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March 2008 - Posts
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Just a look at all those empty seats in these grandstands, and it’s clear that yesterday’s Goody’s 500 should be a wake-up call for NASCAR executives and the France family, which owns Martinsville Speedway.
It may have been the first race of spring, but it was the coldest Sunday of the Sprint Cup season. There were [...]
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. plans to celebrate his love of NASCAR’s history once more by running a retro paint scheme on his No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet at Darlington Raceway.
The car’s look will be modeled after the 1981-82 entry driven by Darrell Waltrip.
Earnhardt Jr. characterized the scheme as a “tribute to the history of the sport [...]
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Greg Biffle’s contract extension with Roush Fenway Racing is nearly complete, and the team is working on extensions for David Ragan and Carl Edwards. Using Biffle’s words from earlier in the week, Roush Fenway Racing President Geoff Smith said that the contract with Biffle is 90 percent along.
He said the fact that Biffle is running [...]
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Max Helton, who 20 years ago helped begin a Christian ministry in the NASCAR garage that grew into the Motor Racing Outreach organization, died Sunday afternoon at his home in Huntersville, N.C. Mr. Helton was diagnosed with brain cancer in August.
He is survived by his wife, Jean, along with four daughters and nine grandchildren. Funeral [...]
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Jeff Burton is considered a leader and mentor in the Sprint Cup garage. And the Richard Childress Racing driver left Martinsville Speedway on Sunday as the leader – the points leader – and looking to become the teacher – to Michael Waltrip Racing rookie Michael McDowell.
Burton finished third in the Goody’s Cool Orange [...]
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Roush Fenway Racing doesn’t plan to take legal action against Michael Waltrip Racing for what it characterized as the theft of a sway bar unless there is evidence that the piece has been duplicated.
Team president Geoff Smith said the issue would not have surfaced at all had Toyota general manager Lee White not insinuated that [...]
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Denny Hamlin finally scored a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win at his home track holding off Jeff Gordon to pick up the checkered flag in Sunday’s Goody’s Cool Orange 500 at Martinsville Speedway.
Details to follow…
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The email began to arrive once the IRL action got underway from the Homestead, FL track. It was not about the good pictures from ESPN or the good action from a series trying to survive.
What NASCAR fans had seen, apparently many for the first time, was the TV commercial breaks in the live IRL coverage. [...]
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ELLIOTT SADLER (#19 McDonalds Dodge Charger) HOW DOES THE BACK FEEL TODAY? “The back is a little sore. I’m going to ice it down and take some inflammatory medicine and try and get as best prepared as I can.”
DO YOU THINK THAT YOU CAN DRIVE 500 LAPS TOMORROW? “Right now, I feel like that I [...]
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NASCAR officials say they will not intervene in the dispute between Roush Fenway Racing and Michael Waltrip Racing who admitted they took a part accidentally from the Ford organization.
Team owner Jack Roush is asking NASCAR for “relief” on the issue, but NASCAR Vice President of Competition strongly dismissed that idea on Friday.
“If they’ve got issues [...]
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The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Wednesday completed a “continuation test” at Darlington Raceway with drivers #16-Greg Biffle, #24-Jeff Gordon and #12-Ryan Newman. An initial test with the same drivers earlier this month got Goodyear half-way to its goal of finding the right tire combination for the May 10 race at the legendary track.
Goodyear [...]
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POS, CAR, DRIVER,, MAKE, SPONSOR, SPEED, TIME, BEHIND
1 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet DuPont 96.288 19.666 Leader
2 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota FedEx Freight 95.757 19.775 -0.109
3 8 Aric Almirola Chevrolet U.S. Army 95.733 19.780 -0.114
4 6 David Ragan Ford AAA Insurance 95.569 19.814 -0.148
5 26 Jamie McMurray Ford IRWIN Industrial Tools 95.492 19.830 -0.164
6 9 Kasey Kahne Dodge Budweiser 95.487 19.831 -0.165
7 49 Ken Schrader Toyota Microsoft Small Business 95.463 19.836 -0.170
8 18 Kyle Busch Toyota M&M’s 95.347 19.860 -0.194
9 20 Tony Stewart Toyota The Home Depot 95.271 19.876 -0.210
10 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet Lowe’s 95.213 19.888 -0.222
11 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet Shell / Pennzoil 95.208 19.889 -0.223
12 07 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet BB&T 95.208 19.889 -0.223
13 12 Ryan Newman Dodge ALLTEL 95.079 19.916 -0.250
14 28 Travis Kvapil Ford Yates Racing 95.060 19.920 -0.254
15 44 David [...]
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Seven-time Martinsville winner Jeff Gordon captured the pole for Sunday afternoon’s Goody’s Cool Orange 500 at the famed Martinsville Speedway. The No.24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet driver circled the 0.526-mile short track in 19.666 seconds (96.288 m.p.h.).
The pole victory was Gordon’s second of the season, seventh at Martinsville and 65th of his Sprint Cup career. He [...]
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Practice 1 (Friday):
FIN, CAR, DRIVER, MAKE, SPONSOR, SPEED, TIME, BEHIND
1 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota FedEx Freight 95.338 19.862 Leader
2 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet Lowe’s 95.275 19.875 -0.013
3 41 Reed Sorenson Dodge Target 95.237 19.883 -0.021
4 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet DuPont 95.175 19.896 -0.034
5 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet AMP Energy / National Guard 95.161 19.899 -0.037
6 22 Dave Blaney Toyota Caterpillar 95.118 19.908 -0.046
7 66 Scott Riggs Chevrolet State Water Heaters 95.079 19.916 -0.054
8 28 Travis Kvapil Ford Yates Racing 95.003 19.932 -0.070
9 2 Kurt Busch Dodge Miller Lite 94.998 19.933 -0.071
10 6 David Ragan Ford AAA [...]
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Elliott Sadler was held out of the start of Friday’s practice in the No. 19 car after injuring his lower back during his regular workout routine and aggravating it further playing golf.
Mark McArdle, GEM’s director of competition, said Sadler suffered the injury on Wednesday. He said a decision on whether to put him in the [...]
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