With NASCAR on a brief hiatus, news is going to be slack within the approaching weeks. To wait on beget the NASCAR void, we notion on taking you on a day-to-day out down reminiscence lane spanning the years for the reason that Jayski’s position inception. Using our news archives pages, here’s a look relief at what’s befell on this date throughout the final 23 years in NASCAR:
For the time being in NASCAR historical past: April 13
Years we have pulled as of late’s vital items from: 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2005, 2004, 2002, 1998
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2014:
- Someday Darlington lope may maybe maybe return to Labor Day weekend: NASCAR president Mike Helton was asked Saturday if Darlington would ever gain the Labor Day weekend relief. Whereas Helton wouldn‘t exclusively rule out a return, he didn‘t unquestionably think it was a chance as we insist. The tune hosted racing on Labor Day weekend from 1950-2003. Darlington sooner or later lost one of its races and its lone date was held on Mother‘s Day starting up in 2005. This year, the tune‘s date was moved to April. “You by no means know. There had been moderately heaps of tales that came from Labor Day races here on the Southern 500. The badge round here was per Labor Day weekends,” Helton said. “So all I may maybe maybe provide an explanation for you is you by no means know. I unquestionably hang viewed moderately heaps of issues in this sport that I was bowled over by … and that led me to imagine that the future of the sport can hang issues happen that folk bid won‘t happen again. So that you just by no means know.” Darlington president Chip Wile said he is exclusively pleased with the tune‘s date however wouldn‘t object to a transfer relief to Labor Day. “With the date change, we‘ve unquestionably viewed an expand in some segments that NASCAR has been targeted on,” he said. “So we are dedicated to our lope date, however we welcome any conversation.”(Morning News)(4-13-2014)
2013:
- Kyle Busch wins at Texas: #18-Kyle Busch won the NRA 500 Escape Cup Assortment lope at Texas Motor Speedway for his 2nd gain of 2013, 1st gain at Texas and 26th career gain. He took the lead on the final pitstop and pulled away trusty throughout the final 16 laps to steal the gain by .508 seconds. #56-Truex, Jr. done 2nd adopted by #99-Edwards, #16-Biffle, #22-Logano, #48-Johnson, #43-Almirola, #11-Vickers, #2-Keselowski, and #39-Newman.
There had been 18 lead changes among 7 drivers and 7 cautions for 36 yellow flag laps. The trendy bustle was 144.751mph.(4-13-2013)
2012:
- Atwood relief racing: Nashville‘s Casey Atwood, once billed as NASCAR‘s subsequent Jeff Gordon, is relief where he
started over a decade within the past: working Saturday evening fender-benders at Fairgrounds Speedway. “I haven‘t been in a lope car for approximately three years now, and I‘ve uncared for it,” says Atwood, 31, who will buckle in for Saturday evening‘s season opener on the 54-year-venerable tune. “I‘ve repeatedly appreciated racing, and in particular loved it on the Fairgrounds. I‘ve had moderately heaps of success there, and it‘ll be top-notch to gain relief.” Atwood will power a car offered by two-time Daytona 500 champion Trustworthy Marlin, who can even be within the lineup. Atwood is married and the father of two daughters, six and 4. He spends his time “piddling round” and once in a whereas serving to his father Terry with his electronics firm. The final time he was in a lope car was in 2009 when he helped converse up Nationwide autos for some Cup double-dippers at now-closed Nashville Superspeedway.(RacinToday)(4-13-2012)
2011:
- Biffle signs contract extension: #16-Greg Biffle has agreed to a contract extension with Roush Fenway Racing. An top-notch announcement of Biffle‘s extension may maybe maybe near as early as this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway,
sources said. As no longer too long within the past as April 1, Biffle said he was “90 p.c determined” he would re-signal with Roush and hoped to hang a brand contemporary deal done by midseason. A team spokesperson on Wednesday said she couldn’t verify Biffle had agreed to an extension.(Charlotte Observer)(4-13-2011) - Vickers Doubtful of 2012 Plans: With the smartly being prerequisites seemingly within the relief of him and Mosey potentialities, for now, taking a look gloomy, the most appealing memoir surrounding Vickers and Red Bull Racing is whether or no longer or no longer they’re going to dwell collectively in 2012. “I haven‘t made any decisions yet. I esteem Red Bull. I‘ve loved my time there as a Red Bull mark. I feel I fit the emblem and the emblem fits me. There‘s no query about that. It’s miles a high vitality, be your self, take care of existence, low athlete, low sport more or less mark. And so they enable me to dwell the issues that I purchase to dwell and that is extensive,” said Vickers in a cell phone interview with News/Talk WSB. “Most severely, we‘ve obtained to gain races and I feel that’s what we each and each desire. And with any luck we’ll have the choice to each and each figure that out collectively and I will enact my career out at Red Bull. If we’ll have the choice to‘t, then there‘s other suggestions on the desk and likely we‘ll look at these. For aesthetic now, I‘m dedicated to Red Bull and to this season and that‘s where my center of attention is as of aesthetic now.” A conceivable ingredient in Vickers‘ resolution would be who Red Bull Racing picks as his teammate subsequent season. “Obviously, Kasey [Kahne] is going to be long gone subsequent season and we‘re going to prefer to beget that car. It‘s indubitably going to be an enticing year for Red Bull Racing.”(WSB Atlanta)(4-13-2011)
2010:
- Kahne to Hendrick? [Stewart-Haas?] UPDATE: #9-Kasey Kahne, the most trendy attainable free agent in NASCAR entering the season, has signed a multiyear settlement to affix Hendrick Motorsports in 2011, more than one sources discontinuance to negotiations confirmed to ESPN.com Tuesday. The facts of the deal, corresponding to which car Kahne will power, are tranquil being finalized, sources said. The existing notion is Kahne will recall the #5 car for the time being pushed by Designate Martin, sources said. Martin signed a contract extension final year throughout the 2011 season. There’s room for Martin and Kahne within the Hendrick family. Stewart Haas Racing receives chassis, engines and technical toughen from HMS. So Kahne will be housed there until Martin‘s contract was up, if obligatory. In 2008 Dale Earnhardt Jr. signed a 5-year tackle Hendrick. Jimmie Johnson final year signed an extension through 2015, and Jeff Gordon has a lifetime contract. Kahne is within the final year of his contract with Richard Petty Motorsports, and plans to enact the season within the #9 Ford, sources said. It’s miles unknown whether or no longer Kahne‘s sponsor, Budweiser, will accompany him to HMS [which sponsored Hendrick‘s #25 Chevy for years]. Hendrick Motorsports officers had no exclaim. Calls positioned to Kahne, who grew to alter into 30 final weekend, and to his agent weren’t returned.(ESPN)
UPDATE: Richard Petty Motorsports launched that driver Kasey Kahne has knowledgeable the team he is no longer going to resume his contract on the conclusion of the 2010 NASCAR Escape Cup Assortment season. Kahne, driver the #9 Budweiser Ford Fusion, has been with RPM since entering NASCAR‘s premier sequence in 2004. “Kasey is a unquestionably talented driver and I unquestionably hang loved staring at him lope. All of us desire him nothing however the ideal and hope he succeeds in something else he chooses to dwell,” said team proprietor Richard Petty. “Drivers esteem Kasey Kahne are the very motive we obtained into this sport. Kasey has helped us gain to where we are as of late,” George Gillett, proprietor of Richard Petty Motorsports said. “We desire him smartly in his future on the opposite hand we have the relaxation of this season to lope collectively and we‘re taking a cease awake for a a hit the relaxation of the year.”(RPM)(4-13-2010)
- Wheaties procedure for Bowyer at Indy: #33-Clint Bowyer is scheduled to lope a Wheaties Gasoline paint procedure at Indy within the Brickyard 400 on July 25th. Fashioned Mills [also makes Cheerios] launched Wheaties Gasoline earlier this year, notion to be the next evolution of Wheaties. Leer an image of the procedure on my #33 Team Schemes page.(4-13-2010)
- Particular procedure for Kenseth in two races: Jeremiah Weed Candy Tea Vodka is scheduled to be the most fundamental aponaor for #17 Matt Kenseth within the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Would possibly possibly even and the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona in July. Leer image of the procedure on my #17 Team Schemes page.(4-13-2010)
2005:
- 2nd Hendrick Automobile increases Busch Assortment agenda to 8 races, Busch to power at Texas: Team Lowe‘s Racing launched that several of its seller partners on the #5 Busch Assortment car can even wait on as the most fundamental sponsor in four races this season on the Hendrick Motorsports #57 Busch car with drivers Kyle Busch and Boston
Reid. Spectracide, Shop Vac, Hitachi Power Tools and Sta Inexperienced are a pair of of the seller partners sponsoring the #5 Team Lowe‘s Racing Chevrolet within the 2005 NASCAR Busch Assortment season. Every will rotate as the most fundamental sponsor of the #57 in four Busch Assortment events foundation Saturday with Kyle Busch utilizing the Spectracide Fire Ant Killer Chevrolet at Texas Motor Speedway. Busch can even pilot the #57 on June 4 at Dover International Speedway and Oct. 14 at Lowe‘s Motor Speedway. The #5 Lowe‘s Chevrolet will proceed with Blake Feese and Reid sharing a majority of the utilizing responsibilities in 2005. Reid will power the #57 when the Busch Assortment races in his home converse of Indiana at Indianapolis Raceway Park in August. Brian Vickers will power the #57 in four Busch Assortment races in 2005 with vital sponsorship from Ore-Ida. With the climate getting hotter, lope fans will be spending loads more time exterior, working in and taking half in their yards. To wait on fans wait on a long way off from the grief of fire ants, the paint make for the #57 at Texas Motor Speedway will promote contemporary Spectracide(r) Fire Ant Killer As soon as & Executed.(Team Lowe‘s Racing PR)(4-13-2005)
2004:
- Bodine Announcement this week? UPDATE 2: hearing Brett Bodine will be making some form of an announcement this week relating to his NASCAR future.(4-12-2004)
UPDATE: Fox Sports Rep‘s Completely NASCAR gift stories that Bodine will dash to work for the NASCAR R^D Heart in Concord, NC.
UPDATE 2: The most unusual member of NASCAR‘s Be taught & Style team is conscious of his sport smartly from within the relief of the wheel. Now, he will get the chance to make a contribution within the relief of the scenes. NASCAR president Mike Helton launched as of late that aged driver Brett Bodine has joined NASCAR‘s R&D team as particular mission engineer. Bodine, who holds a diploma in mechanical engineering from the Verbalize University of Unusual York at Alfred, will kind out several assignments. One mission with priority is the “Automobile of the Future,” where Bodine will work on worth-saving initiatives. Operating out of NASCAR‘s Concord, N.C.-based mostly exclusively mostly R&D Heart, Bodine will work with Gary Nelson, NASCAR‘s managing director of research and pattern. A native of Chemung, N.Y., Bodine, 45, competed at NASCAR‘s easiest level for simply about 20 years. He has one gain (1990 at North Wilkesboro) and 5 poles in 480 career NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Assortment begins. His career-high enact of 12th within the level standings also came in 1990. Bodine was a driver/proprietor from 1996-2003. He turned into an proprietor in 1996, procuring the eminent #11 team from Junior Johnson sooner than that season. His final on-tune circulation came in June, 2003, when he certified for the June 15 event at Michigan. Sooner than 2003, Bodine had been a fulltime NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Assortment competitor for 15 consecutive seasons (1988-2003). For the interval of his career, he drove for a pair of of NASCAR‘s most a hit homeowners, including Bud Moore (1988-89), Kenny Bernstein (1990-1994) and Junior Johnson (1995). Bodine‘s first lope in NASCAR‘s premier sequence came in 1986 for proprietor Rick Hendrick (his only delivery that year). He drove 14 races for Hoss Ellington in 1987 sooner than foundation his fulltime career in 1988. “We‘re gay to hang Brett on board,” Helton said. “He‘s been such a steadfast member of the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Assortment storage over time, and he‘s done it all — he‘s built lope autos, he‘s worked on lope autos and he‘s pushed lope autos. He brings a brand contemporary standpoint that we‘re cosy to faucet into.”
Bodine‘s ride also extends relief to the NASCAR Busch Assortment, where he was the sequence runner-up in 1986. Sooner than that, he loved success in northeastern modified circles, finishing 2nd within the 1984 tune championship at Stafford (Conn.) Motor Speedway, and trustworthy the 1985 Modified Escape of Champions at Pocono Raceway. General, he has three career victories within the NASCAR Featherlite Modified Assortment. In 1998, he was named one of many Prime-50 Modified drivers of all time.(NASCAR PR)(4-13-2004)
2002:
- Shepherd tranquil hopes to lope Cup: Morgan Shepherd hasn‘t exclusively shelved his Winston Cup dream, either. He has 481 Cup begins and 4 Cup wins below his belt, and his final Cup foray came in 1999, when he drove one lope for Junie Donlavey. His final fleshy-time season was a 23-lope stint in 1997. His final Cup gain came in 1993, in Atlanta. “Our plans had been to be here at Martinsville,” Shepherd said of Sunday‘s Virginia 500. “We had a man who was supposed to wait on us with the engine up here and on the final minute he backed out. We‘re in a position to head Winston Cup racing. We‘ve obtained the shop and amenities, however staunch don‘t hang the money to operate.” The true fact a Cup engine prices roughly $40,000 doesn‘t wait on. So Shepherd has solid his lot with NASCAR‘s Craftsman Truck sequence, where he ran 16 races final season and done 26th within the final components standings. His 9 DNFs had been a exiguous bit more troublesome to swallow. Shepherd Racing was fashioned in 1998 with a $25-million-dollar sponsorship settlement to subject a Cup team, however the insurance-firm sponsor pulled out of the deal, leaving Shepherd on his accept as true with. Final year‘s $3,000 donation from a fan team was his sole offer of outside wait on. “We‘re tranquil racing with out money,” Shepherd said. “So there‘s only loads we’ll have the choice to dwell. Our intention is to fabricate our Christian team that we converse out to dwell, and dwell issues to wait on change other folks‘s lives. We‘re staunch taking a search a sponsor.”(CNN/SI, NASCAR.com)(4-13-2002)
- Spacious Autos in 2003? NASCAR is leaning towards OKing the contemporary ‘immense greenhouse‘ model for the April 2003 lope at Talladega and phasing within the contemporary car, first at Talladega and Daytona, then on the intermediate tracks, and finally on the rapid tracks. This kind of fragment-in would wait on car homeowners, who hang simply about two dozen autos every, from taking such a immense monetary hit . NASCAR may maybe be checking out what’s being called ‘the 2-by-four,‘ a greenhouse that is 2 inches taller and 4 inches wider, to transfer the driver‘s head a long way off from the rollbars.(Winston Salem Journal)(4-13-2002)
Scott Riggs wins in his seventh delivery — ties listing: #10-Scott Riggs led honest once for the final 47 laps Saturday as he obtained his first BGN victory in precisely his seventh delivery on the circuit on the Pepsi 300 at Nashville Superspeedway, tying a listing for the quickest victory by a rookie. Johnny Rumley also won in his seventh delivery, in 1993. #24-Jack Sprague took four tires in his final cease and done 2nd for a 2nd consecutive week. He was adopted by #25-Bobby Hamilton Jr. who came from a lap down for his most entertaining-ever BGN enact, #23-Scott Wimmer and #57-Jason Keller as Fords crammed three of the tip 5 positions. Sprague took over the components lead. Leer ThatsRacin.com for Saturday‘s Immense National lope outcomes.(4-13-2002)
2001:
- Herzog in Cup: Herzog Motorsports, operated by Bill Herzog and sons Randy and Stan, has advanced from trustworthy off-boulevard championships in California and Nevada deserts and Colorado mountain trails to contending for a Busch Immense National victory. Their Busch driver, Jimmie Johnson, has four high-10 finishes and ranks fifth within the components standings going into Saturday‘s Pepsi 300(at Nashville). The Herzogs notion to lope a two-car Busch team and 5 to eight Winston Cup races in 2002 and subject a fleshy Winston Cup effort in 2003. The Herzogs‘ future Busch and Winston Cup plans hit a bustle bump this week when they launched Toby Porter thanks to personal variations. Porter had posted third- and 10th-converse finishes in three American Creep Association races. Billy Parker crammed in for Porter trusty through final week‘s ASA lope in South Boston and done seventh. Porter‘s departure comes at a serious time as a result of Johnson‘s affiliation with the team ends after this season. Under the terms of his contract with Herzog, which expires on the stop of 2001, Johnson was allowed to negotiate a brand contemporary tackle Rick Hendrick, who signed him to a multiyear deal to alter into Jeff Gordon‘s teammate, foundation in 2002(an lope some Cup races in 2001 within the #48 Chevy). The Herzogs had planned to transfer Porter into Johnson‘s wander subsequent year, so now they‘ll be attempting out some drivers trusty throughout the next couple of months. For his or her crew chief, the Herzogs this year employed revered Tony Liberati, who had ride with Winston Cup groups owned by Jack Roush and Hendrick(Kansas City Essential individual)(4-13-2001)
1998:
- Brian France has been promoted to senior vp for NASCAR. The son of NASCAR president Bill France Jr. previously served as the vp of advertising and communications since 1993. He’ll proceed to supervise all components of advertising, licensing, communications, particular projects and enterprise pattern.(SpeedNet)(4-13-98)
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April 13, 2019
- Honor and Be conscious on Goodyear tires at Charlotte: Since 2010, for one weekend per NASCAR season, Goodyear has changed the branding on the sidewall of its racing tires in a present of toughen for the US militia and fallen heroes. This being the 10th year of that program, the pinnacle-notch tire seller to NASCAR…
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April 13, 2018
- Kyle Busch edges immense brother Kurt Busch for Bristol pole: Sunday‘s lope may maybe maybe be the third time the Busch bothers hang started on the entrance row of a Monster Power NASCAR Cup Assortment lope, all with Kyle within the pole situation. The brothers certified 1-2 at Las Vegas in 2009 and at Texas in 2013.[More](4-13-2018)
- Kyle Busch won the Busch pole for the Meals City 500 Monster Power NASCAR Cup Assortment lope at Bristol Motor Speedway with bustle of 128.822mph for his 2nd pole of 2018, 2nd at Bristol and 29th of his career. Busch has won 6 cases from the 28 old poles.
#41-Busch will delivery 2nd adopted by #2-Keselowski, #17-Stenhouse, Jr., #12-Blaney, #42-Larson, #21-Menard, #88-Bowman, #34-McDowell, #22-Logano, #24-Byron, and #19-Suarez.
#41-Busch was fastest within the 2nd round with a bustle of 129.030mph. #18-Busch was quickest within the first round with a bustle of 128.960mph.
Driver(s) who will leave out the lope: none as 39 had been entered for 40 spots.
Leer round-by-round qualifying outcomes on the Qualifying outcomes page (pdf) and the total starting up lineup on the Starting Lineup page (pdf).(4-13-2018) - Bristol Motor Speedway — Qualifying Mercurial Information:
Kyle Busch won the Busch Pole Award Pole Award for the 58th Annual Meals City 500 with a lap of 14.895 seconds, 128.822 mph.
This is his 29th pole in 470 NASCAR Monster Power Cup Assortment races.
This is his 2nd pole and sixth high-10 delivery in 2018.
This is his 2nd pole in 26 races at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Kurt Busch (2nd) posted his fifth high-10 delivery of 2018 and his 11th in 35 races at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Brad Keselowski (third) posted his 11th high-10 delivery at Bristol Motor Speedway. It’s miles his fourth in eight races this season.
William Byron (11th) was the fastest qualifying rookie.
(NASCAR Statistics)(4-13-2018) - 2d Spherical of Qualifying for the Meals City 500 Monster Power NASCAR Cup Assortment lope at Bristol Motor Speedway is over, after 10 scheduled minutes.
#41-Busch 129.030
#18-Busch 128.969
#12-Blaney 128.322
#2-Keselowski 128.022
#42-Larson 127.767
the relaxation of the tip 12: 22 24 17 88 34 21 19
out of the tip 12 and no longer advancing to round 3: 20 14 95 9 48 47 10 43 3 37 38 32
(4-13-2018) - First Spherical of Qualifying for the Meals City 500 Monster Power NASCAR Cup Assortment lope at Bristol Motor Speedway is over, after 15 scheduled minutes.
#18-Busch 128.960
#41-Busch 128.382
#22-Logano 127.886
#21-Menard 127.563
#12-Blaney 127.487
the relaxation of the tip 24: 88 17 14 48 34 2 19 38 9 47 43 95 10 24 37 20 42 3 32
out of the tip 24 and no longer advancing to round 2: 31 1 11 78 15 23 00 13 6 72 96 55 51 66 4
Drivers who will leave out the lope: none, 39entered
(4-13-2018) - Friday Bristol Notebook: Correct-aspect Bristol tire has Kyle Busch taking a search familiar unquestionably feel; Unusual All-Essential individual lope suggestions preempt Ricky Stenhouse Jr.‘s aero suggestions; For Ryan Preece, Saturday‘s Xfinity lope is a step up in money; Kevin Harvick to backup car after tough smash in discover.[More](4-13-2018)
- Qualifying Elaborate for the Meals City 500 Monster Power NASCAR Cup Assortment lope at Bristol Motor Speedway is posted.
The first driver to be lined up on pit boulevard will be #72-LaJoie.
The final driver lined up on pit boulevard will be #34-McDowell.
The provide an explanation for is converse by a random design, how autos park on pit boulevard sooner than they qualify, held about an hour sooner than the first discover.
After the first round, the autos lined up by bustle.
For the qualifying provide an explanation for, scrutinize the Qualifying Elaborate page (pdf).(4-13-2018) - Gaunt Brothers Racing to honor Humboldt Broncos: Canadian driver D.J. Kennington can hang the Broncos‘ logo on the hood of the car.[More](4-13-2018)
- First discover for the Meals City 500 Monster Power NASCAR Cup Assortment lope at Bristol Motor Speedway is over, after 55 scheduled minutes, the tip-5, slowest and notes:
#12-Blaney 129.877
#20-Jones 129.877
#41-Busch 129.657
#18-Busch 129.456
#42-Larson 129.299
#2-Keselowski 129.004
most laps lope: #22-Logano, 32 laps.
most entertaining 10 consecutive lap avg (of 3 drivers): #20-Jones 124.148
slowest: #72-LaJoie 121.898 & #51-Rhodes 121.674
notes: #47-Allmendinger spun in turn 2. #4-Harvick hit the wall in turn 3 and reported that something had damaged on the car. He’ll prefer to head to a backup car and delivery on the rear of the subject for the lope.
Leer the fastest speeds, most entertaining 10 consecutive lap moderate, laps lope on the Friday Educate speeds (pdf) (4-13-2018) - Sorenson returns to the #55 at Bristol: VIP Racing Ride, a fleshy-provider advertising firm with over 30 years of ride within the racing industry has near on board as the most fundamental sponsor for Reed Sorenson in this weekend‘s Monster Power NASCAR Cup Assortment, ‘Meals City 500‘. This is also Sorenson‘s third lope of the year for Premium Motorsports within the #55 Chevrolet.[More](4-13-2018)
- Custer paces final XFINITY discover: #00-Cole Custer was quickest in final discover at Bristol Motor Speedway with a bustle of 123.570mph.
#21-Daniel Hemric was 2nd, adopted by: #19-Brandon Jones, #18-Ryan Preece, #20-Christopher Bell, #7-Justin Allgaier, #11-Ryan Truex, #22-Austin Cindric, #9-Tyler Reddick, and #98-Mosey Briscoe.
Leer full outcomes on the Bristol discover 2 speeds page (pdf).(4-13-2018) - Jones fastest in opening XFINITY discover: #19-Brandon Jones was fastest trusty through opening discover at Bristol Motor Speedway with a bustle of 123.833mph.
The remaining of the tip 10: #7-Justin Allgaier, #18-Ryan Preece, #20-Christopher Bell, #22-Austin Cindric, #00-Cole Custer, #2-Matt Tifft, #21-Daniel Hemric, #23-Spencer Gallagher, and #9-Tyler Reddick.
Leer full outcomes on the Bristol discover 1 speeds page (pdf).(4-13-2018) - Bristol awards first Dale Earnhardt, Jr. scholarship: Bristol Motor Speedway has formally selected a winner of the first Dale Earnhardt Jr. scholarship to a deserving pupil from Tennessee Excessive College in Bristol, Tenn. Senior Jaicee Weaver, who plans to initiate her collegiate career finding out within the automotive subject at Northeast Verbalize Neighborhood School in discontinuance by Blountville, Tenn., has earned the $2,088 scholarship. The Dale Jr. Scholarship, which was launched trusty throughout the Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Escape final August, drew inspiration from Junior‘s venerable career as an automotive provider mechanic.[More](4-13-2018)
- Speedway Motorsports Inc. groups up with Square for bank card processing: Escape fans can talk over with concessions stands and exhaust vital credit ranking cards at stations which had been previously money-only. Followers may maybe maybe also furthermore pay with their cell phone the exhaust of Apple Pay and Google Pay at concessions stands throughout the contemporary level-of-sale machine.[More](4-13-2018)
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April 13, 2017
- Texas overnight TV ratings: FOX earned a 2.5 overnight for Sunday‘s O‘Reilly Auto Substances 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.(4-11-2017)
UPDATE NASCAR Cup Assortment racing from Texas pulled a 2.7 final rating and 4.5 million viewers on FOX Sunday afternoon, flat in ratings and up 4% in viewership from final year (2.7, 4.3M) however down 7% and 6% respectively from 2015 (2.9, 4.8M), each and each of which aired on Saturday nights.[More](4-13-2017) - NASCAR National Assortment News & Notes: Items of passion across all three NASCAR nationwide sequence.[More](4-13-2017)
- Gil Martin, RCR fragment programs: Gil Martin has parted procedure with Richard Childress Racing. The long-time crew chief grew to alter into Xfinity Assortment supervisor had been with the Welcome, N.C. lope team since 2001, however was launched Tuesday. For the interval of his tenure as a Cup crew chief, Martin led a unfold of drivers — including Kevin Harvick, Robby Gordon and Clint Bowyer.[More](4-13-2017)
- Mosey University faculty pupil program returns to Talladega: Mosey University is returning to Talladega Superspeedway for the tune‘s NASCAR double header weekend, Would possibly possibly even 6-7. After a a hit, initial mission final tumble, NASCAR‘s Most Aggressive tune is again partnering with the driver of the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, Mosey Elliott, for the particular “Mosey U” $24 faculty pupil label offer. As a fragment of this design, Elliott is scheduled to chat over with the “Mosey U” faculty zone, positioned within the North Park Campground, at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Would possibly possibly even 6.[More](4-13-2017)
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April 13, 2016
- Texas penalties/warnings launched: NASCAR has launched no penalties however a pair of warnings following the lope weekend at Texas Motor Speedway.
#2-Brad Keselowski: car failed laser inspection (LIS) three cases in pre-qualifying;
#6-Trevor Bayne: car failed laser inspection three cases in pre-lope;
Both Keselowski and Bayne got written warnings and will lose 15 minutes of discover time at Bristol.
#18-Kyle Busch and #23-David Ragan: autos failed laser inspection twice in pre-qualifying and groups given written warnings.
#3-Austin Dillon and #42-Kyle Larson: autos failed laser inspection twice in pre-lope and groups given written warnings.
Leer the Texas Submit-Match Penalty & Warning Myth (pdf) for more.(4-13-2016) - Dale Jr. unveils particular Buddy Baker procedure at Darlington: Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Nationwide unveiled a #88 particular paint procedure for the Bojangles‘ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway on Wednesday, April 13th. Earnhardt will power a paint procedure version of Buddy Baker‘s #28 Gray Ghost car that Baker drove in 1980, trustworthy the Daytona 500. Earnhardt ran a identical procedure to pay tribute to the National Guard and Baker‘s “Gray Ghost” car within the 2008 All Essential individual lope. Leer pictures of the 2016 procedure on the #88 Team Schemes page (4-13-2016)
- Visone RV to co-sponsor #32 Ford at Bristol: Visone RV returns to Lunge Fas Racing for the 2016 NSCS Season as each and each an affiliate and vital sponsor of the #32 Ford. Visone RV will be present on the #22 for all 36 Scheduled NSCS events whereas also taking on a pair of destroy up vital sponsorship responsibilities with Corvette Substances. The first destroy up vital sponsorship will be this weekend‘s Meals City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway adopted by The Federated Substances 400 at Richmond International Raceway in September. Visone RV, based mostly exclusively mostly in East Bernstadt, Kentucky has the sphere‘s largest selection of contemporary and aged Motor Home facets within the nation and sells contemporary and aged RVs.(Lunge Fas Racing), scrutinize an image of the procedure on the #32 Team Schemes page (4-13-2016)
- Hendrick Motorsports and Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence partner up: Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence and Hendrick Motorsports launched a landmark technology partnership. The two-year settlement effectively merges metrology ride and technology with the brightest engineering minds in auto racing. The relationship will expand Hendrick Motorsports‘ in-apartment capabilities with additional measurement programs, practicing and knowledgeable technical toughen. The team is a longtime consumer of ROMER Absolute Hands and GridLOK quantity-growth programs, moreover to Hexagon coordinate measuring machines. These suggestions are aged to glance and assemble auto bodies, chassis and engine substances for pre-lope dazzling tuning and post-lope evaluation. Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence will partner in collaborative technology pattern and order fixing with Hendrick Motorsports‘ engineering team. As Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence develops contemporary ideas in metrology, Hendrick Motorsports can hang the chance to preview these developments sooner than the technology reaches the market. The team can even hang the formulation to take part in beta checking out and provide consumer suggestions trusty throughout the direction of pattern projects. With multi-disciplinary ride, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence will gain pleasure from these early stage metrics and tag precious perception into the intricate efficiency and manufacturing challenges came across in NASCAR.(HMS)(4-13-2016)
- Thomas Built Buses to be featured on the #2 at RIR: Brad Keselowski is scheduled to power the #2 Thomas Built Buses Ford Fusion within the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond International Raceway on April 24, celebrating 100 years. A hundred years within the past, Perley A. Thomas gave Thomas Built Buses its delivery when he based mostly the Perley A. Thomas Automobile Works, a streetcar firm, in 1916. Since then, Thomas Built Buses has been a hotfoot-setter within the college bus industry providing improvements, product capabilities and designs that no longer only hang faculty buses even more durable, ample, smooth and efficient, however also hang Thomas Built buses appreciated by so many. Thomas Built Buses will hang fun with some festivities trusty through 2016 (Thomas Built Buses), scrutinize pictures of the procedure on the #2 Team Schemes page (4-13-2016)
- What‘s up with Ron Hornaday? Ron Hornaday is for the time being no longer competing in NASCAR, however the four-time champion appears to be as busy as ever. And racing remains his center of attention. Hornaday, winner of a series-most entertaining 51 victories in NASCAR‘s Camping World Truck Assortment, is more fingers-on this gift day, constructing dirt Modifieds for grandson Slater Blickensderfer and teammate Billy Workman Jr. moreover to several other opponents. There are these that kick up the mud and wander the cushion on local tracks within the Carolinas, Kentucky, Indiana and varied other venues who assign their faith in a Hornaday-built entry. Given their success, it appears belief has been smartly positioned. A contemporary Saturday evening day crawl at Fayetteville Motor Speedway indicated as a lot — the tip three within the Birth Wheel Modified division had been built by Hornaday Escape Autos. “Serve to constructing dirt autos and having stress-free again,” Hornaday said no longer too long within the past from his lope shop, surrounded by autos in varied states of development. “Serve to doing a exiguous bit bit of all the pieces, I guess.” It‘s been two years since Hornaday made his final delivery within the Truck Assortment, working what grew to alter into out to be an abbreviated agenda with the venerable Turner Scott Motorsports team and NTS Motorsports. He has competed in all three of NASCAR‘s nationwide sequence — Escape Cup, XFINITY as smartly at Trucks. Final year, he made 5 attempts with The Motorsports Community in Escape Cup, however certified for simply one lope. Leer fleshy article at NASCAR.com.(4-13-2016)
- Goodyear Bristol Tire Notes/Information: Teams in each and each the NASCAR Escape Cup and Xfinity Assortment will lope the identical Goodyear tire converse-up at Bristol this week . . . here is the identical combination of left- and aesthetic-aspect tires that these groups hang lope at Bristol since final April . . . Bristol is the one tune at which NASCAR groups are scheduled to lope either of these two tire codes . . . not like on most NASCAR ovals one mile or less in length, on which groups steadily dwell no longer lope interior liners in their tires, groups are required to lope liners in their aesthetic-aspect tires only at Bristol . . . air stress in these interior liners can hang to be 12-25 psi increased than that of the outer tire (Goodyear Racing), scrutinize tire pressures, codes, converse limits on the Bristol Escape Data page
- Texas post-lope warnings: NASCAR has issued written warnings the groups of #01-Ryan Preece, #5-Mosey Elliott, and #7-Justin Allgaier following the O‘Reilly Auto Substances 300 at Texas Motor Speedway. All three groups failed laser inspection twice trusty through pre-lope inspection.(4-13-2016)
- Assorted search Erik Jones at Bristol: For the seventh lope of the 2016 NASCAR XFINITY Assortment, groups head to the high-banked rapid tune of Bristol Motor Speedway. Making his third sequence delivery on the tune, Erik Jones and the #20 GameStop Performance Designed Products Camry team sell off taking a search their first gain of the 2016 season. In his old two begins on the tune, Jones has one pole, one high-5 enact and two high-10 finishes. PDP is the No. 1 online game accent firm in North America. Their passion is to make and hang products that wait on consumers bewitch and engage with the entertainment they take care of. Products are designed to exacting requirements with a high level of efficiency and quality. Products are built to be durable and contented for long play classes, rapid online multiplayer battles, staring at a movie or paying attention to tune.(Joe Gibbs Racing), scrutinize an image of the car on the #20 team paint schemes page.(4-13-2016)
- Rockingham Speedway scheduled for public public sale: A year after the deadline for a court docket-ordered sale, the legendary Rockingham Speedway is occurring the final public sale block. According a gaze of foreclosures sale filed in Richmond County Ample Court docket on April 7, the property will be supplied “to the ideal bidder for money” at a public public sale Would possibly possibly even 5. The gaze states the sale will embrace “the converse property, on the side of all rights, privileges and appurtenances thereto…and the non-public property described within the deed of belief.” It goes on to converse that the property will be supplied subject to any and all matters favorable to the lien of the deed of belief, including: favorable mortgages, deeds of belief, liens and assessments, if any; the lien of unpaid ad valorem taxes; top-notch and enforceable easements and restrictions of listing; and matters which may maybe maybe be printed by a present and top-notch explore of the property. “The property will be supplied ‘as is, where is,‘ the gaze continues. “Neither the replace trustee nor the holder of the debt secured by the deed of belief, nor their respective officers, directors, attorneys, staff, agents or authorized representatives, hang any illustration or warranty relating to to the title or any physical, environmental, smartly being or safety prerequisites existing in, on, at or relating to to the property, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities coming up out of or any procedure relating to to this kind of prerequisites expressly are disclaimed.” Raleigh attorney Louis E. Wooten Jr. was named replace trustee in February, in response to recordsdata filed with the Richmond County Register of Deeds. The sale will initiate on the Richmond County Courthouse at 11 a.m., and will be held initiate for 10 days for upset bids as required by legislation. Kenneth Robinette, chairman of the Richmond County Board of Commissioners, speculated that the foreclosures will be an strive to “gain rid of some partners” and transfer forward in bringing racing relief to the tune.(Richmond County Each day Journal)(4-13-2016)
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April 13, 2015
- Texas TV Ratings: NASCAR on FOX continues to battle on Saturday nights. NASCAR Escape Cup racing from Texas drew a 2.9 overnight rating on FOX Saturday evening, down 17% from 2013 (3.5) and down 19% from 2012 (3.6). Final year‘s Texas lope was postponed attributable to rain, incomes a 2.3 overnight in its scheduled Sunday afternoon window. Apart from rainouts, the 2.9 overnight is the bottom ever for a NASCAR Escape Cup lope on FOX (dates relief to 2001), falling below the old designate of 3.0 for coverage from Richmond final year. Nine of the ten lowest rated NASCAR on FOX telecasts within the metered markets hang taken converse on a Saturday evening. The 2.9 may maybe be with out complications the bottom ever for NASCAR from Texas, again with the exception of rainouts. The old low was the 3.5 in 2013. Saturday‘s listing-low overnight continues a contemporary stall in NASCAR‘s momentum. After the season‘s first three races had increases in overnights in contrast to final year, the past four (including one on Fox Sports 1) hang either been flat or declined.(Sports Media Look by technique of Sports Alternate Each day)(4-13-2015)
- Entry List for the Meals City 500 in Give a enhance to of Steve Byrnes and Stand Up To Cancer Escape Cup Assortment lope at Bristol Motor Speedway is posted, 45 groups/drivers [for 43 spots] are listed, including: #30-Hornaday, #32-Bliss, #33-Kennedy, #34-Buescher, #55-Moffitt.
Drivers preferring to be within the tip-36 in bustle and have not any provisional on hand to them (lowest in homeowners components): #62-Gaughan (45th in proprietor components), #30-Hornaday (49th)
Drivers who would leave out the lope if qualifying is canceled (least lope attempts): #95-McDowell (4 attempts) #30-Hornaday (3 attempts)
Leer the fleshy entry listing at my Jayski.com‘s Bristol Entry List - Three drivers delivery season with high-ten streaks UPDATES: #78-Martin Truex Jr.‘s seventh converse enact at Martinsville marked his sixth consecutive high-10 enact. That‘s the longest high-10 go to initiate a season since Greg Biffle scored six high-10s to initiate the 2010 campaign (finishing 6th within the standings). Truex isn‘t the one one though. Parts leader #4-Kevin Harvick and #22-Joey Logano also hang opened the season with six consecutive high-10s to initiate the season. The NASCAR listing for many high-10 finishes to initiate a season is 10 converse by Lee Petty in 1955 (done 3rd within the standings) and James Hylton in 1972 (done 3rd within the standings).(NBC Sports)
UPDATE: the listing is typically held by Morgan Shepherd, who opened the 1990 season with 11 consecutive high-10 finishes within the #15 Motorcraft Ford owned by Hall of Famer Bud Moore. Shepherd done with 16 high-10 finishes in 29 races trusty throughout the 1990 season, finishing Fifth within the Championship.(3-31-2015)
UPDATE 2: #4-Kevin Harvick, #22-Joey Logano, and #78-Martin Truex, Jr. all persevered their high-10 streaks Saturday evening at Texas. The streaks are the longest in every driver‘s career.
Logano has 2 old streaks of 6 races — Indianapolis to Atlanta in 2013 and Richmond to Charlotte within the tumble of 2014.
Truex, Jr‘s old go is 5 races — Bristol to Kansas within the spring of 2012.
Harvick has now done within the tip-10 within the final 10 races, starting up at Texas final November. Previously he had high-10 streaks of 9 races — Pocono to Kansas in 2008 and Darlington to Unusual Hampshire in 2013.(4-13-2015) - Passenger dies at Richard Petty utilizing ride UPDATE: A 36-year-venerable Davenport man died [Sunday] after a Lamborghini in which he was utilizing lost wait on watch over on the Richard Petty Driving Ride at Walt Disney World. Basically based exclusively on the Florida Highway Patrol, the driver didn’t maneuver the high-powered sports activities car through one of many direction‘s curves, and the automobile‘s aesthetic aspect struck a guardrail. The passenger was pronounced ineffective on the scene, in response to FHP‘s Sgt. Kim Montes. The male driver was taken to Rep collectively Clinical institution with minor accidents. Neither the driver nor the passenger had been identified. The incident took converse at about 3: 30pm on the Uncommon Driving Ride at Walt Disney World Speedway, in response to the FHP listing. The tune is operated by Petty Holdings, which has other Uncommon Driving Ride attractions at speedways in Atlanta, Daytona Shoreline, Charlotte, Unusual Jersey, Kansas, Unusual Hampshire and Texas. The Richard Petty Driving Ride, where fans can power NASCAR autos or wander shotgun at quickens to 165 mph, opened in 1997. Four years within the past, Petty Holdings launched the recurring-car ride, where other folks can power Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches. The smash remains below investigation, in response to the FHP.(Examiner)
AND The Florida Highway Patrol said that Tavon Watson, 24, of Kissimmee, didn’t maneuver the sports activities car through one of many boulevard direction‘s curves. The automobile‘s aesthetic aspect struck a guardrail. His passenger, Gary Terry, was pronounced ineffective on the scene. Terry was the operations supervisor for the tune. Terry competed in NASCAR‘s Southeast, Southwest and Midwest Assortment from 1999-2002. In 36 begins he scored two high-5 finishes. He was the pinnacle utilizing trainer for the RPDE on the Walt Disney World Speedway from 2001 to 2013 when he turned into the operations supervisor.(Examiner)(4-13-2015)
UPDATE Comments from Richard Petty, “The complete Petty family, and everybody linked to Petty, is deeply saddened by the passing of Gary Terry the day prior to this. Our prayers dash out to his family and everybody suffering from this tragedy. We are all fascinated with the family and pals of Gary and the total staff of the Uncommon Driving Ride.”(Richard Petty Motorsports)(4-13-2015) - XFINITY Entry List: There are 39 autos on the preliminary entry listing for Saturday‘s Force to Discontinuance Diabetes 300 at Bristol Speedway. A couple of notes:
Jeff Inexperienced is relief within the #10 for TriStar;
Derek White will power the #13;
The Rick Ware #15 is TBA;
Ryan Blaney will power the #22 for Penske;
Carl Long will be relief within the #40;
Brenna Poole remains within the #42 for HScott Motorsports.(4-13-2015)
Leer the total listing on the Bristol entry listing page. - Shepherd to strive Bristol lope: #89-Morgan Shepherd and Shepherd Racing Ventures insist that King‘s Tire may maybe maybe be the sponsor of the XFINITY #89 Chevy for Bristol‘s 33rd Annual Force To Discontinuance Diabetes 300 on April 18, 2015. Shepherd Racing Ventures welcomes Tony Furr as Crew Chief for the weekend.(Shepherd Racing Ventures)(4-13-2015)
- Mosey Rice to design at Talladega: Nation tune maverick and Columbia Nashville recording artist Mosey Rice, who has NASCAR ties, may maybe maybe be the featured artist for Talladega Superspeedway‘s worn Saturday Night Infield Dwell efficiency, Would possibly possibly even 2, trusty through an engaging weekend that will characteristic the Winn-Dixie 300 and GEICO 500. Rice will steal the stage at NASCAR‘s “Event Capital” staunch hours after the conclusion of the Winn-Dixie 300 NASCAR XFINITY Assortment lope, and the evening sooner than the GEICO 500 NASCAR Escape Cup Assortment event, in which the trustworthy driver will all however be assured a blueprint within the season-ending Mosey for the NASCAR Escape Cup. In what has change trusty into a Talladega tradition with high tune acts, the Saturday Night Dwell efficiency will characteristic Rice, whose edgy tune will match completely with the rowdy infield crowd of the ideal and baddest racetrack on the planet. With hits esteem “Ready Device Roll” and his present single “Gonna Wanna Tonight” on the converse listing, Rice can hang the intersection of Eastaboga and Talladega Boulevards rocking smartly into the evening. The most easy fragment about the dwell efficiency is that admission is FREE with the acquisition of a Sunday lope label for the GEICO 500. A venerable linebacker on the University of North Carolina, Rice has ragged many varied hats to this level in existence. In the sport of NASCAR, he served as a fragment of the Hendrick Motorsports team pit crew sooner than fascinating to Nashville to pursue tune fleshy-time.(TSS)(4-13-2015)
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April 13, 2014
- Someday Darlington lope may maybe maybe return to Labor Day weekend: NASCAR president Mike Helton was asked Saturday if Darlington would ever gain the Labor Day weekend relief. Whereas Helton wouldn‘t exclusively rule out a return, he didn‘t unquestionably think it was a chance as we insist. The tune hosted racing on Labor Day weekend from 1950-2003. Darlington sooner or later lost one of its races and its lone date was held on Mother‘s Day starting up in 2005. This year, the tune‘s date was moved to April. “You by no means know. There had been moderately heaps of tales that came from Labor Day races here on the Southern 500. The badge round here was per Labor Day weekends,” Helton said. “So all I may maybe maybe provide an explanation for you is you by no means know. I unquestionably hang viewed moderately heaps of issues in this sport that I was bowled over by … and that led me to imagine that the future of the sport can hang issues happen that folk bid won‘t happen again. So that you just by no means know.” Darlington president Chip Wile said he is exclusively pleased with the tune‘s date however wouldn‘t object to a transfer relief to Labor Day. “With the date change, we‘ve unquestionably viewed an expand in some segments that NASCAR has been targeted on,” he said. “So we are dedicated to our lope date, however we welcome any conversation.”(Morning News)(4-13-2014)
- Keselowski fragment of “Look Canines”: #2-Brad Keselowski‘s secret existence will be exposed — a minimum of as a personality within the contemporary online game, “Look Canines.” The 2012 Escape Cup champion has partnered with game-maker Ubisoft for “Look Canines,” which is in a situation to be launched subsequent month. Keselowski is described within the sport as one of many other folks within the digital metropolis of Chicago that avid gamers can hang interaction with. It promises that avid gamers will bag what “secrets lurk deep within a NASCAR champ‘s historical past.” The outline says avid gamers can exhaust vital personality Aiden Pearce‘s ability to hack into Keselowski‘s profile to release what’s there.(Connected Press)(4-13-2014)
- Darlington Raceway announces plans to honor its historical past and form its future: It began within the tumble of 1949, when a crisp lag toyed with the free soil of an venerable cotton subject on the west aspect of rural Darlington, South Carolina. Harold Brasington seen more than staunch dirt dancing round that patch of land. He seen the future. He seen Darlington Raceway. This day, Darlington Raceway is a converse of historical past, where fans reminisce about the past, whereas creating lasting memories of the present. The attach NASCAR legends had been born and the youth of NASCAR dream about making their designate on the smartly-known partitions of The Girl in Shadowy. Celebrating its roots and taking a cease awake for the future of NASCAR at Darlington Raceway, tune president Chip Wile unveiled plans Saturday to honor the tune‘s historical past and form its future, as his team turns its attention to 2015. “As the drivers, groups, fans and media leave here this weekend fascinated with who visited Gatorade Victory Lane, specializing within the next lope and taking a look towards the 2014 Championship, we‘re fascinated with the future of Darlington Raceway, as we hang fun our past,” said Wile. Darlington Raceway‘s converse in historical past sets it moreover all other tracks. It‘s hallowed ground, where drivers needs had been shattered and contemporary fans had been born. It continues to hang its designate on drivers and fans with the extensive racing of as of late and the nostalgia of the past. “Our historical past defines us,” added Wile. “Without historical past we wouldn‘t know where we‘ve near from or where we‘re going. NASCAR legends and precise fans hang all played a characteristic in defining Darlington Raceway. Together, we‘re celebrating where we came from and where we‘re going.”
As fragment of the event, 5-time Darlington Raceway winner and 1988 NASCAR Champion, Bill Elliott, moreover to his son, Mosey, driver of the No. 9 NAPA Chevrolet for JR Motorsports within the NASCAR Nationwide Assortment, a member of the NASCAR Subsequent program, one of many sport‘s rising stars and the youngest winner at Darlington Raceway, will wait on as the “face” of the 2015 platform. The father-son duo joined Wile to present media and fans in attendance a glance of what‘s to discontinuance relief, which contains a “throwback” label make for the 2015 Bojangles‘ Southern 500 and a Classic product line with merchandise throughout the decades that will be on hand for fans to bewitch.
The tune “Too Tricky to Tame” will unveil facets of the 2015 platform trusty throughout the season, because it celebrates the past and embraces the future as one of NASCAR‘s most smartly-known tracks. “We‘re fascinated about what the future holds for Darlington Raceway,” persevered Wile. “We hang got the most passionate, precise fans in all of motorsports and we cease awake for the characteristic that they’re going to play as we hang fun our past, present and future.” Followers are inspired to affix within the event as Darlington Raceway plans for the 2015 Bojangles‘ Southern 500. “Recount us your Darlington memoir,” said Wile. “Whenever you hang suggestions about how Darlington Raceway and NASCAR can hang fun our historical past and embrace our future, please articulate us.” Followers can fragment their tales and submit event suggestions at darlington1950@darlingtonraceway.com. Withhold with the total most unusual news from Darlington Raceway at DarlingtonRaceway.com.(Darlington Raceway)(4-13-2014) - Duck Commander 500 a large hit at TMS: Speedway Motorsports, Inc. Properties launched a brand contemporary line of merchandise with Duck Commander making its debut as title sponsor of Texas Motor Speedway‘s NASCAR Escape Cup Assortment lope final week and the slay result was one of many ideal grossing lope weekend‘s within the speedway‘s 18-year historical past. Speedway World, Texas Motor Speedway‘s memento store positioned on property, reported its most entertaining lope week sales full since 2000 and SMIP loved its most entertaining total event sales full since April‘s Samsung Mobile 500 in April of 2009. A Duck Commander 500 trailer, particularly designed and wrapped for this event, was positioned at Texas Motor Speedway‘s vital gate entrance and accounted for 14.6% of the total sales. Additionally, online sales had been more than 900% higher than a conventional NASCAR lope weekend. The income full, which was no longer disclosed by SMIP, was an 81% expand from final year‘s April NASCAR Escape Cup Assortment NRA 500 doubleheader weekend that liked significant articulate in contrast to old years. That expand was buoyed by an 87% expand in grandstand and merchandise trailer sales. The most easy-selling items had been the Duck Commander 500 conceal caps, camo t-shirts, full print t-shirts, feather flag, legacy t-shirt, splash-down t-shirt, koozie and bandana. Duck Commander, which grew to reputation with the loads throughout the Robertson family exploits on A&E‘s “Duck Dynasty” hit fact television gift, is within the first year of a 3-year entitlement sponsorship with Texas Motor Speedway for its annual spring NASCAR doubleheader weekend. Followers drawn to shopping Duck Commander 500 merchandise can dash to www.GoSpeedwayWorld.com or talk over with the Duck Commander merchandise trailer within the halfway trusty throughout the June 5-7 Firestone 600 INDYCAR/NASCAR doubleheader and the Oct. 30-Nov. 2 AAA Texas 500 NASCAR tripleheader at Texas Motor Speedway.(TMS)(4-13-2014)
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April 13, 2013
- Kyle Busch wins at Texas: #18-Kyle Busch won the NRA 500 Escape Cup Assortment lope at Texas Motor Speedway for his 2nd gain of 2013, 1st gain at Texas and 26th career gain. He took the lead on the final pitstop and pulled away trusty throughout the final 16 laps to steal the gain by .508 seconds. #56-Truex, Jr. done 2nd adopted by #99-Edwards, #16-Biffle, #22-Logano, #48-Johnson, #43-Almirola, #11-Vickers, #2-Keselowski, and #39-Newman.
There had been 18 lead changes among 7 drivers and 7 cautions for 36 yellow flag laps. The trendy bustle was 144.751mph.
Starting this season, NASCAR doesn‘t free up the tune attendance.
Leer lope outcomes, awards, money won, laps led, cautions and more on the Texas Escape Results page (pdf) and try the Texas Penalty Myth (pdf) - Escape Mercurial Information — Texas:
Kyle Busch won the 17th Annual NRA 500, his 26th victory in 300 NASCAR Escape Cup Assortment races.
Busch now moves trusty into a tie for 23rd on the all-time sequence wins listing with NASCAR Hall of Popularity nominee Fred Lorenzen.
This is his 2nd victory and fifth high-10 enact in 2013. Busch‘s first gain of 2013 was at Auto Membership Speedway.
This is his first victory and seventh high-10 enact in 16 races at Texas Motor Speedway. His old most entertaining enact at Texas was third, three varied cases.
Martin Truex Jr. (2nd) posted his eighth high-10 enact in 16 races at Texas Motor Speedway. It’s miles his 2nd high-10 enact in 2013.
Carl Edwards (third) posted his eighth high-10 enact in 17 races at Texas Motor Speedway.
(NASCAR Integrated Sports Advertising and marketing)(4-13-2013) - 2013 Escape Cup Driver Championship Parts Standings:
[after Texas, race 7 of 36]
1) #48-Jimmie Johnson [2 wins], 269
2) #2-Brad Keselowski, 260, -9
3) #18-Kyle Busch [2 wins], 251, -18
4) #16-Greg Biffle, 239, -30
5) #99-Carl Edwards [1 win], 234, -35
6) #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr., 234, -35
7) #5-Kasey Kahne [1 win], 232, -37
8) #15-Clint Bowyer, 208, -61
9) #22-Joey Logano, 207, -62
10) #27-Paul Menard, 206, -63
11) #20-Matt Kenseth [1 win], 204, -65
12) #29-Kevin Harvick, 192, -77
2012 Mosey drivers out of high 12
#24-Jeff Gordon, 15th in components
#56-Martin Truex Jr., 16th
#14-Tony Stewart, 22nd
#11-Denny Hamlin, 25th
(ties damaged by 1sts, 2nds, 3rd, and heaps others)
Leer drivers championship components standings on the Drivers Parts Standings (pdf) and the proprietor components standings on the Owners Parts Standings page (pdf). - NASCAR takes facets from each and each Penske autos: Escape Cup champion #2-Brad Keselowski, teammate #22-Joey Logano and their Penske Racing groups face attainable penalties as NASCAR confiscated rear-stop housing facets and items from their autos trusty through prerace inspection Saturday at Texas Motor Speedways. The groups frantically worked to interchange the items an hour sooner than the scheduled delivery of the NRA 500. “We‘re taking (rear-stop) housing and some other issues. & It‘s a team of issues that surrounds the rear suspension space,” NASCAR Vice President of Competitors Robin Pemberton said. “It‘s staunch something that is no longer within the spirit of the foundations.” Pemberton said the sanctioning body would no longer eject the crew chiefs from the speedways and the drivers would wait on their starting up positions for the lope Saturday evening. Any penalties will be launched as early as Monday, even supposing NASCAR steadily waits until Tuesday to insist penalties. Attainable penalties steadily may maybe maybe embrace components penalties, fines and crew suspensions. (Wearing News)(4-13-2013)
- Scott Creep to power Immense Rallycross car in Brazil: International Rallycross has launched the implementation of the Essential individual Automobile, a aggressive twist for International Rallycross. To debut the Essential individual Automobile on the X Games in Foz dwell Iguacu, International Rallycross introduced Scott Creep on board to steal the wheel. “The Essential individual Automobile idea was sparked on the muse as ability to design an part of shock and suspense to each and each fans and drivers for every of the 9 International Rallycross events this season,” said Colin Dyne, International Rallycross CEO. “Nonetheless as the speculation has change trusty into a fact for International Rallycross, it’s an worthy part that enables for talented drivers esteem Scott Creep to gain a taste of what International Rallycross unquestionably has to provide.” In every lope of the 2013 season, International Rallycross will enjoy the Essential individual Automobile driver who will compete in opposition to the standard subject of International Rallycross drivers. With that in suggestions, every Essential individual Automobile driver is selected particularly, every bringing a varied quality to the sequence. For Creep, International Rallycross selected him to debut the Essential individual Automobile in Brazil thanks to his personality, utilizing ability and his total fit for International Rallycross. The Essential individual Automobile will hang its debut at International X Games in Foz dwell Iguaçu, Brazil, on April 21.(Immense Rallycross)(4-13-2013)
- Mears says additional funding helps team‘s efficiency: From an interview with Frontstretch:
Q: You finally hang ample sponsorship this year to lope the fleshy agenda?
Mears: Sure. What befell was GEICO was very influential in making it happen. They stepped as a lot as a level where Bob Germain was in a situation to head forward and hang the fleshy season. So we are doing the fleshy season, however we‘re no longer moderately fully-funded. It‘s a exiguous bit tight in some areas, however we‘ll be in a situation to lope.
Q: That will well hang to be a weight off your shoulders, no longer having to pull in early.
Mears: That‘s a large weight off. Final year, we‘d hang two or three top-notch runs after which prefer to delivery out and park. We didn‘t unquestionably know the manner tense that was to rebound from and how frustrating. The starting up and parks staunch killed us final year, staunch deflated the team and it was unquestionably tough to rebound from. The guys would gain frustrated — it was esteem, “wait a minute, we‘re working tough yet, what for? We‘re going to prefer to park.” So, I feel mentally, that was a tense direction of to gain through. Having that weight lifted off our shoulders and colorful we‘re going to head lope the total races indubitably converse a brand contemporary tone within the shop.
Q: As a competitor, how tough was it so that you just can listen to that resolution on the radio to pull it in?
Mears: The first time I needed to dwell that was potentially one of many hardest issues I ever did. I imply, I grasped the idea. I understood that as a full, it was higher for our team and for our program, however the first time I ever did that, I staunch notion, “What am I doing? What are we doing here?” It was indubitably difficult and to hang that weight lifted indubitably enables us to present attention to the issues we have to present attention to.(Frontstretch)(4-12-2013) - Johnson can hang a sub for exiguous one-explore: From a Chevy PR:
YOU HAD BIG NEWS THIS WEEK (ANNOUNCED HE AND WIFE CHANDRA ARE EXPECTING THEIR SECOND CHILD IN SEPTEMBER) CONGRATULATIONS. IS IT TOO EARLY ALREADY TO START THINKING ABOUT HOW YOU WILL HANDLE IT SINCE THE BABY IS DUE AS THE CHASE BEGINS? DO YOU HAVE A BACK-UP DRIVER? HAVE YOU GONE THROUGH ALL THOSE PARTICULARS YET?
“We haven‘t yet. We know that we have to, however we tranquil hang a whereas. We are no longer determined who will be on hand near that point. I was joking with Aric Almirola final weekend that if he wished to be my relief-up driver again he clearly has a fleshy-time gig and can‘t dwell it. We’re going to have the choice to staunch prefer to scrutinize, however we’ll have the choice to indubitably hang a notion esteem repeatedly we’ll have the choice to be buttoned up. Our doctor has knowledgeable me that a father has by no means uncared for a starting up. That affords me moderately heaps of self assurance that I will be in a situation to dwell my weekend job after which be round trusty throughout the week to meet quantity two.”(Chevy)(4-13-2013) - Kentucky announces fan initiatvies: Kentucky Speedway is introducing fan-first initiatives that reward long-time season label customers, welcome first-time company and give attention to family entertainment. Season label customers which hang supported the speedway for 10 years or longer will acquire reserved parking for every June and September lope day, 20 $1.00 decrease mark coupons that will furthermore be aged for lope-day meals and non-alcoholic drink purchases moreover to a coupon top-notch for a 20 p.c decrease mark off a merchandise bewitch from the Kentucky Speedway Present Shop. Customers also will acquire 10-year recognition premiums corresponding to a fleshy-measurement Kentucky Speedway flag, lanyard and window decal. Five- to 9-year season label customers also will be rewarded with reserved parking for every lope day alongside with recurring premiums corresponding to a 5-year hat, lanyard and window decal. First-time fans will be in a situation to wait on academic presentations on Quaker Verbalize 400 lope day and talk over with a devoted page on the speedway‘s Web position. First-time fans also will acquire particular communications within the months preceding the Quaker Verbalize 400 tripleheader weekend.(Kentucky Speedway)(4-13-2013)
- Earnhardt Jr. to seem at Chicagoland‘s Fan Zone: National Guard driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., winner of NASCAR‘s NMPA Most Popular Driver Award for a listing-tying 10 consecutive years, will join fans to kick off the Mosey for the NASCAR Escape Cup this September. Earnhardt Jr. is scheduled to seem in Chicagoland Speedway‘s Checkered Flag Fan Zone for a inquire-and-answer session with fans on Sunday, Sept. 15, sooner than the GEICO 400. Located staunch exterior the most fundamental entrance, the Checkered Flag Fan Zone affords lope fans with a varied hospitality opportunity to increase their lope day ride. Apart from within the relief of the scenes driver gain entry to and a fleshy buffet meal in a climate-controlled tent with limitless soda, water and three beer tickets, (can hang to be 21 years of age or older) fans can even hang gain entry to to tune, entertainment and prizes.(Chicagoland Speedway)(4-13-2013)
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April 13, 2012
- Truex Jr. wins pole at Texas: #56-Martin Truex Jr. won the pole for the Samsung Mobile 500 Escape Cup Assortment lope at Texas Motor Speedway with bustle of 190.633mph for his 1st pole of 2012 and seventh career pole. #17-Kenseth was 2nd fastest adopted by #16-Biffle, #55-Martin, #5-Kahne, #39-Newman, #9-Ambrose, #2-Keselowski, #1-McMurray and #48-Johnson.
The dash-or-dash homers who made the lope (8): #21-Bayne, #10-Reutimann, #26-Wise, #98-McDowell, #49-Yeley, #95-Creep, #23-Riggs & #19-Bliss.
The dash-or-dash homers who didn’t qualify for the lope (3): #30-Stremme, #87-Nemechek and #74-Compton.
Leer qualifying outcomes, pole preogression, dash-or-dash homers, starting up lineup and hyperlinks on the Qualifying / Starting Lineup page(4-13-2012) - Qualifying Mercurial Information — Texas Motor Speedway:
#56- Martin Truex, Jr. won the Coors Gentle Pole Award for the 16th Annual Samsung Mobile 500 with a lap of 28.366 seconds, 190.369 mph.
This is his seventh pole in 232 NASCAR Escape Cup Assortment races.
This is his first pole and 2nd high-10 delivery in 2012.
This is his 2nd pole in 14 races at Texas Motor Speedway. His first came in November of 2007.
With the pole, Truex is locked into subsequent year‘s Shootout at Daytona International Speedway.
#17-Matt Kenseth (2nd) posted his 2nd high-10 delivery of 2012 and his ninth in 20 races at Texas Motor Speedway.
#16-Greg Biffle (third) posted his 10th high-10 delivery at Texas Motor Speedway. It’s miles his sixth in seven races this season.(NASCAR Statistics)(4-13-2012) - Pleased Hour discover for the Samsung Mobile 500 Escape Cup Assortment lope at Texas Motor Speedway is over, after 90 scheduled minutes, the tip 5 fastest, slowest and notes:
#21-Bayne 184.641
#16-Biffle 184.370
#17-Kenseth 184.351
#15-Bowyer 184.269
#22-Allmendinger 184.005
slowest: #33-Raines 177.480 & #36-Blaney 177.871
notes: With 40 minutes left in discover, #14-Stewart obtained relief on the tune within the backup car. #14-Stewart smacked the wall a pair of minutes in thto discover, drove the car to the storage, and will dash to a backup car (scrutinize image of the car at MikeMulhern.bag).
Qualifying is scheduled for Friday, April 13th at 6: 40pm/et on SPEED.
Leer fastest speeds, most entertaining ten-lap averages, laps lope and more on the Texas Pleased Hour Educate Speeds (pdf), no moderate speeds all laps and NOT altering relief to the venerable procedure, staunch posting the pdf‘s.(4-13-2012) - Free PRN NASCAR Escape Declares now online: Now, that you just may maybe maybe even tune in to the PRN broadcasts of the NASCAR Nationwide Assortment and Escape Cup Assortment from nearly anyplace on this planet that has internet or cell provider – and listen to to the races on any iPhone, iPod, iPad, Android or Smartphone platform or online. Followers staunch prefer to chat over with www.GoPRN.com and click on on on the “hear here” stay streaming icon. This weekend‘s broadcast of the O‘Reilly Auto Substances 300 and the Samsung Mobile 500 at Texas Motor Speedway represents the third weekend of races that will be on hand free by technique of the PRN community. The response has been improbable, with fans tuning in online from all 50 states and 63 international locations. In addition, tens of millions of fans hear on more than 415 PRN affiliate stations and SiriusXM Radio. An complete listing of PRN stations with their hyperlinks may maybe maybe also simply furthermore be came across on www.GoPRN.com.
The internet and radio internet site broadcast agenda entails (all cases are ET):
Friday, April 13th:
6 pm: Qualifying for the Samsung Mobile 500 at TMS (exclusively online)
8 pm: O‘Reilly Auto Substances 300 Nationwide Assortment lope at TMS
Saturday, April 14th
6: 30 pm Samsung Mobile 500 Escape Cup Assortment lope from TMS.
“We are fascinated about the response we‘ve obtained from fans round the sphere to our contemporary broadcast platform,” said Doug Rice, president of the Performance Racing Community. “It enables us to carry NASCAR fans closer to the racing ride and the stars that they take care of. It’s miles a large procedure for PRN to expand our lope coverage for lope fans. We‘re proud to be in a situation to provide this contemporary addition to our lope lineup.”(PRN)(4-13-2012) - Chassis alternatives for this weeks lope: scrutinize the listing of many groups [that report or post these] and what chassis had been selected by the team to lope at Texas Motor Speedway on the Texas Escape Data page — Chassis selection space.
- Atwood relief racing: Nashville‘s Casey Atwood, once billed as NASCAR‘s subsequent Jeff Gordon, is relief where he started over a decade within the past: working Saturday evening fender-benders at Fairgrounds Speedway. “I haven‘t been in a lope car for approximately three years now, and I‘ve uncared for it,” says Atwood, 31, who will buckle in for Saturday evening‘s season opener on the 54-year-venerable tune. “I‘ve repeatedly appreciated racing, and in particular loved it on the Fairgrounds. I‘ve had moderately heaps of success there, and it‘ll be top-notch to gain relief.” Atwood will power a car offered by two-time Daytona 500 champion Trustworthy Marlin, who can even be within the lineup. Atwood is married and the father of two daughters, six and 4. He spends his time “piddling round” and once in a whereas serving to his father Terry with his electronics firm. The final time he was in a lope car was in 2009 when he helped converse up Nationwide autos for some Cup double-dippers at now-closed Nashville Superspeedway.(RacinToday)(4-13-2012)
- Jani-King Joins Richard Petty Motorsports: Jani-King, the sphere‘s largest industrial cleansing franchise firm with more than 12,000 franchise homeowners, is the most unusual partner to affix Richard Petty Motorsports and driver Aric Almirola on the smartly-known #43 Ford. The firm and its topped logo will be on Almirola‘s Ford Fusion as an affiliate sponsor for the relaxation of the 2012 Escape Cup Assortment season and wait on as a Co-Main sponsor on the #43 for the June 3 lope at Dover International Speedway. Launched by an entrepreneurial faculty pupil in 1969, the Texas-based mostly exclusively mostly Jani-King now products and companies tens of thousands of enterprise purchasers in 15 international locations and has repeatedly been ranked on the tip of the industrial cleansing industry. “I take care of Jani-King for the manner it began – staunch one man working tough whereas in faculty – and lengthening it trusty into a global enterprise,” said team proprietor Richard Petty. “We‘re proud to hang yet any other ‘King‘ working with us and taking a cease awake for them joining our family. I feel I‘ll wear the cowboy hat and let them wear the crown.” The partnership, that was initiated by Medallion Sports Media, in cooperation with Richard Petty Motorsports, begins this weekend at Texas with branding on the #43 Ford.(Breaking Limits for Richard Petty Motorsports)(4-13-2012)
- Patrick has no backup notion for Darlington qualifying: How concerned is #10-Danica Patrick about the attainable of attending to qualify on bustle at Darlington? Now not ample to hang notion to be a backup notion if the #10 Chevy she shares with David Reutimann remains exterior the tip 35 in proprietor components. Patrick is scheduled to lope 10 Cup races this season. Her first was the Daytona 500, where she fell victim to a smash on Lap 2. Her 2nd scheduled lope is the Would possibly possibly even 12 Southern 500 at Darlington. When Patrick drives the Cup car, Stewart-Haas Racing prepares it. When Reutimann drives the #10 Chevy, the car is fielded by Tommy 1st Earl 1st earl baldwin of bewdley of Bewdley Racing, the speculation being that Reutimann will wait on the car within the tip 35 in proprietor components and thereby exempt from qualifying on bustle. On April 1 at Martinsville, on the opposite hand, the car fell one situation exterior the tip 35 despite Reutimann‘s controversial efforts to nurse a wounded car to the enact — controversial for the reason that car lost strength, stopped on the frontstretch and introduced on a warning that changed the complexion of the lope. For the reason that #10 is for the time being simply one level within the relief of the #83 BK Racing Toyota pushed by Landon Cassill, Patrick isn‘t in particular fascinated by her car‘s proprietor components situation — for now. “I unquestionably feel dazzling assured within the car and Tommy 1st Earl 1st earl baldwin of bewdley of Bewdley to gain it within the tip 35,” Patrick said Thursday sooner than discover for Friday‘s O‘Reilly Auto Substances 300 at Texas Motor Speedway. “They‘re a large team, and they‘re working unquestionably tough. We haven‘t talked a pair of backup notion, however there‘s repeatedly that backup notion that, if it’s a must to qualify, that‘s what you dwell.”(NASCAR Wire Service)(4-13-2012)
- Followers can hang title on the #38 Ford at Kansas: Entrance Row Motorsports and the Belmont Abbey School NASCAR Kinetics Team are giving fans the recurring opportunity to hang their names displayed on David Gilliland‘s #38 Ford Fusion. All fans who wait on the college‘s NASCAR Escape Viewing Event on Saturday, April 14 at NASCAR Speedpark in Concord, NC, will be in a situation to hang their title positioned on the decklid of the #38 car the next weekend at Kansas. The decklid can even characteristic the respective logos of Belmont Abbey School and the NASCAR Kinetics: Advertising and marketing in Stream Program. Leer more at Entrance Row Motorsports.(FRM)(4-13-2012)
- Unusual C-Submit template to debut at ‘Dega: NASCAR will add a brand contemporary template to its inspection direction of when groups struggle through tech Would possibly possibly even 4 at Talladega Superspeedway. It‘s a template inspired by Hendrick Motorsports and 5-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson‘s team. Starting Would possibly possibly even 4-6 at Talladega, NASCAR will initiate the exhaust of an extra template for the C-post, the distance of the car from the roof to the tip of the rear quarter panel.(Wearing News)(4-13-2012)
- Escape Pit Crew Distress returns in Would possibly possibly even: The eighth annual NASCAR Escape Pit Crew Distress returns to Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday, Would possibly possibly even 17, 2012. Tickets to the pit-crew abilities competition are on sale at www.pitcrewchallenge.com or by calling Time Warner Cable Arena field converse of enterprise at (800) 745-3000. Equal to other leagues‘ all-megastar abilities competitions esteem the slam dunk contest or home lope derby, the NASCAR Escape Pit Crew Distress capabilities the tip-24 NASCAR Escape Cup Assortment pit crews and settles who the ideal on pit boulevard is with individual and team trials. The #11 FedEx Toyota team is the defending relief-to-relief team champion. As one of several events trusty through NASCAR Escape All-Essential individual Week, the NASCAR Escape Pit Crew Distress will steal converse at 7: 00pm/et and will air on SPEED at 8: 00pm/et that evening. Tickets prices delivery at $15 whereas youngsters ages two through 12 are half of mark ($7.50 every).
To qualify for the NASCAR Escape Pit Crew Distress, groups can hang to be eligible for the NASCAR Escape All-Essential individual Escape on Would possibly possibly even 19 or be the 2011 NASCAR Escape Pit Crew Distress Champion. NASCAR Escape All-Essential individual Escape eligibility entails all NASCAR Escape Cup lope winners from 2011 and 2012, NASCAR Escape All-Essential individual Escape winners from the past 10 years and NASCAR Escape Cup Assortment Champions from the past 10 years who’re fascinating drivers and hang competed in a minimum of one sequence event trusty throughout the 2011 or 2012 season. Remaining unfilled positions will change into on hand to the car homeowners ranked easiest within the 2012 NASCAR Escape Cup Assortment proprietor level standings as of Would possibly possibly even 15.
The next groups are for the time being eligible: #2 Miller Lite Dodge, #5 Farmers Insurance Chevy, #9 Mac Tools Ford, #11 FedEx Toyota, #14 Dwelling of labor Depot Chevy, #15 5-Hour Power Toyota, #17 Simplest Buy Ford, #18 M&M;‘s Toyota, #21 Motorcraft/Speedily Lane Ford, #24 Force to Discontinue Hunger Chevy, #27 Moen/Menards Chevy, #29 Budweiser Chevy, #34 Entrance Row Motorsports Ford, #39 US Navy Chevy, #48 Lowe‘s Chevy, #51 Phoenix Building Products and companies Chevy, #55 Aaron‘s Dream Machine Toyota, #78 Furnishings Row Chevy, and #99 Cheez-It Ford.(Escape PR)(4-13-2012) - Johnson To Crown ‘Rushing To Read‘ Champions: #48-Jimmie Johnson will hang a varied crawl to Clara Admire Elementary College in Justin on Friday, April 13, to crown the 2011-2012 champions for Texas Motor Speedway‘s Rushing To Read pilot academic program. Rushing To Read LogoClara Admire Elementary‘s 630 Enough-5 pupil body had been racing to the enact line with more than 57,000 books be taught faculty wide. The faculty‘s lecture rooms, destroy up into two divisions with kindergarten through 2nd grade and third through fifth grade, had been competing in opposition to every other to be taught the most books and hang the title of Rushing To Read champions.(TMS)(4-13-2012)
- Tia Rosa on the #23 at Texas: Tia Rosa Tortillas is relief on board the #23 Chevy within the Nationwide Assortment lope at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend. Robert Richardson, Jr., a Texas native, will be piloting the #23 Tia Rosa Chevrolet with a brand contemporary paint procedure, and crew chief, Greg Conner, will be making the calls from the pit field.(R3 Motorsports)(4-13-2012)
- Pure Michigan on the #6 at Texas: One fortunate fan will be utilizing home from the Pure Michigan 400 NASCAR Escape Cup Assortment lope at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday, August 19 in a custom-made Roush Mustang as fragment of a partnership between Pure Michigan, Roush Fenway Racing and MIS. The sweepstakes was launched with wait on from 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Assortment champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who will be utilizing the #6 Pure Michigan Ford Mustang within the Nationwide Assortment Escape this Friday, April 13 on the Texas Motor Speedway in Ft. Worth. (Roush Fenway Racing)(4-13-2012)
- Fitzpatrick taking a search Charlotte return: UPDATE more recordsdata: From JR Fitzpatrick Fb entry: “I is per chance no longer racing on the Rock or Kansas, working with #TurnOneRacing to beget the gaps within the season, can hang to, be relief within the relief of the wheel of the #60 machine for Charlotte, we’ll have the choice to wait on diggin.”(Fb-JR Fitzpatrick”>)(4-13-2012)
UPDATE: Grant Enfinger will be within the truck at Rockingham. Driver at Kansas is “TBD” as we insist. JR is scheduled to be relief within the truck at Charlotte. Team Proprietor Stacy Compton and JR‘s management team are each and each fully dedicated to having JR be within the #60 truck as a lot as conceivable this season, however there had been some holes to beget with sponsorship to hang that happen. Unfortunately, we had been unable to sell sponsorship for Rockingham and Kansas, which hang resulted in JR being sidelined until Charlotte, likely.(Turn One Racing PR)(4-13-2012) - Greenfield picks up two contemporary sponsors for Rockingham: Clay Greenfield Motorsports picks up two contemporary sponsors for the Gracious Sam Roadside Assistance 200 as the NASCAR Camping World Truck Assortment marks its return to the legendary Rockingham Speedway. Becoming a member of @claygreenfield on the crimson #68 RAM is Performance Automotive, a converse of the artwork body shop serving central Tennessee. Basically based exclusively in Murfreesboro, TN, Performance Automotive has built a reputation for correct, quality work at moderately priced prices. Additionally joining CGM is majorbanner.com, an e-tailer specializing in banners and banner displays for retailers, lope groups and organizations. In addition, the team will be supporting Greenfield‘s alma mater, Austin Peay Verbalize University, where Greenfield graduated with a diploma in enterprise. reenfield will hang his 16th sequence delivery as he wheels his crimson #68 RAM round the 1.017 mile speedway. Greenfield and Crew Chief Gene Affected person are taking a look to regain the momentum the team built at Daytona, where they started the season with a career most entertaining 10th converse enact.(Clay Greenfield Motorsports PR)(4-13-2012)
- Rockingham Tire Notes: This is the NASCAR Camping World Truck Assortment‘ inaugural lope at Rockingham Speedway . . . whereas Camping World Truck groups hang lope this aesthetic-aspect tire code (D-4444) within the past, here is the first time they hang lope this left aspect code (D-4522) . . . truck groups ran this aesthetic-aspect at each and each Dover and Michigan in 2011 . . . NASCAR Escape Cup and Nationwide groups did lope this left-aspect at Fontana earlier this season . . . this tire converse-up came out of a Goodyear take a look at at Rockingham in early March . . . drivers participating in that take a look at had been James Buescher, Jason Leffler and Timothy Peters . . . groups are required to lope interior liners in all four tire positions at Rockingham . . . air stress in these interior liners can hang to be 12-25 psi increased than that of the outer tire.(Goodyear PR) [Complete tire specs are posted on the Rockingham Race Page](4-13-2012)
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April 13, 2011
- Jeff Gordon on the Golf Channel: #24-Jeff Gordon is scheduled to be a visitor on Golf Channel‘s original morning program, “Morning Force,” Thursday, 4/14 at 8: 30am/et. The Morning Force is hosted by sports activities broadcast veterans Erik Kuselias and Gary Williams.(PR)(4-13-2011)
- Biffle signs contract extension: #16-Greg Biffle has agreed to a contract extension with Roush Fenway Racing. An top-notch announcement of Biffle‘s extension may maybe maybe near as early as this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway, sources said. As no longer too long within the past as April 1, Biffle said he was “90 p.c determined” he would re-signal with Roush and hoped to hang a brand contemporary deal done by midseason. A team spokesperson on Wednesday said she couldn’t verify Biffle had agreed to an extension.(Charlotte Observer)(4-13-2011)
- Particular Blueprint for Hamlin at Talladega: The #11 Toyota will carry a varied paint procedure for the 2nd consecutive weekend, as the familiar sunless and blue FedEx Dwelling of labor colors turn blue and white to coincide with the “Print Spacious, Do Spacious” sale for the time being working at all FedEx Dwelling of labor locations. The Orlando South FedEx Dwelling of labor district is for the time being the ideal performing district within the “Print Spacious, Do Spacious” promotion and can hang its “0110” numbers on the b-post of the #11 FedEx Dwelling of labor Toyota this weekend. (FedEx Racing), scrutinize an image of the procedure on the #11 Team Schemes page.(4-13-2011)
- STP jumping relief into racing: UPDATE: On Wednesday afternoon, STP will insist its return to immense league racing, an aggressive sponsorship notion that may maybe well hang the venerable familiar “racer‘s edge” mantra relief in NASCAR‘s Escape Cup and Nationwide Assortment moreover to the NHRA, plus more than one racetrack sponsorships. It begins with NASCAR‘s destroy up weekend of June 4-5, when the Saturday evening Nationwide Assortment event at Chicagoland Speedway may maybe maybe be the STP 300 and the next Sunday afternoon‘s Escape Cup lope may maybe maybe be the STP 400. That identical weekend, Richard Petty‘s infamous #43 car, pushed by A.J. Allmendinger, will carry The King‘s iconic 1972 STP paint procedure, marking the first time that car has carried these colors since a two-lope deal in 2006. In addition, STP has signed tune sponsorship affords with International Speedway Corp. properties, including Daytona, Talladega, Richmond, Darlington, Michigan, Chicagoland and Kansas. The firm has also inked a multiyear sponsorship of Infineon Raceway, including title sponsorship of its Wednesday evening scoot racing sequence.(ESPN.com)(4-13-2010)
UPDATE: When STP and Richard Petty first signed a deal in 1972, it eternally changed the sponsorship landscape trusty throughout the sport of car racing. To designate its 39 year historical past in racing, the STP mark is constructing its presence within the sport through more than one sequence‘ including NASCAR, NHRA, World of Outlaws, Infineon Speedway, and at several International Speedway Corporation (ISC) tracks.
STP‘s racing portfolio entails:
• Multi-year title sponsorship of the Nationwide and Cup races at Chicagoland Speedway and Kansas Speedway, respectively. This year, the STP 300 Nationwide Assortment lope will steal converse on June 4 and the STP 400 Cup lope will lope on June 5.
• The STP-branded #43 car will hang its return to the tune pushed by Richard Petty Motorsports driver, AJ Allmendinger, trusty throughout the STP 400. The No. 43 STP Ford Fusion will be a peculiar replica of the 1972 paint procedure that contains the usual Petty Blue and STP Day-Glo Red.
• Main sponsor of two-time NHRA Fat Throttle Nitro Humorous Automobile Champion Tony Pedregon for three races (Las Vegas, Houston and Infineon) and an affiliate sponsorship for the steadiness of the season.
• Multi-year tune sponsorships with a vary of ISC properties including Daytona, Talladega, Richmond, Darlington, Michigan, Chicagoland and Kansas.
• Multi-year tune sponsorship of Infineon Raceway and title sponsor of Wednesday Night Drags and Bracket Drags.
• Persevered sponsorship of Tony Stewart Racing and 4-time World of Outlaws Champion Donny Schatz and the World of Outlaws Assortment.(MATTER, Edelman/STP)(4-13-2011) - Vickers Doubtful of 2012 Plans: With the smartly being prerequisites seemingly within the relief of him and Mosey potentialities, for now, taking a look gloomy, the most appealing memoir surrounding Vickers and Red Bull Racing is whether or no longer or no longer they’re going to dwell collectively in 2012. “I haven‘t made any decisions yet. I esteem Red Bull. I‘ve loved my time there as a Red Bull mark. I feel I fit the emblem and the emblem fits me. There‘s no query about that. It’s miles a high vitality, be your self, take care of existence, low athlete, low sport more or less mark. And so they enable me to dwell the issues that I purchase to dwell and that is extensive,” said Vickers in a cell phone interview with News/Talk WSB. “Most severely, we‘ve obtained to gain races and I feel that’s what we each and each desire. And with any luck we’ll have the choice to each and each figure that out collectively and I will enact my career out at Red Bull. If we’ll have the choice to‘t, then there‘s other suggestions on the desk and likely we‘ll look at these. For aesthetic now, I‘m dedicated to Red Bull and to this season and that‘s where my center of attention is as of aesthetic now.” A conceivable ingredient in Vickers‘ resolution would be who Red Bull Racing picks as his teammate subsequent season. “Obviously, Kasey [Kahne] is going to be long gone subsequent season and we‘re going to prefer to beget that car. It‘s indubitably going to be an enticing year for Red Bull Racing.”(WSB Atlanta)(4-13-2011)
- Golden Corral returns to TBR: Tommy 1st Earl 1st earl baldwin of bewdley of Bewdley Racing will team up with Golden Corral within the Aaron‘s 499 for the 2nd installment of the Racing for American Families promotion. Golden Corral joined forces with TBR earlier this season within the Daytona 500. TBR driver Dave Blaney will pilot the #36 Golden Corral Chevy at Talladega Superspeedway. As fragment of the Racing for American Families promotion, Golden Corral will offer a one-day “Young other folks Indulge in Free” promotion on Monday, April 18th if Blaney and the No. 36 Golden Corral Chevrolet enact within the tip-10 within the Aaron‘s 499 on April 17th. Apart from the “Young other folks Indulge in Free” promotion, Golden Corral will hang a $10,000 donation to the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) on behalf of the #36 Golden Corral Chevrolet lope team.(TBR)(4-13-2011)
- Steve Park returning to the #36 at Daytona: Tommy 1st Earl 1st earl baldwin of bewdley of Bewdley Racing will team up with NASCAR aged Steve Park for the 2nd annual modified tribute car at Daytona International Speedway. Park will lope the #36 “Venerable Blue” Chevy to tribute proprietor, car-builder and mechanic Len Boehler within the Coke Zero 400 on Saturday, July 2nd. Boehler started BRE Racing Inc in 1957. From the slack 60‘s to the early 70‘s, Boehler ran a coupe modified that was beat up with dents, rusty and built with junkyard facets however had a immediate immense-block engine. Competitors called the car “Venerable Blue” and the title caught. “Venerable Blue” won six NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Championships from 1967-69 and 1994-96 and picked up over 400 characteristic wins within the team‘s 54-year historical past. Foundation Monday, April 18th, fans can hang the chance to be a fragment of historical past by sponsoring the #36 “Venerable Blue” Chevy with contributions from $20 to $10,000. All proceeds exceeding $100,000, the worth to lope the Coke Zero 400, will be donated by Tommy 1st Earl 1st earl baldwin of bewdley of Bewdley Racing to the Victory Junction Gang Camp.(TBR), Park ran the #36 final year at Daytona in July in a Richie Evans Tribute car and may maybe be entered within the #35 Chevy this weekend at Talladega for Tommy 1st Earl 1st earl baldwin of bewdley of Bewdley.(4-13-2011)
- Burton expects more groups to talk at Talladega: From Tuesday‘s NASCAR Teleconference:
Q. At Daytona there was lots of conversation, starters, drivers, groups blending and that form of ingredient. More of that at Talladega? Did we converse a precedent for that at Daytona or will it’s about the identical?
JEFF BURTON: I feel it‘s going to be more of it. I feel that it‘s unquestionably an enticing dynamic to be moderately top-notch. We had a meeting this week talking about, you perceive, who to acquire to prefer to steal a look at to gain for your radio, and it‘s dazzling recurring. I imply, steadily it‘s groups that strive to talk trusty throughout the team. Nonetheless for a Childress car to be talking to a Hendrick car, or a Hendrick car to be talking to a Roush car, and a Roush car to be talking to a Gibbs car, we‘ve by no means viewed that. It‘s dazzling entertaining how that every body is occurring and who is going to who and talking and announcing, can I assign you in my radio. And with the etiquette: When dwell you dash to a competitor‘s radio frequency? All of that‘s a fascinating intention. I don‘t know, I‘m keen on it as a result of I feel actually it‘s safer doing it with one spotter and two autos. I feel it‘s unquestionably safer. Then again, I‘m no longer keen on it as a result of it‘s supposed to be us in opposition to them, you perceive. We are no longer supposed to be working collectively. (Laughing). (Chevy PR)(4-13-2011) - NASCAR, Walmart Join Forces In Give a enhance to Of U.S. Protection force Families: NASCAR and Walmart hang partnered to originate a public provider announcement (PSA) campaign recognizing the sacrifices and challenges militia households face trusty throughout the US. These PSAs, which is in a situation to characteristic a vary of NASCAR drivers and be shown in extra than 500 Walmart locations, will highlight alternatives for NASCAR fans and Walmart customers to toughen militia households in their local communities. Scheduled to launch Memorial Day Weekend, the NASCAR-produced spots will converse viewers to a internet internet site — www.joiningforces.gov — where they’ll be taught more about alternatives to toughen local efforts.(NASCAR)(4-13-2011)
- File lead changes at Talladega? At any time when a lead change takes converse on the lope tune, the NASCAR wait on watch over tower announces it thusly: “Unusual Chief, the [car number].” There had been many such announcements on the 2 Talladega races final season. The April lope had an all-time NASCAR listing 88 lead changes; the October lope had 87. The October lope obtained off to a immediate delivery — there had been 10 lead changes within the first 10 laps. The listing for selection of assorted leaders was also damaged final April — 29 varied drivers led a minimum of one lap. Identify on a identical ratio this weekend. The lead change and leader recordsdata each and each fell within the season‘s first restrictor plate lope — the Daytona 500. That leap-started a season that has already viewed three races with recordsdata in lead changes, and yet any other — Texas, final weekend — that came two lead changes wanting tying the listing. Many competition numbers are highs through seven races. As an illustration …
• There was a median of 13 leaders per lope, most through seven races in sequence historical past.
• There was a median of 31.4 lead changes per lope, most through seven races in sequence historical past.
• There had been six varied winners within the first seven races, most since 2003.
• There was a median of 3,581 inexperienced flag passes trusty throughout the tune per lope, most through seven races for the reason that inception of Loop Data in 2005.
• There was a median of 39 inexperienced flag passes for the lead trusty throughout the tune per lope, 2nd-most through seven races for the reason that inception of Loop Data in 2005.(NASCAR)(4-13-2011) - Oreos on the #42 Talladega: This weekend the #42 Aim Chevy will carry the Oreo mark on its quarter panels. Oreo is manufactured by the Nabisco Division of Kraft Foods and can simply furthermore be bought at local Aim stores. The Oreo cookie has been America‘s most trendy cookie since it was launched in 1912. More than 345 billion Oreo cookies had been consumed to this level. More than 7.5 billion Oreo cookies are consumed annually, which comes out to 625 million per thirty days and 20.5 million per day.(EGR)(4-13-2011)
- Mayfield claims NASCAR forced SPEED to edit interview: Jeremy Mayfield accused NASCAR of forcing the SPEED Channel to edit Mayfield‘s one-on-one interview with Steve Byrnes. Mayfield said, ” I had a large interview with the SPEED Channel a pair of month within the past with Steve Byrnes, the ideal one ever. It was going to be enormous! I couldn‘t cease awake for them to air it. It was top-notch. From his level of stare, he was asking me top-notch questions that I may maybe maybe answer, he wasn‘t attempting to converse me up…all the pieces was enormous — after which NASCAR will get wind of it. Paul Brooks (from NASCAR) calls the President of the SPEED Channel and says, “Whenever you air this gift with Mayfield on it, it‘s going to jeopardize our relationship.” So, they took out all the pieces I said, something else that amounted to something else at all — took it all out and steadily made me look esteem an fool on TV esteem I wasn‘t announcing something else.”(Captain Advise)(4-13-2011)
- Rodney Atkins having pre-lope dwell efficiency at Richmond: One can repeatedly bag their aesthetic fragment of Patriotism at a NASCAR event however when Rodney Atkins takes the stage in Richmond, it may maybe possibly probably actually hang to be at an all-time high. Persevering with his ongoing partnership with Crown Royal to salute these that proudly wait on, country tune artist Rodney Atkins will honor militia hero United States Marine Corps Staff Sergeant (SSgt.) Matthew Hansen, in an hour-long dwell efficiency sooner than the Crown Royal Items The Matthew & Daniel Hansen 400 at Richmond International Raceway on Saturday, April 30th. Ticketholders who’re 21 years of age and older can hang the chance to stare the dwell efficiency on the frontstretch of America‘s Premier Immediate Observe. To acquire passes for on-tune gain entry to, ticketholders are invited to chat over with a booth positioned within the white VIBE tent on the halfway, adjoining to the Venerable Dominion Building on Saturday, April 30, where they’re going to acquire a Crown Royal t-shirt and a lanyard, providing them gain entry to to the stage space for the dwell efficiency. Ticketholders who dwell no longer hang on-tune gain entry to passes can tranquil ride the dwell efficiency from the grandstands.(RIR)(4-13-2011)
- Kansas Speedway partnering with Harvesters on June 3: Kansas Speedway is partnering with Harvesters — The Neighborhood Meals Community to benefit Harvesters‘ BackSnack program. Followers that wait on the June 3 discover classes for the NASCAR Escape Cup Assortment and NASCAR Camping World Truck Assortment at Kansas Speedway will be in a situation to hang a monetary donation to the BackSnack program when they enter the gates at Kansas Speedway. The BackSnack program, affords backpacks of wholesome, kid-excellent meals to low-profits youngsters who’re at possibility of being hungry on the weekends. Harvesters affords the meals and backpacks, and a team partner cleans and fills the backpacks with meals per week. Schools distribute the backpacks on Fridays to school students who then carry them relief on Mondays to delivery out the direction of again. This year alone, the BackSnack program is feeding more than 13,000 college students every weekend in Harvesters‘ 26-county provider space. It takes $200 to provide one backpack to 1 child for the total faculty year. Volunteers from Harvesters will be readily on hand to ranking the donations on the Speedway or lope fans can donate $10 to Harvesters by texting FOOD to 41010.(Kansas Speedway)(4-13-2011)
- Two team for MacDonald this weekend: This may maybe maybe be the first time this season that MacDonald Motorsports will be entering two autos trusty into a lope. Donnie Neuenberger will be relief within the Eagle Convenience Stores #81 and Blake Koch will be utilizing the Daystar.com #82. This creates loads more work main as a lot as and trusty throughout the weekend for the team. The #81 car that Donnie will be utilizing is locked into the lope whereas the #82 will prefer to qualify on time.(MacDonald Motorsports)(4-13-2011)
- Wise returns to Lunge Inexperienced at Talladega: Josh Wise returns to Lunge Inexperienced Racing this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway and will compete for the Aaron‘s 312 gain within the #39 Cajun Industries Ford Mustang on Saturday, April 16. Wise is for the time being in 13th-converse within the NASCAR Nationwide Assortment level standings after scoring four high-20 finishes in six races this season with Lunge Inexperienced Racing and JR Motorsports. In addition, Polk‘s Meat Products joins Wise and Lunge Inexperienced Racing as an affiliate sponsor for the event. (Spire Sports + Leisure)(4-13-2011)
- Efland to power for Potential at Talladega: Danny Efland launched that he is combining efforts with Jimmy Potential Racing for the Aaron‘s 312 at Talladega SuperSpeedway on Saturday, April 16, 2011. With Jimmy Potential gargantuan ride Danny expects to dwell smartly within the #52 car at Talladega. It‘s been discontinuance to 5 months since Danny and the Danny Efland Racing team had been on a lope tune competing within the NASCAR Nationwide Assortment. Nonetheless that will stop this weekend. Danny plans to be relief within the familiar #07 for the next lope he runs. (Danny Efland Racing)(4-13-2011)
- Applebee‘s to sponsor George: Applebee‘s Neighborhood Bar & Grill/Potomac Family Dining Community will sponsor Tim George Jr. in each and each the ARCA and NASCAR Nationwide Assortment races at Talladega Superspeedway this weekend. George, 30, will compete in his third fleshy ARCA season in 2011, piloting the #31 Chevy for Richard Childress Racing. He ran 27th within the season opener at Daytona on Feb. 12. Friday‘s 3 Amigos 250 at Talladega is the 2nd lope on the ARCA agenda. George will pilot the #21 Applebee‘s Chevy within the NNS lope on Saturday.(Fox Sports)(4-12-2011)
UPDATE: Potomac Family Dining Community launched the sponsorship of Tim George Jr., driver of the #31 Richard Childress Racing (RCR) Chevt, within the April 15 ARCA Racing Assortment presented by Menards event at Talladega Superspeedway. Potomac Family Dining Community and Applebee‘s can even be the sponsor on the #21 RCR Chevy pushed by George Jr. within the NASCAR Nationwide Assortment event the next day. This may maybe maybe be the first look in each and each racing sequence for the Washington, D.C.-based mostly exclusively mostly restaurant team which is the queer franchisee of 30 Applebee‘s restaurants in southern Maryland, northern Virginia, and facets of West Virginia and Pennsylvania.(PFDG PR), scrutinize an image of the car on the #21 team paint schemes page.(4-13-2011) - 5-Hour Power sponsoring Dover lope: 5-hour ENERGY launched that it may maybe possibly probably actually hang to be the title sponsor of the Nationwide Assortment lope to be held Saturday, Would possibly possibly even 14 on the Dover International Speedway, also identified as the Monster Mile. NASCAR fans is no longer going to only be handled to engaging lope circulation, however also gain a gamble to steal a look at a free sample of 5-hour ENERGY. Stamp representatives will be stationed trusty throughout the speedway passing out samples. Dover is per chance no longer the first time NASCAR fans scrutinize 5-hour ENERGY® on the tune. The Michigan- based mostly exclusively mostly mark was the title sponsor for final year‘s Nationwide Assortment lope in St. Louis, and is in its fourth season as vital sponsor for the Rusty Wallace Racing #66 Toyota pushed by Steven Wallace.(Performance PR Plus)(4-13-2011)
- Harvick having particular company at Talladega: Kevin Harvick Inc. sponsor Pinnacle Foods will be bringing alongside some very particular company to the NASCAR Nationwide Assortment lope this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway. Pinnacle Foods, whose mark Armour Vienna Sausages is the most fundamental sponsor of the #4 KHI Chevy pushed by Kevin Harvick for Saturday‘s event, will host 18 youngsters with the team Magic Moments for a day of stress-free on the tune. Magic Moments, based mostly in 1984 and based mostly exclusively mostly within the Birmingham, Ala. space is dedicated to creating the non-clinical wants and needs near top-notch for youngsters who’re no longer in a situation to stay out a conventional childhood attributable to wretched diseases. The team of youngsters can hang the chance to bewitch first hand the total NASCAR circulation on the smartly-known Alabama superspeedway. The VIP company will gain to meet driver and KHI co-proprietor Harvick trusty through a varied Meet and Greet Saturday morning exterior of the Media Heart. The team can even hang the likelihood to expend time with venerable NASCAR driver and SPEED personality Kyle Petty trusty through a non-public Meet and Greet in their hospitality chalet. Harvick‘s #4 Chevy can even lope a Magic Moments decal in toughen of the organization.(KHI)(4-13-2011)
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April 13, 2010
- Kahne to Hendrick? [Stewart-Haas?] UPDATE: #9-Kasey Kahne, the most trendy attainable free agent in NASCAR entering the season, has signed a multiyear settlement to affix Hendrick Motorsports in 2011, more than one sources discontinuance to negotiations confirmed to ESPN.com Tuesday. The facts of the deal, corresponding to which car Kahne will power, are tranquil being finalized, sources said. The existing notion is Kahne will recall the #5 car for the time being pushed by Designate Martin, sources said. Martin signed a contract extension final year throughout the 2011 season. There’s room for Martin and Kahne within the Hendrick family. Stewart Haas Racing receives chassis, engines and technical toughen from HMS. So Kahne will be housed there until Martin‘s contract was up, if obligatory. In 2008 Dale Earnhardt Jr. signed a 5-year tackle Hendrick. Jimmie Johnson final year signed an extension through 2015, and Jeff Gordon has a lifetime contract. Kahne is within the final year of his contract with Richard Petty Motorsports, and plans to enact the season within the #9 Ford, sources said. It’s miles unknown whether or no longer Kahne‘s sponsor, Budweiser, will accompany him to HMS [which sponsored Hendrick‘s #25 Chevy for years]. Hendrick Motorsports officers had no exclaim. Calls positioned to Kahne, who grew to alter into 30 final weekend, and to his agent weren’t returned.(ESPN)
UPDATE: Richard Petty Motorsports launched that driver Kasey Kahne has knowledgeable the team he is no longer going to resume his contract on the conclusion of the 2010 NASCAR Escape Cup Assortment season. Kahne, driver the #9 Budweiser Ford Fusion, has been with RPM since entering NASCAR‘s premier sequence in 2004. “Kasey is a unquestionably talented driver and I unquestionably hang loved staring at him lope. All of us desire him nothing however the ideal and hope he succeeds in something else he chooses to dwell,” said team proprietor Richard Petty. “Drivers esteem Kasey Kahne are the very motive we obtained into this sport. Kasey has helped us gain to where we are as of late,” George Gillett, proprietor of Richard Petty Motorsports said. “We desire him smartly in his future on the opposite hand we have the relaxation of this season to lope collectively and we‘re taking a cease awake for a a hit the relaxation of the year.”(RPM)(4-13-2010) - Bliss named to the #09 wander: Mike Bliss and Tommy 1st Earl 1st earl baldwin of bewdley of Bewdley Racing [#36 Checy] hang parted programs, efficient without lengthen. Bliss will change Aric Almirola at Phoenix Racing. Bliss ran 5 of the first seven races for 1st Earl 1st earl baldwin of bewdley of Bewdley. He didn’t qualify at Bristol and final week at Phoenix. TBR is for the time being 38th in proprietor components. “Mike has been rock solid in qualifying with a Cup car,” Phoenix crew chief Marc Reno said. “We had been struggling and we have to hang races to wait on our guys working. We‘re attempting to continue to exist until we’ll have the choice to land a sponsor. All people loves Aric. Nonetheless we can hang appreciated any individual that will qualify for races. (Proprietor) James (Finch) has helped Aric out in autos and if we had been in a bigger situation, we‘d take care of to carry him as a lot as flee in Cup as smartly.”(FoxSports)(4-13-2010)
- Unusual driver for the #36 at Texas/Talladega: Tommy 1st Earl 1st earl baldwin of bewdley of Bewdley Racing (TBR) has tapped Johnny Sauter to power the #36 Wave Power Drink Chevrolet for this weekend‘s Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. The lope will designate Sauter‘s first time within the relief of the wheel of the #36, which was pushed by Mike Bliss for the season‘s first seven NASCAR Escape Cup Assortment races. Sauter has pushed the #35 TBR Chevy in three races in 2010, including final week at Phoenix International Raceway, where he done 41st after qualifying within the 37th situation. Sauter can even steal wait on watch over of the #36 for subsequent week‘s lope at Talladega Superspeedway. “I‘m fascinated about having Johnny within the #36 for the next couple of races and cease awake for seeing what he can dwell,” said team proprietor Tommy 1st Earl 1st earl baldwin of bewdley of Bewdley. “He has been sturdy at Texas, in particular within the Truck sequence, and I‘m assured he can give us a solid efficiency within the Escape Cup car. We’re going to have the choice to hang him for a pair of races here sooner than he’ll prefer to present attention to his Truck Assortment team, and we hope to hang a fleshy-time driver for the #36 named here within the near future,” he added.(Tommy 1st Earl 1st earl baldwin of bewdley of Bewdley Racing)(4-13-2010)
- Phoenix TV Ratings Up: NASCAR Escape Cup racing from Phoenix International Raceway earned a 3.4/7 Saturday evening, April 10th on FOX. That is 3% higher than final year‘s 3.3/6 for the identical lope. The final three FOX NASCAR races to air in their on a conventional foundation scheduled windows hang all been up a tenth of some extent over final year within the metered markets, however FOX has yet to parlay that into an expand for any races within the nationals. FOX‘s lope earned a 3.4/6 from 8-11pm, which was top-notch ample to converse FOX 2nd for the evening within the relief of CBS‘s 4.0/7. Fox the season-to-date NASCAR On FOX is down -4% within the metered markets (4.8/10 vs. 5.0/10). For 2010 TV Ratings and the season-to-season chart, scrutinize my 2010 TV Ratings page.(4-13-2010)
- Wheaties procedure for Bowyer at Indy: #33-Clint Bowyer is scheduled to lope a Wheaties Gasoline paint procedure at Indy within the Brickyard 400 on July 25th. Fashioned Mills [also makes Cheerios] launched Wheaties Gasoline earlier this year, notion to be the next evolution of Wheaties. Leer an image of the procedure on my #33 Team Schemes page.(4-13-2010)
- Particular procedure for Kenseth in two races: Jeremiah Weed Candy Tea Vodka is scheduled to be the most fundamental aponaor for #17 Matt Kenseth within the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Would possibly possibly even and the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona in July. Leer image of the procedure on my #17 Team Schemes page.(4-13-2010)
- Jimmie Johnson label equipment at Dover: Escape fans that haven‘t locked in their seats yet for the Would possibly possibly even 16, 2010 NASCAR Escape Cup Assortment lope at Dover International Speedway can now steal profit of a large deal named for one enormous driver. The $48 Jimmie Johnson equipment, presented by 92.5 XTU, entails a particularly priced label to the “Autism Speaks 400 presented by HERSHEY‘S Milk & Milkshakes” lope on Sunday, Would possibly possibly even 16 and admission to an queer inquire-and-answer session with Johnson in Philadelphia on Thursday, April 29. Johnson may maybe maybe be the particular visitor of a Q&A session at World Café Dwell, positioned at 3025 Walnut St. in Philadelphia, on Thursday, April 29 at 12: 30 p.m. Doors initiate at 11: 30 a.m. on the trendy stay tune venue, and lunch specials will be on hand sooner than the Johnson event. The queer April 29 event is purely on hand to fans that bewitch the $48 Johnson equipment. With the acquisition of this equipment, precise fans of the #48 team will be in a situation to sit down down down amongst fellow fans in designated Jimmie Johnson sections within the grandstands at Dover. Space is limited, so fans are inspired to present an explanation for quickly. For more recordsdata about the $48 Jimmie Johnson equipment, or to bewitch tickets, please name 1-800-441-RACE or talk over with www.DoverSpeedway.com/XTU. The deadline to bewitch this equipment is Sunday, April 25, 2010.(Dover PR)(4-13-2010)
- Bires out at JR Motorsports; McMurray utilizing 9 races: JR Motorsports will undergo a driver change to its #88 NASCAR Nationwide Assortment team efficient this weekend when the sequence races at Texas Motor Speedway, total supervisor and co-proprietor Kelley Earnhardt launched. The organization has launched 25-year-venerable Kelly Bires from his contractual utilizing responsibilities of the #88 Chevy. NASCAR Escape Cup Assortment traditional Jamie McMurray, driver of the #1 Bass Pro Shops/McDonalds Chevry for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing, has agreed to a deal that puts him within the #88 JR Motorsports Chevy for 9 races. These races embrace the six upcoming Nationwide Assortment events — Texas (April 17), Talladega (April 24), Richmond (April 30), Darlington (Would possibly possibly even 7), Dover (Would possibly possibly even 15) and Charlotte (Would possibly possibly even 30) — plus Chicagoland (July 9), Atlanta (Sept. 4) and the return crawl to Charlotte (Oct. 15). Hellmann‘s may maybe maybe be the most fundamental sponsor in all however two of these races, and the Suave Men mark will be featured on the #88 at Chicagoland Speedway.(JR Motorsports PR)(4-13-2010)
- McCumbee to power for RAB Racing at Texas: Chad McCumbee, a NASCAR Camping World Truck Assortment aged, will hang his NASCAR Nationwide Assortment debut with RAB Racing within the relief of the wheel of the #09 Ford in this weekend‘s O‘Reilly 300 at Texas Motor Speedway. McCumbee will be making his eighth delivery on the 1.5-mile quad-oval. Then again, it may maybe possibly probably actually hang to be his first career delivery within the NASCAR Nationwide Assortment within the “Lone Essential individual Verbalize”.(RAB Racing PR)(4-13-2010)
- Lofton making first strive of 2010: In the center of a fleshy-time ARCA Racing Assortment agenda, Justin Lofton made his NASCAR debut final August within the Nationwide Assortment. He started 19th and impressively finessed his procedure throughout the subject, at cases working trusty throughout the tip 10, sooner than a decrease tire forced him to the pits slack within the lope. He done the event a solid 16th. After claiming the 2009 ARCA championship, Lofton and crew chief Designate Rette joined Camping World Truck Assortment powerhouse Red Horse Racing. This weekend Lofton and Rette will return to the Nationwide ranks with the RHR team, fielding the #71 WeekendWarriorsTV.com Toyota. The event may maybe maybe be the first of several runs for Lofton and the RHR team within Nationwide competition this season, with targets of hitting the tune again as quickly as subsequent month at Charlotte Motor Speedway. WeekendWarriorsTV.com will grace the hood of Lofton‘s sunless, crimson, and grey #71 Toyota this weekend at Texas. WWTV is an online, bi-weekly internet gift hosted by Lofton‘s sister, Brittany Lofton, and directed by Brett Bortle. The gift delves within the relief of the scenes with crews and drivers alike spanning racetracks across the country, telling the memoir of top-notch grassroots racers.(Lofton PR)(4-13-2010)
- Kenny Wallace will get Texas sponsor, UPDATE and IMAGE: #28-Kenny Wallace posted on his Fb page, “I am honored to insist a large sponsor for the lope this week in Texas…”The Chloe Duyck Memorial Fund”. This was established to toughen research for babies with heart illness. One out of 85 babies are born with heart defects. The fund is fragment of Cardiopulmonary Be taught Science and Skills Institute (CRSTI). 100% proceeds dash to the fund. Leer an image of the car on my #28 tem paint schemes page.(4-12-2010)
UPDATE: The Chloe Duyck Memorial Fund has partnered with driver Kenny Wallace and the Jay Robinson Racing #28 Chevy for this Saturday‘s O‘Reilly 300 at Texas Motor Speedway. Wallace and the team will work tough to carry consciousness, and donations, to the main starting up defect affecting our youngsters—congenital heart defects. It’s possible you’ll maybe acquire recordsdata on the Chloe Duyck Memorial Fund by logging onto the Web position www.hope4tinyhearts.com. The Chloe Duyck Memorial Fund was established for Chloe by her other folks Michelle and Joel Duyck in 2005. Chloe was born on August 30, 2004, and lost her rapid battle with a congenital heart defect identified as Hypoplastic Left Coronary heart Syndrome (HLHS), on September 3, 2004. Chloe persevered two initiate-heart surgical procedures moreover to several other procedures to steal a look at and put her existence, however to no avail. The Chloe Duyck Memorial Fund was established to toughen research within the subject of congenital heart illness. The fund is fragment of the Cardiopulmonary Be taught Science and Skills Institute (CRSTI), 501(c)3 no longer for profit organization.(Jay Robinson PR)(4-13-2010) - Scurry for Dime on the #73: Dean TV will be in Texas for the lope on April 17th. Dean Guitars bought the hood of the #73 Automobile in toughen of Scurry for Dime. More recordsdata to discontinuance relief quickly however there will be a likelihood of the Scurry for Dime NASCAR hood at this years Scurry For Dime in August. Scurry for dime is a charity wander in reminiscence Of Dimebag Darrell Abbott Dallas‘s accept as true with guitarist for Pantera. Get up meets Rebael and Damageplan! On December 8, 2004, Abbott was murdered on stage trusty through a Damageplan efficiency on the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio.(Stratus Racing PR)(4-13-2010)
- Stenhouse has contemporary crew chief: Roush Fenway Racing aged Mike Kelley has been named crew chief of the #6 Nationwide team with driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. efficient without lengthen. Kelley joined Roush Fenway in 2002 as car chief of the #97 team below Jimmy Fennig and has since long gone on to make a contribution to Roush Fenway‘s 2004 Escape Cup Championship alongside with moderately heaps of wins within the Escape Cup Assortment as a car chief and within the Nationwide Assortment as a crew chief with Carl Edwards and David Ragan. Ben Leslie, who had served at crew chief on the #6, moves to the characteristic of director of competition over Roush Fenway‘s four Nationwide groups.(Roush Fenway PR)(4-13-2010)
- Phoenix TV Ratings flat: ESPN2‘s stay telecast of the NASCAR Nationwide Assortment lope at Phoenix International Raceway on Friday evening earned a final nationwide household coverage rating of 1.0, the identical rating the event has earned annually since ESPN returned to NASCAR coverage in 2007. The telecast averaged 1,262,505 viewers.(ESPN PR)(4-13-2010)
- R3 donates decklid apartment: The proprietor of R3 Motorsports, Robert Richardson, Sr., and driver, Robert Richardson, Jr., donated the decklid space of their #23 Chevy to a local charity for the NASCAR Nationwide Assortment lope this Saturday at Texas Motor Speedway. The natives of McKinney, Texas, which is set 45 minutes north of the speedway, wished to wait on out a charity in their space. Through an affiliation with the award-trustworthy firm of Levenson & Brinker Public Relations, the charity of Limbs for Life Foundation (www.LimbsforLife.org) obtained the donation of the decklid apartment on the car to public sale off trusty through a contemporary fundraiser. Limbs for Life Foundation is a non-profit organization that affords prosthetic care and raises consciousness of the challenges amputees face. The final public sale was held early this year within the Dallas space. Collected with out vital advertising partners, this isn‘t the first time R3 Motorsports has donated advertising apartment on their car. For the season opener at Daytona International Speedway, Richardson, Jr. carried a Texas Scottish Ceremony Youngsters‘s Clinical institution logo on his Chevy.(R3 Motorsports PR)(4-13-2010)
- Sauter to lope more Cup races for TBR: Tommy 1st Earl 1st earl baldwin of bewdley of Bewdley Racing has tapped Johnny Sauter to power the #36 Wave Power Drink Chevrolet for this weekend‘s Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. The lope will designate Sauter‘s first time within the relief of the wheel of the #36, which was pushed by Mike Bliss for the season‘s first seven NASCAR Escape Cup Assortment races. Sauter can even steal wait on watch over of the #36 for subsequent week‘s lope at Talladega Superspeedway.(Tommy 1st Earl 1st earl baldwin of bewdley of Bewdley Racing PR)(4-13-2010)
- Lofton to strive a pair of Nationwide races UPDATE more recordsdata: Camping World Truck Assortment driver Justin Lofton has sold two NASCAR Nationwide Assortment autos and will compete in three or four Nationwide races with his truck team, Red Horse Racing. Lofton‘s first lope he‘ll strive to hang is at Texas on April 17. Lofton sold the Toyotas from CJM Racing, one he drove at Michigan final year and yet any other CJM didn‘t moderately enact. Lofton said he‘ll also lope at Charlotte in Would possibly possibly even and at Kansas in October. If the 2 autos continue to exist, he said he‘ll likely lope them at California in October. Red Horse will be listed as the pinnacle-notch proprietor and will provide crew contributors and its hauler, Lofton said.(NNS Racing)(4-3-2010)
UPDATE: This weekend Lofton and Rette will return to the Nationwide ranks with the RHR team, fielding the No. 71 WeekendWarriorsTV.com Toyota Camry. The event may maybe maybe be the first of several runs for Lofton and the RHR team within Nationwide competition this season, with targets of hitting the tune again as quickly as subsequent month at Charlotte Motor Speedway.(Justin Lofton PR)(4-13-2010) - No sophomore crawl for Carmichael: The American Motorcyclist Association‘s all-time greatest, Ricky Carmichael (#4 Monster Power Chevrolet), came to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Assortment final season with one of many ideal studying curves to beat, switching from two wheels to four. Even supposing, he dominated the AMA circuit posting 15 championships over time, he only posted two high 10s final season in 18 begins and done the season 22nd within the components. Nonetheless this season Carmichael has already matched his final season listing with two tops 10s finishing sixth at Atlanta and 10th at Martinsville. He is for the time being seventh within the standings, 10 components within the relief of Ron Hornaday Jr. in sixth and 188 components within the relief of the components leader, Timothy Peters.(NASCAR PR)(4-13-2010) [For more of NASCAR‘s Open Week News & Notes visit the Kansas Race Page.](4-13-2010)
- NASCAR suspends crew member: Ryan Sebek, a crew member for the #76 team within the NASCAR Camping World Truck Assortment, has been indefinitely suspended from NASCAR for violating the sanctioning body‘s substance abuse policy. On April 8, Sebek was came across to hang violated Sections 12-1 (actions detrimental to stock car racing) and 19 (violation of the NASCAR substance abuse policy) of the 2010 NASCAR rule guide.(NASCAR PR)(4-13-2010)
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April 13, 2009
- Prilosec returns to the #31: #31-Jeff Burton is scheduled to power the pink #31 Prilosec Chevy colors at Richmond in Would possibly possibly even. Leer an image of the procedure on the #31 Team Schemes page.(4-13-2009)
- Morgan-McClure Motorsports converse to discontinuance at Talladega: UPDATE: Morgan-McClure Motorsports is relief. The team will return to the NASCAR Escape Cup Assortment at Talladega Superspeedway on April 26 and will strive to hang the Aaron‘s 499 with driver Eric McClure, sources said Friday at Nashville Superspeedway. The team will again subject the #4 Chevy, with sponsorship from Hefty mark. If the Talladega lope weekend goes smartly, a offer said the team may maybe maybe strive to hang more races later within the season.(Scene Each day)(4-11-2009)
UPDATE: Having no longer competed in Escape Cup competition for the reason that 2007 season finale, Morgan McClure Motorsports (MMM) will hang a return to the circuit in two weeks as they strive the Aaron‘s 499 at Talladega Superspeedway. The 2.66-mile speedway is home to four of their 14 Escape Cup career victories. Nationwide Assortment traditional Eric McClure, will join forces with MMM, piloting the smartly-known #4 Chevy for the Aaron‘s 499 weekend. No stranger to MMM, the 30-year-venerable driver has competed in two Escape Cup events and 4 Nationwide Assortment events for the organization, incomes a most entertaining enact of 26th and 22nd respectively. The Hefty mark, that contains its Steel Sak raze fetch, will wait on as vital sponsor for the event and proceed its relationship with McClure that began in 2006 and continues fleshy-time within the Nationwide Assortment.(Eric McClure PR)(4-13-2009)
IMAGE posted: scrutinize an image of the #4 Hefty/Walmart Chevy that McClure will lope at Talladega on the #4 Team Schemes page.(4-13-2009) - Hendrick plane smash trial may maybe maybe delivery later this month: More than four years after a Hendrick Motorsports plane smash that killed 10 other folks on easy programs to the NASCAR Cup lope Oct. 24, 2004, at Martinsville Speedway, complaints over who was in charge of the smash may maybe maybe finally dash to trial within the next couple of weeks. A final pretrial conference is converse for Friday in conditions appealing Hendrick Motorsports, the estates of the pilots, the U.S. government and the widows of Hendrick Motorsports engine builder Randy Dorton, total supervisor Jeff Turner and Tony Stewart pilot Scott Lathram (a passenger on the plane). The trial may maybe maybe delivery as early as subsequent Monday in U.S. District Court docket in Winston-Salem, N.C. At subject is who is in charge of the accident — HMS Holdings (parent firm of Hendrick Motorsports), the pilots themselves or the air-site visitors controllers. Basically based exclusively on court docket documents, the smash resulted when the pilots overshot the airport by 5 miles and didn’t follow the uncared for-ability direction of for the Martinsville/Blue Ridge Airport, which requires a ice climbing aesthetic turn to wait on a long way off from Bull Mountain. The plane, in heavy cloud duvet, climbed with out turning and crashed into the mountain, killing all 10 aboard.(Scene Each day)(4-13-2009)
- $10 Million, Gracious for Motor Oil: The most developed fragment of technology in a NASCAR automobile this gift day isn‘t its engine, its suspension or something else product of carbon fiber. It‘s the motor oil. Joe Gibbs Racing has spent about $1 million a year trusty throughout the final decade to ideal its motor oil. In consequence, its engines hang squeezed out an extra 10 horsepower, a roughly 2% expand that will furthermore be a serious advantage in NASCAR races.With NASCAR an increasing number of cracking down on the usage of technology within the sport to decrease prices, motor oil is one of many final places groups can innovate with out restraint. Corporations esteem Shell, Quaker Verbalize and Mobil also hang particular oils packed with synthetic lubricants, contemporary polymers and experimental molecules for the groups they sponsor. All this has spawned a tradition of secrecy. Shell was so disturbed about conserving its motor-oil formula that it no longer too long within the past refused to allow aged lope oil to be supplied as a memento to NASCAR fans. The subject, a spokesman said, is that any individual may maybe maybe “reverse engineer” the aged oil to scrutinize what its properties are. Joe Gibbs Racing, one of NASCAR‘s richest and most-a hit groups, won‘t bid which firm assembles its synthetic oil and will only title the scientists who work on its formula as “William the chemist,” who‘s in charge of formulating the oil, and “Douglas,” who aged to work for NASA and is in charge of inspecting the team‘s ragged engine facets below a microscope. “I don‘t desire other groups attempting to search out out who these guys are,” says Lake Creep Jr., who runs the team‘s oil program.(Wall Boulevard Journal)(4-13-2009)
- Potential honored by county hall of reputation: NASCAR‘s greatest megastar and the contributors of Huntsville, Ala., hang something in fundamental this gift day. They each and each gaze Huntsville resident Jimmy Potential as a correct American hero. Dale Earnhardt Jr. for years has been vocal and fervent in his toughen of Potential, a journeyman driver within the sequence now identified as Escape Cup however who now fields below-funded autos within the Nationwide Assortment. The Huntsville other folks are making their affection top-notch Monday, inducting Potential into the Huntsville/Madison County Athletic Hall of Popularity. Venerable Huntsville Times reporter Designate McCarter says Potential is the first lope driver inducted into the Hall.(Racin‘ This day)(4-13-2009)
- Nationwide COT will be pushed relief to 2011: Work on the NASCAR Nationwide Assortment car of the next day to come is proceeding, though the sanctioning body‘s ban on simply about all checking out for 2009 may maybe maybe push the introduction of the contemporary car relief to 2011. Nationwide Assortment Director Joe Balash said Saturday at Nashville Superspeedway that Toyota‘s version of the car, the Camry, will return to the wind tunnel for checking out this week. The opposite three manufacturers who steal fragment within the sequence hang all had their variations certified aerodynamically. The automobile has been formally tested on the lope tune twice, however each and each assessments had been final year. And given the struggling U.S. financial system, many within the Nationwide storage desire NASCAR to preserve up off yet any other year sooner than rolling the car out. Balash said the sanctioning body will hear to opinions of groups sooner than making a resolution. The original introduction was planned for August of this year, however that was pushed relief to 2010. Now the car will be held off until 2011.(Scene Each day)(4-13-2009)
- Racing Sources Says…
Joey Logano won the Nashville 300 at Nashville Superspeedway. Logano scored his 2nd Nationwide victory in his 24th delivery — his other gain came at Kentucky (20 begins between). Logano led 9 cases for a lope-high 95 laps, including the final 10. It‘s the first time he had led the most laps in his 24 Nationwide races. Both of Logano‘s sequence wins came with crew chief Dave Rogers, who has 16 career wins. Kyle Busch, who done 2nd, gave Joe Gibbs Racing its third 1-2 enact within the sequence. Busch done 2nd all three cases. Toyota posted its 25th Nationwide victory and first at Nashville. It’s miles its third gain of 2009. Joe Gibbs Racing scored its 31st sequence victory and first at Nashville. The gain is JGR‘s third gain within the first six races of 2009. JGR led 172 of the 225 laps in Saturday‘s lope. JGR has led 670 of the 1,204 laps lope in 2009 (56 p.c). Kelly Bires, who done fourth, scored his most entertaining career enact within the No. 33 Kevin Harvick Inc. car. It ties the ideal enact for KHI at Nashville (Tony Raines done fourth in June 2005). There had been a listing-tying 19 lead changes — 15 between Logano and Busch. Four drivers made their Nationwide debut: Brian Scott (25th), Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (23rd), Tim Andrews (33rd), Benny Gordon (36th). Scott Lagasse (10th) was the ideal-finishing rookie contender among the seven newbies within the lope. The high 10 consisted of 4 Toyotas, four Chevys and two Fords. One of the best-finishing Dodge was Dennis Setzer in 20th. Carl Edwards, who done fourth, continues to steer the components by 23 over Kyle Busch.(ESPN.com)(4-13-2009) - Nationwide Assortment Under the Lights at Phoenix on ESPN2: The NASCAR Nationwide Assortment heads to the desolate tract this weekend for an event Friday evening at Phoenix International Raceway, and ESPN2 can hang a stay, high definition telecast of the 200-mile lope on Friday, April 17, at 9 p.m. ET. ESPN2 is the home of the NASCAR Nationwide Assortment all season, with selected races on ESPN and ABC. The lope re-airs Saturday, April 18, at noon on ESPN Classic. Dr. Jerry Punch may maybe maybe be the lap-by-lap announcer for ESPN‘s coverage from Phoenix, joined within the booth for diagnosis by Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree. Mike Massaro, Shannon Spake and Vince Welch will listing from the pits, whereas Tim Brewer will be within the ESPN Craftsman Tech Storage. Allen Bestwick will host the pre-lope NASCAR Countdown program with diagnosis by Jarrett within the ESPN pit studio.(ESPN PR)(4-13-2009)
- Potential honored by county hall of reputation: NASCAR‘s greatest megastar and the contributors of Huntsville, Ala., hang something in fundamental this gift day. They each and each gaze Huntsville resident Jimmy Potential as a correct American hero. Dale Earnhardt Jr. for years has been vocal and fervent in his toughen of Potential, a journeyman driver within the sequence now identified as Escape Cup however who now fields below-funded autos within the Nationwide Assortment. The Huntsville other folks are making their affection top-notch Monday, inducting Potential into the Huntsville/Madison County Athletic Hall of Popularity. Venerable Huntsville Times reporter Designate McCarter says Potential is the first lope driver inducted into the Hall.(Racin‘ This day)(4-13-2009)
- Bodine & Austin to throw out first pitch at Royals game: NASCAR Camping World Truck Assortment drivers Todd Bodine and Mosey Austin are scheduled on the Kansas City Royals game on Tuesday, April 14. Both drivers will throw out the first pitch sooner than the sport. They are in Kansas City to promote the O‘Reilly Auto Substances 250 on April 25 at Kansas Speedway. Bodine is the 2005 winner of the O‘Reilly Auto Substances 250 at Kansas Speedway, and was also named NASCAR Camping World Truck Assortment champion in 2006. Austin drives the #32 truck and is a 19-year-venerable rookie from Eudora, Kansas. He’ll delivery his first lope at Kansas Speedway this April 25 within the O‘Reilly Auto Substances 250.(Kansas Speedway PR) [For more info on the Kansas City Royals game, visit the Driver Appearances Page.](4-13-2009)
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April 13, 2008
- Robby Gordon and Central Europe Rally on DIRECTV‘s The 101: Team Dakar USA launched the acquisition of the US broadcast rights for the Central Dakar Rally. DIRECTV will air a day-to-day half of-hour gift on channel 101, the in-apartment channel on hand trusty throughout the US on the satellite television provider. The gift airs April 19-26 that contains 13 minutes of total rally coverage plus 9 minutes dedicated to the American efforts of Team Dakar USA. The program airs at 7 pm then re-broadcast at 12: 30 am/et. When terrorist threats cancelled the 2008 Dakar Rally in January, the Amaury Sports Organisation (ASO) hurried to agenda the Central Europe Rally as a replace event for the total groups, fans and sponsors of the legendary Dakar Rally. The Central Europe Rally was already within the works as fragment of the Dakar Assortment converse to debut in 2009. Foundation in Budapest, Hungary, the quite quite loads of and technical route covers 2,972 kilometers, about 1,846 miles, in seven days. The route entails a stint in Romania sooner than concluding at Balaton Lake in Hungary. Team Dakar USA Proprietor and driver Robby Gordon just isn’t any stranger to logistical challenges, however the Central Europe Rally may maybe maybe also simply gift to be the ideal order yet. Gordon, a fulltime Escape Cup driver, plans to wing to Paris after Saturday‘s Escape Cup lope in Phoenix. In Paris he‘ll join contributors of Team Dakar USA program then power the lope and toughen autos over 1,300 kilometers to Budapest for the rally‘s delivery. At the rally‘s conclusion on April 26, Gordon will wing relief to the US to compete within the Escape Cup lope at Talladega on April 27th.
“Timing is all the pieces with this event. First, I‘m very grateful to the ASO for coming up with a resolution for the total fans and sponsors. The agenda that they selected has made it conceivable for us to compete. I also prefer to thank Chris Long at DIRECTV for serving to televise this event. He and The 101 team hang mobilized snappily, and I feel motorsports fans in each attach can hang something to gain fascinated about,” said Gordon. Team Dakar USA fields two identically ready intention-built lope Hummers within the Central Europe Rally. In the 2007 Dakar Rally, Gordon in his identical Monster Power/Toyo Tires Hummer H3 done first within the initiate class, eighth total and scored a stage gain. It was Gordon‘s third stage gain in three years and allowed Hummer to alter into the first American producer to gain a Dakar Rally stage. For additional rally coverage please talk over with robbygordon.com and robbysuprising.com where Team Dakar USA can hang day-to-day updates, the twitter micro blog feed, and movies.(RGM)
AND P.J. Jones will sub in Robby Gordon‘s #7 Dodge trusty through discover and qualifying at Talladega Superspeedway in two weeks. Gordon will be competing within the postponed Central Dakar Rally. Jones may maybe maybe lope if Gordon‘s return from Hungary is delayed.(Arizona Republic)(4-13-2008) - NASCAR President defends NASCAR Drug Checking out Coverage: The name earlier this week for traditional random drug checking out by a pair of of NASCAR‘s greatest stars it appears is no longer going to interchange the sanctioning organization‘s present policy of checking out staunch for “cheap suspicion.” Nonetheless NASCAR president Mike Helton said the reaction by the drivers to the broadcast listing that venerable truck and Nationwide driver Aaron Fike aged heroin the identical day he drove in some races is a determined signal for the stock car sport. Relating to the memoir within the April 21 version of ESPN The Magazine, Helton said, “Whereas you hang a headline esteem that and the replace athletes uncommon up on it and react esteem they did, that‘s a determined ingredient. The [NASCAR] team polices the team,” Helton added in an interview with The Connected Press on Saturday at Phoenix International Raceway. “The positiveness of the total drivers talking and all the pieces, I feel, echoes the accountability that exists in this sport to wait on a long way off from all that and to police all that. That‘s why we think that the cheap suspicion policy works as an umbrella from a NASCAR standpoint.” Helton said he does no longer know of any policy that may maybe well guarantee that no driver will ever lope whereas below the impression of some substance any more than somebody may maybe maybe guarantee that an athlete in yet any other sport is no longer going to abuse something on game day. The opposite fragment though is the true fact that when we dwell bag a subject and we dwell authenticate the abuse of a substance, it’s a extreme reaction,” Helton said. “It‘s no longer staunch a pair of weeks off, it‘s a unquestionably extreme, career-altering reaction from us that I feel speaks loudly.” Helton added the substance-abuse policy that NASCAR has had in converse for more than twenty years has worked totally, with the wait on of the groups and the drivers. “There are moderately heaps of random drug checking out policies or substance-abuse policies in our sport and they near throughout the car homeowners,” he said. “We‘re varied than other sports activities where we have more than one layers of independence. That‘s why we unquestionably feel esteem the cheap suspicion part that NASCAR implements has served its intention and works smartly. Nonetheless everybody is conscious of of car homeowners which hang random checking out capabilities with their staff. So these facets are already there. … There‘s moderately heaps of programs to assault this animal and moderately heaps of programs to dwell it, however the shared accountability between the opponents, the car homeowners and NASCAR, I feel, works.”(Connected Press/ESPN.com)(4-13-2008)
- NASCAR tranquil evaluating McDowell‘s car and recordsdata: G-force readings [no number given] from #00-Michael McDowell‘s grinding smash at Texas Motor Speedway final weekend had been decrease than other vital wrecks in NASCAR, however Escape Cup Assortment Director John Darby said the nature of extreme crashes within the contemporary car has changed loads that G-force readings don‘t imply as a lot as they once did. NASCAR has begun the direction of of totally inspecting McDowell‘s battered Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota in its Be taught & Style Heart, Darby said, including that the G-force numbers had been “dazzling low.” Nonetheless that wasn‘t exclusively unexpected, for the reason that make of the contemporary car and the SAFER barrier has changed smash dynamics. “G-forces total had been diminished,” Darby said. “Nonetheless if you look on the immense image, the G-force is the least significant quantity anyway.” The significant quantity is the change in bustle, which Darby said was “wide” with McDowell‘s car. “They weren‘t the worst we‘ve ever viewed in any procedure,” Darby said. “Nonetheless fragment of the direction of of constructing a safer lope car is to slash all these numbers as most entertaining we’ll have the choice to. Even when we perceive exclusively the final numbers — which finally will be decrease than what we‘ve viewed within the past — that‘s what we‘re taking a search.” McDowell‘s smash, dramatic because it was, wasn‘t as extreme as the damage suffered by Jeff Gordon at Las Vegas Motor Speedway when his #24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet slammed the interior wall alongside the tune‘s backstretch. “It wasn‘t as immense a success as the 24 took,” said Cal Wells, govt vp for enterprise operations for MWR. “The 24 hit a concrete wall and it jerked the motor and the transmission. … Every thing [on McDowell‘s car] performed extraordinarily discontinuance to make.”(SceneDaily)(4-13-2008)
- Stremme anticipated to be named Penske take a look at driver: Anticipate an announcement this coming week that David Stremme has agreed to affix Penske Racing as a take a look at driver for the organization‘s Escape Cup program. Team proprietor Roger Penske has a seat initiate in a single of his Indianapolis 500 entries, and if Penske and present Cup rookie Sam Hornish Jr. agree that Hornish can hang to compete at Indy, where he won the 500 in 2006, that opens up the seat of Penske‘s #77 Escape Cup Dodge, which is for the time being 33rd in proprietor components through eight races with Hornish within the relief of the wheel. Penske‘s entry smooth for the Indy 500 reportedly lists Helio Castroneves within the #3 car and Ryan Briscoe within the #6, however there‘s a “TBA” beside the #77. It‘s all speculation at this level, however if Hornish can hang to resolve he‘d rather lope up entrance within the reunified IndyCar Assortment (he‘s a 3-time IndyCar champion) than battle to cease on the lead lap in a stock car, Penske would hang a take a look at driver — Stremme — in a position to beget the void. Stremme, who done 10th in Friday evening‘s Nationwide Assortment lope at Phoenix, already has grew to alter into down a minimum of two affords to power for present Cup groups.(NASCAR.com)(4-13-2008)
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April 13, 2007
- Particular Paint Blueprint for Dale Jr. at Daytona/LMS UPDATE:: Listening to that #8-Dale Jr. will lope a varied crimson white and blue Budweiser paint procedure within the Pepsi 400 at Daytona. Leer an image of the car on my #8 Paint Schemes Page.(4-10-2007)
Particular Paint Blueprint for Dale Jr. at Lowes Too: Listening to that #8-Dale Jr. will lope a varied conceal Budweiser paint procedure within the Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe‘s Motor Speedway. Leer an image of the car on my #8 Paint Schemes Page.(4-11-2007)
UPDATE: Budweiser and NASCAR‘s four-time Most Popular Driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr., are saluting the troops this NASCAR season with two militia-themed paint schemes and collectible diecasts, the proceeds from which is in a situation to provide faculty educations for surviving dependents of fallen Particular Operations troopers. The autos debuted trusty through a varied “One Night Stand with Dale Earnhardt Jr.” event held for more than 1000 fans and heaps space-based mostly exclusively mostly troops final evening on the Nokia Theatre at Immense Prairie. Budweiser‘s brown and beige Barren attach Camo #8 Chevy will lope Memorial Day weekend trusty throughout the Coca-Cola 600 on Would possibly possibly even 27 at Lowe‘s Motor Speedway. The crimson, white and blue Stars & Stripes car will lope in honor of Independence Day on the Pepsi 400 on July 7 at Daytona International Speedway. Budweiser will donate proceeds from the sale of the 2 collectible diecast car fashions to the Particular Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF), which supplies fleshy-wander faculty scholarships to surviving dependents of Navy, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps particular operations personnel killed in fight or practicing missions, and immediate monetary aid to particular operations personnel severely wounded within the realm war on dismay. More than 700 dependents for the time being gain pleasure from the efforts of the SOWF. For more recordsdata, talk over with www.specialops.org.(fingerprint inc./Budweiser Racing PR)(4-13-2007) - Kurt Busch, Biffle, Petty, Sadler names hosts for PRN‘s Mercurial Talk: The Performance Racing Community launched as of late a convincing contemporary lineup for Mercurial Talk, the trendy Monday evening gift now in its 15th year on the air. A megastar-studded lineup of Nextel Cup drivers will host the gift on a rotating weekly foundation including:
Worn Nextel Cup champion [2004] #2-Kurt Busch
Greg Biffle, driver of the #16 Ford for Roush Fenway Racing
Kyle Petty, driver of the #45 Petty Enterprises Dodge
Elliott Sadler, driver of the #19 Evernham Motorsports Dodge
Doug Rice will proceed to wait on as moderator of the gift.
“There was no procedure we had been going to interchange Benny Parsons with staunch one individual so we decided to steal the gift in a brand contemporary route. I unquestionably think here is going to be the ideal racing-oriented gift on radio as of late,” said Rice, president of PRN. “Benny Parsons had been the gift‘s only host since its inception in 1992. All of these drivers are extremely bid and will offer enormous perception. They‘re the ideal lineup to preserve up on Benny‘s issue within the sport. The highlight of the gift will be having this gorgeous dialogue with the lope winners. I unquestionably am taking a cease awake for all that within the relief of-the-scenes interaction.” Mercurial Talk on the Performance Racing Community airs at 7: 00pm/et on Monday nights and is heard on more that 200 radio stations, XM Satellite tv for computer Radio and NASCAR.com. Mercurial Talk is produced by Alicia Lingerfeldt and the technical director is Harrill Hamrick. The Performance Racing Community broadcasts 10 Nextel Cup races and eight Busch Assortment events, moreover to day-to-day news reveals, Storage Lunge, the Alltel Pit Journalists, Sunday Force and zMax Racing Nation. For more recordsdata on PRN and the racing lineup, talk over with www.goprn.com.(PRN PR)(4-13-2007) - ESPN2‘s NASCAR Now Expanding to One Hour on Mondays: NASCAR Now, ESPN‘s first day-to-day news and recordsdata gift exclusively dedicated to NASCAR, is expanding its Monday evening version to 1 hour, foundation April 16. The expanded format will provide more time for recaps and diagnosis of the weekend‘s NASCAR races. The Monday program will air from 6: 00-7: 00pm/et on ESPN2. NASCAR Now will air on ESPN2 for 30 minutes at its traditional 6: 30pm/et timeslot Tuesday through Thursday subsequent week, without a Friday version attributable to the stay NASCAR Busch Assortment lope at Phoenix International Raceway that evening on ESPN2. In addition, the weekend version will air at 10: 00am/et Saturday, in desire to its trendy day of Sunday, attributable to the Nextel Cup Assortment working that evening at Phoenix. Studies from Phoenix will be incorporated in Saturday‘s program. Sunday evening‘s version of this design will air at hour of darkness. NASCAR Now is hosted by Erik Kuselias, Doug Banks and Ryan Burr and originates from ESPN‘s Excessive Definition studios in Bristol, Conn., with contributions from newshounds Mike Massaro and Shannon Spake. Analysts Tim Brewer, Brad Daugherty, Stacy Compton and Boris Acknowledged, alongside with NASCAR insiders Terry Blount, Angelique Chengelis, Tim Cowlishaw, David Newton and Marty Smith, moreover to D.J. Copp, a member of the Dale Earnhardt, Jr., NASCAR team also make a contribution.(ESPN PR)(4-13-2007)
- Talladega-Texaco Stroll of Popularity Nominees Named and Balloting: On-line fan vote casting begins April 15 for this year‘s Talladega-Texaco Stroll of Popularity honorees, and on Saturday, Oct. 6, two contemporary names will be added to this prestigious listing. The Talladega-Texaco Stroll of Popularity in downtown Talladega is each and each a focal level saluting NASCAR‘s greatest names and a tribute to 1 of racing‘s brightest stars — the slack Davey Allison. Developed in 1994, the Talladega-Texaco Stroll of Popularity has inducted one fascinating driver and as a lot as two slothful drivers since 1995 per the fans‘ vote chosen from a ballotof nominees selected by strict guidelines. Followers may maybe maybe also simply vote for his or her driver of selection through July 15 by visiting www.talladegawalk.com. Balloting is limited to 1 vote per day. Active driver nominees for 2007 embrace: Kasey Kahne, Ward Burton, Kyle Busch, Michael Waltrip, Jeff Burton, Morgan Shepherd, Kurt Busch, Robby Gordon, Greg Biffle, Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth, Bobby Labonte, Trustworthy Marlin, Jeremy Mayfield, Joe Nemechek, Ryan Newman, Elliott Sadler, Ken Schrader and Carl Edwards. Lazy driver nominees for 2007 embrace: Terry Labonte, Jim Paschal, Bill Rexford, Jack Smith, Rex White, Red Byron and Mercurial Thompson. On Saturday, Oct. 7, 2006, Tony Stewart and Rusty Wallace turned into the latest drivers to be enshrined.(Talladega Superspeedway PR)(4-13-2007)
- Red Bull Teams to honor slain team member: Team Red Bull celebrates the existence of one of its most intellectual characters this weekend in Texas. In honor of James “Jimmy” Sprinkle — a take a look at team mechanic who died after an wretched altercation at his property on March 31 — the #83-Brian Vickers and #84-A.J. Allmendinger will carry the phrases “In loving reminiscence of Jimmy Sprinkle: ‘Breakin‘ it down‘” on the B-post. It has been a tense two weeks round the shop, as one Team Red Bull member admitted, “I don‘t know within the event that they’ll change him.”(Red Bull Racing PR)(4-13-2007)
- Qualifying Rained Out for the Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway and the subject was converse by the foundations guide, so the tip-35 in 2007 Owners Pts beget the tip 35 spots, then #83-Brian Vickers as a past lope winner in 2006-2007 (2006 lope winner at Talladega within the #25), #44-Dale Jarrett (past champion/no longer charged), #21-Ken Schrader (6 attempts/36th in proprietor components), #10-Scott Riggs (6/37th), #22-Dave Blaney (6/39th), #49-Mike Bliss (6/40th), #15-Paul Menard (6/43rd) and #78-Kenny Wallace (6/44th). #4-Ward Burton is 41st in proprietor components, however within the Morgan-McClure Motorsports deal to tag Phoenix Racing‘s [#09 Chevy] components from Daytona, the team is assumed to be to hang tried to qualify for five of the six events this year as a result of Phoenix skipped California sooner than that deal was done. After the tip 35, groups with the most attempts hang priority in making the subject once past winners and past champions are positioned on the grid. The drivers who will leave out the Samsung 500 at Texas are: #4-Burton, #00-David Reutimann [6/45th], #33-Scott Wimmer [1/54th], #34-Kevin Lepage [4/51st], #36-Jeremy Mayfield [6/45th], #37-John Andretti [6/47th], #55-Michael Waltrip [6/50th] and #84-AJ Allmendinger [6/48th]. Leer the starting up lineup on my Texas Starting Lineup/Qualifying Results/Elaborate page.(4-13-2007)
- 3M procedure for Biffle at Texas: This weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, #16-Greg Biffle will lope a multi-colored 3M paint procedure with Ameriquest on the hood of his Roush Racing Ford.(Roush Racing)(4-13-2007)
- Johnson helps builds Cleansing soap Box Derby Autos: As fragment of its ongoing commitment to households and younger other folks and in toughen of its sponsorship of the All-American Cleansing soap Box Derby (AASBD), the Levi Strauss Signature mark hosted a Cleansing soap Box Derby car-constructing workshop for local women and boys on Thursday [4/12] at Gateway Park in Ft. Worth, Texas. #48-Jimmie Johnson was readily on hand to abet underserved youth in constructing their autos and to fragment a pair of of his racing ride. The 2006 NASCAR champion is the nationwide spokesperson for the Levi Strauss Signature mark, the title sponsor of the AASBD World Championship. Boys and girls ages 10 to 17 from Plano-space youth organizations constructed gravity-powered autos with the wait on of volunteers from the Plano Cleansing soap Box Derby chapter, which is in its inaugural year. For the interval of the afternoon, Johnson was fingers-on in serving to every child assemble his / her car and, as a seasoned racing aged, supplied encouraging phrases to the contemporary Cleansing soap Box Derby contributors. The Levi Strauss Signature mark partnered with the AASBD to donate car kits to the youngsters, giving them the chance to compete within the inaugural Plano Cleansing soap Box Derby, which takes converse on Saturday, June 2. The 70th AASBD World Championship is scheduled to steal converse on July 21, 2007, with more than 500 lope contributors representing more than 40 states and 5 international locations (Japan, Germany, Unusual Zealand, Guam and the Philippines).(Taylor PR)(4-13-2007)
- Simplest Buy Racing Joins With Ball Verbalize University to Educate Young other folks about Science: Members of the #66 Simplest Buy Racing Nextel Cup Assortment team are partnering with Ball Verbalize University, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Simplest Buy Youngsters‘s Foundation to wait on disclose younger other folks about science and engineering. On Tuesday, April 17, driver Jeff Inexperienced and crew chief Harold Holly will take part in a stay broadcast from the speedway as fragment of Ball Verbalize University‘s Digital Self-discipline Time out (EFT) sequence. “Going, Going, Faster; The Science of Creep,” a 60-minute interactive broadcast, will showcase the science and engineering that goes into racing and give college students a chance to ride a lot of the say that surrounds a day on the races. Classrooms in all 50 states, plus Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Nigeria (a attainable viewers of 19.5 million college students) will acquire the broadcasts, which is in a situation to steal converse at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. (ET), providing a glance into racing on the legendary speedway. Inexperienced and Holly aren‘t the one racers taking fragment within the EFT. Worn Indy Racing League (IRL) driver Scott Goodyear, now a racing commentator for ABC Sports and ESPN, will host the event, and several IRL drivers will seem by technique of taped interviews.(Simplest Buy Racing PR)(4-13-2007)
- Kahne joins annual White Condominium Easter Egg Roll: The 2007 Easter Egg Roll was held on April 9, 2007 on the South Garden of the White Condominium. Particular visitor readers incorporated NASCAR driver #9-Kasey Kahne and actor Stephen 1st Earl 1st earl baldwin of bewdley of Bewdley — each and each contributors of the President‘s Council on Service and Civic Participation. Shrek, Bugs Bunny, Charlie Brown, Clifford the Spacious Red Canines, the Much White Condominium Easter Bunnies and heaps other strolling characters also entertained youngsters.(Evernham Motorsports/Sure!Blue PR)(4-13-2007)
- Harkness Arrested by US Marshalls in NYC: UPDATE: Officers with the U.S. Marshals Service bid they hang arrested Fatemeh Angela Harkness after she obtained off a plane from the United Arab Emirates in Unusual York City on Sunday. Harkness is a Spherical Rock [New York] native who was the topic of an global manhunt by the Lone Essential individual Fugitive Project Force. Marshals bid Harkness fled staunch sooner than an April 2004 sentencing in which she reportedly plead responsible to involvement in bank fraud totaling $1.3 million. Harkness made a title for herself by owning a NASCAR team with her co-defendant within the case, Gary Jones. [The team was Angela‘s Motorsports. They ran at Homestead in 2002 and had hired Mike McLaughlin to drive in 2003 before the plan unraveled.] Jones is for the time being incarcerated. Police bid Harkness, a venerable stripper, conspired with Jones, a Wells Fargo vp to embezzle money that helped fund their NASCAR adventures. The enterprise was lope from Harkness‘ Spherical Rock home. Harkness was arrested by authorities with the United Arab Emirates in Would possibly possibly even 2005 — however attributable to the true fact that the country and the U.S. have not any extradition treaty, she had no longer been accessible to U.S. Marshalls until landing at JFK International Airport on Sunday. Marshals bid she will face a pick in Unusual York sooner than being returned to Central Texas for trial.(KEYE TV)(4-8-2007)
UPDATE: A venerable Yellow Rose stripper who admitted to conspiring to embezzle $1 million to fund a NASCAR auto racing team lope out of her Spherical Rock home is relief in Austin for the first time since she fled the country to wait on a long way off from going to reformatory in 2004. Fatemeh Angela Harkness, 30, is converse to seem sooner than a U.S. magistrate pick at 2 p.m. Friday. She faces as a lot as 5 years in reformatory. Her sentencing date has no longer been converse. Harkness arrived in Austin from Unusual York Thursday evening accompanied by U.S. marshals. On Sunday, Harkness flew to Unusual York from the United Arab Emirates — where she has spent the past three years — after contacting U.S. marshals in Austin to put collectively her resign.(Austin American-Statesman)(4-13-2007) - NASCAR.COM And Escape Team To Stream NASCAR Busch Assortment Occasions: The thrills of the Busch Assortment will hit Escape handsets as fragment of NASCAR.COM To Struggle through a partnership between Escape Nextel and NASCAR.COM. The stay television broadcast of the NASCAR Busch Assortment races airing on ESPN2 also will air on Escape Power Imaginative and prescient fantastic handsets.(NASCAR PR)(4-13-2007)
- Park taking a look to simply about truck: For the interval of a Sirius Radio interview Steve Park spoke about concerned to simply about the Truck Assortment as a fleshy-time driver. He said he‘s for the time being engaged on a pair of affords and is hoping something will be in converse trusty throughout the next 5 weeks. Park also said that most entertaining case subject would hang him in a truck as quickly as the Charlotte lope. No phrase on a converse team or sponsor.(4-13-2007)
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April 13, 2006
- Richmond Checking out Day 3 OVER: only six drivers in seven autos [Wimmer had 2] made runs within the AM session on Day three, with #4b-Scott Wimmer being the fastest at 125.974 [is 6th overall fastest], adopted by [Wimmer was 2nd in #4] #78-KWallace, #34-Chaffin, #32-Kvapil, #92-Blount and #49-Sherman [121.583].
Afternoon: seven drivers made runs, the fastest being #92-Chad Blount at 123.893mph, adopted by #78-KWallace, #43-Labonte, #34-Chaffin, #32-Kvapil, #4b-Wimmer and #49-Sherman [121.022].
Night session: #32-Travis Kvapil recorded the fastest lap trusty throughout the final session of the third and final day of NEXTEL Cup Assortment checking out at Richmond International Raceway on Thursday, April 13, adopted by #78-KWallace, #49-Brent Sherman and #43-Labonte.(RIR Do)
OVERALL: 46 drivers tested trusty throughout the three day session.
Leer my 2006 Richmond Checking out Page for the total speeds, for every session and total, with every drivers most entertaining bustle and scandalous.(PR‘s)(4-13-2006) - Pit Crew Distress: The 2nd NASCAR NEXTEL Pit Crew Distress presented by Craftsman will steal converse in a brand contemporary venue in 2006, fascinating to the contemporary Charlotte Bobcats Arena in uptown Charlotte. The event, taking converse at 7: 00pm/et, Wednesday, Would possibly possibly even 17, is the one event of its kind formally sanctioned by NASCAR and pits the sport‘s favourite over-the-wall athletes in opposition to every other in numerous abilities competitions to showcase their appreciable abilities. Fashioned admission tickets for the event are on hand April 17 for $10. Followers can bewitch on the Bobcats Arena Box Dwelling of labor at CharlotteBobcatsArena.com or by calling (800) 495-2295. Taking part groups will partake in initiate discover at Cabarrus Arena and Occasions Heart trusty throughout the month of Would possibly possibly even. The practices, that are initiate to the final public, are Would possibly possibly even 8 from 2-6 p.m., and Would possibly possibly even 9 and 10 from 10 a.m. — 6 p.m.(LMS PR)(4-13-2006)
- Steve Waid joins Rowdy as a contributor: Longtime racing reporter Steve Waid, vice-president for editorial pattern at high weekly publication NASCAR Scene (www.scenedaily.com), has joined Rowdy, the racing radio gift you gain for your cell cell phone, as a weekly contributor. “Waid‘s World” takes fans within the relief of the scenes to search out out about the non-public tales and interests of their favourite drivers—as of late on the gift Waid talks to Michael Waltrip. Followers can hear “Waid‘s World” per week on Rowdy, as Steve joins a lineup of traditional contributors that entails venerable Cup driver Rick Mast, champion crew chief Barry Dodson, award-trustworthy newshounds Designate Garrow and David Poole, and internet story Jayski. To envision out Rowdy for your self, and gain the total most unusual racing news on each day foundation, staunch dial 1-800-95-ROWDY, talk over withwww.rowdy.com, or acquire the Rowdy podcast by technique of itunes or at www.podnova.com.(4-13-2006)
- Edwards named an Ambassador for Formative years for National PTA: National PTA has teamed up with Carl Edwards, driver of the #99 Dwelling of labor Depot Ford, to enhance family weight loss program and wellness and wait on younger other folks excel in faculty. Edwards, a venerable replace trainer, has been named an Ambassador for Formative years for National PTA. He joins businesswoman and vogue designer Kathy Ireland in encouraging other folks to hang time and gain occupied with their kid‘s faculty and PTA. Dwelling of labor Depot is Edwards‘ vital sponsor within the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Assortment and a Proud Neighborhood Partner of National PTA. Edwards is dedicated to serving to other folks design wholesome lifestyles for his or her youngsters each and each at home and in faculty. Leading by instance, Edwards workout routines day to day, doesn‘t drink or smoke, and eats wholesome. Edwards and the National PTA indicate that youngsters typically have a tendency to excel within the school room with significant parent involvement and that wholesome younger other folks repeatedly outperform their pals. In his contemporary characteristic as a National Ambassador for Formative years, Edwards will join tens of millions of parents and educators to work towards improving the lives of youngsters, moreover to urging other folks and households to be more concerned. Edwards follows within the footsteps of dozens of team leaders, celebrities, legislators, and U.S. Presidents, all of whom hang lent their voices and toughen to National PTA to hang a dissimilarity within the lives of youngsters. Edwards, who is in entrance of tens of millions of fans per week on the racetrack, can even lend his toughen by talking without lengthen with younger other folks, working with National PTA to provide linked recordsdata to other folks, and being a sturdy recommend for public training. Edwards, whose mom is a venerable president of her local PTA, began working with National PTA when he donated a portion of his winnings from the 2005 Ameriquest 300 lope on the California Speedway to the Young other folks of Katrina fund, a varied relief effort created by National PTA and Dwelling of labor Depot to abet these faculties impacted by Typhoon Katrina. For more recordsdata about National PTA, talk over with www.pta.org.(Roush Racing PR)(4-13-2006)
- Kurt Busch attempting to mend fences: Kurt Busch says he has tried to chat with Greg Biffle about their accident Sunday trusty throughout the Samsung/RadioShack 500 NASCAR Nextel Cup lope at Texas Motor Speedway. Biffle was offended that Busch all straight away met the relief of him after Biffle slowed a exiguous bit on the straightaway. “I tried to realize out for [Biffle] and left a message on his cell phone, and I‘m determined I‘ll scrutinize him this afternoon,” Busch said Tuesday whereas groups had been checking out at Richmond International Raceway. “Biffle and I are each and each very aggressive racers, and we each and each seemed for the identical trusty property on the identical time, yet I was attempting to yield as a lapped car on the tune. Issues esteem that happen, and we‘ll indubitably strive to comfortable all the pieces out and transfer on to the next lope.” Busch and Biffle had been teammates at Roush Racing until this year, when Busch moved to Penske Racing South. “With the venerable teammates, we indubitably had some enormous cases collectively,” Busch said. “Biffle and I grew up working autos collectively, and after I moved to Cup he shortly adopted. We hang got some enormous relationships, and it‘s no longer staunch one lope that will trudge it apart.”(SceneDaily.com)(4-13-2006)
- Martin‘s Museum Immense Opening Apr 14-15: Designate Martin will preserve the tall opening for his all contemporary Ford dealership, Designate Martin Ford-Mercury, and museum this weekend (Friday and Saturday) in Batesville, Arkansas. The dealership and museum formally opened on Feb. 27th. The tall opening is being formally presented by Coke. Apart from the standard artifacts on expose within the museum, other items of passion that will be on expose at this weekend‘s tall opening are the Nextel Ride that travels to every NASCAR Nextel Cup lope, The trustworthy Scotts Ford F-150 from the Daytona Truck lope converse from Victory Lane, the #6 AAA Nextel Cup Ford, AAA simulators where fans can lope every other, the AAA booth and tent expose and Coca-Cola cubicles as smartly. Martin‘s #6 Ameriquest Busch car and hauler can even be on expose and there will be stay remotes with radio stations as smartly. The converse-of-the artwork museum capabilities several of Martin‘s past autos, including the #6 Viagra Coca-Cola 600 gain car, the ‘90 Folgers Thunderbird, the #60 Retract Dixie Busch car, Martin‘s 2005 IROC car that he aged to gain his listing fifth championship, and the ‘89 Strohs Thunderbird. Every car is a fragment of a expose that entails hey-tech mantrons that designate the memoir of every fragment of historical past.(Roush Racing)(4-13-2006)
- Richmond checking out — Day 2: #29-Kevin Harvick was fastest within the morning session on Day 2 of checking out at Richmond International Raceway checking out, with a lap of 126.505mph, adopted by #21-Ken Schrader, #5b-Kyle Busch, #6b-Designate Martin and #42-Casey Mears.
Afternoon: #5b-Kyle Busch was the fastest within the afternoon session with a bustle of 126.576, followe by #6b-Designate Martin, #21-Ken Schrader, #16-Greg Biffle and #17-Matt Kenseth.
Night: #42-Casey Mears was the fastest within the evening session with a bustle of 126.802mph [fastest overall so far], adopted by #12b-Ryan Newman, #66-Jeff Inexperienced, #40-David Stemme and #1b-Martin Truex Jr.
Some incidents: #25-Vickers wrecked Day 1, #8-Earnhardt Jr. and #00-Sadler scraped the wall.(PRN‘s Storage Lunge Radio Indicate)
Leer my 2006 Richmond Checking out Page for the total speeds, for every session and total, with every drivers most entertaining bustle and scandalous.(PR‘s)(4-12/13-2006) - Fennig Takes Over as Kenseth‘s Crew Chief: Jimmy Fennig will oversee Roush Racing‘s Busch program in its entirety taking on the job of senior crew chief. Fennig can even opt crew chief responsibilities for the #17 Ameriquest/Pennzoil Ford pushed by Matt Kenseth. Chad Norris is for the time being serving his four week NASCAR suspension and will opt converse-up responsibilities overseeing the total Busch autos.(Roush PR)(4-13-2006)
- Goeters within the #28 at Nashville; Shane Hall within the #49: Shane Hall will power the #49 Advil Ford this weekend at Nashville. Hall‘s seat within the #49 car was made on hand by Latin American racing icon Jorge Goeters. Goeters will be within the #28 Ford owned by Troy Stafford. “XTREME Hair Gel wished vital center of attention for the Pepsi 300, however Advil had already agreed to be the most fundamental sponsor for this lope. A chance for Jorge and Xtreme turned into on hand within the #28 car, so I‘m cosy it worked out the manner it did.”(Jay Robinson PR)(4-13-2006)
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April 13, 2005
- “Ukrop‘s Richmond Escape Fest” . is coming in Would possibly possibly even! The Inaugural “Ukrop‘s Richmond Escape Fest” is scheduled for Thursday, Would possibly possibly even 12th. The event will be held in downtown Richmond, VA within the “Shockoe Spin” space on Cary Boulevard, between ninth and 14th streets from 6: 30 to 8: 30pm/et. Ukrop‘s Ravishing Markets is sponsoring the event, which is a fund-raiser for the Victory Junction Gang Camp, a facility for severely in uncomfortable health youngsters, and a proud charity of NASCAR. The event may maybe be being supported by Kleenex, Duke‘s, and Kellogg‘s brands, alongside with a vary of different vendors which hang made donations to Victory Junction Gang in change for rights to pass out product samples to the consumers attending the event. The Escape Fest is being structured as a family excellent boulevard party, and most entertaining of all it’s FREE! This may maybe maybe also simply incorporate stay tune and entertainment on 3 separate levels. Bands scheduled embrace. “The Taters” and “Vanishing Point”, alongside with the “Whitlock‘s” of Radio Disney. Cary Boulevard will be fleshy of seller sampling cubicles; gift autos from a pair of of your favourite Nextel Cup and Busch Assortment Teams; racing simulators; interactive displays and games. A NASCAR driver autograph session can even be held within the lobby of the James Heart trusty through this time, alongside with a quiet public sale benefiting the younger other folks of Victory Junction Gang.(SMC 500)(4-13-2005)
- IROC at Texas: This Friday, April 15, the Crown Royal IROC Assortment will lope below the lights at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) for the 2nd of 4 races. World of Outlaws driver Danny Lasoski‘s Crown Royal IROC Assortment victory at TMS final year was staunch the 2nd time a driver representing rapid tune initiate-wheel racing claimed a checkered flag within the sequence‘ 29-year historical past. Contemporary off a gain within the Champ Automobile season-opener, driver Sebastien Bourdias will be on the pole for the 2nd consecutive IROC lope. The gain within the Immense Prix of Long Shoreline (Calif.) was the 11th of Bourdias‘ career. The defending Champ Automobile World Assortment champion is competing within the IROC Assortment this season for the first time. Designate Martin is on intention for a listing-breaking year within the Crown Royal IROC Assortment. Along with his gain within the season-opener at Daytona, Martin turned into the all-time sequence leader in wins with 12, surpassing Dale Earnhardt and Al Unser Jr. A Crown Royal IROC championship for Martin this year would no longer only give him the $1 million first converse prize, however also the most championships within the historical past of the sequence with 5.(Alan Taylor Communications), the lope will be televised on Creep Channel at 8: 00pm/et and re-aired again at 1: 30am/et.(4-13-2005)
- Dale Jr. the one rookie winner at Texas: Just once in eight races at Texas has a Raybestos Rookie won the lope. Dale Earnhardt Jr. scored his first career NEXTEL Cup Assortment gain by 5.920 seconds over Jeff Burton in 2000. More Rookie Notes and stats on my Rookie of the Year page.(4-13-2005)
- Victory Stamp to be sold, may maybe maybe the #14 be relief on the tune? Story Funding Inc. launched that it has entered trusty into a letter of intent to make 100% of Victory Stamp, LLC. Basically based exclusively in Coldwater, Michigan, Victory Stamp is privately held developer and marketer of valued priced, top class cigarettes. Victory Stamp started the manufacturing and the provisioning of product in December of 2004, and for the time being is distributed nationally by three of the tip ten nationwide distributors moreover to to roughly twenty-5 regional and native distributors. VB “Made In the US” products are for the time being marketed in thousands of comfort stores including 5,800 Sunoco and A Plus stores. The firm projects income of $77,800,000 for the next twelve months.
“We are gay on the chance to make Victory Stamp. They’ve an eminent product with a advertising and branding design the exhaust of NASCAR racing that is a proven success. It’s miles even more engaging that here is local,” said Peter Klamka, President of Michigan-based mostly exclusively mostly Story Funding Corp. Victory Stamp, LLC is the most fundamental sponsor of the #14, Nextel Cup Ford pushed by John Andretti. Victory Stamp is for the time being the one cigarette sponsor linked to NASCAR Nextel Cup racing. The #14 car is owned by ppc Racing of Mooresville, NC, and backed by the Ford Motor Firm. John Andretti (driver of the #14 VB/ A Plus at Sunoco Nextel Cup Assortment Automobile) acknowledged: “I work in an ultra aggressive atmosphere (NASCAR), and Victory Stamp is in a unquestionably identical converse, being that of the tobacco Alternate. To be in a situation to work collectively towards our collective targets is terribly engaging. We notion to grow each and each into being a force within our respective industries. The acquisition of Victory Stamp LLC by Story Funding Inc. will only bustle up this direction of.” Steve Swick, CEO of Victory Stamp, acknowledged, “We are fascinated about the acquisition. Taking Victory Stamp LLC trusty into a public venue enables our present membership and mission partners, alongside with loads of the 75 million precise NASCAR fans, who hang expressed an passion in shareholder participation, to fragment the spoils of future articulate and profitability. We acquire calls, nearly day-to-day, from racing fans inquiring as to how they’ll change into investors and take hang of the stock. As a outcomes of this acquisition ownership has change trusty into a viable option for all enthusiastic events.”(Yahoo Biz)(4-13-2005) - Skinner to lope the #23 at Talladega: Bill Davis Racing says it may maybe possibly probably actually hang to enter Mike Skinner within the team‘s #23 Dodge within the Would possibly possibly even 1 Aaron‘s 499 Nextel Cup lope at Talladega Superspeedway. Noxious Boy Mowers Inc. will sponsor the entry for Skinner, who is utilizing for the team within the Craftsman Truck Assortment this year. Skinner also drove the car within the season-opening Daytona 500, where he done 30th after being caught in a damage.(NASCAR Scene Each day Newsletter)(4-13-2005)
- Gaughan to Evernham in 2006? Evernham Motorsports is the Dodge mainstay and is anticipated to add a third car, with Brendan Gaughan, subsequent season.(FoxSports/Wearing News)(4-13-2005)
- McMurray to Shine On at Texas: The first of 4 particular “Shine On” paint schemes will increase the #42 Dodge pushed by Jamie McMurray this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. The Texas “Shine On” paint procedure logo, which was aged from 1913 to 1935, incorporates the language of “The Texas Oil Firm.” It also pays tribute to the totally different Texaco and Havoline staff and retirees who name Texas home.(Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates), scrutinize pictures of the autos on my #42 Team Schemes page.(4-13-2005)
- Darlington Day: Darlington Day seemed relief on the legacy of racing in South Carolina and supports its future. Drivers esteem Jeremy Mayfield and Tony Stewart spent the afternoon on the Governors Mansion Tuesday. It‘s an effort to rev up label sales for the upcoming lope and to head wanting relief on the tradition of racing in South Sarolina. The Southern 500 left South Carolina and it was devastating for many lope fans within the Palmetto Verbalize. Stock car racing‘s usual superspeedway will over again wait on as a groundbreaker for NASCAR, inaugurating a unconditionally contemporary lope weekend in Would possibly possibly even. The NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Assortment‘ 104th talk over with to Darlington Raceway will steal converse on Mother‘s Day weekend, and will be Darlington‘s first-ever fleshy weekend of evening racing. Racing represents a long way more than engaging fans of the sport. Every of the races generates about $30 million for the converse. Chad Prosser is with the converse‘s parks and tourism, “”Completely. The NASCAR fans are gorgeous fans, and they’re a immense financial heinous, no longer staunch for NASCAR, however for the converse as a crawl blueprint. We exhaust these races no longer only to sell the Pee Dee space, however to sell the converse as a full.” Verbalize leaders bid it’s a will have to hang for fans to pack the stands to gift NASCAR racing at Darlington won‘t be left within the mud. Rep more recordsdata on the Dodge Charger 500 Weekend by calling (843) 395-8499.(WIStv.com Columbia, SC)(4-13-2005)
- Dickerson may maybe maybe also simply hang a brand contemporary gig UPDATE RCR? DEI?: Chassis and body guru Eddie Dickerson, who was launched by Hendrick Motorsports after being arrested within the early-morning hours at Daytona in February (disorderly intoxication), may maybe maybe land at Richard Childress Racing, sources within the storage said.(Creep Channel)(4-11-2005)
UPDATE: Worn Hendrick Motorsports chassis director Eddie Dickerson will interview with Dale Earnhardt Inc. this week. DEI is starting up an in-apartment chassis program, and Dickerson may maybe maybe exhaust his magic to hang higher-going through autos for Dale Earnhardt Jr., who complains about the drivability of his autos.(FoxSports/Wearing News)(4-13-2005) - An Abnormal Award for Jr.: The Thomas Jefferson Heart for the Protection of Free Expression has awarded NASCAR a “Jefferson Muzzle” for what it calls an “out of percentage” punishment to driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. for swearing in a stay television interview final October. NASCAR docked Earnhardt 25 components and fined him $10,000 for announcing in an NBC interview that his victory at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway “don‘t imply (expletive) aesthetic now” as a result of his slack father had won there several more cases. NASCAR officers came down tough on Earnhardt in response to increased Federal Communications Rate scrutiny of broadcast indecency final year. The FCC it appears has no longer yet dominated on whether or no longer NBC or its mates will be punished; FCC spokeswoman Janice Wise said if no ruling has been posted on the associated rate‘s Web position, it’ll be notion to be an “initiate merchandise.” Whereas acknowledging that NASCAR is no longer a government entity and is entitled to punish drivers for the exhaust of profanity, the Jefferson Heart‘s Web position said “to punish Earnhardt in a manner so out of percentage to the offense sends a message a long way more dangerous than something else conveyed by the spontaneous expression of a rather comfortable four-letter phrase.”(USA This day)(4-13-2005)
- More on Marlin, Stremme and Sorenson UPDATE: Trustworthy Marlin, says the team proprietor won‘t name him relief about the attach of Marlin‘s #40 car subsequent season. “My contract is up after this year,” Marlin says. “I guess you‘ve obtained to hang a change steadily, however I‘d purchase to perceive something quickly so I will delivery taking a look.” Marlin says a team was entertaining to bewitch out his contract final year, however he remained precise to Ganassi. Multiple sources at Ganassi bid Busch Assortment traditional David Stremme will gain the wander over Reed Sorenson as a result of Sorenson is below 21 and the car‘s sponsor is Coors Gentle.(FoxSports/Wearing News)(4-13-2005)
- Texas Motorsports Hall of Popularity Banquet: will be held tonight on the Texas Immense Ballroom in The Speedway Membership at Texas Motor Speedway. Who will be honored:
HOF Inductees: Terry Labonte, Lee Shepherd (posthumously)
Texas Motor Speedway Racer of the Year: Tony Kanaan
Bruton Smith Legends Award: Lloyd Tuby
Texas Motorsports Hall of Popularity Sportsmanship Award: Kyle & Pattie Petty
Texas Motorsports Hall of Popularity Imaginative and prescient Award: Dr. Dean Sicking
Terry Labonte won at Texas Motor Speedway in 1999 and is a two-time Nextel Cup Assortment champion (1984, 1996). He is retiring from the sequence after the 2006 season. Terry owns a Busch Assortment team for which his son, Justin, is the driver of the #44 Flee Guard car.
Lee Shepherd won four consecutive National Sizzling Rod Association championships in 1981-84. He was on his procedure to a fifth straight title when he died in a checking out accident in Oklahoma on March 11, 1985.
Tony Kanaan won the June Bombardier Learjet 500k in June 2004 in a divulge enact with teammate Dario Franchitti. Kanaan came relief final October to clinch the IRL IndyCar Assortment Championship with his runner-up enact at Texas. Kanaan is checking out and is per chance no longer in attendance on the dinner party.
Kyle & Pattie Petty hang long been identified for his or her charitable work and contributions trusty throughout the NASCAR team.
Dr. Dean Sicking has helped revolutionize safety in motorsports with his pattern of the SAFER barriers or “comfortable partitions”. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University.
Lloyd Ruby raced for more than 30 years in initiate-wheel autos, including 18 appearances within the Indy 500. The Wichita Falls, Texas, native has been called “The Most entertaining Driver Never to Retract the Indy 500”.(TMS PR)(4-13-2005) - Sad News: Joe Nemechek‘s maternal grandfather — Frank Glowacki — handed away Sunday evening in Lakeland, Fla. He was 91 years-venerable. The funeral is Wednesday, April 13th. Heath Funeral Chapel, 328 S Ingraham Ave. Lakeland, FL is going throughout the preparations.(4-12-2005)
- Sad News: Ronnie Weedon, one of many tip drivers in local dirt-tune racing, died Monday evening at his home in Enjoyable Valley, Iowa. Weedon, winner of 504 characteristic races in a career that spanned seven decades, reportedly was engaged on one of his smartly-known “00” autos at his home alongside the Mississippi River when the car it appears slipped off a jack. Scott County emergency personnel confirmed that they replied to an Emergency Clinical Products and companies name on the Weedon home Monday evening, however couldn’t free up additional facts. Shane Davis, tune announcer at each and each the Davenport Speedway and Quad-City Speedway on the East Moline Fairgrounds, confirmed the 72-year-venerable‘s death after receiving a vary of cell phone calls from pals within the racing circle. Davis said that drivers and pals had long gone to Weedon‘s home Monday evening upon hearing the news. “He was the most appreciated and revered racer available,” said Davis, a venerable driver himself. “There wasn‘t any one who had something else however take care of and admire for him.” Davis said that Weedon had been in preparation for Friday‘s season opener on the Davenport Speedway on the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds. Davis said that Weedon had his most unusual car on the Quad-City Speedway on Sunday for Take a look at & Tune Day. Davis said that it wasn‘t recurring for racers on the grass-roots level to be engaged on their autos alone, in particular Weedon. Davis said Weedon‘s accomplice, Dee, who has served as Ronnie‘s pit crew, came across her husband after the incident. The Weedons hang three sons who also lope — Ronnie Weedon Jr., Opt Connors and Jerry Connors.(Quad-Cities On-line/qctimes.com)(4-13-2005)
- 2nd Hendrick Automobile inceases agenda to 8 races, Busch to power at Texas: Team Lowe‘s Racing launched that several of its seller partners on the #5 Busch Assortment car can even wait on as the most fundamental sponsor in four races this season on the Hendrick Motorsports #57 Busch car with drivers Kyle Busch and Boston Reid. Spectracide, Shop Vac, Hitachi Power Tools and Sta Inexperienced are a pair of of the seller partners sponsoring the #5 Team Lowe‘s Racing Chevrolet within the 2005 NASCAR Busch Assortment season. Every will rotate as the most fundamental sponsor of the #57 in four Busch Assortment events foundation Saturday with Kyle Busch utilizing the Spectracide Fire Ant Killer Chevrolet at Texas Motor Speedway. Busch can even pilot the #57 on June 4 at Dover International Speedway and Oct. 14 at Lowe‘s Motor Speedway. The #5 Lowe‘s Chevrolet will proceed with Blake Feese and Reid sharing a majority of the utilizing responsibilities in 2005. Reid will power the #57 when the Busch Assortment races in his home converse of Indiana at Indianapolis Raceway Park in August. Brian Vickers will power the #57 in four Busch Assortment races in 2005 with vital sponsorship from Ore-Ida. With the climate getting hotter, lope fans will be spending loads more time exterior, working in and taking half in their yards. To wait on fans wait on a long way off from the grief of fire ants, the paint make for the #57 at Texas Motor Speedway will promote contemporary Spectracide(r) Fire Ant Killer As soon as & Executed.(Team Lowe‘s Racing PR)(4-13-2005)
IMAGE: scrutinize an image of the procedure on my Busch Assortment Paint Schemes page.(4-14-2005) - Unusual Crew Chief for Hamilin and the #20: Joe Gibbs Racing launched that it has employed Charles “Cully” Barraclough as Crew Chief of the #20 Rockwell Automation Busch Assortment entry pushed by Denny Hamlin. This change is efficient without lengthen. Barraclough comes from Roush Racing where he was Crew Chief of Matt Kennseth‘s #17 Roush Racing Busch Assortment Entry. In 2004, the #17 car started 16 races and scored 3 victories, 8 high-5 finishes and 11 high-ten finishes.(Rockwell Automation Racing)(4-13-2005)
- Shutt employed as contemporary #56 crew chief: Hill Motorsports Proprietor Jack McNelly launched that Tim Shutt has been named the contemporary crew chief for the team‘s NASCAR Busch Assortment #56 Lester Buildings Chevrolet. “We are very fortunate to hang Tim join our team,” commented McNelly. “To hang an skilled crew chief with Tim‘s ride on hand trusty throughout the season is a stroke of top-notch luck and fortune for Mac Hill Motorsports.” Shutt brings a wealth of ride to his contemporary situation, including three seasons with Joe Gibbs Racing where he served as crew chief for Mike Bliss and the #20 Rockwell Automation car trusty throughout the 2003 season. That team done 10th within the season‘s final championship level standings and had 14 high-ten finishes. Mac Hill Motorsports has 17 races remaining on their 20 lope agenda for the 2005 season. The team is scheduled to take a look at at Talladega Superspeedway on April 20th in preparation for his or her subsequent lope, the Aaron‘s 312 on April 30 at Talladega.(Mac Hill Motorsports)(4-13-2005)
- 2005 ‘Gong Indicate‘ on Creep? Roush Racing is negotiating with Creep Channel to turn its Gong Indicate — the title given to Roush‘s tryout competition for a wander within the truck sequence — into fact TV. The program would seem on the stop of Would possibly possibly even.(FoxSports/Wearing News)(4-13-2005)
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- Featherlite relief as sponsor of the #4 at Martinsville: Morgan-McClure Motorsports launched Featherlite, Inc. returning as the most fundamental sponsor of the #4 NEXTEL Cup Assortment Chevrolet for the Attain Auto Substances 500 at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday. Jimmy Spencer will pilot the Monte Carlo. Featherlite, Inc. (www.fthr.com), the “Much Trailer” and “Much Luxurious Coach” of NASCAR, debuted its vital sponsorship of the #4 at Texas Motor Speedway with Jimmy Spencer within the relief of the wheel. A top class line of NEXTEL Cup licensed Featherlite Automobile Care products is on hand at automotive stores and www.featherlitecarcare.com.
Larry McClure Quotes: “We are extremely exclusively pleased to hang Featherlite return as the most fundamental sponsor of the No. 4 Chevrolet for Martinsville. The team tested at Martinsville final week. The take a look at will give Jimmy Spencer more input on racing with our autos and the contemporary tires. We are taking a cease awake for racing at Martinsville with the a hit combination of Featherlite and Spencer.”(Morgan-McClure Motorsports PR)(4-13-2004) - Bodine Announcement this week? UPDATE 2: hearing Brett Bodine will be making some form of an announcement this week relating to his NASCAR future.(4-12-2004)
UPDATE: Fox Sports Rep‘s Completely NASCAR gift stories that Bodine will dash to work for the NASCAR R^D Heart in Concord, NC.
UPDATE 2: The most unusual member of NASCAR‘s Be taught & Style team is conscious of his sport smartly from within the relief of the wheel. Now, he will get the chance to make a contribution within the relief of the scenes. NASCAR president Mike Helton launched as of late that aged driver Brett Bodine has joined NASCAR‘s R&D team as particular mission engineer. Bodine, who holds a diploma in mechanical engineering from the Verbalize University of Unusual York at Alfred, will kind out several assignments. One mission with priority is the “Automobile of the Future,” where Bodine will work on worth-saving initiatives. Operating out of NASCAR‘s Concord, N.C.-based mostly exclusively mostly R&D Heart, Bodine will work with Gary Nelson, NASCAR‘s managing director of research and pattern. A native of Chemung, N.Y., Bodine, 45, competed at NASCAR‘s easiest level for simply about 20 years. He has one gain (1990 at North Wilkesboro) and 5 poles in 480 career NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Assortment begins. His career-high enact of 12th within the level standings also came in 1990. Bodine was a driver/proprietor from 1996-2003. He turned into an proprietor in 1996, procuring the eminent #11 team from Junior Johnson sooner than that season. His final on-tune circulation came in June, 2003, when he certified for the June 15 event at Michigan. Sooner than 2003, Bodine had been a fulltime NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Assortment competitor for 15 consecutive seasons (1988-2003). For the interval of his career, he drove for a pair of of NASCAR‘s most a hit homeowners, including Bud Moore (1988-89), Kenny Bernstein (1990-1994) and Junior Johnson (1995). Bodine‘s first lope in NASCAR‘s premier sequence came in 1986 for proprietor Rick Hendrick (his only delivery that year). He drove 14 races for Hoss Ellington in 1987 sooner than foundation his fulltime career in 1988. “We‘re gay to hang Brett on board,” Helton said. “He‘s been such a steadfast member of the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Assortment storage over time, and he‘s done it all — he‘s built lope autos, he‘s worked on lope autos and he‘s pushed lope autos. He brings a brand contemporary standpoint that we‘re cosy to faucet into.”
Bodine‘s ride also extends relief to the NASCAR Busch Assortment, where he was the sequence runner-up in 1986. Sooner than that, he loved success in northeastern modified circles, finishing 2nd within the 1984 tune championship at Stafford (Conn.) Motor Speedway, and trustworthy the 1985 Modified Escape of Champions at Pocono Raceway. General, he has three career victories within the NASCAR Featherlite Modified Assortment. In 1998, he was named one of many Prime-50 Modified drivers of all time.(NASCAR PR)(4-13-2004) - NASCAR and Reader‘s Digest To find Partnership to Put up Kid‘s Racing Books: Reader‘s Digest Youngsters‘s Publishing launched an settlement to post and distribute books within the US and Canada per the trendy NASCAR auto racing mark, bringing the engaging world of NASCAR racing to youthful fans.”We are gay that we are going to be creating books per America‘s 2nd most-watched spectator sport,” said Harold Clarke, vp and author, Alternate Publishing, for the Reader‘s Digest Association, Inc. “With 75 million fans, NASCAR is a success with each and each youngsters and adults and fits smartly into our design of making guide products ‘pushed‘ by America‘s strongest brands.” Foundation in June 2004, Reader‘s Digest Youngsters‘s Publishing will free up the initial three NASCAR-linked titles:
NASCAR CarryAlong(r) E book: Autos Drivers Races ($14.99) NASCAR Heart Grade Books: Speedway Superstars and The Most entertaining Races ($4.99):(NASCAR PR)
For the fleshy PR and more recordsdata and some E book Signings coming up for other books [Bobby Allison] scrutinize my Racing Bookstall page.(4-13-2004) - Unusual Designate Martin E book: The a lot anticipated Designate Martin guide will be launched this Would possibly possibly even, Designate Martin: Designate of Excellence — click on here is the fully authorized biography of Designate Martin written by Larry Woody. See for it on shelves in Would possibly possibly even or that you just may maybe maybe even reserve a copy as of late at www.sportspublishingllc.com.(4-13-2004)
- Third Annual Dale Earnhardt Day April 29th: For the third time in as decades, Dale Earnhardt Day will be smartly-known on April 29. DE Day is hosted by Teresa Earnhardt at Dale Earnhardt, Inc. as a birthday event for the seven-time NASCAR champion, Dale Earnhardt. This year‘s theme will give attention to Dale‘s Legacy at Daytona; his tune listing of 34 victories, his nearly wins and the 1998 Daytona 500 crawl to Victory Lane. For the first time since Dale Earnhardt, Inc. has opened its doorways, Dale‘s 1998 Daytona 500 trustworthy trophy will be on expose. Additionally, the helmet he wore that day, which is signed by his complete crew, will be shown. For the interval of the day, varied movies with fan interviews, Dale‘s trustworthy moments — and his nearly wins — at Daytona will be shown to the gathered crowd. Teresa Earnhardt will be readily on hand and tackle the fans on the lawn of the DEI headquarters. Followers will once again be allowed within the relief of the partitions of the DEI facility to stare varied lope autos, photos and displays within the Interior Showroom of DEI. Doors will initiate at 8: 00am/et and the event is converse to wind down at 8: 00pm/et. There’ll be a free shuttle between space resorts and our headquarters trusty throughout the day. For more recordsdata, log onto www.DaleEarnhardtInc.com and click on on on the Legacy Allotment to gain the most unusual updates and event additions.(ThatsRacin.com)(4-13-2004)
- Papers Fall Submit-mortem Photo Distress: Two Florida newspapers dropped their order Monday to a converse legislation limiting gain entry to to autopsy photos that handed after the death of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, citing a contemporary U.S. Supreme Court docket resolution. The papers sued in Broward County after a medical examiner refused to free up the photos, announcing the restriction violated the converse constitution. Newspapers sought gain entry to to the photos as questions arose over how Earnhardt died within the 2001 smash and whether or no longer higher safety equipment may maybe well need saved him. The papers voluntarily pushed apart the case Monday, weeks sooner than the 4th District Court docket of Allure in West Palm Shoreline was scheduled to listen to the case. The papers decided to plunge the case as a result of it may maybe possibly probably be difficult to gain after the U.S. Supreme Court docket dominated in a separate case about photos of venerable deputy White Condominium counsel Vince Foster. The court docket decided the photos can hang to dwell sealed, citing privacy concerns of the family. The Foster and Earnhardt conditions hang the identical top-notch good judgment, said University of Florida legislation Professor Jon Mills, who filed a immediate on behalf of the driver‘s widow, Teresa Earnhardt, within the U.S. Supreme Court docket case.(Daytona Shoreline News Journal/AP), past news about the case on my Dale Earnhardt tribute position — reactions/autopsy photos page.(4-13-2004)
- Ward in a site visitors accident UPDATE 2: Nextel driver #0-Ward Burton was occupied with a car accident south of Danville, VA. The accident befell near U.S 29 and N.C. 700 in Caswell County about 7: 30am/et. Burton obtained a bump to his head, according the North Carolina Highway Patrol.
UPDATE: Ward Burton fell asleep on the wheel of his 2004 Chevrolet Suburban on U.S. 29 on Monday morning, causing him to strike a guard rail and totaling the $60,000 automobile, in response to North Carolina Verbalize Trooper S.M. Mangum. Burton knowledgeable Mangum that his exiguous one was up four or 5 cases throughout the evening, causing fatigue to the NASCAR Nextel Cup driver. Burton‘s accomplice picked him up on the scene and took him for medicine for a bump on the pinnacle. Mangum did no longer know where Burton was being handled. Neither alcohol or medication had been a ingredient within the accident. Mangum estimated he was touring about 60 miles per hour in a 65 mile-per-hour zone.(Danville Register and Bee)(4-12-2004)
UPDATE 2: Ward Burton is resting at his Virginia home following a Monday morning single-automobile site visitors accident in which he totaled a original 60-thousand dollar Chevy Suburban. The motive force of the #0-NetZero Monte Carlo fell asleep within the relief of the wheel, hit the stop of a guardrail and rolled the SUV. He was heading to the Haas/CNC shop near Charlotte to be fitted for a brand contemporary seat sooner than a planned take a look at at Kentucky Speedway on Wednesday. Crew Chief Tony Furr said Burton called him and said “I wrecked our free car!” Furr isn‘t determined the team will hang the take a look at searching on how Burton feels. Furr said Burton knowledgeable him he‘s okay and that the air fetch burned his face a exiguous bit and he also has a bump on his head. Burton also knowledgeable Furr he was going to cease for espresso about 10 minutes sooner than the accident happened, however didn‘t.(PRN‘s Storage Lunge Radio Indicate)(4-13-2004) - NASCAR Reorganizes: NASCAR launched a reorganization designed to expand the emphasis on the sanctioning body‘s regional touring and weekly competitions, and additional hang public relatives efforts total. Jim Hunter, previously Vice President of Company Communications, has been given the contemporary title of Vice President of Company Communications/Regional Touring/NASCAR Dodge Weekly Assortment. Returning to an space where he has worked earlier in his career, Hunter will work closely with contemporary employee Don Hawk, who has been named Director of Regional Racing Style, and Chris Boals, who remains the Director of Regional Touring/NASCAR Dodge Weekly Assortment. Hunter‘s return to regional touring and weekly competition responsibilities drew unswerving response from rapid-tune operators. In a transfer that will complement Hunter‘s increased responsibilities, public relatives aged Ramsey Poston is joining the communications department as the contemporary Managing Director of User and Company Communications. Hawk, Boals and Poston all will listing to Hunter. Hawk, 48, has been occupied with every aspect of rapid-tune racing and is broadly identified and revered within the motorsports industry. He is a graduate of Philadelphia Biblical University. Hawk is per chance most entertaining identified trusty throughout the industry for his long affiliation with the slack seven-time NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt. From 1993-2000, Hawk developed throughout the ranks of Dale Earnhardt Inc., sooner or later turning into the organization‘s president. Sooner than joining DEI, Hawk was total enterprise manger for Alan Kulwicki Racing. He continues to tackle Kulwicki‘s property for the family of the 1992 NASCAR champion who died in a 1993 plane smash. Hawk also is assumed to be one of many pioneers within the NASCAR-linked memorabilia enterprise. He’ll be based mostly exclusively mostly at NASCAR‘s Be taught and Style Heart in Concord, N.C. Poston, 37, comes to NASCAR from Powell Tate, a conversation/consulting firm in Washington, D.C. Poston has been a Senior Vice President/Administration Supervisor with the firm, where he has worked since 1997. A graduate of Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I., Poston will abet Hunter in managing the communications department and will in particular listen on public relatives initiatives within the country‘s high 20 media markets, and these appealing non-worn media stores.(NASCAR PR)(4-13-2004)
- Contemporary Generation Milestone Forward: Baring unexpected changes within the agenda, the MBNA America 400 at Dover in June may maybe maybe be the 1000th NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Contemporary Generation lope. This is also the 2,042nd components lope for NASCAR‘s premier division.(NASCAR Statistical Products and companies)(4-13-2004)
- Kyle Busch checking out at Gateway: Kyle Busch and the #5 Team Lowe‘s Racing Hendrick Motorsports crew are checking out at Gateway International Raceway near St. Louis as of late and the next day to come, April 13-14, in preparation for the Would possibly possibly even 8 NASCAR Busch Assortment event at that facility.(Golin/Harris International PR)(4-13-2004)
- Smith to beget in for Kahne: Akins Motorsports launched Monday that Regan Smith will discover and qualify the #38 Gargantuan Clips Busch car for the relaxation of the season when scheduling conflicts wait on traditional driver Kasey Kahne from doing so. Kahne is working fleshy-time in each and each Busch and Nextel Cup.(Fox Sports Rep‘s Completely NASCAR)(4-13-2004)
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April 13, 2003
- Jeff Gordon wins at Martinsville: #24-Jeff Gordon won the Virginia 500 at Martinsville Speedway, his first of 2003 and 62nd of his career [he is 7th All Time]. It was Gordon‘s first gain in 15 races, his final being at Kansas in Spet 2002. Gordon as now won a minimum of one lope a season for ten years in a row. There has now been 9 varied winners within the first 9 races. #18-Bobby Labonte, who started 39th the exhaust of a provisional finshed a discontinuance 2nd. The lope ended below yellow as #17-Kenseth spun and created moderately heaps of smoke and #97-Busch obtained hit by any individual and grew to alter into round and obtained caught on a nook. #38-Sadler and #20-Stewart had a ‘absorbing‘ battle for Fifth, with Sadler finishing Fifth and Stewart getting a decrease left rear tire and aa bit ticked off, banging into Sadler a pair of cases on the tune trusty throughout the final yellow. #49-Schrader will get his first high 10 in 55 races and the first ever for BAM Racing. Best possible finishing Rookie of the Year candidate was #16-Greg Biffle at 18th. One of the best finishing Pontiac of the 5 within the lope? 27th by #32-Ricky Craven.
Leer my Virginia 500 Escape Data page for my lope rundown, cautions, notes, and heaps others
Escape Re-air: The lope will be re-aired on Creep Channel, Wed, Apr 16th, 8: 00pm/et (enhanced) and Thurs, Apr 17th, 1: 00am/et and at 3: 00pm/et.
Results Hyperlinks at: Jayski 2003 Winston Cup Escape Results page
ThatsRacin.com, NASCAR.com Motorsports One.(4-13-2003) - Hut on TV: From beekeeping and wine-making to scrapbooking and woodworking, an increasing number of celebrities are devoting their downtime to spare time activities and dwell-it-your self projects which would be steadily quirky and repeatedly in my notion rewarding. DIY-Attain It Yourself Community will showcase identified personalities and their personal passions in Essential individual Hobbies, an appealing contemporary 13-fragment sequence that launched on April 4. Hosted by Tracy Griffith (half of-sister of actress Melanie Griffith), Essential individual Hobbies will air weekly on Friday nights. The sequence will characteristic more than two dozen actors, musicians, athletes and authors at home or within the subject, in their studios and workshops, as they indicate first-hand for viewers their converse penchants, starting from the artistically gorgeous and functional to the stress-free and downright offbeat. Every episode will give attention to two celebrities, who give step-by-step instructions on a mission, moreover to visitor consultants who give advice on the array of subject matters featured per week. Savor with any DIY program, the community‘s online page, DIYnet.com, will provide step-by step mission instructions and linked resources to every of the episode‘s subject matters. The one-hour particular, to precede the sequence premiere, affords a immediate-paced preview of loads of the personalities featured in this design, including the NFL‘s Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders who take care of to scrapbook; Atlanta Braves‘ catcher Javy Lopez who collects and operates radio wait on watch over airplanes; actor James Avery who collects African-American memorabilia; and rock guitarist Steve Vai who‘s in to beekeeping.
AND Hut Stricklin (NASCAR driver): When he‘s no longer within the relief of the wheel revving the engine, Hut restores fundamental autos and affords some programs of the alternate [scheduled to air on April 25th at 8:30pm/et, re-air dates can be found on their website]. Mario Andretti (lope car driver): Mario demonstrates the a lot slower-paced world of dazzling winemaking at his accept as true with Napa Valley vineyard. DIY, one of 4 cable television networks operated by Scripps Networks, specializes within the dwell-it-your self enthusiast, providing in-depth demonstrations and suggestions for classes corresponding to arts and crafts; automotive and boating; cooking and engaging; adorning and make; gardening and landscaping; household and cleansing; home constructing; home articulate; sport and spare time activities; and tools and products. DIY is distributed to 13 million U.S. households and is on hotfoot to realize 20 million by the stop of 2003. The community‘s accomplice online page, DIYnet.com, mirrors the weekly on-air programming agenda, that contains easy-to-exhaust, step-by-step instructions for more than 9,000 projects, including an wide online guide to resources, supplies and linked projects. DIYnet.com customers can search the position for any mission shown on-air, bewitch in team bulletin boards and submit dwell-it-your self questions to the knowledgeable DIY team.(4-13-2003) - Newman Hurting: #12-Ryan Newman said the one lasting produce he had from the harrowing 27-car smash on Lap 4 of final week‘s Aaron‘s 499 at Talladega was a sore on his foot. “When I hit the wall, my left foot obtained caught below the pedal,” Newman said. “I knowledgeable all people within the shop that I seemed esteem I ‘Barney Fifed‘ myself. It seemed esteem I shot myself aesthetic within the tip center of my foot. There‘s a exiguous bit dot aesthetic there that looks esteem a bullet went aesthetic through. It‘s all swollen up, however it completely only hurts after I steal my shoe off or assign it on.”(ThatsRacin.com)(4-13-2003)
- Wood Brother‘s Unusual Engineer: In yet any other signal of the increasing impression of technology and physics on NASCAR, #21 Wood Brothers Racing welcomed its first fleshy-time engineer this weekend. Jackie Mohrfeld, a 24-year-venerable mechanical engineering graduate of Purdue University, will wait on the Stuart, VA -based mostly exclusively mostly team by crunching numbers and working pc simulations on lope weekends for the relaxation of the season.(Richmond Times Dispatch)(4-13-2003)
- Indy 500 Looks to be to be like Doubtful for Andretti: A brand contemporary converse of Indy Racing League suggestions potentially will prevent John Andretti from competing within the Indianapolis 500 subsequent month. The motive force of the #43 Cheerios Dodge for Petty Enterprises wished to lope in opposition to his cousin Michael, who will be utilizing in his final Indy 500. “Straight away, the IRL typically is in a converse of transition in that they‘ve obtained contemporary engine capabilities, chassis and moderately heaps of contemporary groups, too,” said Andretti, the first driver to lope the 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the identical day in 1994. “The greatest subject is, is there going to be ample equipment? . . . It doesn‘t look sturdy [for attempting the race], however the chance is tranquil there.”(Richmond Times Dispatch)(4-13-2003)
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- Shepherd tranquil hopes to lope Cup: Morgan Shepherd hasn‘t exclusively shelved his Winston Cup dream, either. He has 481 Cup begins and 4 Cup wins below his belt, and his final Cup foray came in 1999, when he drove one lope for Junie Donlavey. His final fleshy-time season was a 23-lope stint in 1997. His final Cup gain came in 1993, in Atlanta. “Our plans had been to be here at Martinsville,” Shepherd said of Sunday‘s Virginia 500. “We had a man who was supposed to wait on us with the engine up here and on the final minute he backed out. We‘re in a position to head Winston Cup racing. We‘ve obtained the shop and amenities, however staunch don‘t hang the money to operate.” The true fact a Cup engine prices roughly $40,000 doesn‘t wait on. So Shepherd has solid his lot with NASCAR‘s Craftsman Truck sequence, where he ran 16 races final season and done 26th within the final components standings. His 9 DNFs had been a exiguous bit more troublesome to swallow. Shepherd Racing was fashioned in 1998 with a $25-million-dollar sponsorship settlement to subject a Cup team, however the insurance-firm sponsor pulled out of the deal, leaving Shepherd on his accept as true with. Final year‘s $3,000 donation from a fan team was his sole offer of outside wait on. “We‘re tranquil racing with out money,” Shepherd said. “So there‘s only loads we’ll have the choice to dwell. Our intention is to fabricate our Christian team that we converse out to dwell, and dwell issues to wait on change other folks‘s lives. We‘re staunch taking a search a sponsor.”(CNN/SI, NASCAR.com)(4-13-2002)
- DW to lope more Truck races? a pair of stories gift Darrell Waltip announcing he is consdiering working CTS races at Richmond and Indianapolis Raceway Park.(4-14-2002)
- DW and Petree hang tense luck in CTS lope at Martinsville: #17-Darrell Waltrip done 34th with a damaged rear stop and #33-Andy Petree done 31st after an accident took him out.(4-14-2002)
- More Andretti/Indy 500: #43-John Andretti had wished to chat this week to team proprietor Kyle Petty more about Andretti utilizing within the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 within the identical day. Busy schedules saved them apart. Petty said he didn‘t desire Andretti, who drove in each and each races in 1994, to compete at Indy thanks to the prefer to present attention to the Winston Cup team. Andretti said he wished to additional discuss the topic. It appears unlikely that Andretti will compete within the Indy 500, even supposing he tranquil has a wander on hand.(Roanoke Times)(4-14-2002)
- Evernham and Elledge to meet again UPDATE: Ray Evernham, co-proprietor of Extremely/Evernham Motorsports, said he and co-proprietor Jim Smith hang met with Jimmy Elledge about the crew chief situation with driver Casey Atwood and the #7 Dodges and notion to meet again this weekend. Elledge started the 2002 season as crew chief for #88-Dale Jarrett, however left that situation final week. He is a venerable crew chief for #55-Bobby Hamilton.(ThatsRacin.com), past news on the #7 Team News and Hyperlinks Page.(4-12-2002)
UPDATE: Jimmy Elledge said he‘s been supplied the job as crew chief for #7 Casey Atwood, however he said he needs to wait on and attach in suggestions his subsequent transfer sooner than jumping.(Winston Salem Journal)(4-13-2002) - More The Winston — Transferring? RJR‘s contract with LMS expires after this year‘s working of The Winston event and there are questions over whether or no longer the lope will return, and if it does, whether or no longer it may maybe possibly probably actually hang to return to Charlotte. RJR‘s Winston Cup director Neatly off Habegger admitted Wednesday that a resolution had no longer been made on the future of the lope and that talks would gain underway within the next couple of months. The drivers in spite of all the pieces gain pleasure from the benefits of working two consecutive weeks near their home heinous, a rarity within the Bataan Demise March of NASCAR‘s agenda. Nonetheless proximity apart, reigning NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon said that he feels that Charlotte is the ideal venue for a high-stakes, no-components, let‘s-scrutinize-who-can-power-this-ingredient-the-hardest shootout. For his fragment, LMS president H.A. ‘Humpy‘ Wheeler has no plans to present up his preserve on the lope with out a battle.(Creep Channel)(4-11-2002)
UPDATE — A brand contemporary converse for The Winston? The Winston, NASCAR‘s all-megastar lope, will be fascinating from its long-time home at Lowe‘s Motor Speedway. NASCAR vp Jim Hunter said negotiations are below procedure with Winston, which sponsors the lope and the Winston Cup Assortment, about altering the positioning — and possibly the foundations — of the lope. “The Winston originated as a fans‘ all-megastar lope that will be moved from venue to venue, however over time we obtained a long way off from that,” Hunter said. Hunter said fans and other tune homeowners are soliciting for the lope to be moved. “We‘re reviewing the total suggestions,” Hunter said. “Even to the level of the foundations and procedures which hang changed over time.” Tracks he mentioned as conceivable hosts embrace Richmond, California, Martinsville and Las Vegas. “You must steal it to a converse where they’ll lope, that‘s no longer a one-groove tune,” he said.(Atlanta Journal Constitution)(4-13-2002) - More 2003 Pontiac News UPDATE and some more: Winston Cup sequence director John Darby confirmed Friday morning NASCAR has examined a done 2003 Pontiac Immense Prix and done its initial diagnosis. “We typically hang done a flow-round stare of it and an initial template fit,” Darby said. “We‘ve talked about some varied areas of the car, which they for the time being are going relief and going to work on. The subsequent step from them will be to hang an top-notch presentation and the car will dash to the wind tunnel after which for a tune take a look at.” The final presentation by Pontiac officers can hang to be full by July 1, with NASCAR making final approval by Oct. 1. #18 crew chief Jimmy Makar said he hoped to hang a final version of the 2003 Pontiac within a month-and-half of. “We‘ll hang something we unquestionably feel we’ll have the choice to submit by then,” Makar said. “Issues are gong smartly. We‘ve been to the wind tunnel several cases, NASCAR has seemed on the car. I feel the total foundation direction of is done.” Darby also confirmed officers with Chevrolet hang indicated they, too, notion to submit changes to the Monte Carlo body style in time to exhaust within the 2003 season.(ThatsRacin.com), scrutinize some pictures of a [possible] 2003 Pontiac on my NASCAR Past News/Solutions page(4-12-2002)
UPDATE: The final version is tranquil within the works, however the 2003 Pontiac is being reviewed by officers. The automobile will be submitted for NASCAR approval within six weeks. Straight away, NASCAR officers are taking a look on the preliminary model and making suggestions for attainable changes. The automobile has a varied nostril, however is in some programs a lot like existing autos competing within the sequence. “[NASCAR has] viewed it, they‘ve been within the wind tunnel with it,” said Bobby Labonte‘s crew chief, Jimmy Makar, who has helped hang the car. “They‘ve knowledgeable us the issues they wish us to interchange on it. I feel they‘re rather exclusively pleased with what we‘ve obtained now.” Makar said the NASCAR tune take a look at may maybe maybe steal converse at Atlanta Motor Speedway.(Richmond Times Dispatch) AND NASCAR held a wind-tunnel take a look at final week of Pontiac‘s contemporary fundamental-template Immense Prix, and to leer a pair of of its 2003 car make suggestions, in particular the ‘immense greenhouse‘ model, which would offer more headroom. NASCAR would purchase to decrease 20 p.c of the downforce off these autos for subsequent season, in response to engineering sources, and fragment of the checking out to this level has incorporated elevating the entrance air dam 5 inches off the asphalt.(Winston Salem Journal)(4-13-2002) - Spacious Autos in 2003? NASCAR is leaning towards OKing the contemporary ‘immense greenhouse‘ model for the April 2003 lope at Talladega and phasing within the contemporary car, first at Talladega and Daytona, then on the intermediate tracks, and finally on the rapid tracks. This kind of fragment-in would wait on car homeowners, who hang simply about two dozen autos every, from taking such a immense monetary hit . NASCAR may maybe be checking out what’s being called ‘the 2-by-four,‘ a greenhouse that is 2 inches taller and 4 inches wider, to transfer the driver‘s head a long way off from the rollbars.(Winston Salem Journal)(4-13-2002)
- Gordon and Earnhardt Jr talk: After finishing his qualifying lope, #31-Robby Gordon climbed from his car, walked aesthetic over to #8-Dale Earnhardt Jr. and struck up a conversation. “I asked him if he was OK with me starting up within the relief of him,” said Gordon, who was third after his lope, however obtained bumped the total manner down to 11th. Gordon said his feud with Earnhardt Jr. at Bristol is over. “It‘s racing,” Gordon said. “We don‘t hang any grudges. One ingredient that‘s high-quality about Winston Cup is we have 36 weekends to gain at it. Texas was rough for us, however we‘re exclusively pleased to be starting up where we‘re at.”(News and Attain)(4-13-2002)
- Abuse of Checking out? Some Winston Cup crews bitch that other groups are abusing NASCAR‘s seven-take a look at restrict lately by claiming to be checking out ARCA autos. NASCAR officers said they’d overview the topic.(Winston Salem Journal)(4-13-2002)
- General Templates in 2003? UPDATE: With plans for a newly designed Pontiac Immense Prix already in circulation, NASCAR also has knowledgeable Fashioned Motors to hang a fundamental template Monte Carlo ready for the 2003 Daytona 500. At least three varied Monte Carlos are being developed collectively by Richard Childress Racing, Hendrick Motorsports and Dale Earnhardt Inc. Then again, the construction of a brand contemporary Monte Carlo for the 2003 racing season was no longer by selection of GM. The sanctioning body met with GM‘s NASCAR Key Companions Community — JGR, RCR, Hendrick‘s and DEI — and requested that they’ve a “fundamental template” Monte Carlo in a position to roll for the 2003 Daytona 500. A fundamental template car will incorporate a in style make among all four makes where the construction of the greenhouse is purely about identical. Only subtle cosmetic changes would differentiate one car from yet any other. Nonetheless in precept, the autos may maybe maybe be aerodynamically equal. Hypothesis is that NASCAR was no longer exclusively pleased with the accurate lobbying for aerodynamic concessions that stole the headlines over Speedweeks. A fundamental body style shared by all four manufacturers would save away with the fixed arguing over who has the ideal car. RCR is engaged on the Monte Carlo for submission that is a combination between a speedway car and a downforce car. DEI is engaged on the speedway (Daytona/Talladega) converse car, whereas Hendrick concentrates on the baseline intermediate fragment that will be ready for the wind tunnel within the next two weeks. Whereas Chevrolet contends it for the time being is six p.c uncomfortable in aero horsepower, the contemporary changes can hang to hang the autos more aggressive. Nonetheless GM is certainly below low time constraints with staunch four months remaining to hang the autos ready for initial submission to NASCAR in July, and for final submission by Oct. 1.(in fragment from the Wearing News)(4-11-2002)
UPDATE: So what about the fundamental template Chevrolet? “Now not a ‘fundamental template‘ car, however we have mentioned doing a (contemporary) 2003 Monte Carlo,” Automobile Proprietor Ricchard Childress said. “Heck, there isn‘t a fundamental-template car available. The Dodges and Fords don‘t hang the identical templates as a result of they don‘t lope the identical per week; they‘re no longer below the identical suggestions.”.(Winston Salem Journal)(4-13-2002) - Pleased Hour Educate at Martinsville is over. #20-Tony Stewart was the fastest at 93.061mph, 2nd fastest was #55-Bobby Hamilton at 92.783 and #40-Trustworthy Marlin at 92.642. Slowest had been #90-Rick Mast at 91.135 and #14-Darrell Waltrip (subbing for Stacy Compton) at 90.335. #71-Andy Hillenburg did no longer discover. Leer ThatsRacin.com for Saturday‘s ‘Pleased Hour‘ speeds. Pleased Hour will be televised per tape lengthen at 7: 00pm/et tonight on FX with Darrell Waltrip within the #14 with a microphone.(4-13-2002)
- Childress to be honored: NASCAR team proprietor and venerable driver Richard Childress will be honored trusty through Speedway Youngsters‘s Charities 22nd annual Charity Ball Friday, Would possibly possibly even 24, on the Adam‘s Designate Resort in downtown Charlotte. This event, held alongside with the Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe‘s Motor Speedway, will be themed “A Welcome Champion.” Subsidized by UAW-GM Motorsports, the gala affair is yearly Charlotte‘s largest sunless-tie profit moreover to 1 of many most a hit fundraisers for the Charlotte Chapter of Speedway Youngsters‘s Charities. Leer my Racing Charity Page for more recordsdata.(LMS PR)(4-13-2002)
- Kimmel Wins at Nashville: Frank Kimmel, who is working the Cup lope at Martinsville for Travis Carter within the #26 Attain Auto Substances/Pork the replace white meat Ford, won the ARCA lope at Nashville, after starting up from the pole the. Kimmel will delivery final within the Cup lope as Joe Nemechek certified the car however is no longer going to prefer to tumble relief a long way as the car made the subject by taking a provisional, 41st.(in fragment from ThatsRacin.com)(4-13-2002)
- #97 Deck Lid Confiscated: NASCAR officers confiscated the rear deck lid of Kurt Busch‘s #97 Ford following Friday‘s pre-qualifying inspections. It was tagged and assign on expose exterior the NASCAR hauler. The team needed to interchange the deck lid sooner than Busch‘s car was allowed to look at. NASCAR director of enterprise operations Kevin Triplett said the deck lid was taken as a result of it “didn’t fit the Ford template.”(ThatsRacin.com)(4-13-2002)
- Gordon wins MW Home windows Pole Award and Home windows: MW Home windows may maybe maybe be the first pole day award winners to present a apartment fleshy of doorways and windows. Rapidly after MW Home windows launched its sponsorship of Pole Day for the Virginia 500 at Martinsville Speedway, officers with the firm decided they wished to dwell more than that, though. So moreover to to presenting a trophy to the Virginia 500 pole winner, MW will give a apartment fleshy of windows and doorways within the pole-winner‘s title to a local Habitat for Humanity chapter trusty through pre-lope ceremonies for the Virginia 500 on April 14. And it‘s no longer a one-lope effort either. The producer of windows and door products for the residential construction industry will donate doorways and windows to Habitat for Humanity chapters twice a year. One donation will near after MW Pole Day for the Virginia 500 and the replace after MW Pole Day for the Venerable Dominion 500. The Martinsville-Henry County and Franklin County chapters of Habitat for Humanity may maybe maybe be the recipients annually.(Martinsville Speedway PR), Jeff Gordon won the pole and obtained the award.(4-13-2002)
- Riggs wins in his seventh delivery — ties listing: #10-Scott Riggs led honest once for the final 47 laps Saturday as he obtained his first BGN victory in precisely his seventh delivery on the circuit on the Pepsi 300 at Nashville Superspeedway, tying a listing for the quickest victory by a rookie. Johnny Rumley also won in his seventh delivery, in 1993. #24-Jack Sprague took four tires in his final cease and done 2nd for a 2nd consecutive week. He was adopted by #25-Bobby Hamilton Jr. who came from a lap down for his most entertaining-ever BGN enact, #23-Scott Wimmer and #57-Jason Keller as Fords crammed three of the tip 5 positions. Sprague took over the components lead. Leer ThatsRacin.com for Saturday‘s Immense National lope outcomes.(4-13-2002)
- White loses blueprint: NASCAR officers disallowed a qualifying bustle by #46-Dennis Setzer, however the immense loser was a younger driver from Concord named Dana White. Setzer‘s punishment? He dropped from fifth within the qualifying provide an explanation for to 33rd (the first provisional slot). The problem was within the cultured-entrance springs in Setzer‘s Chevrolet, in response to officers. What was entertaining was the true fact the disqualification of Setzer worth White a blueprint first and most fundamental subject. By giving Setzer a provisional, NASCAR took one a long way off from White. The transfer also enabled Brendan Gaughan, whose Dodge is sponsored by NAPA Auto Substances, the 32nd starting up situation, per his moderate bustle. Had Setzer‘s truck no longer been declared unlawful, White would hang made the subject and Gaughan would had been sent packing.(Gaston Gazette)(4-13-2002)
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April 13, 2001
- Marcis to the BGN? UPDATE: Rumor has it that #71-Dave Marcis is fascinated with fascinating to the BGN Assortment.(NASCAR.com Buzz)(3-1-2001)
UPDATE: Dave Marcis said team supervisor, Dwayne Leik will be relief in a lope car quickly (he tried the Daytona 500 within the #72 Chevy owned by Marcis), working a restricted Busch Assortment agenda in two autos Marcis bought from APR(Andy Petree Racing). Marcis plans on going to The Winston Birth at Charlotte subsequent month. He also hopes to hang upcoming races at Chicago, Indianapolis, Dover and the season-ending lope at Atlanta moreover to Talladega subsequent week(Hendersonville Times News)(4-13-2001) - Herzog in Cup: Herzog Motorsports, operated by Bill Herzog and sons Randy and Stan, has advanced from trustworthy off-boulevard championships in California and Nevada deserts and Colorado mountain trails to contending for a Busch Immense National victory. Their Busch driver, Jimmie Johnson, has four high-10 finishes and ranks fifth within the components standings going into Saturday‘s Pepsi 300(at Nashville). The Herzogs notion to lope a two-car Busch team and 5 to eight Winston Cup races in 2002 and subject a fleshy Winston Cup effort in 2003. The Herzogs‘ future Busch and Winston Cup plans hit a bustle bump this week when they launched Toby Porter thanks to personal variations. Porter had posted third- and 10th-converse finishes in three American Creep Association races. Billy Parker crammed in for Porter trusty through final week‘s ASA lope in South Boston and done seventh. Porter‘s departure comes at a serious time as a result of Johnson‘s affiliation with the team ends after this season. Under the terms of his contract with Herzog, which expires on the stop of 2001, Johnson was allowed to negotiate a brand contemporary tackle Rick Hendrick, who signed him to a multiyear deal to alter into Jeff Gordon‘s teammate, foundation in 2002(an lope some Cup races in 2001 within the #48 Chevy). The Herzogs had planned to transfer Porter into Johnson‘s wander subsequent year, so now they‘ll be attempting out some drivers trusty throughout the next couple of months. For his or her crew chief, the Herzogs this year employed revered Tony Liberati, who had ride with Winston Cup groups owned by Jack Roush and Hendrick(Kansas City Essential individual)(4-13-2001)
- Unusual Cup team/driver UPDATE: ARCA driver, Brian Conz no longer too long within the past came to an settlement with contemporary to NASCAR Self-discipline & Stream Watches® Racing and other quickly to be launched affiliate sponsors. Plans are being made for the #78 Self-discipline & Stream Watches® Chevy to hang their Winston Cup debut at Talladega Superspeedway on April 22, 2001. Conz plans on working 5 Cup events, Talladega 4/22, Daytona 7/7, Michigan 8/19, Talladega 10/21 and one event that the sponsor hasn‘t selected yet(Brian Conz Do)(3-15-2001)
UPDATE: The team has postponed their debut until Daytona in July. Additionally: Other divisions of Self-discipline & Stream hang signed on and the pinnacle-notch title is now Self-discipline & Stream Life Racing. Conz has been in Mooresville/Charlotte space no longer too long within the past shopping contemporary equipment and all of the team‘s equipment is bought or ordered now, however won‘t be ready in time for Talladega(subsequent week Apr 22nd). Unusual team Cup agenda: Daytona, 7/7, Chicagoland 7/15. Brickyard 400 8/5, Michigan 8/19, Talladega 10/21 and Domicile-Miami 11/11. Plans for the 2002 season are being worked on now. Conz has talked to several other folks concerning the crew chief situation however has no longer selected somebody yet. The team has came across a store in Mooresville plans are to transfer into it sometime this season. The team plans on doing lots of checking out and working some ARCA races between now and Daytona to gain ready for the Pepsi 400(Brian Conz Do)(4-13-2001) - Two Competitors.com Web sites dissed: TachZone and Stooges Racing, linked here for over a year now will be dropped by a death Competitors.com, scrutinize the tales at TachZone: Belly Up: The Loss of a Sponsor and Stooges Racing: Stooge‘s Racing Moves, Stooges says his position will stay on TachZone is no longer going to and will be uncared for. Both Stooge, Ryan(TachZone) and their staffs had been supporters of NASCAR and I desire them the ideal(4-13-2001)
- Earnhardt Submit-mortem Photos — persevered: A University of Florida pupil newspaper Thursday filed a brand contemporary query to scrutinize the Dale Earnhardt autopsy photos. The contemporary tainted-claim filed by the Self ample Florida Alligator in opposition to the Volusia County Clinical Examiner‘s Dwelling of labor addresses developments within the case that weren‘t present when the usual query was filed final month. A Deland-based mostly exclusively mostly Web position also is seeking gain entry to to the autopsy photos. The contemporary tainted-claim challenges the constitutionality of a converse legislation handed slack final month limiting gain entry to to autopsy photos and argues that it may maybe possibly probably actually hang to‘t be applied retroactively to the Earnhardt autopsy photos(CNN/SI/AP)(4-13-2001)
- Evernham Hires Pit Crew Coach: Ray Evernham now the proprietor of Evernham Motorsports, a vital-year Dodge team for drivers for #9-Bill Elliott and #19-Casey Atwood has a brand contemporary pit crew coach — Terra Flynn, a venerable classmate at Raritan Excessive College in Hazlet, N.J., who no longer too long within the past done a eminent career as a Navy Seal. “When I was placing this deal collectively, I knew I obligatory any individual to put collectively and motivate our team,” Evernham said. “I notion he may maybe maybe be unquestionably top-notch if I may maybe maybe disclose him the racing aspect.” As the title implies, a pit crew coach recruits and trains the pit crew. Flynn has shared these responsibilities with the more skilled Ed Watkins, who doubles as the jackman on the Atwood‘s #19 car.(Dallas Morning News)(4-12-2001)
AND also scrutinize a account about this from a pair of weeks within the past at Winners Magazine: Excessive College Reunion — Ray Evernham‘s Unusual Pit Coach — Lessons From The Navy SEALS by Claire B. Lang(enormous shot of Ray Evernham)(4-13-2001) - Gordon and AJ Foyt at Indy: A.J. Foyt has entered a car for Robby Gordon in subsequent month‘s Indianapolis 500. Gordon done fourth within the 1999 version and sixth final year, utilizing for Team Menard(ESPN)(4-13-2001)
- Weekend Off: After eight straight races, Winston Cup groups gain their first weekend off for Easter. Vacation plans for a pair of of the drivers: Bill Elliott is hiding eggs with his 5-year venerable son; Ward Burton is tenting with his youngsters; John Andretti is celebrating the 80th birthday of his grandmother in Moorestown, Pa.; Stacy Compton is taking half in four days of golf in Myrtle Shoreline, S.C.; Jeff Burton is flying his family to the Bahamas; Designate Martin is staring at his son lope and being a “sofa potato.”(Atlanta Journal Constitution) and Jayski is staunch gonna silent down(4-13-2001)
- One other Racing Oriented Restuarant Closed? Yep — UPDATE: hearing that Escape Rock Restaurant in Las Vegas has closed its doorways, a minimum of in brief. The Pettys, Jeff Gordon, Rusty Wallace, Mario and Michael Andretti, John Force and Don Prudhomme are among the homeowners of the restaurant. The restaurant was fleshy of memorabilia from varied lope groups. It was the position of various NASCAR linked press conferences, and a current hangout of lope groups and fans trusty through NASCAR events in Las Vegas. There’s a chance it can maybe also simply re-initiate in February. This has no produce on the Escape Rock Restaurant in Orlando.(4-10-2001)
UPDATE: The multimillion-dollar Escape Rock restaurant turned into downtown Las Vegas‘ per chance most costly empty storefront Monday after managers said that delays on the unbuilt Neonopolis entertainment complex across the boulevard had decrease too deeply into their enterprise. Escape Rock‘s closing ability taxpayers must proceed to wait on for the downtown on line casino-funded Fremont Boulevard Ride to repay more than $5.6 million in public funds spent to compose the land that the restaurant was built on, metropolis officers said. A exiguous more than $8,000 has been returned, officers said. Vacationers strolling by the motorsports-themed Escape Rock on Monday seen a locksmith barring the entrance. A signal taped to the door be taught, “If conditions allow it, we request to reopen our Supercharged Restaurant when Neonopolis reopens in our block of Fremont Boulevard early subsequent year. Then again, we’ll not proceed to preserve the significant working losses we‘ve been experiencing until that occurs.”(Las Vegas Review Journal)(4-13-2001) - Biffle Quickest in Educate: #60-Greg Biffle was fastest within the 2nd discover at Nashville, 157.772mph with #2-Kevin Harvick 2nd at 157.503mph. Leer the speeds at NASCAR.com(4-13-2001)
- Marcis to the BGN? UPDATE: Rumor has it that #71-Dave Marcis is fascinated with fascinating to the BGN Assortment.(NASCAR.com Buzz)(3-1-2001)
UPDATE: Dave Marcis said team supervisor, Dwayne Leik will be relief in a lope car quickly (he tried the Daytona 500 within the #72 Chevy owned by Marcis), working a restricted Busch Assortment agenda in two autos Marcis bought from APR(Andy Petree Racing). Marcis plans on going to The Winston Birth at Charlotte subsequent month. He also hopes to hang upcoming races at Chicago, Indianapolis, Dover and the season-ending lope at Atlanta moreover to Talladega subsequent week(Hendersonville Times News)(4-13-2001) - Tires: The Busch Assortment groups will every gain 32 tires to gain through their weekend at Nashville Superspeedway. This day every team will prefer to designate which converse of tires it may maybe possibly probably actually hang to exhaust for qualifying. These four tires can hang to be left on the tire warehouse on the stop of the tune‘s storage space until qualifying.(Tennessean)(4-13-2001)
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April 13, 2000
- Dodge Checking out Dates and Venues UPDATE: Dodge team proprietor Ray Evernham and Dodge Motorsports are about to embark on the first on-tune checking out for the Winston Cup Dodge Valorous. All dates are tentative and additional dates is steadily added.
Would possibly possibly even 2-3 Domicile
Would possibly possibly even 18-19 Michigan
June 5-6 Las Vegas
June 12-13 Talladega
June 26-27 Texas
July 4-5 Indianapolis
July 18-19 Atlanta
July 25-26 Daytona
August 8 Atlanta
August 21-22 Talladega. No idea if here is an initiate/public or closed take a look at(4-12-2000)
UPDATE: scrutinize an extra memoir at SpeedVision on the checking out: After Delay, Dodge Ready for Checking out by Ben Blake(4-13-2000) - Atwood to Cup? hearing Casey Atwood will power a Ford in 5 Winston Cup races this year for Evernham Motorsports(4-13-2000)
- Musgrave within the #15: The Ted Musgrave position is reporting: Musgrave Motorsports launched as of late that Ted Musgrave has accredited the situation of utilizing the #15 Ford Taurus for the Fenley/Moore team. Musgrave will lope within the DieHard 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on April 16(Ted Musgrave Do)(4-13-2000)
- Did Ya Know? Six drivers — Lenny Pond, Richard Brickhouse, Dick Brooks, Bobby Hillin, Phil Parsons and Ron Bouchard — won their first and only Winston Cup Assortment lope at Talladega(Augusta Memoir)(4-13-2000)
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April 13, 1999
- #16 Lepage News UPDATE 1: James Ince, crew chief for Kevin Lepage and the #16 Primestar/TV Data Ford, resigned as of late siting philosophical variations(WC This day Radio) Tommy Morgan, Jeff Burton‘s BGN crew chief will name the shots for the tean on Sunday at Martinsville.(4-12-1999) — UPDATE 1: Jeff Burton confirmed Tommy Morgan‘s serving as the crew chief to the #16 team is purely brief(Winston Cup Tele-Conference)(4-13-1999)
- Garone, contemporary gig UPDATE 2 — Per chance? Joe Garone, venerable crew chief for Bill Elliott Racing has accredited a situation with Rudd Performance Motorsports as crew chief for Ricky Rudd. His responsibilities initiate Monday. Jerry Pitts, who was the crew chief for Elliott‘s #13 team will opt the crew chief characteristic for the #94(4-8-1999) — UPDATE 1: Ricky Rudd said Saturday that he has no longer employed a brand contemporary crew chief, relating to stories that he has employed Joe Garone, who stepped down as Bill Elliott‘s crew chief final week. Dan Stillman is tranquil acting as the chairman of Rudd‘s crew chief by committee(That‘s Racin‘)(4-11-1999) — UPDATE 2: Garone was spotted serving to Ricky Rudd‘s #10 Tide team within the pits at Bristol. Rudd confirmed that Garone is high on the listing of candidates to alter into his team‘s permanent crew chief. Rudd is talking to Garone and a pair of different possibilties(Times-Dispatch)(4-13-1999)
- Spencer Data: Jimmy Spencer expects to head the distance at Martinsville. He says he‘s feeling a lot higher and the order final Sunday wasn‘t his accidents, it was that the padding they linked to him was taped on too tight(Winston Cup Tele-Conference)(4-13-1999)
- Double Responsibility UPDATE:: a minimum of two Cup drivers will strive to hang the CTS lope at Martinsville this weekend. Ernie Irvan will be within the #44 Irvan-Simo Federated Auto Substances Ford and Neatly off Bickle will be within the #45 Tyler Jet Motorsports “Fortunate Canines” 10-10-345 Truck(4-12-1999) — UPDATE 1: NOL has the entry listing up and Irvan, Bickle and Bobby Hamilton within the #4 Dana Dodge will atttempt each and each the CTS and Cup lope at Martinsville(NOL)(4-13-1999)
- One other Unusual Automobile: Rusty Wallace, who took his 49th career Cup gain in a original car at Bristol, will debut his contemporary “PC-11” this coming weekend on the .526-mile Martinsville rapid tune. “That was a blinding wintry deal for our team at Bristol,” Wallace said from his North Carolina mountain home on Monday. “Whereas you cease and check it, it was dazzling improbable that we had been in a situation to steal a original car…a car that had by no means viewed a lap on a lope tune until final Friday…gain the pole, after which kick butt esteem we did there on Sunday. “The immense dissimilarity [at Martinsville] is that we‘ve already had the ‘PC-11‘ out for a shakedown,” said Wallace, who has six career Martinsville wins. “We had the car down at Greenville-Pickens (Speedway, near Greenville, S.C.)once and hope to head relief this week. We logged moderately heaps of laps and know we have a sturdy fragment in this car. We‘ll tweak on it some more sooner than we gain to Martinsville.”(Tom Roberts PR by technique of Speedwords)(4-13-1999)
- #77 Checking out: Robert Pressley and the #77 Jasper Motorsports team are checking out at Greenville-Pickens Speedway as of late(4-13-1999)
- Shadowy Flag: Had a pair of questions about why Steve Park and Mike Skinner obtained sunless flagged towards the stop of the Meals City 500. From David Poole of That‘s Racin‘: Mike Skinner and Steve Park had been shown the sunless flag by NASCAR slack within the lope for violating suggestions governing how they prefer to blend relief into situation with autos pitting on the frontstretch. Skinner uncared for the sunless flag whereas his team, led by crew chief Larry McReynolds, wondered NASCAR officers about the resolution. So NASCAR pulled the scorecard on the #31 Chevrolet. Skinner was working on the lead lap on the time the penalty was imposed and no doubt would hang done 12th. Skinner was at the delivery assign in 30th within the final rundown, however after reviewing the topic NASCAR moved him relief as a lot as 21st within the revised enact(That‘s Racin‘)(4-13-1999)
- Did ya Know? UPDATE: #12 Mobil One Ford driver Jeremy Mayfield is the one driver to had been within the tip 10 of the Cup standings per week for the reason that delivery of the 1998 season(Williams Co PR)(4-12-1999) — CORRECTION: Mayfield was 19th after the 1999 Daytona 500 since he done 20th and led a lap(4-13-1999)
- Spacious Shake Up UPDATE 2: on the #38 and #98 groups as co-homeowners Bob Sutton and Brad Akins hang decided to dissolve their partnership, leaving the team in an in doubt situation. No motive was given for the destroy up(RPM2Nite)(4-12-1999) — UPDATE 1: Georgia businessman Brad Akins, co-proprietor of Akins/Sutton Motorsports, has assumed the management of the day-to-day operations of Akins/Sutton Motorsports. Bob Sutton has been relieved of his day-to-day responsibilities with the organization. The firm will proceed to subject autos within the NASCAR Busch Assortment with drivers Elton Sawyer and Glenn Allen. “I made this change as a result of I turned into conscious that there had been enterprise practices occurring that weren’t in conserving with the requirements I unquestionably hang for my other companies,” Akins said. “I believed the long-term goals of this firm would no longer be met if we persevered the practices that had been for the time being implemented, so I elected to pick full wait on watch over of the firm. I will proceed provide the toughen for the efforts of these groups as they contend for the championship and lope wins,” Akins said.(Keystome Advertising and marketing PR)(4-13-1999) — and the team is fascinating to a brand contemporary shop this week and they’re going to exhaust Chevy‘s at Talladega(as they did in Daytona) and enact the season in Fords(4-14-1999)
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April 13, 1998
- Dennis Setzer will strive to hang the Die Onerous 500 in Talladega on April 26th in a third Bill Elliott Ford Taurus. No idea on a quantity or a sponsor(Coke??).(WC This day Radio)(4-13-98)
- Many of the Pepsi 400 weekend at Daytona Shoreline, Fla., will steal converse below the lights, Daytona International Speedway officers launched Monday. Qualifying for the July 4 Pepsi 400 has been rescheduled to Thursday, July 2 at 8: 15pm Qualifying was at the delivery scheduled for the afternoon of July 3. Gracious as the lope was moved from its worn Saturday morning delivery to Saturday evening on the query of fans, so has the Bud Pole Qualifying. Additionally, 1 1/2 hours of `drafting‘ discover will be held below the lights July 3. A three-hour discover for the 40th Pepsi 400 will initiate at 3 p.m. July 2.(That‘s Racin‘)(4-13-98)
- I hear that Rayovac Batteries will be sponsoring Trustworthy Marlin for five BGN races starting up at Talladega on April 25th. No idea what other races or car#.(4-13-98)
- Indianapolis is bidding for the 2000 Republican National Convention. If Indianapolis wins the expose, the political powers may maybe maybe also simply prefer to inquire Tony George to transfer the Brickyard date (in 2000), as the 2 events may maybe maybe be on the identical time.(StockCarFans)(4-13-98)
- Checking out News from Richmond: Rick Mast is checking out at RIR April 13-15; Bobby Labonte, Ward Burton, Derrike Cope, Todd Bodine, Ernie Irvan and John Andretti —
April 27-29; Hendrick Motorsports and Richard Childress Racing — Would possibly possibly even 11-13;
Roush Racing — Would possibly possibly even 26-28.(NASCAR On-line)(4-13-98) - Checking out News from Talladega: Trustworthy Marlin, Kenny Wallace, Gary Bradberry, Ernie Irvan, Dick Trickle, Johnny Benson and Matt Kenseth(#60) tested at Talladega as of late. Additionally Mike Dillon and Dave Marcis tested the Dale Earnhardt #3 Chevy. Designate Gibson, Micky Gibbs and David Bonnett also wait on take a look at Elliott Fords. BGN groups checking out was Joe Ruttman(in a Roush car), Designate Martin and Joe Nemechek.(WC This day Radio)(4-13-98)
- The #29 Diamond Ridge Motorsports Chevy will dash relief to Talladega Superspeedway for one more take a look at this week sooner than deciding if it may maybe possibly probably actually hang to enter the DieHard 500 on April 26.(That‘s Racin‘)(4-13-98)
- Checking out at Greenville-Pickens as of late is Terry Labonte(#5), Darrell Waltrip(#1), and Lake Creep(#9) with more groups are anticipated this week.(MRM)(4-13-98)
- Hank Parker Jr. has left the BGN #78 car, no phrase on what his plans are or what the #78 team will dwell.(MRM)(4-13-98)
- Brian France has been promoted to senior vp for NASCAR. The son of NASCAR president Bill France Jr. previously served as the vp of advertising and communications since 1993. He’ll proceed to supervise all components of advertising, licensing, communications, particular projects and enterprise pattern.(SpeedNet)(4-13-98)
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