to Charlotte, and he modified into as soon as admitted to the clinic.
    (Fox Sports)(4-10-2011)
    UPDATE:  Roush Fenway Racing‘s Trevor Bayne modified into as soon as handled and released Sunday from Carolina Medical Middle University Health center in Charlotte after a reaction from an apparent insect chunk on his left elbow that the 20-twelve months passe driver suffered last week while at home.
    “Trevor has been handled and released from the clinic and is k to continue alongside with his on a regular basis actions — including riding a bustle automobile,” said Roush Fenway president Steve Newmark. “Doctors are silent waiting for the test results to search out out for certain what precipitated the reaction, nevertheless Trevor has been handled, is at home and he’s doing supreme.”
    Extra files ought to silent be available on the kill of the week.
    Bayne competed in both the Nationwide and Go Cup races at Texas Motor Speedway over the weekend. He is scheduled to compete in both events this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway (Ala.).(Roush Fenway PR)(4-10-2011)
  • Dawdle and Commercial Breakdown of the Samsung Mobile 500:  For those of you NASCAR fans that love stats and love to despise commercials, or surprise how generally your driver modified into as soon as fascinated about for the period of those races, here is the breakdown for Saturday‘s bustle. Fox modified into as soon as the printed group for this tournament.
    Total sequence of commercials: 115
    Total sequence of firms or entities marketed: 76
    Total sequence of rapid promos of merchandise/companies and products for the period of the bustle broadcast: 50
    Initiate time to record bustle/commercial periods: 7: 30 pm
    Discontinue time to record bustle/commercial periods: 11: 09 pm
    Total minutes: 219
    Minutes of bustle broadcast: 164
    Minutes of commercials: 55
    Different of missed restarts: 0
    Different of ‘thriller cautions‘ (debris no longer shown): 1
    For driver focal point, previous races, links gawk the 2011 TV Commercials Page.(4-10-2011)
  • Home shuttle pilot taking a fragment of Texas Motor Speedway into plan:  NASA astronaut Doug Hurley modified into as soon as introduced a TMS flag Saturday, which he plans to possess care of with him on the closing plan shuttle mission this summer season. Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to terminate out the 30-twelve months shuttle program. A season-tag holder at Texas Motor Speedway since 2005, Hurley said he deliberate to bring the flag abet to the music when he comes abet for the November Go Cup bustle.(Connected Press)(4-10-2011)
  • Coca-Cola 600 Tickets donated by fans and firms by Let the Troops Dawdle Designate Program:  For the 2d consecutive twelve months, fans and firms are responding with solid make stronger for Charlotte Motor Speedway‘s invitation to honor American troops by donating bigger than 4,000 tickets as piece of the Let the Troops Dawdle tag program. By draw of this patriotic initiative, fans who hang tickets to the Would possibly presumably well merely 29 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway by phone, online or in the speedway‘s tag remark of job might presumably well moreover moreover take an additional tag for proper $20 to ship a member of the U.S. Armed Forces to the Memorial Day Weekend bustle. Tickets will likely be disbursed by the United Service Organizations to active servicemen and ladies. The Let the Troops Dawdle tag program runs by Would possibly presumably well merely 13.(CMS)(4-10-2011)
  • Bayne admitted to clinic: UPDATE:  Trevor Bayne modified into as soon as admitted to Carolinas Medical Middle-University in Charlotte, NC, on Sunday morning after returning home from the Go Cup bustle at Texas Motor Speedway. In step with a Roush Fenway Racing group spokesman Corey Wynn, Bayne‘s illness has no longer been identified. Nonetheless the 20-twelve months-passe winner of this twelve months‘s Daytona 500 had tweeted earlier: “No longer certain if its a spider chunk or a tick chunk . . . Nonetheless either draw I‘m in a clinic bed with a needle in my arm! #nobueno”. Bayne began exhibiting symptoms Tuesday. On Friday, he modified into as soon as taken to the infield care center at Texas Motor Speedway, where he modified into as soon as administered antibiotics. Then, Saturday night, he went to the emergency room when the Roush plane returned to Charlotte, and he modified into as soon as admitted to the clinic. (Fox Sports)(4-10-2011)
    UPDATE:  Roush Fenway Racing‘s Trevor Bayne modified into as soon as handled and released Sunday from Carolina Medical Middle University Health center in Charlotte after a reaction from an apparent insect chunk on his left elbow that the 20-twelve months passe driver suffered last week while at home. “Trevor has been handled and released from the clinic and is k to continue alongside with his on a regular basis actions — including riding a bustle automobile,” said Roush Fenway president Steve Newmark. “Doctors are silent waiting for the test results to search out out for certain what precipitated the reaction, nevertheless Trevor has been handled, is at home and he’s doing supreme.” Extra files ought to silent be available on the kill of the week. Bayne competed in both the Nationwide and Go Cup races at Texas Motor Speedway over the weekend. He is scheduled to compete in both events this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway (Ala.).(Roush Fenway PR)(4-10-2011)

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April 10, 2010

  • Newman wins at Phoenix:  #39-Ryan Newman received the Subway Original Match 600(okay) at Phoenix International Raceway for his first possess of the season and 14th of his career. Newman‘s possess modified into as soon as his first with Stewart Haas Racing and first since Newman received the 2008 Daytona 500, when he modified into as soon as with Penske Racing. Newman is the foremost driver ever to possess a bustle running the automobile quantity 39. Assume about my Safe by Automobile Number web page for extra on automobile quantity history. #24-Gordon, who modified into as soon as the leader when the bustle restarted below a inexperienced-white-checker cease, modified into as soon as passed by Newman on the restart and accomplished 2nd. #48-Johnson accomplished 3nd, adopted by #5-Martin, #42-Montoya, #17-Kenseth, #99-Edwards, #18-Kyle Busch (who modified into as soon as leading the bustle when the closing warning came out with 3 laps to gallop), #33-Bowyer, and #20-Logano. Pole sitter #43-Allmendinger accomplished 15th. There had been 9 cautions for 59 yellow flag laps and there had been 20 lead modifications among 13 drivers.
    Assume about bustle results, awards, laps led and extra on Jayski‘s Phoenix Dawdle Results/Awards web page.(4-10-2010)
  • Dawdle Speedily Info — Phoenix International Raceway:
    Ryan Newman received the SUBWAY Original Match 600, his 14th victory in 303 NASCAR Go Cup Series races.
    Right here is his first victory and 2d top-10 cease in 2010. His most most up-to-date victory came 77 races in the past in 2008 Daytona 500. It’s a ways his first victory since joining Stewart-Haas Racing.
    Right here is his first victory and fourth top-10 cease in 16 races at Phoenix International Raceway.
    Jeff Gordon (2d) posted his 17th top-10 cease in 23 races at Phoenix International Raceway. It’s a ways his third top-10 cease in 2010.
    Jimmie Johnson (third) posted his 12th top-10 cease in 14 races at Phoenix International Raceway.
    Kevin Conway (33rd) modified into as soon as the absolute best finishing rookie.
    Jimmie Johnson leads the purpose standings by 36 parts over Matt Kenseth.(NASCAR Statistics)(4-10-2010)
  • 2010 Go Cup Driver Aspects Standings:
    [after Phoenix, race 7 of 36]:
    despicable, automobile#, driver, parts, in the abet of
    1) #48-Jimmie Johnson [3 wins] 1073
    2) #17-Matt Kenseth 1037, -36
    3) #16-Greg Biffle 981, -92
    4) #29-Kevin Harvick 961, -112
    5) #24-Jeff Gordon 948, -125
    6) #33-Clint Bowyer 885, -188
    7) #31-Jeff Burton 873, -200
    8) #99-Carl Edwards 873, -200
    9) #14-Tony Stewart 869, -204
    10) #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr. 866, -207
    11) #20-Joey Logano 862, -211
    12) #18-Kyle Busch 855, -218
    Lunge for the Go Cup — Contenders:
    13) #5-Designate Martin 844, 11 parts out of scoot
    14) #2-Kurt Busch [1 win] 834, -22
    15) #98-Paul Menard 811, -44
    16) #39-Ryan Newman [1 win] 802, -53
    17) #83-Brian Vickers 786, -69
    18) #11-Denny Hamlin [1 win] 783, -72
    2009 Chaser Drivers no longer in top 18
    21) #42-Juan Montoya 723, -132
    26) #9-Kasey Kahne 666, -189
    Assume about standings on Jayski‘s Drivers Aspects Standings web page.(4-10-2010)
  • Top-35 in Proprietor Aspects and warranted a starting web page online at Texas:
    30) #77-Hornish/Penske 625 +104
    31) #71-Labonte/Buckler 586 +65
    32) #78-Smith/Furniture Row 580 +59
    33) #38-Gilliland/Entrance Row 546 +25
    34) #37-Conway/Entrance Row 538 +17
    35) #7-Gordon/RGM/BAM: 528, 7 parts forward of 36th
    these teams/ drivers need to qualify by tempo:
    36) #34-Kvapil/Entrance Row 521 7 parts out of 35th
    38) #26-Talked about/Stremme/Latitude43: 426 -102
    37) #36-Bliss/Baldwin: 420 -108
    39) #13-Papis/Germain: 361 -167
    40) #90-Riggs/Key 304 -224
    The teams are NOT locked in previous the next bustle because the householders parts change after each and every bustle.
    For the owner parts standings, gawk my Owners Aspects Standings web page.(4-10-2010)
  • Penalty Chronicle — Phoenix:
    Automobile#, Lap, Reason, Penalty
    #2, 15, Out of doorways half of of the pit box tire violation/Group member no longer alive to with the out of doorways tires, Tail Discontinue
    #9, 15, Pitting old to pit road is open, Tail Discontinue
    #2, 15, Pitting old to pit road is open, Tail Discontinue
    #56, 16, Pitting old to pit road is open, Tail Discontinue
    #2, 24, Pitting old to pit road is open, Tail Discontinue
    #1, 24, Pitting old to pit road is open, Tail Discontinue
    #31, 190, Automobile pitting out of the assigned pit box, 1 Lap
    (NASCAR Statistics)(4-10-2010)
  • Lucky Canines — Who received a lap abet on each and every warning at Phoenix:  (and their cease)
    Warning 1: no driver down a lap
    Warning 1: wave round automobiles: none
    Warning 2: no driver no longer off course a lap down
    Warning 2: wave round automobiles: none
    Warning 3: #46-Cook dinner, 34th
    Warning 3: wave round automobiles: none
    Warning 4: #6-Ragan, 19th
    Warning 4: wave round automobiles: none
    Warning 5: #82-Roam, 21st
    Warning 5: wave round automobiles: none reported
    Warning 6: #78-Smith, 26th
    Warning 6: wave round automobiles:
    Warning 7: #78-Smith (2), 26th
    Warning 7: wave round automobiles: none reported
    Warning 8: #1-McMurray, 24th
    Warning 8: wave round automobiles: #11-Hamlin, #19-Sadler
    Warning 9: none, no longer as much as 10 laps closing
    Warning 9: wave round automobiles: #31-Burton, #78-Smith, 71-Labonte
    NOTE: wave round automobiles are no longer constantly reported and no longer scored on results pages
    (4-10-2010)
  • Initiate and Parks? Which teams parked their automobiles early in the bustle at Phoenix (or regarded to)?
    #66-McDowell, #55-Blaney, and #35-Sauter all parked old to the kill of the bustle, nevertheless all of them drove on the least 149 laps.
    (simplest count a bunch with a history of open up and park, no longer a spoil or engine blow and simplest if 25% or much less of bustle done)(4-10-2010)
  • Hamlin perilous if he can scamper entire bustle: UPDATES:  #11-Denny Hamlin, who had surgical scheme 9 days in the past to repair a torn ACL in his left knee, said he’s perilous if he can power the total bustle Saturday after experiencing principal wretchedness and discomfort in note Friday. “I don‘t know the draw a ways I will gallop,” Hamlin said. “It aches pretty slightly and the vary of stream is a relate. If I had to entire it on the unusual time there might be now not a vogue I might presumably well kill it.” he said. Casey Mears will replace Hamlin if Hamlin has to glean out of the #11 Toyota. A driver need to open up the bustle to manufacture the parts for that tournament. “There‘s a good deal of fluid construct-up on the knee correct now,” Hamlin said. “The docs are going to insert a needle in the morning and drain the total fluid. They also are going to possess the stitches out, so I would have a little extra mobility.” Hamlin said he hopes to manufacture a resolution early in the bustle about whether or no longer to glean out of the automobile. “If we kill it, we want to entire it early,” Hamlin said. “I‘ll open up serious about it at 50 or 60 laps. My goal is to know what I‘m going to entire old to Lap 100 [in the 375-lap race]. There‘s no motive to abort it if I manufacture it that a ways. It hurts worse after I cease than after I‘m going.”(ESPN.com)(4-9-2010)
    UPDATE:  Interviewed on SPEED‘s Dawdle Day, Hamlin said he has no longer certain if he’ll strive to scamper the total bustle. He’ll gawk how he feels as soon as the bustle will get underway nevertheless strive to manufacture a resolution by lap 50.(4-10-2010)
    UPDATE 2:  Hamlin stayed in the automobile for the total bustle.(4-10-2010)
  • Blaney, McDowell swap rides at Phoenix:  This weekend at Phoenix Dave Blaney has moved over to the #55 Prism Motorsports Toyota, swapping seats with Michael McDowell, who will likely be in the #66. SPEED reported that Blaney modified into as soon as moved to the #55 in preparation for Michael Waltrip‘s bustle in the automobile at Talladega. Blaney generally runs extra laps that McDowell and that will enable the group to focal point extra on the performance of the #55. It modified into as soon as no longer talked about if they’ll swap automobiles all another time next weekend at Texas.(4-10-2010)
  • Gilliland honoring fan killed in accident:  #37-David Gilliland is paying tribute to the family of judicious one of his supreme fans this weekend by racing in reminiscence of a Tennessee teen who modified into as soon as killed in a tragic accident. Jordan Dwomick, 14, died when bigger than 200 pounds of trudge fell on her while she modified into as soon as sunbathing and paying consideration to music in the backyard of her home, in response to this record. Four gargantuan boards in some way fell off a stack of trudge and onto Dwomick‘s abet, neck and head Dwomick modified into as soon as “the daughter of a gargantuan and reliable fan of David‘s,” in response to Entrance Row Motorsports. Gilliland is honoring her by running a decal on his automobile at Phoenix this weekend that reads: “In Loving Memory, Jordan Dwomick.”(SB Nation)(4-9-2010)
  • Allgaier says no rapid plans for Cup debut:  Among the extra queer NASCAR reviews this spring surrounds newcomer Justin Allgaier, Roger Penske‘s most up-to-date fetch. Allgaier proper notched his first gargantuan NASCAR possess three weeks in the past at Bristol, in Penske‘s Nationwide automobile. Now there might be rising speculation that Allgaier, soon to flip 24, would be prepared to step as much as Cup….presumably as Penske‘s fourth Go Cup driver, with Kurt Busch, Brad Keselowski and Sam Hornish. What is the Penske-Allgaier game opinion? And how mighty relies on Nationwide sponsor Verizon — which is barred from striking its company logos on a Go Cup automobile? “The most uncomplicated opinion is there might be now not a opinion,” Allgaier says. “Clearly Roger is highly focused on the game and desires to manufacture issues happen in a timeframe that makes basically the most sense. I on the total advised Roger and all americans that makes the resolution at Penske Racing that I want the different indirectly. There‘s loads that can need to gallop into it (developing a fourth Cup group). Penske Racing is highly proper at being deliberate. I don‘t think we would jump into the rest. With Verizon being on our Nationwide automobile and no longer being in a space to gallop to the Cup facet, I want to manufacture certain it‘s the actual different and we don‘t raze any relationships.”(MikeMulhern.secure)(4-10-2010)
  • Obama Administration Looks to NASCAR for Anti-Texting Campaign:  There are few sports where distractions can show extra deadly than in stock automobile racing. Appropriate imagine the spoil a driver would motive if, yell, he whipped out his phone to textual disclose material his pit crew with a relate. With that in thoughts, the Obama administration is desirous to glean NASCAR aboard its anti-texting advertising and marketing and marketing campaign, says a stock automobile good. “Yes, NASCAR has been in discussions … for a that you would possibly presumably well moreover imagine distracted riding element in a advertising and marketing and marketing campaign. Right here is silent early stage, and a timeline for completion is silent no longer but confirmed,” says the insider. Can‘t you proper image Tony Stewart throwing his helmet at fellow racer who texted and precipitated a spoil that knocked him out of a bustle?(US News)(4-10-2010)
  • Fans can glean NASCAR Day Pins at Bass Expert Shops by Would possibly presumably well merely 21:  NASCAR fans looking out out out the technique to “glean their pin on” can now discuss with their native Bass Expert Shops to manufacture a $5 donation for the 2010 NASCAR Day collectible lapel pin. The NASCAR Basis and Bass Expert Shops have launched the current exterior retailer will take part in the national fundraiser by carrying the pins now by Would possibly presumably well merely 21 at 56 stores nationwide. NASCAR Day is a charitable event of the NASCAR spirit that lets in fans and partners to enroll in together to manufacture a incompatibility in the lives of children. NASCAR Day encourages fans to manufacture a $5 donation for a collectible lapel pin which in flip will make stronger applications that encourage children live happier, extra healthy lives.(NASCAR PR), for extra files on NASCAR day, gawk my Charity Links web page..(4-10-2010)
  • Keselowski, Smith to test at Infineon: NASCAR Go Cup Series drivers Brad Keselowski and Regan Smith will possess piece in test lessons next week at Infineon Raceway in preparation for the Toyota/Put Mart 350, June 18-20. Keselowski (#12 Penske Dodge) will test the 10-flip, 1.99-mile road course on Tuesday, April 13, while Smith (#78 Furniture Row Chevy) will discuss with the circuit on Wednesday, April 14. Both will test in gradual-mannequin stock automobiles offered by a Northern California-based mostly mostly bustle group.(Infineon PR)(4-10-2010)
  • Tumble Phoenix Dawdle to be Kobalt Tools 500:  Phoenix International Raceway launched that Lowe‘s and Kobalt Tools have joined the music‘s group of corporate partners. As piece of this original relationship, Kobalt will act because the good title sponsor for the music‘s November 14 NASCAR Go Cup Series tournament: The Kobalt Tools 500 at Phoenix International Raceway. Even supposing that is Lowe‘s first time sponsoring a Phoenix bustle, it has been supporting the Phoenix community for years. Lowe‘s and the Lowe‘s Charitable and Academic Basis (LCEF) have given bigger than $2 million in donations to schooling and community enchancment tasks in Arizona. Most no longer too long in the past, the LCEF gave a $50,000 grant to the Boys & Women Club of Metro Phoenix to renovate its teen center.(PIR)(4-10-2010)
  • Darlington tag remark of job open on weekends:  The Darlington Raceway tag remark of job will open for the period of the weekend to manufacture tag purchases extra convenient and accessible for bustle fans. The tag remark of job will likely be open each and every Saturday and Sunday leading as much as the SHOWTIME Southern 500 on Would possibly presumably well merely 8, 2010. Origin Saturday, April 10, the tag remark of job will likely be open for fans to take their tickets. The weekend hours will likely be 10 a.m. — 4 p.m. on Saturdays and 1 p.m. — 5 p.m. on Sundays. The music‘s frequent business hours of 9 a.m. — 5 p.m. will continue Monday by Friday. Tickets might presumably well moreover moreover be purchased by calling the Darlington Raceway tag remark of job at 866-459-RACE or online at http://www.darlingtonraceway.com/tickets/.(Darlington PR)(4-10-2010)
  • Sad News — Hubert Hensley:  Hubert Shelton Hensley, 78, of 1600 J. S. Holland Motorway, Ridgeway, VA died Thursday, April 8, 2010 at Memorial Health center of Martinsville/Henry County. He modified into as soon as born on September 27, 1931 in Henry County, VA. Hensley owned a Nationwide Series [usually #63] group from 1982-2002, alongside with his drivers successful 11 races and the 1990 Series Championship with Chuck Bown riding. Hensely‘s son Jeff is at screen the crew chief for Timothy Peters in the Tenting World Truck Series. Surviving are his wife, Pauline Shelton Hensley of the dwelling; son and daughter-in-law, Jeffrey Shelton Hensley and Debra Hensley of Ridgeway, VA; sister Ruth Shields of the Preston Neighborhood, Martinsville, VA; brother, Billy Hensley of Ridgeway, VA and grandchildren, Emily Hebert, John Thomas Hensley and Meg Elizabeth Hensley. The funeral provider will likely be held at 11: 00am/et on Monday, April 12, 2010 at Norris Funeral Providers and products Chapel with Reverend Kenneth McFarland and R. Darryl Holland officiating. Burial will likely be in the Horsepasture Christian Church Cemetery, Ridgeway, VA. The family will glean friends on Sunday evening, from 4: 00 to 5: 30pm/et at Norris Funeral Providers and products and other times on the dwelling. Memorials would be made to the Victory Junction, 4500 Adams Plan, Randleman, NC 27317. Assume about obit here.(4-10-2010)

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April 10, 2009

  • Pit road shakeups for Roush? Would possibly presumably well maybe there be a few shakeups in the pit crews at Roush Fenway Racing? Officers haven‘t said the rest, nevertheless co-owner Jack Roush spent a good deal of time in meetings this previous week seeking to examine out why his teams are having so mighty anxiety on pit road. That generally draw modifications for the man identified as “Cat in the Hat.” Carl Edwards went from first to 11th after an principal mistake on his closing pit cease with about 30 laps closing in Sunday‘s bustle at Texas Motor Speedway. Greg Biffle believes pit road errors, on the least one by him, has designate him a shot at two wins this season. Even Matt Kenseth had problems at Texas. He modified into as soon as 2d coming onto pit road on lap 252, nevertheless left in 15th after a lug nut relate on the actual rear tire. No person is publicly blaming any one as Kyle Busch did in a Nationwide Series bustle last month when a pit road mistake designate him a victory. Nonetheless there are concerns.(ESPN Insider)(4-10-2009)
  • Kvapil open to other opportunies; hopes to return to #28:  While his first goal would be to seek files from Yates Racing revive the #28 automobile, Travis Kvapil said he didn‘t think the Yates Racing group would support him from other alternatives. “Clearly I want to be racing,” Kvapil said. “I don‘t love sitting on the couch. I don‘t love no longer being there, no longer competing. It‘s in actuality laborious to see it on Sunday proper gleaming that I in actuality feel love I ought to silent be available. It has proper no longer worked out. I want to bustle, and if there had been other alternatives that came up, we‘d need to seek files from at them as they approach and unsuitable that bridge when it comes. The Yates community advised me if one thing did approach up, they wouldn‘t necessarily possess me abet from competing, we‘d proper need to work it out.” Kvapil said he wouldn‘t rule the rest out, nevertheless would truly like to search out one thing on the Cup stage where he feels as if he silent has loads to expose. He isn‘t too focused on sitting out as a ways as his skills deteriorating while he’s out of the seat. If Yates Racing does fetch sponsorship, Kvapil said the group wouldn‘t want mighty time to glean prepared to glean to the music. “In a topic of two or three days shall we doubtlessly be prepared to gallop to the bustle music,” Kvapil said. “They took my handful of bustle automobiles and pushed them over in the corner and the hauler is all prepared to gallop. They didn‘t scavenge any choices or items from the 28 bunch to gallop to every other group. The 28 is able to gallop. we‘d need to rent a few of us abet straight away, nevertheless a series of of us we had on the 28 came from within the company already, so that they‘re there.”(Scene Day after day)(4-10-2009)
  • Allmendinger being paid “creatively”:  How and when #44-A.J. Allmendinger is getting paid by insecure Richard Petty Motorsports relies on how creative your definition of “creative” is. “I am positively getting paid,” Allmendinger said in response to garage-space rumors on the contrary. “Nonetheless we‘ve wanted to be creative about it, for certain.” Is he plowing all his bustle winnings abet into the financially strapped group? “No, no, positively no longer,” he said. “We‘ve proper received to be creative about it.” Sponsorship for six extra races modified into as soon as launched this week from Hunt Brothers Pizza, which Allmendinger called “tremendous files” in that it assures he‘ll bustle by the Sept. 12 tournament at Richmond, Va. “We‘ve all been extra or much less taking each and a week because it comes,” said his business manager, Tara Ragan. “We‘re pretty organic. There isn‘t even a laborious, swiftly rule [for compensation].” Final analysis, “I‘d otherwise be on the bustle music running solid than sitting at home,” he said.(ESPN Insider)(4-10-2009)
  • Papis auctioning helmet for earthquake charity:  #13-Max Papis is selling a bustle-passe helmet on ebay, as smartly as other autographed items equivalent to GEICO Racing shirts and hats, and autographed photography of Papis alongside with his original #13 GEICO NASCAR Go Cup Series bustle automobile to support Italian earthquake charities. For extra files, gawk my Racing Charites web page.(4-10-2009)
  • Dale Earnhardt Inc. appoints two original executives:  Dale Earnhardt Inc. President and CEO Teresa Earnhardt launched the appointments of two govt leaders for the company on Thursday. Jeff Steiner modified into as soon as named Executive Vice President and General Manager accountable for the oversight and administration of DEI, the Dale Earnhardt Basis and special initiatives referring to Earnhardt properties. Steiner began his characteristic on the company on April 1. Chad Warpula modified into as soon as appointed as Executive Vice President and General Counsel for DEI. Warpula will oversee the Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates NASCAR Go Cup group and address all lawful issues for DEI, EGR and Earnhardt-Childress Racing. Both executives will file to Teresa Earnhardt.(Scene Day after day)(4-10-2009)
  • ‘NASCAR Rev‘d Up‘ That includes O.A.R. Kicks Off All-Megastar Dawdle Week:  “NASCAR Rev‘d Up,” a six-hour tournament highlighted by a live performance with Everfine/Atlantic recording community O.A.R., will kick off actions for NASCAR Go All-Megastar Dawdle week in Charlotte, N.C. The tournament, which is free to the general public, will possess remark Wed., Would possibly presumably well merely 13 between Third and Mint Streets in uptown Charlotte from 4-10 p.m. This twelve months, the NASCAR Go All-Megastar Dawdle is being held for the 25th time. “NASCAR Rev‘d Up” marks the foremost time that the all-principal person bustle week will open with a live performance. A principal fan tournament, “NASCAR Rev‘d Up” features a program packed with driver appearances, demonstrate automobiles and interactive displays, culminated by the O.A.R. live performance. Performing as special guests will likely be Charlotte band Simplified.(NASCAR PR)(4-10-2009)
  • Congrats:  to Aron Oakley of Penske Racing and wife Robyn Oakley of Avenue & Smith‘s Sports Community, on the initiating of their 2d daughter Harper Grace. She modified into as soon as born at 7: 33 the old day morning and weighed 7lbs. 10 oz. All americans looks doing tall.(4-10-2009)
  • Congrats to Jeff McBride (with Champion Tire and Wheel) and Frannie Henderson (Nascar Members VIP Group) on their marriage on March 31, 2009.(4-10-2009)
  • Bubba the Like Sponge Named Apt Marshal for Aaron‘s 312:  Nationwide radio principal person Bubba the Like Sponge has been named Apt Marshal for the 2009 Aaron‘s 312 NASCAR Nationwide Series bustle at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega on Saturday, April 25. Bubba‘s Apt Marshal duties will consist of greeting each and every of the drivers as they’re launched on the motive force introduction stage, addressing the group of bigger than 145,000 and issuing basically the most worthy words in racing: “Gentlemen, open up your engines.”(Aarons PR)(4-10-2009)
  • Braun Racing hotel hit by twister:  ESPN2 reported for the period of protection of Nationwide note that the hotel Braun Racing modified into as soon as staying at modified into as soon as hit by a twister Friday afternoon. The group can need to search out an alternate web page online to halt.(4-10-2009)
  • Baker Curb would donate Go 4 Cash winnings to Crimson Sinful:  Baker Curb Racing, the supreme paunchy-time NASCAR group based mostly mostly in Nashville, has an additional incentive to possess the $25,000 bonus cash from the Nationwide Insurance protection “Go 4 Cash” program this weekend at Nashville Superspeedway. Would possibly presumably well maybe need to driver Jason Keller claim the victory, his native group householders, Gary Baker and Mike Curb, have pledged to donate the $25,000 bonus to the native American Crimson Sinful in make stronger of reduction efforts for victims of Friday‘s storms. “We’re proud to be based mostly mostly in Nashville and are thoughts and prayers gallop out to those tormented by on the unusual time‘s devastating storms,” said co-owner Gary Baker. “Now we have group contributors that live in the Murfreesboro space so this in actuality hits home with us and it will manufacture this possess even extra extra special if we can contribute that bonus to the comfort efforts.”(Baker Curb PR)(4-10-2009)
  • MB Motorsports signs Ben Stancill to pilot #63:  MB Motorsports is contented to reveal that Ben Stancill will pilot the #63 Ford F-150 NASCAR Tenting World Truck, campaigned by the used MB Motorsports group, in the “O‘Reilly Auto Parts 250” NCWTS bustle at Kansas Speedway on Saturday April 25th, 2009. It might presumably well be the foremost of 7 scheduled events in 2009 for the MB Motorsports Group with Stancill on the wheel. MB Motorsports is judicious one of simplest two teams left in the NCWTS that has fielded a truck for the reason that inaugural 1995 NCTS season. Roush Racing is the opposite group. Longtime partners, Dave Porter Truck Gross sales and Don Shetler Ford, will continue their make stronger of MB Motorsports all another time in 2009.(MB Motorsports PR)(4-10-2009)
  • Benson faces sponsor predicament UPDATE Travesty or no longer? Apt Rapids native Johnny Benson Jr. and his Crimson Horse Racing group are either going to need to continue its sponsorship search or get much less tv time. That‘s what the defending NASCAR Tenting World Vans champion said when he visited Apt Rapids on Monday with Michigan International Speedway president Roger Curtis. It seems Benson has a company lined up, nevertheless the tv networks that carry the races, including Roam, which airs the majority of the events, have Crimson Horse Racing striking the brakes on that opinion for now. “Now we have somebody in the works to entire it, nevertheless TV said they would steer certain of us if we had this sponsor, and it‘s a gun producer,” Benson said. “We’re no longer certain why that will presumably well be the case, nevertheless that‘s the ideas they’re giving us. Now we need to bewitch whether or no longer we want to stream down that road or no longer. We would despise to have proper finishes and scamper in the head three and have TV steer certain of us for that motive. “In the open, I said NASCAR had revoked that, and it wasn‘t. NASCAR called me Tuesday after I had said that that they had shot it down,” Benson added. “Interestingly it is miles the TV. It’s a in actuality intelligent relate. Now we have had other (gun) manufacturers in there, and why it is miles an argument on the unusual time, I don‘t know. I haven‘t had a dialog with them but to glean to the bottom of it. “I believe we are going to need to search out it. Money is cash. That‘s going to ought to silent be judicious one of the principal issues we now need to entire. Nonetheless it‘s poor laborious to sell a sponsorship if they know they set no longer appear to be going to demonstrate us. That‘s a cultured remark to be in for every and every facet.”(MichiganLive.com)(4-1-2009)
    UPDATE:  In these loopy financial times, the very last thing anybody needs is one extra obstacle toward earning money. So it regarded ridiculous that defending NASCAR truck champion Johnny Benson and his group would be told that if their doable sponsorship deal came by — from an undisclosed gun producer — they wouldn‘t be shown on tv. Nonetheless that‘s what came about, Benson advised his remark of initiating Apt Rapids (Mich.) Press. First he belief it modified into as soon as NASCAR‘s name, nevertheless then he learned, “it sounds as if it is miles the TV.” One relate. No longer simplest modified into as soon as the illustration of the relate fallacious because it linked to Roam TV, the sequence‘ foremost network, nevertheless no one ready to manufacture this form of resolution for Roam even knew in regards to the sponsor, a spokesman said. Even supposing Newscorp, Roam‘s guardian company, follows a frequent tv note in no longer accepting advertising and marketing for weapons and ammunition, the network “doesn’t gallop away out protection” of a bunch or venue thanks to this form of sponsor, the spokesman said. NASCAR has had firearm sponsors old to; a shotgun producer modified into as soon as worthy in the Cup sequence in the 1990s, and extra no longer too long in the past an net seller has grow to have an interest in the truck sequence.(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)(4-10-2009)

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April 10, 2008

  • NASCAR good killed in automobile accident MORE:  Brienne Davis, judicious one of NASCAR‘s few paunchy-time female inspectors, modified into as soon as killed in a automobile accident Tuesday night. She modified into as soon as 28. Davis joined NASCAR in 2004 and traveled each and every weekend to appear at carburetors and manifolds. She modified into as soon as scheduled to work this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway. A Louisiana native, Davis relocated to North Carolina in 2002 as an engine builder for Dale Earnhardt Inc. She took the job after spending a twelve months in Houston participating in an automotive expertise coaching program that included six weeks of a NASCAR-authorized curriculum on racing.(ESPN.com/AP)
    NASCAR Observation:  “We’re deeply saddened on the loss of NASCAR Go Cup good Brienne Davis. She modified into as soon as a key member of our group of inspectors and might presumably well moreover merely be missed by the NASCAR community. Our thoughts and prayers gallop out to her family and friends.”(4-9-2008)
    MORE:  The Transport Drivers of Motorsports Association plans on raising cash in honor of NASCAR engine inspector Brienne Davis, who modified into as soon as killed in a web page web page visitors accident approach Huntersville, N.C. on Tuesday. The funds will gallop to her alma mater in Jonesville, La. The organization needs to bewitch ample cash to donate on the least 5 computers and plant a tree in her title on the college. For files on the technique to donate, contact Shelia Lumpkin (404.484.9097) secretary for TDMA or TDMA President Robby Maschhaupt at 704-746-7945.(SPEEDtv)(4-10-2008)
    SERVICES:  Brienne Nicole Davis, 28, of Mooresville, NC died April 8, 2008 as outcome of an automobile accident. She modified into as soon as born on June 4, 1979 in Natchez, MS to Terri Emrick Bridges. Brienne modified into as soon as a graduate of the Car Technical Institute in Houston, TX and worked four years with the Dale Earnhardt Endeavor. Over the last four years, she has been an engine inspector for NASCAR; the appreciate of her life modified into as soon as working on automobiles. She’s going to likely be missed by all of her friends and her NASCAR family. She loved automobiles and she loved her cat, Floyd. She is survived by her oldsters, Designate and Terri Bridges of Newport News, VA; grandmother, Sandra Emrick; Uncle Keith Emrick and his family Michelle, Heith and Harleigh of Baton Rouge; and Aunt Pamela Emrick of Anchorage, AK. She is preceded in loss of life by her grandfather, Louie Emrick.
    The family will glean friends at Raymer Funeral Home from 5: 30-7 PM Tuesday, April 15, 2008, and a provider will put together in the chapel at 7 PM with Rev. Lonnie Clouse officiating. In lieu of vegetation, memorials would be made to Victory Junction, 4500 Adam‘s Plan, Randleman, NC 27317. Raymer Funeral Home is serving the family.(4-10-2008)
  • Aim leaving Ganassi at kill of 2008? There are persistent rumors that Chip Ganassi would be in financial deep water, alongside with his long-time sponsor Aim [sponsor of #41-Reed Sorenson and sometime sponsor of #40-Dario Franchitti] likely asserting by the kill of the twelve months this can even be ending its affiliation with the bustle group.(Yahoo!Sports — NOTE, it seems this piece of the ‘blog‘ modified into as soon as removed for some motive, no opinion why. It modified into as soon as there when in the open posted)(4-10-2008)
    UPDATE:  Steve Eastman, Aim Vice President: “The 19-twelve months partnership between Aim and Chip Ganassi Racing is judicious one of the principal longest consecutive partnerships in motor sports. Our bustle program has proven successful and we in actuality have a proper nasty of sponsors in remark. We continue to construct on the pleasure and momentum all the draw by this scheme and seek files from forward to celebrating our 20th anniversary next twelve months… Any rumors referring to an kill to the partnership are merely without advantage.”(Aim Communications)(4-10-2008)
  • Drivers upset over lack of drug trying out:  Go Cup drivers Kevin Harvick, Tony Stewart, Jimmie Johnson and Kasey Kahne yell they never have undergone a drug test as NASCAR competitors. “In the 10 years that I‘ve raced, I‘ve never been drug-tested,” Harvick said. “To me, that‘s no longer a lawful drug policy for a good sport. We haven‘t made any headway in anyway on the drug-trying out policy.” Harvick and Stewart had been reacting to an ESPN The Magazine record this week in which extinct driver Aaron Fike said he competed in Craftsman Truck Series races while he modified into as soon as on heroin. “I in actuality had been in a bustle with him and I know for a indisputable fact that he‘s no longer the supreme one,” Harvick said. “There‘s one other driver that modified into as soon as suspended that I will almost screech you modified into as soon as in the bustle automobile while he modified into as soon as below the have an effect on, and that pisses me off. I‘m certain I‘ll be blasted for asserting what I in actuality feel, nevertheless I don‘t want to be on a bustle music with of us love that. It‘s irresponsible bigger than the rest.” All four Cup drivers said they’re in favor of typical trying out.
    “I would appreciate it,” Stewart said. “I‘ve never been asked to possess one but. I believe it ought to silent be wanted to have random drug trying out. I believe it‘s a tall opinion. The Fike relate exhibits that as an organization, we‘re no longer doing a proper job of seeing this old to it happens.” NASCAR‘s substance-abuse policy entails the actual to test any driver at any time, nevertheless officers simplest kill so if they imagine a competitor might presumably well moreover have a relate. “The responsibility here rests all the draw by the board — with the drivers and competitors, householders, teams and NASCAR,” said Kerry Tharp, NASCAR‘s director of verbal substitute. “We test a person after we now have cheap suspicion. A undeniable test results in severe penalties and is a career-altering 2d for that person. NASCAR‘s policy might presumably be supported by the many policies that the teams have in remark that are required below the motive force/owner agreements. No system is flawless, nevertheless we imagine our zero tolerant policy that is in remark has served the game smartly.”
    Fike modified into as soon as arrested last twelve months in Ohio for possession of heroin.
    “I had a long focus on with NASCAR about this last twelve months,” Harvick said. “It almost seems discover it irresistible fell on deaf ears. They had been extra mad that I had a reaction to the relate than they had been about seeking to stream forward. They heard what I said, nevertheless my title‘s no longer Jeff Gordon. I‘m disappointed that we now need to react and acknowledge all these questions all another time.”
    Tharp said NASCAR officers constantly possess it severely when drivers formulation to them with questions or complaints. “Let me screech you that no relate or dialog that we now have with a driver, owner or group member ever falls on deaf ears,” Tharp said. “Now, they might well presumably well moreover merely no longer constantly approach out of the assembly with the acknowledge they‘re looking out out out, nevertheless we hear.” Harvick needs to seek files from NASCAR test drivers and crew contributors quite so much of times a twelve months. “I‘m certain I‘ll need to entire it for talking my thoughts,” Harvick said. “Nonetheless if I in actuality need to pee in a cup 15 times a twelve months, I‘m contented to entire it. The injurious piece is it isn‘t lovely to the 95 p.c of his garage that is luminous. Nonetheless I want all americans in the sphere to know our sport is luminous. I want fans and sponsors to know this garage is luminous.” Harvick and his wife, DeLana, possess truck sequence and Nationwide Series teams at Kevin Harvick Inc. Harvick doesn’t habits drug tests for his staff. “I don‘t correct now and most likely we want to alter the draw in which we seek files from at it, too,” he said. “Nonetheless indirectly, it‘s the responsibility of [NASCAR] to manufacture certain the total drivers are luminous.” Harvick said Fike drove a few races for KHI quite so much of years in the past. “There modified into as soon as no motive to think one thing modified into as soon as injurious,” Harvick said. “I don‘t discover out about remedy, to expose you the fact. Nonetheless I want to know in regards to the man racing next to me and no longer need to surprise if he modified into as soon as out the night old to and isn‘t luminous.”
    Kahne said he had suspicions about Fike. “I positively puzzled about Aaron, so I‘m certain others did,” Kahne said. “When he said he did heroin old to a bustle, that‘s improbable that no-one knew. As mighty cash as there might be on this sport, I believe we ought to silent possess a little extra effort to manufacture certain each and every driver is luminous.” Harvick believes NASCAR ought to silent have modified its substance-abuse policy draw abet. “It’s likely you’ll presumably well moreover expose I‘m a little bit pissed off in regards to the relate,” he said. “As somebody who respects the game and respects my sponsors, I‘m upset that I in actuality need to acknowledge to questions on Aaron Fike. It in actuality ticks me off, attributable to each and every driver on this garage ought to silent be taking random drug tests.” Harvick believes NASCAR needs to entire a higher job of staying forward of the curve. “It‘s proper love the safety thing abet in 2001,” he said. “We didn‘t react till that relate came about [with Dale Earnhardt‘s death]. With drug-trying out, there‘s no motive in the sphere on the unusual time no longer to be proactive. “Right here is about forward serious about how the drivers are perceived from a public standpoint. If I‘m a fan, I don‘t want to think, ‘Are they honestly luminous?‘ This constantly has been perceived as a luminous sport. Let‘s no longer let that regulate now, attributable to it is miles. Nonetheless let‘s show it.”(ESPN.com)
    Assume about my article hyperlink web page for a good deal of other opinions and articles on the drug enviornment.(4-10-2008)
  • Texas TV Ratings down:  NASCAR on Fox earned a 5.4/12 (8.6 million viewers) this weekend for racing from Texas, down -4% from last twelve months‘s 5.6/12. This marks the foremost time this season that a regularly scheduled Fox NASCAR tournament has declined from last twelve months‘s ranking. The important element on this weekend‘s NASCAR decline modified into as soon as competition from the season‘s first paunchy Sunday afternoon MLB schedule. There are 25 MLB home markets in the U.S., and Sunday‘s NASCAR bustle modified into as soon as down in 19 of them. No topic being down twelve months-to-twelve months, Sunday‘s Texas bustle modified into as soon as silent without grief the absolute best-rated tournament for the day on any broadcast network. Season-to-date, NASCAR on FOX is averaging a 6.6/14 (11.1 mllion viewers), up +3% over last twelve months‘s 6.4/14.(Fox PR), gawk the opposite races ratings and extra on my TV Ratings web page(4-10-2008)
  • Neighborhood faculty hires a Motorsports Coordinator:  The massive presence of motorsports in Iredell County [NC] is impacting Mitchell Neighborhood College, too. The college has employed Hope Smith as Motorsports Coordinator for the Microscopic Alternate Middle, based mostly mostly in Mooresville, NC. Smith will focal point on assessing the motorsports community‘s needs, equivalent to coaching, and enforcing applications and seminars at the side of native organizations and those within the motorsports commerce, which is judicious one of the principal fastest rising industries in Iredell County. Smith can even work with tiny business householders on networking and developing business plans. She modified into as soon as previously a manager with Lowe‘s Companies, Inc. in Mooresville.(Mooresville Tribune)(4-10-2008)
  • Ford to sponsor Kvapil at Phoenix:  Yates Racing, which has soldiered on for most of 2008 with no sponsorship for Travis Kvapil, received some proper files this week as Ford Motor Co. has stepped as much as sponsor Kvapil‘s #28 Fusion. Fleshy particulars are expected in a while the unusual time from Phoenix.(SPEEDtv)
    AND:  This weekend, racing fans all the draw by the nation will gawk and hear a good deal of Ford Racing‘s stars talking about Drive one, Ford‘s original and a ways-reaching message about improved automobile optimistic, gas financial system, safety advances and luminous expertise. Ford Racing automobiles will sport a vary of Drive one logos starting with this weekend‘s events in Avondale, Ariz. (NASCAR), and Las Vegas (NHRA), highlighted by the #28 Drive one Ford Fusion, pushed by Yates Racing‘s Travis Kvapil. Yates Racing, which is silent looking out out out a paunchy-time sponsor for its automobiles, helps Ford with the Drive one initiate by offering up Kvapil‘s automobile, which is in a space to be viewed by hundreds of thousands of viewers this weekend on Roam and Fox. “Yates Racing is honored to have the different to scamper the Drive one paint plot on the #28 Ford Fusion this weekend,” said group owner Doug Yates. “Now we have a tall driver in Travis, alongside with top-of-the-line equipment and expertise courtesy of Ford. I‘ve been lucky ample to have the likelihood to take part in the enchancment of Ford automobiles and engines from the racing facet and I will‘t name to mind a higher producer to be affiliated with,” he said. Drive one is the within record of Ford, chronicling in tv, print and digital media how Ford staff have closed the gap with Asian competitors referring to optimistic, tremendous automobile safety, made automobiles extra gas atmosphere tremendous and led the commerce in developing in-automobile connectivity. Folk are also invited to power a Ford automobile and ride for themselves the company‘s automobiles‘ performance. “I‘m in actuality extremely happy to power the #28 Drive one Ford Fusion this weekend at Phoenix,” said Kvapil. “Being a Ford driver myself, I will expose you that they are dedicated to the four key parts of this advertising and marketing and marketing campaign: optimistic, gas-efficiency, safety, and technologically-tremendous automobiles. Ford is integrating Drive one into Ford‘s racing program to attain out to Ford loyalists, so that they can encourage unfold the be aware in regards to the company‘s good points in areas that topic most to prospects. As well to the foremost sponsorship logos on the #28 Fusion this weekend, Drive one logos will likely be featured on the b-pillar of every and every of Ford NASCAR Go Cup automobiles. As well, in- automobile digicam and roll cage photos will characteristic the original logos, and both Yates Racing and Wood Brothers Racing drivers and crew contributors will set on special Drive one baseball caps. The Fox Fusion 360 automobile, an principal piece of every and every NASCAR on Fox broadcast, can even characteristic Drive one logos. Moreover, the special NASCAR Ford Fusion that analyst Darrell Waltrip drives in Fox pre-bustle choices can even switch to the Drive one logos.(Ford Racing), gawk an image of the plot on my #28 Group Schemes web page.(4-10-2008)
  • Wheeler Encourages NASCAR to Time table an Birth Go Cup Test at LMS:  Taking a seek files from to manufacture higher competition, H.A. “Humpy” Wheeler, president and frequent manager of Lowe‘s Motor Speedway, is encouraging NASCAR to host an open Go Cup Series test on the 1.5-mile superspeedway old to the Would possibly presumably well merely 17 NASCAR Go All-Megastar Dawdle . “It‘s our blueprint to have the supreme racing that you would possibly presumably well moreover imagine here for the period of the month of Would possibly presumably well merely and I in actuality have constantly believed that preparation is the principle to tall racing,” Wheeler said. “It’s likely you’ll presumably well moreover compute, work the put up machine and microscope the automobile till your instruments bleed, nevertheless nothing, fully nothing, is as precious as music time. So, we now have offered NASCAR on the least two days, Would possibly presumably well merely 5-6, to bring the teams in so that they can test the original automobile. We‘ll have the music open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. so that they can experiment with chassis remark-united statesduring both daylight and hour of darkness conditions,” Wheeler added. “Then, if additional trying out is indispensable, dates closer to the Would possibly presumably well merely 17 Go All-Megastar Dawdle can even be offered.” If NASCAR accepts Wheeler‘s provide, the test session would possess remark on Monday and Tuesday following the Saturday night bustle at Richmond International Raceway and old to groups heading to close by Darlington Raceway for one other Saturday night tournament. Tickets for all Would possibly presumably well merely events at Lowe‘s Motor Speedway, including the Would possibly presumably well merely 17 NASCAR Go All-Megastar Dawdle and the Would possibly presumably well merely 25 Coca-Cola 600, can even be purchased by calling the music tag remark of job at 1-800-455-FANS or online at www.lowesmotorspeedway.com.(LMS)(4-10-2008)
  • Phoenix Goodyear Tire Notes:  The tire remark-up for this weekend‘s races at Phoenix is highly equal to that raced on the music in 2007 . . . the tread compounds are equal to last twelve months‘s mixture, nevertheless an incremental enchancment in sturdiness has been integrated into the actual facet building . . . Go Cup teams ran this remark-up for the period of an open test session at Phoenix on March 3-4 . . . other NASCAR tracks at which this reliable mixture of left- and correct-facet tires are scheduled to be scamper are Richmond, Original Hampshire, Milwaukee and Memphis . . . as on most NASCAR ovals one mile or much less in length, teams is no longer going to scamper interior liners in their tires at Phoenix. the estimated pit window is each and every 75-80 laps, in response to gas mileage.(Goodyear), gawk the paunchy notes, codes, pressures on my Phoenix Dawdle Records web page, Goodyear piece.(4-10-2008)
  • McDowell Takes Off in F-16 Falcon old to Phoenix Dawdle:  This week is a totally different homecoming for #00-Michael McDowell as he got a as soon as in a lifetime different to possess flight in an F-16 Falcon on Wednesday attributable to the 56th Fighter Wing and Phoenix International Raceway at Luke Air Power Substandard. McDowell went by Egress coaching and took part in a media tournament at Luke Air Power Substandard old to taking off with Capt. Thomas “Wild Invoice” Juntunen, 310th FS trainer pilot.(MWR)(4-10-2008)
  • Kurt Busch and group maintaining busy:  #2-Kurt Busch, crew chief Pat Tryson and group will likely be busy trying out for the period of the next couple of weeks. “We know that test time is extraordinarily principal in our effort to glean higher with this automobile and we‘re dedicated to doing what it takes to be competing up front,” said Tryson. “We‘ve already scheduled a test at Nashville (Nashville Superspeedway, the 1.33-mile D-shaped concrete music approach Lebanon, Tenn.) next Tuesday (April 15) and are remark to test for Goodyear at Indy (Indianapolis Motor Speedway) on April 22nd and 23rd.(TRPR)(4-10-2008)
  • Phoenix Rookie Notes:  #10-Patrick Carpentier modified into as soon as the Raybestos Rookie of the Dawdle in the April 6 Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, the foremost time he has taken the glory in 2008. Carpentier scored a 28th-remark cease, his simplest on an oval in his seven-bustle Go Cup Series career. #01-Regan Smith holds a one-point lead (68-67) over #77-Sam Hornish Jr. in the Raybestos Rookie standings coming into the April 12 Subway Original Match 500 at Phoenix. Four totally different drivers have claimed Raybestos Rookie of the Dawdle honors in seven races this season. Smith, Hornish, Jr., and McDowell are the supreme contributors of the Raybestos Rookie class with a guaranteed starting web page online at Phoenix. Two Raybestos Beginners entered on this weekend‘s bustle at Phoenix kill no longer have a guaranteed starting positions: Franchitti and Carpentier. Kyle Busch and Tony Stewart are the supreme Raybestos Beginners to possess in 23 Go Cup races at Phoenix. Stewart received the 1999 fall bustle from the pole, beating Designate Martin to the checkered flag by 2.081 seconds. Busch captured the 2005 fall bustle by .609 seconds over Greg Biffle. The most uncomplicated cease by a Raybestos Rookie in three spring races at Phoenix is fifth by Clint Bowyer in 2006. The most uncomplicated qualifying effort by a Raybestos Rookie in three old spring races at Phoenix is sixth by Denny Hamlin in 2006. Stewart is the supreme Raybestos Rookie to manual basically the most laps at Phoenix, leading three times for 150 laps in 1999. Three Raybestos Beginners have received pole positions at Phoenix, all coming in the fall bustle: Stewart, Casey Atwood (2001) and Ryan Newman (2002). Ryan Newman holds the all-time Raybestos Rookie record for most poles (6), most top-fives (14) and most top-10s (22). Denny Hamlin is the supreme Raybestos Rookie to qualify for the Lunge for the NASCAR Go Cup for the reason that program modified into as soon as created in 2004.(Camp & Assoc/Raybestos)(4-10-2008), gawk paunchy notes, standings, history on my 2008 Beginners web page.
  • Thursday note for the Subway Original Match 500 at Phoenix International Raceway is over, the head 5 had been:
    #12-Newman 132.411
    #48-Johnson 132.081
    #8-Martin 131.979
    #18-Busch 131.791
    #5-Mears 131.776
    the slowest: #21-Elliott 128.064 and #34-Andretti 128.132
    most laps scamper: #6-Ragan 41; #2-Busch 38
    Assume in regards to the total tempo on my Phoenix Observe Page.(4-10-2008)
  • Almirola, Menard, Smith Test at Infineon Raceway:  Three DEI drivers visited Infineon Raceway on Wednesday to hone their abilities on the worrying 10-flip, 1.99-mile road course. #8-Aric Almirola, #01-Regan Smith and #15-Paul Menard came to the music for a one-day test session old to the Toyota/Put Mart 350 Go Cup Series tournament in the Sonoma Valley, June 20-22. The drivers piloted GT The US stock automobiles supplied by Pioneer Motorsports out of Lake Oroville. They had been coached by road-course used Chris Cook dinner and done roughly 100 laps blended in the paunchy-day test. Smith is the supreme driver among the many three with any Cup Series bustle ride at Infineon Raceway. He accomplished 30th in last twelve months‘s tournament. Almirola, who shares riding duties with used Designate Martin in the #8 U.S. Military Chevy, is at screen in his 2d partial season of Go Cup Series competition. This marked his first discuss with to the Sonoma Valley road course. “This music is sophisticated, nevertheless it‘s stress-free,” said Almirola. “The elevation modifications and blind turns manufacture it in actuality sophisticated. It‘s positively one thing totally different.” Cook dinner said all of the drivers took smartly to the road course, and he enjoyed working with all three teammates. “I believe Aric modified into as soon as most focused being his first time here, and he made gargantuan good points by the kill of the day,” said Cook dinner. “Paul and Regan had been loads extra disciplined with the music, and we worked on shifting parts and braking parts.” For tag files on the Toyota/Put Mart 350, June 20-22, name 800-870-RACE or discuss with www.infineonraceway.com.(Infineon Raceway)(4-10-2008)
  • Particular schemes for two Ganassi automobiles at Phoenix:  This weekend the intense and stress-free yellow coloration of Wrigley‘s Juicy Fruit will decorate the #40 CGRFS Dodge pushed by Dario Franchitti. This twelve months Wrigley has been serving as a foremost partner sponsoring Juan Pablo Montoya and the #42 CGRFS NSCS group. It’ll be Franchitti‘s first time representing the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Firm which is the sphere‘s supreme producer and marketer of chewing gum. The Wrigley‘s Nice Crimson imprint will decorate the hood of the #42 Dodge this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway for the eighth bustle of the 2008 season. It might presumably well be the third time this season the motive force and group will set on the signature heroic colours of Nice Crimson.(CGRFS), gawk photography of the #42 on my #42 Group Schemes web page.(4-10-2008)
  • some Dale Jr. off course files:  The public gargantuan opening for #88-Dale Earnhardt‘s most up-to-date business challenge — a nightclub, Whiskey River — will likely be held April 18. The membership is found at 210 East Alternate Avenue in Charlotte‘s EpiCenter. Patrons can eat, drink, hear to a mixture of rock and nation music and even gallop a mechanical bull. Log onto www.whiskyrivercharlotte.com for extra files.
    So to reveal himself and his fans, Earnhardt has decided to forego the characteristic of interviewee to play reporter for his good Web situation. The interviews will likely be conducted month-to-month and featured exclusively on www.dalejr.com. Earnhardt‘s first interview modified into as soon as with crew chief Tony Eury Jr. and is available now. Undercover agent for his next installment — an interview with Hendrick Motorsports owner Rick Hendrick — to be posted soon.(HMS)(4-10-2008)
  • Original sponsor for BAM Racing:  BAM Racing launched MetaLogix, Inc as an good Diamond Sponsor of the #49 Go Cup Series group for the 2008 season. “We‘re mad to welcome MetaLogix, Inc as a Diamond Sponsor for 2008,” commented group owner Beth Ann Morgenthau. “In the NASCAR Go Cup Series, it is miles the make stronger from sponsors that makes it that you would possibly presumably well moreover imagine for teams to compete each and a week. We’re mad to part the pleasure of Go Cup racing with MetaLogix, Inc.” The Diamond Sponsorship Program is an affiliate sponsorship program outlandish to BAM Racing.(Centre Day after day Times)(4-10-2008)
  • April Fools pic for the #99: UPDATE:  The Most efficient Western #99 Toyota pushed by David Reutimann in the Nationwide Series bustle at Phoenix International Raceway, will demonstrate a successful April Fools Day image. The competition which ended this previous week asked for a funny image of a chum, family member, co-worker, boss, neighbor even your pet. The successful entry will likely be displayed on the deck lid.(Insider Racing)(3-23-2008)
    UPDATE:  NASCAR enthusiast Dennis Tedeschi desired to play the closing April Fools‘ prank on his son, Benjamin, and Most efficient Western International helps him kill proper that. This day, the 2 had been named the gargantuan prize winners of the hotel chain‘s April Fools‘ promotion, which gives the daddy and son the reward of NASCAR immortality. As piece of the gargantuan prize, a picture taken while Benjamin modified into as soon as bouncing on a trampoline will likely be prominently displayed on the Most efficient Western #99 Toyota Camry, which is in a space to be pushed by David Reutimann on the Bashas‘ Supermarkets 200 in Phoenix on Friday.(Most efficient Western PR)(4-10-2008)

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  • Roy McCauley Taking Leave of Absense; Troy Raker Meantime #2 Crew Chief:  Troy Raker has been named the intervening time leader of the #2 Miller Lite Dodge Group with driver Kurt Busch as crew chief Roy McCauley will likely be spending overtime with wife, Amy, who’s combating cancer. “Amy has been successful her fight with Leukemia because it modified into as soon as first identified abet in February,” McCauley said from his remark of job on the Penske Racing headquarters on Tuesday afternoon.  “Nonetheless, there had been most up-to-date issues stemming from her long-period of time remedy and I in actuality feel as despite the indisputable fact that I need to exercise overtime by her facet. In the intervening time, I could possess an active characteristic with our group from a communications standpoint, nevertheless Troy Raker will likely be to blame, leading the group and dealing with Kurt on a on a regular basis basis on the bustle music.”(Tom Roberts PR)(4-10-2007)
  • Particular Paint Plan for Dale Jr. at Daytona:  Listening to that #8-Dale Jr. will scamper a totally different red white and blue Budweiser paint plot in the Pepsi 400 at Daytona. Assume about an image of the automobile on my #8 Paint Schemes Page.(4-10-2007)
  • Particular Decal on McMurray‘s Automobile at Texas:  #26-Jamie McMurray will carry a totally different hood decal this weekend at Texas. Chad Provo, 35, of Terrell, Texas, can have his title front and center on the #26 hood after successful a statewide sweepstakes conducted by Crown Royal for his or her promotion, “Your Name Right here 400.”(Roush Fenway PR)(4-10-2007)
  • Consuming and 3M to Sponsor McMurray in Cup and Edwards in Busch:  Roush Fenway Racing launched a original sponsorship with Consuming Electronics and 3M Firm. The sponsorship entails 5 Busch Series races with Carl Edwards; and two Nextel Cup races with Jamie McMurray. Both teams will debut their Consuming AQUOS/3M Vikuiti Fords Talladega. Consuming Electronics Corporation and 3M Firm will lengthen their co-advertising and marketing and marketing efforts designed to enhance awareness of Consuming‘s AQUOS line of LCD TVs and 3M Vikuiti brightness enhancement motion photos. Both the #26 and #60 Fords will demonstrate the Consuming Aquos and 3M Vikuiti manufacturers. McMurray will likely be running the #26 Consuming AQUOS/3M Vikuiti Ford at Talladega Speedway on April 29 and all another time at California Speedway when the circuit returns for the annual Labor Day bustle on September 2. Edwards will pilot the #60 Consuming AQUOS/3M Vikuiti Ford at Talladega Speedway on April 28, Kentucky Speedway on June 16, Chicagoland Speedway on July 14, Michigan International Speedway on August 18 and California Speedway on September 1.(Roush Fenway PR)(4-10-2007)
  • Jeff Burton to Gain Sportsmanship Award:  Richard Childress Racing driver Jeff Burton will join the ranks of some of the supreme names in motorsports when he receives this twelve months‘s Texas Motorsports Hall of Standing Sportsmanship Award. The Texas Motorsports Hall of Standing yearly awards the supreme performers who exemplify excellence in racing both on and off the music. Nominees to the Hall of Standing are certain by a panel of motorsports media in the course of Texas, including representatives from print and broadcast shops in Dallas, Fortress Rate, Houston and San Antonio. This twelve months‘s inductees consist of NHRA used racer Eddie Hill and NASCAR group owner Roger Penske. Fellow NASCAR driver Tony Stewart can even be honored on the induction ceremony. Burton, alongside with other award winners will likely be honored on the Texas Motorsports Hall of Standing Induction Ceremony on April 11 at Texas Motor Speedway‘s Apt Ballroom. Proceeds from the tournament, in affiliation with Speedway Kids‘s Charities, gallop to Gay Hill Farm in Granbury, Texas, an academy and residential for disadvantaged children.(RCR PR)(4-10-2007)
  • Dover 2007 Cup sanction charges: $11 million:  Dover‘s two Nextel Cup races will designate the music bigger than $11 million in sanction charges in 2007, in response to its annual file. The June bustle‘s sanction charge (including Dover‘s contribution to the purse) is $5,914,346, and the September purse contribution and sanction charge is $5,293,075. (The figures are for this twelve months, no longer 2006, as SceneDaily first and important reported.) Dover Motorsports operates four speedways — Dover International Speedway, Gateway International Raceway, Memphis Motorsports Park and Nashville Superspeedway. The company also listed an “impairment charge” of bigger than $61 million for Nashville, Memphis and Gateway — devaluing the price of those tracks thanks to the decrease-than-anticipated tv revenues generated by the four Busch races at those tracks. Dover expected the original TV deal, which went into carry out this twelve months, to allot a bigger share to Busch races than the 5 p.c dispensed in the 2001-2006 kit. Nonetheless NASCAR is dispensing simplest 5.75 p.c of the original contract for Busch events. With that impairment charge, Dover reported an total loss of $35.345 million last twelve months. It‘s after-tax adjusted earnings for last twelve months had been $5.7 million, the equal as for 2005.(SceneDaily.com)(4-10-2007)
  • Tom Carnegie to be Honored by Indiana Governor:  Tom Carnegie, the remark of Indianapolis Motor Speedway for bigger than six a long time, will likely be introduced Tuesday with a Sagamore of the Wabash from Gov. Mitch Daniels. The award acknowledges worthy provider in the remark. Carnegie, 87, retired last twelve months after 61 years because the music‘s announcer. Chums file Carnegie‘s health has improved in the previous month and he’s looking out forward to visiting the music next month. His goal is to be on the Speedway on opening day to interview A.J. Foyt. It’ll be Foyt‘s 50th twelve months at Indy.(Indianapolis Megastar)(4-10-2007)
  • Hunter Nickell Named President of Roam:  Hunter Nickell has been named President of Roam, says by Bob Thompson, President of Fox Nationwide Cable Sports Networks, to whom Nickell reviews. “Hunter has performed a tremendous job at Roam since taking the reins no longer as much as 2 years in the past,” said Thompson. “Roam is the tv destination no longer proper for NASCAR fans, nevertheless fans of Formula One and a vary of exhibits for automotive lovers. Roam has added smartly over 5 million subscribers since Hunter came aboard, and the channel‘s depth of automotive protection is in actuality unparalleled.” Nickell joined Roam in June 2005 as Executive Vice President & General Manager, guiding the network by milestone contract negotiations with NASCAR and Formula One, while helping Roam to record viewers progress in 2006.(Roam Channel PR)(4-10-2007)
  • Congrats:  Kellogg‘s/CARQUEST crew member Kevin Hulstein took help of the off-weekend to marry his fiancée Nicole. Hulstein, a mechanic on the #5 group, is a local of Willmar, Minn., and has worked at Hendrick Motorsports since 2002.(Hendrick PR)(4-10-2007)
  • Consuming and 3M to Sponsor Edwards in 5 Races:  Roush Fenway Racing launched a original sponsorship with Consuming Electronics and 3M Firm. The sponsorship entails 5 Busch Series races with Carl Edwards; and two Nextel Cup races with Jamie McMurray. Both teams will debut their Consuming AQUOS/3M Vikuiti Fords Talladega. Consuming Electronics Corporation and 3M Firm will lengthen their co-advertising and marketing and marketing efforts designed to enhance awareness of Consuming‘s AQUOS line of LCD TVs and 3M Vikuiti brightness enhancement motion photos. Both the #26 and #60 Fords will demonstrate the Consuming Aquos and 3M Vikuiti manufacturers. McMurray will likely be running the #26 Consuming AQUOS/3M Vikuiti Ford at Talladega Speedway on April 29 and all another time at California Speedway when the circuit returns for the annual Labor Day bustle on September 2. Edwards will pilot the #60 Consuming AQUOS/3M Vikuiti Ford at Talladega Speedway on April 28, Kentucky Speedway on June 16, Chicagoland Speedway on July 14, Michigan International Speedway on August 18 and California Speedway on September 1.(Roush Fenway PR)(4-10-2007)
  • Governor Rick Perry Proclaims Brad Coleman Day in Texas:  Texas Governor Rick Perry stood out of doorways the Utter Capitol building Tuesday alongside 19-twelve months-passe Joe Gibbs Racing driver Brad Coleman and proclaimed the day in his honor. “Brad is a particular young man, and his laborious work and dedication have helped him grow to be the successful competitor he’s on the unusual time,” Gov. Perry said. “As he prepares for his first good bustle in Texas, we favor him the total simplest in the bustle and in his promising future.” With the #18 Carino‘s Italian Grill Chevy and the Capitol building because the backdrop, the Governor introduced Coleman with the flag that flew over the Capitol and a Utter of Texas Proclamation, making it good.(NASCAR PR)(4-10-2007)
  • JR Motorsports Signs Jeremy McGrath:  JR Motorsports is signing seven-time Supercross champion rider Jeremy McGrath to a developmental driver contract, with Monster Energy Drink as his foremost sponsor, the SportsBusiness Journal reported. Like Supercross principal person Ricky Carmichael, who began riding for Ginn Racing last month, McGrath will scamper a series of gradual mannequin races old to potentially working his draw staunch into a Busch Series automobile. Monster Energy‘s sponsorship at JR Motorsports is predicted to put together McGrath‘s progression.(SceneDaily.com)(4-10-2007)
  • McCumbee picks up first ARCA Series possess at Nashville: UPDATE: McCumbee to scamper on the least two extra ARCA events:  Chad McCumbee knew he had a proper automobile and proved it indirectly to possess the ARCA RE/MAX Series 150 Saturday afternoon at Nashville Superspeedway. McCumbee, in Jennifer Belmont‘s #62 Nortrax-Holland Pump Chevy, powered internal of Cale Gale [#33 Kevin Harvick Inc. Chevy] on the closing restart with three laps closing and held on for his career-first RE/MAX Series victory in his 31st career strive. Gale accomplished 2d with Erin Crocker [#98-Evernham Motorsports Dodge] finishing third.(arcaracing.com)(4-7-2007)
    UPDATE:  At some stage in an interview with Chad McCumbee on Sirius Radio, Chad McCumbee said he’ll be making an strive on the least two extra races in the ARCA Series riding an Andy Hillenburg owned Speedily Observe Driving College Chevy at Salem Speedway on April 22, 2007 and presumably Pocono Raceway.(4-10-2007)

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April 10, 2006

  • Nice Plans by ESPN MORE later times:  ESPN plans to pull out the total bells and whistles when NASCAR returns to the cable sports network in 2007. “ESPN has in actuality morphed or grown since we had been last in the game,” said ESPN president George Bodenheimer, who modified into as soon as at Texas on Sunday. “We‘re in actuality belief a few multimedia network now. We‘re seeking to possess this property and blow it out, if you will.” The network will provide masses of protection in studio exhibits, analysis and a heavy online presence. Powerful of it has but to be formalized, said Bodenheimer, also president of ABC Sports. ESPN and ABC will broadcast 17 Cup races initiating in 2007, the foremost twelve months of an eight-twelve months contract the networks signed with NASCAR. ABC modified into as soon as judicious one of the principal foremost networks to televise stock automobile racing in the 1960s, and ESPN launched flag-to-flag bustle telecasts in the 1980s. The network modified into as soon as NASCAR‘s leading carrier by the 1990s, nevertheless has no longer aired a bustle since 2000, when it lost the rights to NBC and Fox. Bodenheimer said the return of NASCAR to ESPN marks an emotional reunion after both grew to national prominence.(ESPN.com/AP)
    AND ABC Sports/ ESPN president George Bodenheimer, whose networks return to the mix of televising NASCAR events for the foremost time in six years next season, said he prefers gradual afternoon starting times for Sunday Nextel Cup events in 2007. “In general we‘re seeking to televise the game after we can attract the absolute best ratings that we can,” Bodenheimer said.(Atlanta Journal-Constitution)(4-10-2006)
  • Texas In a single day TV Ratings Mixed:  Fox‘s broadcast of Sunday‘s Samsung/RadioShack 500 NASCAR Nextel Cup bustle at Texas Motor Speedway earned an in a single day Nielsen Media Evaluate ranking of 4.8 and an 11 market part, Avenue and Smith‘s SportsBusiness Day after day reviews. The ranking is 4% decrease than the 5.0/11 Fox earned for the 2005 Texas bustle, nevertheless last twelve months‘s bustle modified into as soon as per week later and modified into as soon as no longer broadcast opposite the Masters golf tournament, which generally attracts solid ratings. This twelve months‘s in a single day ranking for Texas modified into as soon as 4.3% bigger than the 4.6 Fox earned for the 2005 spring Martinsville bustle, which aired on the equal time because the closing round of the Masters. CBS earned a 9.0/19 in a single day for this twelve months‘s closing round of the Masters, making it the weekend‘s absolute best-rated sports tournament.(SceneDaily.com)(4-10-2006)
  • Talked about helping Evernham:  Evernham Motorsports owner Ray Evernham has an ace in the gap to glean red-sizzling Kasey Kahne prepared for the upcoming NASCAR Nextel Cup road course races: Boris Talked about. Talked about, a used road racer and low NASCAR Cup competitor, is working as a expert to encourage Evernham‘s drivers — Kahne, Jeremy Mayfield and Scott Riggs — glean prepared for those winding tracks that can even be sophisticated on younger drivers.(SceneDaily.com)(4-10-2006)
  • Francis Wins WypAll Wipers Crew Chief of the Dawdle Award:  Kenny Francis and Kasey Kahne teamed as much as bewitch one other possess this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. For the 2d time this season, Kahne began on the pole and held on to possess the checkers, on the unusual time time out-dueling Tony Stewart and Matt Kenseth in the closing phases of the Samsung / Radio Shack 500. Francis‘ dominant weekend earned him the WypAll Wipers Crew Chief of the Dawdle. A panel of voters; including Tony Eury Sr., a member of the native media and a WypAll Wipers consultant; all forged their vote for Francis because the Crew Chief of the Dawdle. For successful the Crew Chief of the Dawdle award, WypAll Wipers gave Francis $1,000. At the kill of the season, the crew chief with basically the most weekly wins will glean $20,000 and be crowned the WypAll Wipers Crew Chief of the twelve months. This modified into as soon as Francis‘ 2d Crew Chief of the Dawdle award in 2006, which ties him with Robbie Reiser for the lead. Darian Grubb and Roy McCauley are tied for 2d-remark in the standings, each and every with one possess.(Wypall PR)(4-10-2006)
  • Toyota and…Jarrett? UPDATE 3 Allmendinger? Gibbs?:  The original NASCAR Nextel Cup Toyota operation that is being backed by Crimson Bull “has opened the checkbook,” in response to one top Ford man, who parts to Crimson Bull‘s hiring of John Propst, a top Ford Motor Firm automobile dynamics specialist, and the hiring of a top Dodge engineer from the Ray Evernham camp for its original stock-automobile racing group. General Motors executives are anxiously watching their possess key engineers for any equal defections. In other locations on the Toyota-NASCAR front, Toyota has made a notify to tag a two-twelve months contract with Dale Jarrett, the tour‘s 1999 champion and a three-time Daytona 500 winner. Jarrett‘s contract with automobile owner Robert Yates is up on the kill of this season. While it has been unclear for quite so much of months if Yates and Jarrett might presumably well formulation to original phrases, Ford officers said Yates is offering Jarrett a contract equal to the Toyota deal.(Winston Salem Journal)(4-8-2006)
    UPDATE — Crimson Bull Drivers? When Crimson Bull Racing debuts their two Toyota teams at Daytona in February of 2007, rumor has it the organization is seeking to pair a rookie with a used, taking an approached historical by Evernham Motorsports with Dodge. Veterans on the Crimson Bull list are said to be Kevin Harvick and Dale Jarrett. No be aware on a rookie, nevertheless it can presumably well without grief be an done used from one other of the Motorsports arenas.(CircleTrackPlus)(4-9-2006)
    UPDATE 2 Allmendinger? Murmurs in Champ Automobile circles yell Crimson Bull, which carries a non-public companies and products contract with AJ Allmendinger, might presumably well moreover love to seek files from the young American in Nextel Cup, where it hopes to strike gargantuan in 2007 in partnership with Toyota. With so mighty cash and repute up for grabs in NASCAR, it has turn staunch into a relate to possess care of promising open-wheel drivers a ways from the France family circus. It might presumably well show sophisticated for Proprietor Carl Russo and Champ Automobile to possess care of onto Allmendinger, in particular if he begins successful.(Autoweek)(4-9-2006)
    UPDATE 3 Gibbs? There is silent no be aware on which drivers Toyota might presumably well moreover abet, nevertheless Toyota would be making a scamper at automobile owner Joe Gibbs, with hopes of persuading the used Chevy man, and his three-man group of #20-Tony Stewart, #11-Denny Hamlin and #18-J. J. Yeley, to leap to the Camry brigade, in response to sources. Chevy‘s Kevin Harvick is silent some extent of curiosity of Toyota speculation. However, there might be be aware that Harvick would be below consideration by Ford‘s Jack Roush for a riding job next season, despite the indisputable fact that Harvick insists “I‘ve no longer talked with Jack Roush, and I don‘t know Geoff Smith (Roush‘s contract attorney).” Smith modified into as soon as no longer here to focus on in regards to the relate, and Roush demurred: “I hear Toyota goes with Kevin Harvick, and there‘s no longer a Toyota in my future. What I kill know, is Toyota proper employed (engineer) John Propst from Ford, and that offers Toyota glean admission to to the entire lot the total Ford teams have identified in regards to the engineering of the automobiles, and that‘s a cheeky stream by Toyota, and it‘s with out a doubt a coup for Toyota. The thing that is extra distressing is Toyota is in space to manufacture their possess tires, with its relationship with Bridgestone….And I‘ve heard Toyota has received 100 acres of land in Charlotte to position together a test music.”(Winston Salem Journal)(4-10-2006)
  • Sad News — Jack Bowsher:  Three-time ARCA national riding champion and six-time automobile owner champion Jack Bowsher died Saturday, April eighth. He modified into as soon as 75. Bowsher had 80 victories as a automobile owner (#1 in ARCA competition) and 48 as a driver (#2 in ARCA competition). Bowsher‘s automobile sat on the pole and received the NASCAR Winston Cup Series bustle on the road course in Riverside, California in 1970 with A.J. Foyt in the abet of the wheel. Bowsher accomplished 1st in the 24 Hours of Daytona as a automobile owner in 1976 with drivers David and Larry Pearson, and sons Jim & Gary. He is survived by wife Julie Bowsher, sons‘ Jack Bowsher Jr., Gary Bowsher, Jim Bowsher, Bobby Bowsher and Todd Bowsher, and daughter Jodie Bowsher. As per Jack‘s needs, there will likely be no funeral home viewing. Graveside Providers and products open to the general public will likely be Tuesday April 11 at 1: 00pm at Fletcher Chapel Cemetary, 5920 Fletcher Pike, Cohesion Township, Springfield, Ohio 45505
    There will likely be a memorial gathering open for family and friends abruptly following the graveside provider from 3: 00pm to 7: 00pm at: VFW Post 8673, 2825 East Leffel Lane, Springfield, Ohio 45505. In lieu of vegetation please manufacture a donation in Jack‘s title to: Focus Motorsports Ministries, Invoice Krick, Chaplain, 2497 Governors Pointe, Concord, NC 28025-2425.(ARCARacing.com and toddbowsher.com)(4-10-2006)
  • Richmond NEXTEL Cup Series Sorting out, April 11-13:  the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series drivers will possess their flip for three consecutive days of trying out starting Tuesday, April 11. Below is the tentative schedule of when the drivers anticipate to test at Richmond International Raceway. Sorting out each and each day will scamper from 9: 00am to 9: 00pm/et and the grandstands will likely be open for fans each and each day. Admission and parking are free and concessions will likely be available from 9: 00am to eight: 30pm/et each and each day.
    Scheduled to test April 11-12:
    #01-Joe Nemechek, #09-Mike Wallace, #1-Martin Truex, Jr., #2-Kurt Busch, #6-Designate Martin, #7-Robby Gordon, #8-Dale Earnhardt, Jr., #9-Kasey Kahne, #11-Denny Hamlin, #12-Ryan Newman, #14-Capable Marlin, #16-Greg Biffle, #17-Matt Kenseth, #18-J.J. Yeley, #19-Jeremy Mayfield, #20-Tony Stewart, #21-Ken Schrader, #22-Dave Blaney, #24-Jeff Gordon, #26-Jamie McMurray, #40-David Stremme, #41-Reed Sorenson, #42-Casey Mears, #45-Kyle Petty, #48-Jimmie Johnson, #66-Jeff Green, #89-Morgan Shepherd, #96-Tony Raines, #99-Carl Edwards;
    Scheduled to test April 12-13:
    #07-Clint Bowyer, #4-Scott Wimmer, #5-Kyle Busch, #10-Scott Riggs, #25-Brian Vickers, #29-Kevin Harvick, #31-Jeff Burton, #38-Elliott Sadler, #43-Bobby Labonte, #49-Brent Sherman, #51-Mike Garvey, #61-Kevin Lepage, #78-Kenny Wallace, #88-Dale Jarrett, #92-Chad Blount.(RIR PR)(4-10-2006)
  • No #38 Group in Nashville?:  Listening to that the #38 group of Akins Motorsports is no longer going to gallop to Nashville this weeekend. Big Clips will reportedly stream to the #32 group of Braun Racing.(04-10-2006)
    UPDATE: The Big Clips Racing program has launched the addition of Jason Leffler to its driver lineup, joining Braun Racing teammate and Rookie of the twelve months contender AJ Foyt IV who at screen drives the #38 Big Clips entry. Big Clips, which this season has served as foremost sponsor of Foyt‘s #38 entry, will divide their sponsorship between Braun Racing‘s #32 and #38 entries during the 2006 season. Leffler, driver of the #32 Chevy, will carry Big Clips because the foremost sponsor of his automobile in procure races initiating with this weekend‘s Pepsi 300 at Nashville Superspeedway. Foyt will flip to a extra restricted schedule in the #38 Big Clips entry to be in a space to present him overtime to test and score precious seat time by presumably running in other sequence. He’ll retain his eligibility to compete for the Rookie of the twelve months honors. Foyt will likely be abet in the abet of the wheel of the #38 on April 21 at Phoenix International Raceway.(Big Clips PR)(4-10-2006)
  • Dale Jr. Racing Trip at Bud World to be at Nashville:  The Dale Jr. Racing Trip at Bud World will likely be on the Nashville Superspeedway Saturday for the Pepsi 300 NASCAR Busch Series bustle. The Dale Jr. Trip will likely be positioned in Expo Row. The Dale Jr. Trip is an exhilarating, remark of the art work, mobile screen unit designed particularly for grownup customers to be taught about Budweiser‘s sponsorship of NASCAR and driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.(Nashville Speedway PR)(4-10-2006)
  • Lamar Leads Kleuver for Rookie of the twelve months:  Burney Lamar leads Todd Kluever by seven parts (74-67) in the Raybestos® Rookie standings coming into the April 15 Pepsi 300 at Nashville Superspeedway. John Andretti modified into as soon as the Raybestos® Rookie of the Dawdle in the April 8 O‘Reilly 300 at Texas Motor Speedway. Andretti accomplished 19th and took Raybestos® Rookie of the Dawdle honors for the 2d consecutive bustle.(Raybestos PR)(4-10-2006)
  • Muskogee native, Chad Wheeler, might presumably well moreover merely bustle automobiles:  Over the last three weeks Muskogee, OK native Chad Wheeler has had a gaze of the swiftly tempo world of gargantuan time racing. A month in the past, the Muskogee High College graduate modified into as soon as getting prepared to bustle his Modified automobile in the upcoming grime music season. Two weeks in the past, he modified into as soon as in Hampton, Ga., for the Truck Series‘ John Deere 200 and the Busch Series‘ Nicorette 300 on the Atlanta Motor Speedway because the guest of sports advertising and marketing and marketing govt Doug Bland. Earlier this previous week, Wheeler modified into as soon as on the Carraway Speedway in Asheboro, N.C., where he ran terminate to 50 laps for the period of a test session in a Craftsman truck(Green Light Racing owned). On Tuesday, Bland will flip in Wheeler‘s application for a NASCAR license, step one to being a driver in any of the three sequence. If all goes as deliberate, Wheeler will bustle in four to six Truck Series races this season. Wheeler and Bland are focusing on the Would possibly presumably well merely 27 bustle on the Mansfield (Ohio) Motorsports Speedway as his debut into the sequence.(muskogeephoenix.com)(4-10-2006)

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April 10, 2005

  • Gordon wins at Martinsville:  #24-Jeff Gordon received the Come Auto Parts 500 at Martinsville Speedway, after being down three (3) laps early in the bustle when he had a vibration and had to pit below inexperienced. Nonetheless the crew kept working on the automobile, Gordon received two of the laps abet the passe draw, racing the leader to glean 2 laps abet, then received the ‘Lucky Dog‘ lap abet for the period of the Ninth warning on lap 276. The possess is Gordon‘s sixth at Martinsville and 71st career possess. It might presumably be Hendrick Motorsports 12th possess at Martinsville. #24-Gordon and #97-Busch received together gradual in the bustle, with Busch going into the wall and finishing 19th. #9-Kasey Kahne accomplished sixth, his sixth career 2nd remark cease and first of 2005. The the rest of the head-5 modified into as soon as #6-Designate Martin, #12-Ryan Newman and #2-Rusty Wallace. #48-Jimmie Johnson modified into as soon as down 2 laps at one point and ended up eighth and increased his parts lead to 160 [was 94]. The bustle will re-air on Roam Channel, Thursday, April 14th at 3: 00pm/et
    Assume about my Martinsville Dawdle Records/Rundown Page for unofficial paunchy bustle results, results links, my bustle rundown.protection, lap leaders, warning and notes narriatives.
    And gawk Jayski‘s UNOFFICIAL Martinsville Dawdle Results web page for paunchy bustle results.(4-10-2005)
  • Marlin doesn‘t anticipate to be abet with Ganassi in 2006 UPDATE:  #40-Capable Marlin said Friday he’s “99.9% certain” that he received‘t be abet with Chip Ganassi Racing for the 2006 Nextel Cup season. Marlin, 47, has been riding for the group previously owned by Felix Sabates for the reason that open up of the 1998 season. He‘s received four races with the group after having six victories in the old four seasons at Morgan/McClure. Marlin, who will likely be making his 646th career Nextel Cup open up in Sunday‘s Come 500 at Martinsville Speedway, is in the closing twelve months of his contract. Marlin said he has a few very preliminary discussions with others about doable rides for 2006 and beyond, nevertheless nothing substantive but.(David Poole/ThatsRacin.com)(4-8-2005)
    UPDATE:  FOX‘s Jeff Hammond said on the Martinsville Pre-bustle demonstrate, that he had heard one relate had Jamie McMurray, driver of the #42-Texaco-Havoline Dodge for Ganassi, shifting over to the #40 Coor‘s Light Dodge, with Busch Driver David Stremme that you would possibly presumably well moreover imagine in the #42. Also have heard that McMuarry might presumably well silent kill up in the #2 Miller Lite Dodge to replace retiring Rusty Wallace, with Stremme and Reed Sorenson shifting up into the #40 and or #42.(4-10-2005)
  • Labonte Golf Tourney Raises over $130okay:  The Bobby Labonte Celeb Golf Classic introduced by ConAgra Meals raised bigger than $130,000 for the Bobby Labonte Basis, officers from the foundation launched April 10. The Bobby Labonte Basis supports masses of charities and non-profit organizations, including the Victory Junction Gang Camp and the North Carolina Quarter-Midget Association. The tournament took remark over two days on the prestigious Ballantyne Resort in Charlotte, N.C., with dinner and auction on April 4 adopted by golf on April 5. As well to Labonte, NASCAR drivers Terry Labonte, Tony Stewart, Jason Leffler and Johnny Benson participated, as did J.D. Gibbs, president of Joe Gibbs Racing, Steve Addington, Labonte‘s crew chief and Greg Zipadelli, Stewart‘s crew chief. Jim Cantore from The Climate Channel, Marty Roe, lead-singer for Diamond Rio and Larry Ziegler from the PGA Champions Tour also participated.(Camp and Associates)(4-10-2005)
  • Edwards races, surprises crowd:  Racing fans belief Carl Edwards would simplest be there [24 Raceway in Moberly MO] to tag autographs. As it grew to grow to be out, the NASCAR principal person did extra. Edwards, a 25-twelve months-passe Columbia [MO] native, drove on the equal music as his younger brother, Kenny, in the Hornet automobile bustle at 24 Raceway in Moberly Saturday night. Driving in his first bustle, Kenny Edwards, 22, received the foremost warmth. Carl Edwards accomplished in fifth remark. Kenny Edwards all another time accomplished forward of his brother in the characteristic bustle. He modified into as soon as third; Carl Edwards modified into as soon as seventh. Carl Edwards launched his plans to be readily available to see his brother on Thursday. On Saturday, he flew to Moberly for the bustle in fellow Roush Racing driver Designate Martin‘s jet. He returned to Martinsville, Va., for the Come Auto Parts 500 bustle Sunday afterward.(Columbia Missourian)(4-10-2005)
  • Villeneuve in NASCAR? haven‘t heard this rumor in a few years……Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve has expressed an pastime in riding in NASCAR, in response to some who’ve talked with him, and that can even be a proper tag for NASCAR‘s proposed Canadian racing project. Last spring, when Villeneuve‘s F1 career regarded all nevertheless over, and he modified into as soon as looking out out out a gallop, Villeneuve inquired about NASCAR alternatives. Nonetheless last fall he managed to land one other F1 gallop, despite the indisputable fact that it wasn‘t a tall one. At 34, Villeneuve might presumably well moreover merely smartly be nearing the kill of his career on the global circuit. Some yell that Villeneuve might presumably well moreover merely no longer have the attitude for NASCAR‘s “received-to-glean-alongside” world, or the gumption for the grinding 38-week-a-twelve months tour. An intelligent facet to NASCAR‘s Canadian challenge is that Vancouver would be a player, attributable to that ravishing city, proper two hours north of Seattle, might presumably well give the game its long-awaited Northwest anchor. Given the problems that NASCAR has had finding 800 acres and political make stronger for building of a music in the Seattle space itself, Vancouver can even be a resolution. And Vancouver has a racing tradition with road-course CART Indy-automobile races.(Winston Salem Journal)(4-10-2005)
  • Did ya know? #24-Jeff Gordon has been running on the cease of every and every bustle he‘s ever scamper at Martinsville Speedway. That‘s 24 in a row with 5 wins.(Gaston Gazette)
    Produce is 25 races.(4-10-2005)
  • MRN Announcer Honored:  Danielle Frye, an announcer for Motor Racing Community (MRN), modified into as soon as the recipient of the 2005 Illustrious Alumni Public Family Award from Troy University College of Journalism. Frye got the award for the period of a totally different ceremony on the Alabama institution, Thursday, April 7. Frye, a 1993 communications graduate from Troy University, modified into as soon as NASCAR‘s senior manager of communications old to taking the MRN put up first and important of 2003. Frye also worked as a NASCAR public members of the family group consultant and as a contract creator for racing publications. While at Troy University, Frye modified into as soon as a member of the women‘s basketball group. Frye, her husband Jay and the couple‘s 15-month-passe daughter Addison Rece, live in Mooresville, N.C.(PR)(4-10-2005)
  • Hendrick might presumably well moreover merely abet Martinsville:  Hendrick Motorsports owner Rick Hendrick is leaning toward attending on the unusual time‘s Come Auto Parts 500 at Martinsville Speedway. It‘s the foremost tournament on the music since a Hendrick plane crashed on the technique to Martinsville last October. Engine builder Randy Dorton, General Manager Jeff Turner, President John Hendrick and Vice President Ricky Hendrick had been among the many 10 killed in the rupture. Moreover his brother and son, Rick Hendrick also lost two nieces.(Richmond Times Dispatch)
    NOTE:  Hendrick is on the music on the unusual time for the bustle.(4-10-2005)

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April 10, 2004

  • Congrats:  Connected Press sportswriter [usually NASCAR[ Jenna Fryer and her husband, Brit [of the Gaston Gazette], are the proud oldsters of a child girl, Sydnee Lin Fryer. Sydnee arrived about 4: 00pm/et Friday and weighs 6 pounds, 15 oz.. Sydnee and her mom are at Carolinas Medical Middle in Charlotte. Sources terminate to ThatsRacin.com yell mom and daughter are doing supreme.(4-10-2004)
  • FanZCar To Sponsor Hermie Sadler at Martinsville:  The FanZCar, an interactive program that lets in bustle fans to sponsor Hermie Sadler and SCORE Motorsports, alongside with participating for the period of bustle weekends, launched that they’ve agreed to sponsor Hermie Sadler in the Come Auto Parts 500 in Martinsville, Virginia on April 18. It’ll be The FanZCar first look within NASCAR‘s NEXTEL Cup sequence and the foremost time ever a fan-based mostly mostly sponsorship elevated itself within NASCAR‘s absolute best sequence [NOTE: this is not true, Billy Standridge and Fans Can Race in 1997-1998 was one team, there have been a few others also]. Hermie Sadler, who also drives the #02 Busch Series automobile that is backed by The FanZCar, says it is miles a testament to the fans that this sponsorship came together. “Since we joined forces with The FanZCar this twelve months, the membership has increased vastly.” Sadler will likely be making quite so much of appearances the week of the Martinsville bustle to promote no longer simplest The FanZCar, nevertheless also Autism Awareness month, which is April. He’ll be on Speedily Talk with Benny Parsons on April 12, Fully NASCAR on April 15, and Trackside Are living on April 16. Sadler‘s #02 Chevy can even carry in-automobile cameras for the bustle as smartly because the now acquainted Autism Awareness Ribbon. For extra files on the FanZCar and to turn staunch into a member, discuss with their web web page theFanZCar.com.(SCORE Motorsports PR)(4-10-2004)
  • Kyle Petty to Search the recommendation of with Kids about Safety:  Petty Enterprises driver #45-Kyle Petty is scheduled to possess piece in Georgia-Pacific Corp.‘s Teen Safety 500 program for five suburban Pittsburgh colleges next Wednesday [April 14th]. Students from Elizabeth Forward, South Allegheny, Thomas Jefferson, West Mifflin and McKeesport are scheduled to possess piece on this scheme to promote safe riding practices among children. Petty is scheduled to tag autographs and pose for photography with the students.(Williams Firm PR)(4-10-2004)
  • McMurray to be a presenter for Award Veil:  Jamie McMurray, the motive force of Chip Ganassi Racing‘s #42 Dodge in the Nextel Cup Series, is scheduled to be a presenter for CMT‘s 2004 Flame Righteous Video Tune Awards at 8: 00pm/et April 21 on CMT.(NASCAR Scene Day after day)(4-10-2004)
  • Mikey wins at Nashville in a wild cease:  #99-Michael Waltrip received the Pepsi 300 at Nashville Superspeedway, in a wild cease. With 2 laps to gallop, #5-Busch led #21-Clint Bowyer, with #55-Gordon and #1-Benson all in a bunch. Busch either slipped up or Bowyer received a tall scamper and nipped Busch‘s left rear, which began Busch in a slide, Bowyer slowed, Benson modified into as soon as correct in the abet of Bowyer and didn‘t have time to gradual and hit Bowyer, Gordon then had no remark to gallop and hit somebody, all four spinning by the grass, #27-Sauter modified into as soon as running 5th, nevertheless slowed and Waltrip who modified into as soon as sixth on the time, glided by Sauter BEFORE the yellow gentle lit and the yellow flag flew. #38-Kahne received by the four spinning drivers, who then all received abet no longer off course and as much as tempo automobile tempo. So NASCAR ruled Waltrip the winner, and an wretched Sauter 2nd [thought he won], Kahne Third, adopted by Bowyer, Gordon, Busch and Benson. #20-Bliss modified into as soon as on the tail kill of the lead lap automobiles and ended up eighth, the last automobile on the lead lap. Whew…I believe I received it.
    #8-Martin Truex Jr., the pole sitter in a backup automobile and the parts leader coming in, ended up 23rd six laps down. Waltrip takes over the parts lead and says as long as he’s in championship contention, he plans to scamper the total Busch races.
    Assume about UNOFFICIAL Results at:
    (these three have the finishing notify FX posted which had been supposedly correct from NASCAR)
    ThatsRacin.com/AP — results
    BGNRacing.com
    MotorsportsOne
    (the OFFICIAL RESULTS from NASCAR.com 4-12-2004)
    NASCAR.com(4-10/12-2004)
  • Ragan trying out for #67 group? Marlin out? UPDATE 2:  listening to that David Ragan, son of extinct Cup driver Ken Ragan, is making an strive out Fiddleback Racing‘s Ford-150 Craftsman Truck at Texas Motor Speedway this week, starting Tuesday 4/6/04. Right here is the truck that Steadman Marlin has been riding, nevertheless he and the group parted ways after Atlanta.(4-6-2004)
    UPDATE:  no longer certain what to imagine here, have three totally different reviews flying at me; Ragan in the truck, Marlin staying ; and Kevin Like riding at Martinsville and Mansfield [OH].(4-8-2004)
    UPDATE 2:  A gargantuan announcement about David Ragan and Fiddle Attend Racing will likely be coming in the very approach future. Kevin Like will likely be riding the #67 for Martinsville and Manfield for certain. Different races for Like are in the works. Steadman Marlin will likely be alive to with Fiddle Attend in other ways which is in a space to be disclosed in the approach future.(Fiddle Attend Racing PR)(4-10-2004)

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April 10, 2003

  • Wilburn staying on the #2 UPDATE:  #2-Rusty Wallace/Penske Racing crew chief, Billy Wilburn, said there will now not be any fact to the rumors [not here!] that he’s leaving the group or being released.(XM Satellite tv for pc- NASCAR Radio — Subscription Required)(4-10-2003)
    UPDATE:  the rumor floating round is that after Todd Parrott will get out of his ‘lifetime‘ contract with Robert Yates, he’ll be headed to the #2 Penske group.(4-10-2003)
  • Realtree and the #29? UPDATE 2:  listening to Realtree, who backed Dave Marcis for years on the #71 automobile, will likely be on Kevin Harvick‘s #29 GM Goodwrench because the foremost or co-foremost at an upcoming bustle.
    UPDATE:  This special paint will scamper August 23rd at Bristol below the lights OR rumor has it can presumably moreover merely scamper in the Busch Series.(3-14-2003)
    UPDATE 2:  now have an image of the plot, gawk my Paint Plan Gallery for the image.(4-10-2003)
  • Brad Parott abet to Roush? UPDATE:  listening to extinct #88 Crew Chief, Brad Parrott will likely be the original automobile chief for #99-Jeff Burton.(4-10-2003)
    UPDATE:  Roush Racing launched on the unusual time that they’ve re-employed Brad Parrott and assigned him to enroll in the #99 CITGO group, reporting to crew chief Paul Andrews. “We’re mad to bring Brad (Parrott) abet to Roush Racing,” said Jeff Burton, driver of the #99 CITGO Ford. “Our Busch Series group had a good deal of success last twelve months and Brad modified into as soon as a gargantuan contributor to that success so we predict he can approach in and encourage the #99 group this twelve months.” Parrott modified into as soon as crew chief for Burton and the #9 Busch Series group in 2002 making the time out to victory lane 5 times in simplest 14 races. Crew chief Paul Andrews is mad to have this extra or much less ride in his proper. “I believe that is a in actuality proper thing,” said Andrews. “We are in a position to be in a space to manufacture basically the most of Brad‘s (Parrott) files and ride to encourage approach the #99 group. We’re lucky to have so many proficient of us working on the CITGO group, and Brad will encourage manufacture us even stronger.”(Roush Racing situation)(4-10-2003)
  • Invoice Elliott‘s Pit Crew Wins Over again:  The pit crew for #9-Invoice Elliott captured the $20,000 prize in McDonald‘s Drive-Through Pit Championship fueled by Powerade for the fastest pit work among participating teams in last Sunday‘s Aaron‘s 499 at Talladega Superspeedway. The #9 spent a entire of 310 seconds in the pits. #40-Capable Marlin‘s crew modified into as soon as 2d with 328 seconds. #74-Tony Raines crew modified into as soon as third with 488 seconds. For the standing and paunchy press liberate, gawk my Pit Crew News and Links web page.(4-10-2003)
  • Petree and Menard to entire ABC and T schedule UPDATE:  it modified into as soon as launched on XM Satellite tv for pc- NASCAR Radio (Subscription Required) that Paul Menard will power a ABCT schedule for 18 races for Andy Petree Racing [APR] in 2003. A=ARCA, B=Busch Series, C=Cup and T=Vans. The group will likely be backed by Turtle Wax and Manard. First scheduled bustle is the Salem ARCA bustle on April 27th and goes by to the Phoenix Cup bustle in November. Menard is at screen in faculty and after he finally ends up, he’ll stream to North Carolina. Menard will web page online for Petree at Martinsville, who will scamper the Truck Series bustle there.(XM Satellite tv for pc- NASCAR Radio Subscription Required), gawk extra files about Paul Menard at Teammenard.secure and extra about APR at www.andypetreeracing.com.(4-9-2003)
    UPDATE:  Andy Petree has made a commitment to construct the draw in which forward for his racing group by developing young skill, likewise Paul Menard, 22, the son of Eau Claire home-enchancment businessman and Indy-automobile owner John Menard, has made a commitment to finding out this twelve months, both on and off the music. Menard who’s pursuing a degree in business at University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, will tackle an 18-tournament racing schedule riding a Turtle Wax“backed Chevrolet for APR that will consist of races in the Truck Series, Busch Series, Winston Cup Series and ARCA. All by the last three seasons, Paul Menard has been working his draw up the NASCAR ladder, competing in the ReMax Danger Series fulltime, while also running selected events in the Southwest Tour Series. At the terminate of 2002, Menard received the November Phoenix Southwest Tour tournament at Phoenix with a gradual bustle gallop of Ken Schrader, one thing that caught the intrigue of NASCAR used, Andy Petree. “To be qualified, I didn‘t even gawk the bustle; I modified into as soon as riding love loopy to glean to the music to seek files from as mighty as I might presumably well attributable to I promised Kenny (Schrader) I would see it,” said Petree, owner of Andy Petree Racing. “I received there a few minutes too gradual and called Kenny as I modified into as soon as crossing the bridge to search out out what came about. He said he received beat by some youngster and accomplished 2d. I said, “What youngster?” He said, “Paul Menard“ the youngster proper chased me down, received underneath me on the last lap and received it. He did a tall job.” Paul Menard‘s Andy Petree Racing Chevrolet will likely be backed by Turtle Wax and might presumably well moreover merely likely carry the #33 all the draw by all sequence he’ll compete on this twelve months. The first tournament will likely be the ARCA bustle in Salem, IN April 27. The total schedule is listed on my #33 Group News and Links web page. Assume about paunchy Press liberate on the Group Menard situation.(Co-Pilott PR)(4-10-2003)
  • Racing and Wrestling Tournament and Hermie to Direct Sponsorship plans UPDATE:  Racing and wrestling pair up as soon as all another time for a night of improbable sports entertainment this Wednesday night on NWA-TNA: Total Nonstop Motion wrestling on iNDEMAND and DirecTV pay-per-behold at 8: 00pm/et. Fox Sport‘s Jeff Hammond will support as a guest coloration analyst for an revolutionary X-Division 6 Man Match. The X Division is an erroneous class of wrestling with excessive-flying, acrobatic maneuvers and is available simplest on TNA. Hammond will join “The Professor” Mike Tenay and Don West ringside to name the stream on what’s going to absolutely be a “match of the twelve months” candidate. As well to his analyst duties, Hammond will likely be broadcasting his section for Fully NASCAR on Fox Sports Glean from the TNA Asylum Wednesday night. Hermie Sadler will likely be abet on the TNA Asylum to focus on TNA‘s sponsorship of his automobile this previous weekend on the Aaron‘s 499 in Talladega, and might presumably well moreover merely be asserting TNA‘s sponsorship plans for the #02 automobile for quite so much of additional Winston Cup races. No stranger to wrestling, Sadler defeated Ron “The Truth” Killings in his simplest in-ring look last September. NWA-TNA: Total Nonstop Motion Wrestling is the foremost-ever weekly pay-per-behold wrestling sequence that airs each and every Wednesday at 8: 00pm/et on iNDEMAND and DirecTV. With its outlandish blend of used wrestling and the excessive-flying slicing edge moves of the X-Division, it is miles the definitive different for the wrestling enthusiast.(Trifecta Entertainment PR)(4-8-2003)
    UPDATE:  “We‘re asserting a 5-bustle sponsorship program in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series with Total Nonstop Motion Wrestling,” Hermie Sadler said on Fully NASCAR. “The first bustle goes to be the Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte. We‘re tying John Boy & Billy and all those on in. It‘s a tall promotion, and we‘re looking out forward to getting it began.”(Fox Sports Glean‘s Fully NASCAR)(4-10-2003
  • Jeff Burton and Dan Ackroyd Group Up for “Auto Care Month”:  The month of April is “Auto Care Month” and the US Environmental Safety Agency (EPA) and American Lung Association are launching a enormous public awareness advertising and marketing and marketing campaign on behalf of cleaner air and extra successfully running automobiles. They are teaming up with Jeff Burton, driver of the #99 CITGO Ford, and actor/comic Dan Ackroyd to originate a public provider advertising and marketing and marketing campaign titled, “The Runt Light with a Nice Message.” “I‘m honored to be a part of the advertising and marketing and marketing campaign,” said Burton. “Expectantly this will bring awareness and educate of us a few topic most of us ignore.” The advertising and marketing and marketing campaign facilities all the draw by the “check engine” gentle in the dashboard of automobiles and automobiles. Evaluate has shown that almost all of us ignore the gentle when it comes on. This would presumably well shorten engine life, manufacture higher noxious emissions and decrease gas mileage. “Right here is a tiny nevertheless principal thing.” Burton persisted, “If of us would possess the time to have their engines checked when the gentle came on, it will set them time, cash and complications down the road.” Burton and Ackroyd have taped a : 30 2d TV web page online and radio spots that will open up airing April 12 and scamper by July 12. The TV and radio advertising and marketing and marketing campaign will likely be disbursed to all TV/radio networks and cable shops and might presumably well moreover merely be scamper for the period of NASCAR bustle announces.(Roush Racing)(4-10-2003)
  • Chartwell Investments invests in RCR:  Chartwell Investments II LLC launched on the unusual time that it has made an equity funding in RCR Enterprises, LLC, the elite NASCAR racing group based mostly and majority-owned by Richard Childress. “We’re contented to partner with Chartwell Investments,” said Richard Childress, President and CEO of RCR. “I‘ve had traders in RCR for the reason that gradual 1990‘s and I am confident that Chartwell‘s of us and capital will encourage us to continue to construct judicious one of NASCAR‘s top organizations. I‘ve made a long-period of time commitment to Chartwell and there will likely be no modifications in how RCR is scamper.”
    “NASCAR is the fastest-rising foremost sport with over 75 million fans nationwide and we’re serious about partnering with Richard Childress, a legendary determine in the NASCAR racing world,” said Todd R. Berman, President and Founder of Chartwell Investments. “We hope our participation will give Richard even overtime to focal point on successful races and supporting the company‘s sponsors.”(PRN Newswire)(4-3-2003)
    UPDATE:  Winston Cup automobile owner Richard Childress confirmed Wednesday he has offered partial equity in his Richard Childress Racing company to Chartwell Investments, a non-public Original York City-based mostly mostly equity agency. “Now we have had an investor in RCR since I expanded with (Mike) Skinner in the No. 31 (in 1996), nevertheless on a restricted basis. Right here is extra intensive,” Childress said. “Nothing will seek files from totally different. I silent have support an eye on of the company, I possess the majority of the company and I‘m silent the CEO.” Chartwell‘s funding modified into as soon as no longer disclosed, nevertheless Childress said he holds bigger than a 50 p.c pastime in RCR. The addition of Chartwell, Childress said, strengthens his organization. “We aren‘t a little corporation any longer,” he said. “They’ll encourage RCR Enterprises gallop to one other stage on this sport. There are a good deal of how you would possibly presumably well moreover grow your business on this sport without including bustle teams. I‘ve made a long-period of time commitment to Chartwell, to my staff and to the game.”(ThatsRacin.com)(4-10-2003)
  • #29 Proprietor Keselowski Hospitalized UPDATE 3 getting out:  Veteran NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver and crew chief Bob Keselowski modified into as soon as transported by ambulance to Crittenton Health center in Rochester, MI gradual Wednesday afternoon with an undisclosed illness. Keselowski and his Okay-Car group had been wrapping up a daylong test in the Detroit space when the 51-twelve months-passe Keselowski modified into as soon as proper previous 5: 00pm/et. Keselowski modified into as soon as later transported by ambulance to William Beaumont Health center in Royal Oak, MI round midnight had been he modified into as soon as admitted to the clinic‘s intensive care unit. Extra particulars will likely be released as they grow to be available.(Motorsports Administration Community PR)(4-3-2003)
    UPDATE:  Bob Keselowski, a used NASCAR Craftsman Truck driver and crew chief, remained in intensive care Thursday at William Beaumont Health center in Royal Oak after suffering a suspected heart attack. Keselowski, who lives in Rochester Hills, collapsed as his Okay-Car Motorsports group wrapped up a prolonged test session Wednesday on the Ford Proving Grounds in Dearborn. Keselowski, 51, is crew chief on the No. 29 Energy Stroke Diesel Ford pushed by Terry Cook dinner of Toledo. Keselowski‘s wife, Kay, who owns the bustle truck, modified into as soon as at her husband‘s facet Thursday. They scamper Okay-Car from their shop in Lake Orion. “Bob had been in proper health old to he collapsed,” a bunch spokesman said. “We’re proper waiting on the outcomes of extra tests.”(Detroit Free Press), extra files on the group, gawk their situation: www.teamkeselowski.com or www.terrycook.com.(4-4-2003)
    UPDATE 2:  The placement of used NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver and crew chief Bob Keselowski modified into as soon as listed at proper Monday morning at William Beaumont Health center in Royal Oak, MI. “The prognosis looks in actuality proper for Bob and he’s bettering immediate each and each day,” said Kay Keselowski, Bob‘s wife this morning. “Bob is alert, talking and desires to glean off the bed. That alone exhibits he‘s already on his draw abet.” Keselowski modified into as soon as transported by ambulance to Crittenton Health center in Rochester, MI last Wednesday afternoon after his Okay-Car group concluded a daylong test. His situation gradually improved over the weekend. “I want to thank all americans for his or her heartfelt needs and maintaining us in their thoughts and prayers,” acknowledged Kay Keselowski. “Now we have had dozens of calls and e-mails from of us in the NASCAR community asking what they can kill to encourage. The response modified into as soon as overwhelming and I proper want to let all americans know the draw mighty it technique to us.” Neither Bob or Kay Keselowski will take part in the Truck Series bustle at Martinsville, VA this weekend. In step with Keselowski, the #29 Energy Stroke Diesel/Oil Mate Ford and driver Terry Cook dinner will silent be judicious one of the principal group‘s to beat. “The group is no longer going to miss a beat,” said Kay Keselowski. “Bob‘s brother, Ron, is stepping up as crew chief till Bob comes abet. My proper friend, Jason Pasch, Jack Sprague‘s spotter, will possess over the spotting duties for me. Terry will likely be in proper palms. The Okay-Car group has constantly scamper smartly at Martinsville and we anticipate to entire it all another time this weekend.”(Motorsports Administration Community PR)(4-7-2003)
    UPDATE 3:  The placement of used NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver and crew chief Bob Keselowski has improved and he’s scheduled to be released from William Beaumont Health center in Royal Oak, MI sometime Thursday. “Bob has improved so mighty that I proper received be aware that he’s being released from the clinic on the unusual time,” said Keselowski‘s wife, Kay, in a Thursday morning phone interview from the Okay-Car group shop in Lake Orion, MI. “Bob‘s feeling severely higher and he‘s looking out forward to watching the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series bustle at Martinsville on tv Saturday.” Keselowski has been hospitalized since Wednesday, April 2. The No. 29 Energy Stroke Diesel/Oil Mate Ford group will compete in the Truck Series bustle at Martinsville this weekend below the course of Keselowski‘s brother, Ron. “All americans looks looking out forward to a proper cease at Martinsville this weekend,” acknowledged Kay Keselowski. “Now we have a tall group and all americans has in actuality pulled together. It‘s been a trying time for all of us, nevertheless we made it by this and we‘re going to be stronger than ever.”(Motorsports Administration Community PR)(4-10-2003)
  • Rose will get a sponsor for Martinsville:  Brian Rose will likely be teaming with Nocer Racing Programs, a producer of racing heads for R/C automobiles, when he pilots the #57 Dodge Ram in the April 12 Come Auto Parts 250 at Martinsville Speedway. There‘s long been a connection between NASCAR and the radio-managed racer. Many R/C hobbyists are die-laborious NASCAR fans, and heaps NASCAR drivers, crew and fans are die-laborious R/C hobbyists. Rose is no exception. “I‘ve been riding R/C automobiles and automobiles as long as I will even be aware,” said Rose. “And proper love in NASCAR, the goal is to scamper sooner, longer, and cooler. That‘s what Nocer heads kill for the R/C racer.” Nocer is found in Rose‘s remark of initiating of Bowling Green, Kentucky. “We‘re both little guys struggling against the giants of our industries,” said Rose. “Nocer began out with the goal of making a product that will presumably well make stronger the performance of R/C racers, and they also did it. They‘ve gotten some national consideration, many gargantuan-time racers are the utilization of their merchandise, and ardour retailers are selling them as swiftly as they can glean them. Nonetheless they‘re silent a tiny company in a worldwide enviornment of competition, going head-to-head with the supreme R/C suppliers in the sphere. And our 57 group knows proper how they honestly feel,” Rose added. “We pretty mighty need to mortgage the farm each and a week to glean to the music. We‘re lucky attributable to some of the opposite teams have helped us out some, nevertheless no longer having the gargantuan corporate sponsor draw we now need to minimize out proper about the entire lot that doesn‘t staunch now expose to tempo on the racetrack. Truly,” confided Rose, “we want to have a tall cease at Martinsville so I will glean my possess Dodge Dakota out of hock. Earlier than Nocer stepped up, that modified into as soon as the supreme draw I might presumably well determine out to position a truck on the music that‘s in a position to polishing off front. We in actuality broke down on our technique to the Mesa Marin bustle (in Bakersfield, CA) a few weeks in the past, and spent the weekend in Amarillo, Texas. We had to withdraw our entry and exercise all our cash to glean abet on the road.” John Helveston, president of Nocer, sees the Martinsville bustle as a possess-possess relate for all americans. “It‘s this form of natural unsuitable-promotion that I‘m bowled over each and every R/C producer isn‘t already doing this,” he said. “The exposure Brian can give us is tremendous. Undercover agent at what he‘s performed on a tiny funds. I know he‘ll scamper smartly and glean many of digicam time. We‘re in a space to encourage out Brian some, and he‘s helping us loads.” Even supposing that is simplest a one-bustle sponsorship, Helveston would truly like so to continue the connection. “If I might presumably well determine out a approach, Nocer would be on his truck each and a week. I‘m proper shrinking some mega-sponsor goes snatch him up old to I‘m in a space to gallop Craftsman truck racing paunchy time,” he said. “Nonetheless for his sake, I hope somebody does.” More files on Nocer Racing Programs can even be realized at www.Nocer.com. More files on Brian Rose can even be realized at www.BrianRoseRacing.com.(PR)(4-10-2003)

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April 10, 2002

  • The Winston, 2002, announcement UPDATE 2 Changes:  There will likely be an announcement on Tuesday, April Ninth of the original layout for The Winston, NASCAR‘s all-principal person bustle. The Winston will likely be contested below the lights at Lowe‘s Motor Speedway on Saturday, Would possibly presumably well merely 18, 2002. The original layout will manufacture The Winston extra aggressive than ever old to.(LMS PR)(4-5-2002)
    UPDATE:  the NASCAR press conference to reveal the original layout for The Winston, scheduled for Tuesday morning at Lowe‘s Motor Speedway in Charlotte, NC, will likely be rescheduled for Wednesday morning at 11: 00am/et.(TMS Assign)(4-8-2002)
    UPDATE 2:  The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., and its Winston imprint on the unusual time launched the revised layout for the 2002 running of The Winston, the NASCAR Winston Cup Series‘ all-principal person tournament. It‘ll be “Survival of the Fastest” as for the foremost time in the 17-twelve months history of The Winston, drivers will likely be eliminated from the grid following both the foremost and 2d segments, leaving proper the 10 fastest drivers to compete for the winner‘s part of a $3 million purse in the closing 20-lap lag round Lowe‘s Motor Speedway. This twelve months‘s running of The Winston (Saturday, Would possibly presumably well merely 18) will consist of three segments totaling 90 laps, or 135 miles, all the draw by the 1.5-mile ground of Lowe‘s Motor Speedway. The first section will likely be 40 laps, after which the enviornment will likely be trimmed to the head 20 finishers. Segment No. 2 runs a entire of 30 laps, after which 10 extra competitors will likely be eliminated to remark up the closing dramatic section. Inversion, a staple of the aggressive layout of The Winston since 1992, will live a part of the layout for the 2002 tournament, nevertheless that process has been relocated and might presumably well moreover merely now put together the 2d section. A fan vote will determine whether or no longer four, six, eight or the total enviornment of 10 automobiles will likely be inverted for the closing section. The enviornment for The Winston, by rule, includes no longer no longer as much as 18 drivers who’ve either received races or championships in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series or The Winston within the last 5 years, plus one driver who transfers by successful the Winston Birth, the qualifier scamper abruptly old to The Winston, and one driver who wins the last-likelihood “suitcase bustle” identified because the No Bull Go. At the moment, there are a record 26 drivers eligible for this twelve months‘s The Winston. The Winston Birth is tranquil of drivers and teams who participated in a NASCAR Winston Cup tournament in 2001 or this season and are no longer in every other case eligible for The Winston. This twelve months‘s Winston Birth will likely be 30 laps in period, with all laps counting toward the total. As is the case with the foremost two segments of The Winston, ought to silent the Winston Birth approach all the draw by a gradual-bustle warning that stops a inexperienced-flag cease, there will likely be one different to entire the bustle below inexperienced with the sequence of laps prolonged for a inexperienced-white-checkered flag cease. If there might be one other warning, the bustle will kill below warning. The No Bull Go will likely be 16-laps and choices all teams that accomplished The Winston Birth, nevertheless did no longer possess the bustle. Qualifying procedures for The Winston continue to focal point on group performance. A four-tire pit cease on the Lowe‘s Motor Speedway pit road will open up a driver‘s qualifying effort, adopted by three laps. The total elapsed time of the pit cease and laps will determine the pole space for The Winston, which awards the successful group $50,000. Qualifying will possess remark on Friday, Would possibly presumably well merely 17.(Lowes Motor Speedway Assign and gawk the Winston Reality Sheet there)(4-10-2002)
  • Waltrip to enviornment a automobile for Kenny Wallace at Talladega? UPDATE yep #98:  Mike Waltrip talked about for the period of the Fox BGN rain extend protection that Michael Waltrip racing will enviornment a Cup automobile at Talladega for Kenny Wallace that will carry Aaron‘s Rent sponsorship and that Aaron‘s can even be the title sponsor of the Cup at Talladega that will likely be know because the 499 no longer the 500. Supposedly DEI will present the automobile (a backup #15) and engine, no longer certain what quantity it‘ll exercise (#81 as historical in Daytona trying out?). Waltrip regarded serious and Kenny Wallace modified into as soon as interviewed slightly later and says it is miles a principal effort and it is miles being posted on the Kenny Wallace situation.(4-6-2002)
    UPDATE:  Michael Waltrip Racing Inc. (MWR) will enviornment a Cup automobile for the foremost time in the Aaron‘s 499 on April 21, 2002 at Talladega Superspeedway. Michael Waltrip, owner of MWR and driver of the #15 DEI NAPA Chevrolet, launched, Kenny Wallace, will pilot the #98 Chevy backed by Aaron‘s Gross sales and Rent Ownership. Ken Butler, President of Aaron‘s Gross sales and Rent Ownership, launched March 16th Aaron‘s will likely be the title sponsor for the Busch Series bustle at Talladega Superspeedway to boot to its foremost sponsorship of Waltrip‘s #99 BGN automobile. Butler decided one bustle and one automobile entry modified into as soon as merely no longer ample. Butler printed Aaron‘s would manufacture it a double header by sponsoring the Winston Cup bustle. While Waltrip drives the Aaron‘s Dream Machine on Saturday‘s, their modified into as soon as no Dream Machine entered in Sunday‘s bustle till Waltrip stepped as much as the plate offering his group and automobiles. “I am blessed to have a improbable sponsor in Aaron‘s,” Waltrip said. “They appreciate NASCAR racing and NASCAR fans and have chosen NASCAR as their indispensable provide of spreading the be aware of their company‘s merchandise. I didn‘t keep in mind carefully about making this happen for a sponsor love Aaron‘s. Michael Waltrip Racing, supported by Dale Earnhardt Inc. will give Kenny (Wallace) a legit different to possess in Talladega.” The auto Wallace will power modified into as soon as tested at Talladega Superspeedway by Waltrip and competed by Dale Earnhardt Jr. in Daytona in 2001. Wallace accomplished sixth in last twelve months‘s Talladega 500 with a simplest superspeedway cease of 2d when he pushed Dale Earnhardt to his last possess at Talladega in 2000.(Fahlgren PR)(4-10-2002)
  • Burton to be honored REPOST:  Ward Burton, the foremost Virginian to ever possess the prestigious Daytona 500 and driver of the #22 Caterpillar Dodge, will likely be officially honored by Halifax County, VA, the city of South Boston, VA., and the Halifax County Chamber of Commerce, April 13 at his remark of initiating music, South Boston Speedway. Burton‘s victory will likely be smartly-known in pre-bustle ceremonies preceding the Textilease 300 introduced by “Runt Bushes”. The evening also choices twin 50s for the NASCAR Textilease Late Mannequin Stock Autos and 300 laps for the ASA sequence. The weekend of April 13 and 14 is a tall one for bustle fans in Southside Virginia, with Martinsville Speedway, simplest 60 miles west of South Boston, hosting the Virginia 500 on April 14. Many Virginia and motorsports dignitaries are expected to have a qualified time with Burton on the Speedway, as smartly as family, friends and fans. Dawdle fans in attendance carrying a Ward Burton hat or shirt, or with a Ward Burton poster, will likely be given the likelihood to possess two Weekend VIP Suite passes for the Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway, July 26 by 28. A smartly-organized banner is being produced to commemorate Burton‘s Daytona victory, as smartly as congratulating South Boston graduates Elliott Sadler and Geoffrey Bodine on their top-three Daytona 500 sweep. The banner can even characteristic names of americans and firms that have joined the Ward Burton Wildlife Basis Club 22. At some stage in the Winston Cup season, bustle fans and firms can join Club 22 for a $22 donation to the Basis. Members will glean a Basis decal and quarterly newsletters alongside with recognition on the Speedway‘s banner. Records will likely be available to enroll in the Club 22 on the April 13 tournament on the Speedway.(Invoice Davis Racing PR)(3-18/4-10-2002)

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April 10, 2001

  • Seat Belt News UPDATE 2:  No person modified into as soon as extra astonished than Invoice Simpson when NASCAR officers advised at a files conference in February that a substandard seat belt made by his company might presumably well moreover had been accountable for the loss of life of racing icon Dale Earnhardt. Troubled, the longtime maker of racing safety equipment polled his manufacturing facility workers and suppliers in regards to the nylon belts and optimistic support an eye on. He despatched six sets of lap belts, made of the equal batch as those in Earnhardt‘s automobile, to an self reliant trying out laboratory. The verdict: They don’t desire sheared when Earnhardt‘s automobile crashed on the last lap of February‘s Daytona 500. Seven weeks after the accident, then all another time, Simpson knows little extra in regards to the belt in Earnhardt‘s mangled Chevrolet than what he learned for the period of that files conference. Assume about paunchy record on the Orlando Sentinel: NASCAR‘s lips sealed on seat-belt analysis, some tall photography and explanations on the placement(4-9-2001)
    UPDATE:  Seat-belt failure did no longer motive the pinnacle accidents that killed NASCAR tall Dale Earnhardt for the period of February‘s Daytona 500, a court-appointed scientific examiner who studied the racer‘s autopsy photography reported Monday. Dr. Barry Myers, a Duke University expert in rupture accidents, said Earnhardt died when his head whipped violently forward in the moments after his #3 Chevy struck a concrete wall at 150 mph. Rejecting NASCAR‘s theory of the rupture, Myers said that, even assuming what he termed “a worst-case relate,” Earnhardt‘s head doubtlessly would have suffered the equal afflict even supposing his lap belt had no longer torn on affect. Assume about paunchy record on the Orlando Sentinel: Expert: Seat belt no element in Earnhardt loss of life
    UPDATE 2 — NASCAR Observation:  “Now we have said old to and re-iterated Monday we‘re conducting our possess detailed review with a bunch of consultants ranging from occupant safety-restraint analysis, and rupture analysis to scientific and biomechanical consultants,” said NASCAR president Mike Helton. “This most up-to-date file is no longer going to alter that. “Contrary to quite so much of reviews in the media, this file is no longer an opposing theory to the rest NASCAR has introduced. Since the Daytona 500, NASCAR has made certain that we is no longer going to counsel or speculate on the circumstances surrounding Dale Earnhardt‘s accident till our peep is entire. No person from NASCAR has ever advised what might presumably well moreover merely have came about on this accident rather then to suppose in our preliminary investigation we realized problems of challenge fascinating the occupant restraint system. “As referenced in the file compiled by Dr. Barry Myers, higher thought can even be done by biomechanical, sled and rupture trying out, which is in step with the formulation we launched Monday. “We appreciate the varied theories from the scientific enviornment and welcome their input as to what likely can have came about and we live dedicated to an intensive, comprehensive review.”(NASCAR PR) and That‘s Racin‘ has a bunch of columns up about this
    AND Invoice Simpson, president of Simpson Dawdle Merchandise, says he plans to refer to alongside with his lawful group old to commenting on the file on Dale Earnhardt‘s fatal rupture at Daytona, released on the unusual time by the Orlando Sentinel(SpeedVision)(4-10-2001)
  • One more Allison UPDATE 3 Injured nevertheless okay:  Robbie Allison, son of Davey and Liz Allison, is slated to manufacture his racing debut March 30 in the Bandolero division at Twin Fountains Raceway Park in Shelbyville, Tenn. Robbie modified into as soon as proper a few weeks worried of his 2d birthday when father Davey died July 13, 1993.(Winston Cup Scene — want subscription to seek files from online)(3-29-2001)
    UPDATE:  been advised that Allison will likely be riding in a original automobile developed by Expert Chassis called “Jr Racing League” no longer a Bandolero(3-30-2001)
    UPDATE 2:  Robbie Allison, 9-twelve months-passe son of gradual NASCAR principal person Davey Allison, modified into as soon as injured in a rupture last night while practicing for what would had been his racing debut. Allison modified into as soon as taken by ambulance from Twin Fountain Speedway to Bedford County Health center after complaining of dizziness following the rupture. He modified into as soon as handled for a sprained neck and released. ”He‘s OK, proper a little sore,” said Robbie‘s mom, Liz, who modified into as soon as watching at trackside with husband Ryan Hackett and other family. ”It petrified him a little after they set a neck brace on him. He said, ‘Mother, did my daddy ever gallop by one thing love this?‘ ”(Tennessean)(4-7-2001)
    UPDATE 3:  Robbie suffered a strained neck, and his oldsters — mom Liz and stepfather Ryan Hackett — sustained badly jangled nerves. ”It petrified him — and us — bigger than the rest,” Liz said afterward. ”As soon as issues calmed down a little, he asked, ‘Mother, when can I bustle all another time?‘ ” No longer for a while. ”The ride has made me re-review the relate,” Liz said. ”We are in a position to continue to let Robbie note, nevertheless we‘ll wait awhile old to he ventures into the aggressive piece. I know the draw badly he needs to glean on the music, nevertheless I‘ve received to manufacture choices that I in actuality feel are simplest for him.”(Tennessean)(4-10-2001)
  • Dodge to ARCA:  Officers with the Automobile Racing Club of The US(ARCA) sequence launched Monday the original Dodge Mettlesome body vogue, historical in the Winston Cup sequence this season, will likely be eligible for exercise in ARCA competition superb April 20. The first sequence tournament in which the Dodge Mettlesome is eligible to compete is at Winchester Speedway in Indiana on April 22. (That‘s Racin‘)(4-10-2001)
  • Four Roush CTS Groups in 2002:  Roush Racing on Monday launched its plans to enviornment as much as four teams in 2002 in the CTS. Roush at screen fields two teams, with drivers Chuck Hossfeld and Nathan Haseleu. Roush plans to add teams for 18-twelve months-passe Jon Wood, son of Wood Brothers Racing owner Eddie Wood, and Tim Woods, a 24-twelve months-passe African American driver from California. No longer judicious one of the principal teams at screen has sponsorship in remark for the 2002 season. (That‘s Racin‘)(4-10-2001)
  • Chaffin released from the #25 UPDATE David Donohue in:  Chad Chaffin modified into as soon as released because the motive force for the #25 Group Marines Chevy. Group Rensi spokesperson Shelly DeCaro, talking from group headquarters in Charlotte, said the group will enviornment a automobile in the Nashville Busch bustle with a original driver(Tennessean)(4-6-2001)
    UPDATE:  Group Rensi Motorsports publicizes David Donohue will power the #25 Group Marines Monte Carlo in the BGN. Donohue began the 2001 season as judicious one of two Group Rensi Motorsports Chevy entries in the CTS with teammate Randy Tolsma. “We’re in actuality mad that David will likely be in the abet of the wheel of the Group Marines Monte Carlo”, said Sam Rensi co-owner of Group Rensi Motorsports. “David‘s ride in the Nascar Craftsman Truck Series alongside alongside with his tall ride in loads of other racing circuits will encourage him correct from the open up.” David has tested and kindly love a series used,” acknowledged Ed Rensi, co-owner of Group Rensi Motorsports. “We’re confident David will stream our group up toward the Top 10 in owner parts where we accomplished the 2000 season.” Serving to Group Marines excel both on and off the music is a relate Donohue looks forward to taking. “Right here is an improbable different for me and I will’t live up for Nashville this week” acknowledged David Donohue last weekend in Martinsville. Driving for over 172,000 active accountability Marines as smartly because the total reserve and extinct Marines is one thing I am very relaxed with. As well, having the likelihood to focus on on behalf of the Marines to excessive college students all the draw by the nation on responsible riding is a mission I am looking out forward to performing.” Donohue is a Malvern, Pa., native and has competed in the Nascar Busch Series, Nascar Craftsman Truck Series, Indy Lights, IMSA, GT, CART, Spruce Touring and FIA and ACO International GT Series. “I want to cease races, entire laps and glean Group Rensi Motorsports and the Marines shifting toward the front in parts in 2001” acknowledged Donohue.(Group Rensi PR)(4-10-2001)
  • Kimmel to scamper at Nashville:  Frank Kimmel, the defending ARCA Re/Max Series Champion, will likely be making his BGN debut this Satuday, April 14th, on the Nashville Superspeedway. Kimmel will power the #8 Come Auto Parts, E. T. Consuming Trucking, Pork the opposite White Meat Chevy for the Mooresville, NC-based mostly mostly Highline Efficiency Community. The bustle will reunite Kimmel alongside with his 1998 ARCA Re/Max Series crew chief, Jeff Lemons, who will head up the crew chief duties for the Busch bustle. Highline Efficiency Community is the extinct Sabco Busch Series group, now owned by Armando Fitz, the son-in-law for Felix Sabates()(4-10-2001)
  • ppc Ownership modifications:  Bob Campbell has launched his retirement from ppc Racing and Campbell Veil Autos after working bigger than 20 years in the racing commerce. Campbell, who has been a partial owner of ppc Racing and the director of motorsports operations since 2000, is seeking to pursue a “extra superb daily life.” ppc Racing named frequent manager Keith Barnwell as a bunch owner and might presumably well moreover merely be listed because the original owner of the #57 Albertson‘s Ford pushed by Keller in the NASCAR Busch Series. Barnwell began his racing career in 1986 and has worked for prime notch Winston Cup and Busch Apt Nationwide teams over the last 15 years. Barnwell joined ppc Racing as frequent manager in 1999. Harold Holly, who will continue to support as crew chief on the #10 Nesquik Ford, will have interaction the characteristic of director of bustle operations previously occupied by Campbell. ppc Racing at screen fields two automobiles in the NASCAR Busch Series. The #57 Albertson‘s Ford pushed by Keller at screen sits 2d in the parts standings and accomplished 2d in 2000. Defending BGN Champion Green and the #10 Nesquik Ford are fourth in parts after the foremost seven races(ppc Racing PR)(4-10-2001)
  • Dodge to ARCA:  Officers with the Automobile Racing Club of The US(ARCA) sequence launched Monday the original Dodge Mettlesome body vogue, historical in the Winston Cup sequence this season, will likely be eligible for exercise in ARCA competition superb April 20. The first sequence tournament in which the Dodge Mettlesome is eligible to compete is at Winchester Speedway in Indiana on April 22. (That‘s Racin‘)(4-10-2001)
  • Four Roush CTS Groups in 2002:  Roush Racing on Monday launched its plans to enviornment as much as four teams in 2002 in the CTS. Roush at screen fields two teams, with drivers Chuck Hossfeld and Nathan Haseleu. Roush plans to add teams for 18-twelve months-passe Jon Wood, son of Wood Brothers Racing owner Eddie Wood, and Tim Woods, a 24-twelve months-passe African American driver from California. No longer judicious one of the principal teams at screen has sponsorship in remark for the 2002 season. (That‘s Racin‘)(4-10-2001)

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April 10, 2000

  • Penalties UPDATE a rundown:  5 teams received caught by NASCAR‘s original principles pertaining to tires left on pit road at Martinsville. #24-Jeff Gordon, #22-Ward Burton, #16-Kevin Lepage, #44-Kyle Petty and #36-Ken Schrader — all had been compelled to open up on the kill of the longest line on warning-flag restarts(goracing). NASCAR had penalized #99-Jeff Burton and #25-Jerry Nadeau for disregarding a cease tag from an good posted on the pit exit(Gaston Gazette). Jeff Gordon, Ward Burton, Kevin Lepage, Kyle Petty and Ken Schrader served penalties for the tire infraction. NASCAR officers also handed out 10 extra penalties for speeding in the pits, pitting too soon, running the pit-road cease tag, passing on the left too soon, passing the tempo automobile and seeking to beat the tempo automobile out of the pits(Day after day Press)
    UPDATE:  here are a rundown of the penalties accessed at Martinsville: 14 entire — 5 teams worthy above with the original tire rule: #24-Jeff Gordon, #22-Ward Burton, #16-Kevin Lepage, #44-Kyle Petty and #36-Ken Schrader each and every had to gallop to the kill of the longest line on the restarts for the violation. #26-Jimmy Spencer modified into as soon as caught for speeding on pit road. #26-Spencer, #33-Joe Nemechek, #11-Brett Bodine and #13-Robby Gordon for coming into the pits too soon. #1-Steve Park for passing on the left on a restart. #42-Kenny Irwin for passing the tempo automobile. #99-Jeff Burton and #55-Kenny Wallace each and every had been penalized a lap for disobeying the NASCAR good on the kill of pit road and coming into the music when signaled to cease. Most others had been penalized by being despatched to the kill of the longest line(News and Chronicle)(4-10-2000)
  • Records:  After 500 laps on Martinsville‘s 1/2 mile paperclip-shaped oval the Goody‘s Body Wretchedness 500 records demonstrate there had been 14 lead modifications among 8 totally different drivers and 14 automobiles accomplished on the lead lap. There had been also a record 17 warning flags totaling a whopping 111 laps scamper below yellow attributable to the rapid time even warning laps require to entire. In any case this Designate Martin‘s margin of victory modified into as soon as silent simplest 1.5 seconds over teammate Jeff Burton(Speedway Illustrated) check up on their first relate duvet on the placement(4-10-2000)
  • Waltrip cease:  Michael Waltrip had his simplest cease (Third at Martinsville) since he modified into as soon as Third at Lowe‘s Motor Speedway in Would possibly presumably well merely of 1995. It modified into as soon as his first Top-5 since last twelve months‘s Daytona 500, and proper one web page online off his career-simplest of 2nd at Pocono in 1988(Catchfence-Rumblings)(4-10-2000)
  • Cautions at Martinsville:  The 17 cautions broke the tournament record and tied the music record for yellow flags(Total Sports)(4-10-2000)
  • Skinner/Lowes/Crimson Sinful:  Mike Skinner and Lowes generates extra Crimson Sinful funds, leading ten laps and running 498 of the 500 on Sunday, helping him increase $23,438 for the American Crimson Sinful Racing for Aid program. Lowe‘s, Skinner‘s sponsor, is donating $31 for every and every lap he completes and $1,031 for every and every lap he leads in April‘s races. After two races, the total contribution is $34,792(That‘s Racin‘)(4-10-2000)
  • 2nd Morgan McClure automobile? UPDATE:  Loy Allen is making an strive out for the Morgan McClure group(#4 Kodak Chevy) at Greenville-Pickens(SC) with typical driver Bobby Hamilton in preparation for the upcoming Martinsville and Talladega races. The vogue issues seek files from correct now, they might well presumably well moreover scamper a 2d automobile at Talladega with Loy Allen because the motive force(Morgan McClure PR)(4-4-2000)
    UPDATE:  Morgan-McClure Motorsports owner Larry McClure has decided no longer to enter Loy Allen as a 2d automobile at Talladega. Allen had tested a automobile last week at Talladega for McClure. McClure, owner of the #4 Kodak Chevys for driver Bobby Hamilton, said Sunday it is miles silent likely he’ll enviornment a 2d automobile in the end this season, nevertheless he has remark no timetable for its debut(That‘s Racin‘)(4-10-2000)
  • Attendance:  The estimated attendance of 84,000 modified into as soon as a music record at Martinsville on Apr Ninth(Total Sports)(4-10-2000)
  • #36 Crew Chief:  Cicci-Welliver Racing launched they’ve named Billy Nacewicz crew chief for driver Tim Fedewa and the #36 Stanley Racing group. Nacewicz, 50, will manufacture his debut with the group at Talladega. Nacewicz, a Original York native, has had an intensive and successful 26-twelve months career in racing. He served as crew chief for Richie Evans, the smartly-identified modified driver, for the period of his scamper of eight national championships old to shifting south to work in the NASCAR Busch Series. Nacewicz modified into as soon as also the automobile chief for Randy LaJoie‘s #74 group at Bace Motorsports that received the 1996 and 1997 BGN drivers championships(IMG Motorsports). Nacewicz modified into as soon as the crew chief for PJ Jones till the #74 BACE group closed up(4-10-2000)

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April 10, 1999

  • DW‘s Qualifying:  Darrell Waltrip kindly 12th, marking the foremost time he has kindly in the gap round all twelve months, and in actuality, the foremost time since July of last twelve months(SpeedNet/Monte Dutton)(4-10-1999)
  • Real Postponement:  In an announcement despatched to Speedwords this morning Kurt Ritter, Chevrolet advertising and marketing and marketing frequent manager at General Motors launched they would no longer bring the 2000 Monte Carlo to NASCAR in 1999. Ritter‘s observation says that with the most up-to-date revisions requested by NASCAR the teams imagine the original Monte Carlo would be uncompetitive on the music. Due to the this and the fact the teams would want to jeopardize their most up-to-date efforts to originate the original Monte Carlo so the original version has been postponed. Assume in regards to the paunchy announcement on Speedwords at Chevrolet Postpones NASCAR debut of 2000 Monte Carlo Dawdle Automobile (4-10-1999)
  • TV Files and Primestar:  TV Files will likely be a co-foremost sponsor for Kevin Lepages #16 Ford starting at Bristol. Primestar will possess its sponsorship(NOL Sat Notes)(4-10-1999)
  • Labonte and Food City:  Observed for the period of qualifying on ESPN2, Food City(no longer Lion) on the 1/4 panels of the #5 Kelloggs Chevy of Terry Labonte(4-10-1999)
  • Ice:  David Green has the Kodiak Ice blue colours on the #41 Larry Hedrick chevy at Bristol(4-10-1999)
  • Bodine Assoc:  Gold Bond powders logo will likely be on the decklid of Brett Bodine‘s #11 Paychex Ford for Bristol. Gold Bond is Bodine‘s BGN sponsor for five runs in 1999(NOL)(4-10-1999)
  • Ut-oh:  IRL Group owner, John Menard, and Tony Stewart‘s extinct owner, is seeking to dam Stewarts Indy 500 strive, gawk the record at SpeedNet — Menard targets to halt Stewart‘s shot at ‘racing doubleheader‘ (4-10-1999)
  • Petree Depressed? Automobile owner Andy Petree says he‘s no longer happy with the performance of either of his two Winston Cup teams and hints a foremost shake-up would be coming on both(PitNow)(4-10-1999)
  • Reffner abet:  Bryan Reffner, from Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., will manufacture his first open up for the reason that kill of the 1998 season because the change for Tom Hubert in John Conely‘s #7 Conely Rent-a-Automobile Gross sales Chevrolet in Saturday‘s bustle. This would presumably well kill up being a paunchy time gallop(NOL)(4-10-1999)
  • #37 files:  The #37 Bushes Wolf Chevy of Kevin Grubb is exhibiting an bodily organ and tissue donation message on the trunk lid at Bristol to be in a space to bewitch awareness in regards to the severe want for organ and tissue donations(SpeedNet)(4-10-1999)

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April 10, 1998

  • Rich Bickle is no longer going to power the #17 Tyler Jet Motorsports Chevy at Martinsville, nevertheless will sub for Greg Sacks in the #98 as Sacks will possess the week off to glean higher from his accidents from the Texas 500 spoil(4-10-98)
  • The #91 LJ Racing Chevy group has a original affiliate sponsor, Dawdle Vogue Sports clothing comes aboard. (LJ Racing Web situation)(4-10-98)
  • The group Chris Trickle drove for old to his shooting received the gap tournament over this previous weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Nineteen-twelve months-passe Las Vegas driver Kurt Busch scored the supreme victory of his career Saturday night, taking a dramatic half of-2d victory over Steve Portenga of Sparks, Nev. in the Megastar Nursery 100 NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Series stock automobile bustle on the three/8-mile paved oval of Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The group devoted the possess in Chris‘ title.(LVMS and Karen)(4-10-98)
  • Mary Fendrich Hulman, chairman emeritus of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation, died at 6: 29 a.m. this morning at her home in Indianapolis. She modified into as soon as 93. Funeral preparations are pending.(GoRacing), my thoughts and prayers are with the Hullman-George families.(4-10-98)
  • #98 driver, Greg Sacks, injured in the Texas 500 modified into as soon as released from Parkland Memorial Health center on Thursday afternoon nevertheless has decided to live in Texas for additional consultations with scientific consultants. Doctors anticipated a entire restoration, when he’ll return to riding will make certain by the docs and Sacks. No resolution has been made about Martinsville but.(NASCAR Online)(4-10-98)
  • Kevin Cywinski will likely be backed by Excite Search Engine in Saturday‘s BGN bustle at Hickory NC. Excite joins Lycos(www.lycos.com) and Yahoo(www.yahoo.com) as search websites sponsoring BGN teams.(KARNAC Motor Sports Web Providers and products)(4-10-98)
  • Ricky Craven underwent successful reconstructive knee surgical scheme Wednesday on his correct knee and modified into as soon as released Thursday morning and is getting higher at his home in Concord, NC.(NASCAR Online)(4-10-98)
  • Donnie Richeson, extinct crew chief for the #11 Breet Bodine Paychex Ford Group Scandia has been named the crew chief for the #30 Slim Jim BGN Chevy and driver Mike Cope.(RPM2Nite)(4-10-98)
  • “Stock-automobile teams are silent waiting for be aware from NASCAR about proposed original principles for Talladega. Some automobile householders and crew chiefs are against the proposed limits on springs and shocks for the April 26 bustle in Alabama.”(JournalNow)(4-10-98)
  • Tommy Houston‘s son Andy Houston, a typical in the Truck Series, will sub for injured Jimmy Foster on the BGN bustle in Hickory in the #50 Dr. Pepper Ford. Hickory has got 47 entries for 31 starting positions in Saturday‘s bustle.(That‘s Racin‘)(4-10-98)

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April 10, 1997

  • Eight Drivers tested at Martinsville on Wednesday 4-9-97. #‘s 21,23,31,40,41,42,96 and Randy MacDonald!(#35 or #79?) I hear Waltrip modified into as soon as the fastest, nevertheless I haven‘t viewed any speeds posted(4-10-97)

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