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NASCAR drug testing in 2009? Why wait?
by: Laura Piawlock
So, NASCAR is going with a new drug testing policy? I think it’s an excellent idea. But why wait until 2009? Visit http://motorsportsnews.net/archives/1824 to read the rest of this article.
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NASCAR Finds Traffic Is Lighter
By Liz Clarke
Stock-car racing is falling victim to its earlier success as high gas prices are making it harder to fill the speedways that were expanded and added during the 1990s.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092403136.html?referrer=emailarticle
Stewart slips into crowded Knoxville field
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NASCAR drivers smash, WVC firm does car-crash math
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By Tom Harvey That neon green circle in the windshield of that NASCAR racer, that’s from a West Valley City company. In fact inthinc is set to build on its …
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10556315
Letarte under fire as Gordon trudges along
USA Today – USA
It’s just not the follow-up anyone expected from last year’s incredible run, when Gordon won six races and notched a NASCAR record 30 top-10 finishes in 36 …
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/motor/2008-09-24-3681993230_x.htm
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Dover Ratings Down
ABC says its telecast of last Sunday’s Camping World 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover International Speedway earned a final Nielsen Media Research rating of 3.3, down 5.7 percent from the 3.5 ABC earned for last year’s race. ABC also says ESPN2’s coverage of Saturday’s Camping World RV Sales 200 Nationwide Series race at Dover earned a 1.1 household coverage rating, down 21.4 percent from 1.4 last year.
Sprint Cup Rookie News
Regan Smith leads Sam Hornish Jr. by three points (187-184) in the Raybestos® Rookie standings entering the September 28 Camping World RV 400 at Kansas Speedway. Smith has led the Raybestos® Rookie standings for 11 consecutive races dating back to Coke Zero 400 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway (race No. 18). David Ragan was the Raybestos® Rookie of the race in the 2007 Camping World RV 400 at Kansas, scoring a 16th-place finish. The best finish by a Raybestos® Rookie in seven previous Sprint Cup races at Kansas is second-place by Ryan Newman in 2002 (.618 seconds behind race winner Jeff Gordon).
Almirola Without Sponsor
Aric Almirola is encouraged by how the hunt for a 2009 sponsor on the No. 8 Dale Earnhardt Inc. Chevrolet is going. Almirola, who is sharing the ride with Mark Martin this season, will become the solo driver of the car next season when Martin leaves for Hendrick Motorsports. But the U.S. Army is shopping its sponsorship around, and DEI President Max Siegel said Sunday he still did not know whether Army will return as a sponsor in 2009.
Gordon Fastest In Final Test
Jeff Gordon’s Hendrick Motorsports team showed it might not be so far behind after all. Gordon posted the fastest speed in the evening session of the second day of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series testing at Lowe’s Motor Speedway Wednesday night, running a lap at 187.233 mph. Red Bull Racing’s Scott Speed, who will apparently replace AJ Allmendinger in the team’s No. 84 car next year, was second fastest for the second straight evening, posting a speed of 186.638 mph. Denny Hamlin of Joe Gibbs Racing was third, followed by the Dodges of Juan Pablo Montoya (Chip Ganassi Racing) and Elliott Sadler (Gillett Evernham Motorsports). Points leader Carl Edwards (Roush Fenway Racing) was sixth, but the rest of the top 10 consisted of some names that aren’t normally at the top of the leaderboard. Sam Hornish Jr. (Penske Racing), Mike Skinner (driving Allmendinger’s No. 84 car for Red Bull), Jeremy Mayfield (in Ganassi’s No. 41 car for Reed Sorenson) and Michael McDowell (Michael Waltrip Racing) rounded out the top 10.
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NASCAR This Week on ABC/ESPN: NASCAR’s version of the playoffs continues this week with the third race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup as the series visits the 1.5-mile Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan. ESPN on ABC’s high-definition telecast of Sunday’s 400-mile race begins at 1pm/et with NASCAR Countdown. ABC will have live coverage of all 10 races that make up the Chase. ESPN2 and ESPN2 HD will have live coverage of Sprint Cup qualifying at Kansas on Friday, Sept. 26, at 4pm/et, and same-day coverage of final practice airs Saturday, Sept. 27, at 6:30pm/et. The race telecast re-airs Monday, Sept. 29, at 12noon on ESPN Classic.
Dr. Jerry Punch will be lead announcer, joined in the booth for analysis by Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree. Dave Burns, Jamie Little, Mike Massaro and Shannon Spake will be pit reporters with Tim Brewer in the ESPN Tech Center. The pre-race NASCAR Countdown show from the ESPN pit studio will be hosted by Allen Bestwick, with Rusty Wallace and analyst Brad Daugherty. The studio team will interact with the booth during the telecast of the race. Race day on ABC also includes a presentation of Lifelock’s Greatest Racing Identities – Motorsports Explained at 12:30pm/et.(ESPN PR)
Allmendigner expects to be out of #84 ride next week: AJ Allmendinger expects this weekend’s race at Kansas Speedway to be his last with Red Bull Racing. Allmendinger and Red Bull announced earlier this week they will part ways at the end of this season, and Allmendinger did not drive the #84 during the two-day test at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. “I’m racing this weekend at Kansas, but I’m almost 100 percent sure I won’t be with Red Bull after this race,” Allmendinger said in his biweekly diary for Yahoo. “Hopefully I’ll have something and I’ll be in a car next week. Whether it’s the team I’m going to be with for next year, and we can start working on that, or what … that’s kind of where we stand.” Red Bull general manager Jay Frye said Thursday he expects to know at the start of next week what the # 84 team will do for the remaining seven races this season. Allmendinger said he expected to be released from Red Bull the past month, and even though he wanted to stay with the team, he passed on an opportunity to sign a one-year contract extension to stay with the team because it would have put him in the same position this time next year.(Associated Press), for more information see my #84 team page.(9-26-2008) http://www.jayski.com/teams/84.htm
Stanton Barrett to the IRL? [IRL owner] Greg Beck’s team is going full-time in the IndyCar Series in 2009 with NASCAR driver Stanton Barrett. Apparently, Barrett, who will be 36 in December, is going to keep his in-house stock car program going by running the Nationwide Series in the early and latter parts of next year.(Indianapolis Star)(9-26-2008)
Mike Wallace to drive #33 for RCR at Talladega: Realtree, the home of America’s most versatile camo patterns, will sponsor Richard Childress Racing’s #33 Realtree Driven to the Outdoors Chevy and driver Mike Wallace in the Oct. 5 Amp Energy 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway. RCR and Realtree, based in Columbus, Ga., have a long-standing relationship. Realtree president Bill Jordan and RCR president and CEO Richard Childress have been personal friends for decades and Team Realtree first sponsored the legendary Dale Earnhardt and RCR’s #3 GM Goodwrench team in 1997. Team Realtree also sponsors Team Dillon Racing’s Ty Dillon, the younger grandson of Childress, in the Fastrak Racing Series Dirt Late Model Touring Division.(RCR PR)(9-26-2008)
Kansas Tire Notes: Goodyear held a tire test at the Kansas with the #1 Dale Earnhardt Incorporated Chevy (Martin Truex Jr.) and #96 Hall of Fame Racing Toyota (Brad Coleman) on August 26 . . . at that test, Goodyear confirmed a new left-side tire code (D-4132), which incorporates an updated construction that has a strong track record at the intermediate tracks this year, according to Rick Campbell, Goodyear’s NASCAR project manager … the right-side code at Kansas (D-4150), has been run twice by teams in these two series at California this season . . . as on all NASCAR ovals greater than one-mile in length, teams are required to run inner liners in all four tire positions at Kansas . . . air pressure in those inner lines should be 12-25 psi greater than that of the outer tire. The estimated pit window is every 50-55 laps, based on fuel mileage.(Goodyear PR) see pressures, codes and more on my Kansas Race Info page or see codes for each race on my 2008 Tire Notes page.(9-26-2008)
http://www.jayski.com/next/2008/29kan2008.htm
http://www.jayski.com/pages/2008tirenotes.htm
Bobby Allison to be honored at Modified race: As part of the season long celebration of 60 years of Modified champions, NASCAR will honor Bobby Allison prior to the running of Sunday’s Modified Tour event at Stafford’s CarQuest Fall Final. Allison, well known for his exploits in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, was a Modified champion in 1964 and 1965. Allison had 17 victories in 82 starts to win the 1964 Modified title and followed that up with 14 wins in 66 starts in 1965 to beat the legendary Red Farmer by 540 points. Allison, a member of the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, was named one of NASCAR’s 50 greatest drivers in 1998. He credits the Modifieds with helping set him up for the competition he would face in later years. NASCAR will also recognize the late Fonty Flock, the 1949 Modified champion, at Stafford. Flock was the second Modified champion following Red Byron in 1948.(Hartford Courant)(9-26-2008)
RCR has never won a Cup race at Kansas: Surprisingly enough, in 20 starts at Kansas Speedway, RCR has only two top-five and just five top-10 finishes. Clint Bowyer finished second last year while Kevin Harvick went on to finish sixth. In 2006, Burton captured his career-best finish at the 1.5-mile oval by finishing fifth while teammate Bowyer finished ninth. Harvick notched a sixth-place effort in October 2003. All told, RCR’s three-car team has a 22.6 starting average and a 17.6 average finish at the metropolitan Kansas City race course. The only other tracks on the current schedule where RCR hasn’t earned Cup Series wins are Auto Club Speedway, Homestead-Miami Speedway and Las Vegas Motor Speedway.(RCR PR)(9-26-2008)
Sad News – Mike Hollander: vice president of AARWBA [American Auto Racing Writers & Broadcasters Association], Michael F. Hollander, passed away September 24, when he succumbed to mesothelioma at the age of 61. Hollander was a racing enthusiast well known in every media center as the journalist who brought motorsports news online in 1979. His Racing Information Services and Motor Sports Forum evolved into a pioneer website providing real-time information from events all over the world. He is survived by his wife of 25 years, Dr. Sandra Horwitz, Optometrist, and their daughter, Sharon. A memorial service is scheduled for 1pm. Friday, Sept. 26, at Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 W. Centinella Ave., Los Angeles, 90045 (right off the 405 just south of the Marina Freeway).(motorpressguild.org)(9-26-2008)
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Ryder Cup’s Boo Weekley to Join Dale Jr. at 5th Annual CSA
When Dale Earnhardt Jr. asked PGA Tour golfer Boo Weekley to join him at the fifth annual Dale Jr. Celebrity Sports Auction in Concord, N.C., he had no idea the credentials Weekley would bring to the Oct. 13 event that raises money for The Dale Jr. Foundation.
http://www.race2win.net/wc/08/09/rcbwdj.html
Seven Ford Personalities at the Core of New Online Campaign
Ford’s Drive One campaign has proven to be a successful marketing initiative that has helped draw attention to new Ford cars and trucks and showcasing the company’s innovative technology.
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Professional race car driver, Blake Feese and Jeff Holtzclaw of Race2Win.Net will help review and preview each week in the 2008 Sprint Cup season from Daytona to Homestead. They are joined by Stock Car Gazette weekend editior Heather Meyer.
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Good racing ahead?
The last 3 weeks of Sprint Cup racing have seen thrilling finishes. but will that streak continue at Kansas?
KANSAS CITY, Kansas – Capped by a tremendous three-way battle for victory over the final 40 laps at Dover, the Sprint Cup Series seems to be riding at least a ripple of renewed competition as the Chase moves into its third week at Kansas Speedway.
http://www.thatsracin.com/topstories/story/19119.html
Opinion | Sorry, Chase foes, format isn’t to blame for this one
http://www.thatsracin.com/topstories/story/19106.html
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Stanton Barrett to the IRL? [IRL owner] Greg Beck’s team is going full-time in the IndyCar Series in 2009 with NASCAR driver Stanton Barrett. Apparently, Barrett, who will be 36 in December, is going to keep his in-house stock car program going by running the Nationwide Series in the early and latter parts of next year.(Indianapolis Star)(9-26-2008)
Hillin in the #81 at Kansas? UPDATE: It was reported during Speed’s coverage of Nationwide Series qualifying at Dover, that Randy MacDonald was working on a deal to put Bobby Hillin, Jr. in the #81 at Kansas. Hillin’s last race in the series was at Indianapolis in 2000.(9-20-2008)
UPDATE: Bobby Hillin Jr. has dreamed about this coming Saturday for the past eight years, only he wasn’t sure whether it was only going to be just that — a dream. After getting together with former team member Tom Potts and current NASCAR team owner Randy MacDonald, Hillin will be back behind the wheel of a race car this weekend when the Nationwide Series takes the green flag in the Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway.(Houston Chronicle)(9-25-2008)
UPDATE 2: Former Sprint Cup race winner, and two-time Nationwide Series winner, Bobby Hillin, Jr. will once again buckle up behind the wheel of a Nationwide Series car in this weekend’s Kansas Lottery 300 in Kansas City, Kansas. Hillin will drive the #81 MacDonald Motorsports Dodge sponsored by T4 Spa Concepts & Designs and Safety Vision, in his first NASCAR sanctioned event in over eight years.(Hillin/Everest Marketing Group PR)(9-25-2008)
LifeLock sponsoring Kyle Busch at Kansas: LifeLock, the industry leader in identity theft protection, will serve as the primary sponsor of Braun Racing’s #32 Toyota piloted by Sprint Cup Series veteran, Kyle Busch, in this weekend’s Nationwide Series race at Kansas Speedway.(Braun Racing PR)(9-25-2008)
Dollar General Renews with Braun Racing: Braun Racing and Dollar General Corporation announced an agreement in which the Goodlettsville, Tenn.-based discount retailer will continue to serve as primary sponsor of Braun Racing’s Nationwide Series #32 Toyota . Dollar General will serve as the primary sponsor of the car for all 35 Nationwide Series races in 2009. The 2009 driver line-up of the #32 Dollar General stores Camry will be announced at a later date.(Braun Racing PR)(9-25-2008)
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On this site we don’t report rumors…but this has shown up under IndyCar and Nationwide Info..so here goes…per Most Valuable Network-Greg Beck brings in racer/Hollywood stuntman for ‘09 full-time ride It’s not Dale Earnhardt Jr. or Jeff Gordon.But in addition to Dario Franchitti, the IndyCar Series appears set to have another driver with stock car experience taking the grid next season.According to the Indianapolis Star’s Curt Cavin, NASCAR Nationwide Series driver and motion picture stuntman Stanton Barrett will drive the full 2009 IndyCar campaign for longtime IRL team owner Greg Beck.
The announcement comes on the heels of Beck’s recent jump into the Firestone Indy Lights development series as a ownership partner in the new Team 3G.UPDATE (8:35 p.m. ET): It also seems that 3G will also be the moniker for Barrett’s IndyCar Series drive as well, according to Robin Miller. He writes that the official announcement will come tomorrow at Kansas Speedway.(MVN)
Realtree®, the home of America’s most versatile camo patterns, will sponsor Richard Childress Racing’s No. 33 Realtree Driven to the Outdoors Chevrolet and driver Mike Wallace in the Oct. 5 Amp Energy 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.RCR and Realtree, based in Columbus, Ga., have a long-standing relationship. Realtree president Bill Jordan and RCR president and CEO Richard Childress have been personal friends for decades and Team Realtree first sponsored the legendary Dale Earnhardt and RCR’s No. 3 GM Goodwrench team in 1997. Team Realtree also sponsors Team Dillon Racing’s Ty Dillon, the younger grandson of Childress, in the Fastrak Racing Series Dirt Late Model Touring Division.”Fall is in the air, Talladega is on the schedule and Realtree is running a Chevy Driven to the Outdoors Impala SS in the Sprint Cup Series. It doesn’t get much better than that for all of us at Realtree and racing and hunting fans everywhere,” said Jordan. “Of course, working with an avid outdoorsman like Richard Childress to bring this No. 33 team to the track makes it that much better. The only thing that could improve this situation is for Mike Wallace to push that Chevy to the front!”Says Wallace,“Running a car for Richard Childress Racing is incredibly exciting to me. I’m thrilled to death because it’s something that I have wanted to do my whole career and I couldn’t be happier than to do it with a fun sponsor like Team Realtree that has been around this sport for a long time makes it that much more satisfying. I’m excited to be working with Richard, Mike Dillon and all the guys at the shop. It’s supposed to be a really fast car so I hope to go to Talladega and sit on the pole and win the race(RCR) (09-25-08)
NASCAR driver Jennifer Jo Cobb, Kansas City, Kan. native, has teamed up with Heartland Habitat for Humanity as the spokeswoman for the 2009 Women Build. On September 27, 2008 at the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at the Kansas Speedway, Cobb will race to raise awareness for the 2009 Women Build house. Cobb’s major sponsors are Providence Medical Center, and Saint John Hospital, both important local community organizations.“We are so excited to have Jen on our team,” said Delia Hernandez, HHfH Development Director. “She is from KCK, she knows how important Heartland Habitat’s work is to the community and she is ready to help us build a house with all women volunteers to help a family in need.”Cobb will be racing with the Heartland Habitat for Humanity logo on her car, and will be collecting donations at media events before the race. Join her at the Legends Shopping Center this Thursday, September 25th, from 5-8 p.m. She’ll be signing autographs and Habitat will be there to answer questions and collect donations.(JJCR) (09-25-08)
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Camping World, NASCAR near sponsorship deal for Truck series
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Camping World would take over for Craftsman, which has sponsored the Trucks series since its inception in 1995 but announced it would end its sponsorship …
http://www.thatsracin.com/topstories/story/19125.html
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Cassill to start for RMM at Talladega: Landon Cassill will make his seventh start of year for Morgan-Dollar/Randy Moss Motorsports at Talladega. He finished third in June at Milwaukee for then-Morgan-Dollar before Moss came aboard as co-owner.(ESPN.com)(9-26-2008)
Las Vegas Images added: Added images from Las Vegas Motor Speedway; #33-Ron Hornaday, Camping World Chevy; #22-Scott Speed, Red Bull Toyota; #99-Erik Darnell “Flying Tool” Northern Tool & Equipment Ford; #10-Brendan Gaughan, Int’l MaxxForce Diesel Ford; #81-Donny Lia, Nationrides.com Chevy; #07-Sean Murphy, ASI Limited Chevy;#40-Jeff Green, Westerman Companies Chevy; #19-Robb Brent, Brad Keselowski Racing Chevy; #57-Norm Benning, Norm Benning Racing Chevy. See photos on the 2008 Paint Scheme Gallery page.(9-25-2008) http://www.jayski.com/schemes/2008trucks.htm
BHR-VA to one team? employees released? UPDATE 4 Switch to Toyota? Hearing that several employees from Bobby Hamilton Racing-VA were released yesterday, and that they will be running the #18 driven by Dennis Setzer and sponsored by Dodge Dealers. Status of the #4 undetermined at this time.(8-30-2008)
UPDATE: BHR to One Truck for Now: Over the recent break in the truck series schedule the management at Bobby Hamilton Racing decided it was best to shift its focus to the #18 effort and have ceased operations on the #4 entry until further notice. “It was a very tough business decision that was thought long and hard about amongst the owners,” said Lori Hamilton, Chief Operating Officer of BHR. “This allows us to pull from our many resources and direct all our focus to the #18 team. Our goal is to win more races thus giving us more exposure and finish this season in the top 10 in points.”(BHR-VA PR)(9-3-2008)
UPDATE 2: Dodge not renewing sponsorship in ’09: The Dodge livery brightly splashing the #18 for the remainder of the year belies the fact that the manufacturer is not renewing its support of the team at season’s end. [Lori] Hamilton said the team has been in talks with Chevrolet, Ford and Toyota for 2009. “Dodge has been a good partner to us and they’ve built BHR with Bobby to what it is today, so there’s a lot of loyalty there,” Hamilton said. “I’m sure that another manufacturer would look at how long we’ve been with them, and that’s attractive to them.”(ESPN.com)(9-5-2008)
UPDATE 3: The struggles in the U.S. automobile sales market are trickling down to racing, with the latest blow coming to the Craftsman Truck Series. Dodge will not provide any financial support to any teams in the series in 2009, Dodge Motorsports senior manager Mike Delahanty said. “We’ll have no factory-funded teams,” Delahanty told ESPN.com. “When times are tough, there are certain things that are lower on the priority list than others.” Dodge had been a powerhouse in the Truck Series earlier this decade, winning 46 of 99 races from 2001-04 and championships with drivers Bobby Hamilton in 2004 and Ted Musgrave in 2005. In recent years Dodge has scaled back its involvement, with only Bobby Hamilton Racing-Virginia receiving money from the manufacturer this season. Dodge informed the team that its factory support would end this season, and BHR-VA has talked to Chevrolet, Ford and Toyota about a switch for 2009. Delahanty said the manufacturer’s involvement with the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series is unaffected.(ESPN.com)(9-6-2008)
UPDATE 4: Bobby Hamilton Racing-Virginia is “very close” to signing with Toyota for 2009, a team source said. It will finish out the season as Dodge’s last factory-funded team.(ESPN.com(9-25-2008)
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Hessert at Home on NJMP Road Course
MILLVILLE NJ (9-25-08) – Cherry Hill, New Jersey’s Tom Hessert III spent much of his days this race season out of town chasing the full 2008 ARCA RE/MAX Series schedule.
The tables will soon turn however when the series, in its 56th consecutive season, chases Hessert home for the inaugural Loud energy Drink 150, road course style, at New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville, New Jersey Sunday, September 28th.
[Read More] – http://www.arcaracing.com/news.cfm?contentid=7241
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How Well Do You Know NASCAR’s Top Twelve Drivers?
by Rebecca Gladden
The Nascar Insiders
Aren’t The Playoffs Great?
When NASCAR announced in 2004 that they would be instituting the Chase, I have to admit I was a skeptic.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheNascarInsiders/~3/403478226/
Kansas TV Coverage Suddenly A Second Priority
The hard-working NASCAR press corps has been trying to focus on building the excitement of The Chase this season. Topics from Greg Biffle’s resurgence to Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s struggles have been all over the radio, TV and Internet. Now, the media’s hard work may simply not matter.
http://dalyplanet.blogspot.com/2008/09/kansas-tv-coverage-suddenly-second.html
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Fri Sept 26
12:00 am NASCAR Now ESPN2
12:30 pm NSCS Practice – Kansas ESPN2
2:00 pm NASCAR Live SPEED
2:30 pm NNS Practice Kansas SPEED
3:00 pm Amercian Hunter – Jeff Hammond OUT
4:00 pm NSCS Kansas Qualifying ESPN2
7:00 pm NASCAR Now ESPN2
7:00 pm Trackside at Kansas SPEED
8:00 pm HorsePower Tee Shot Tour SPEED
9:00 pm NNS Practice Kansas SPEED
10:30 pm Trackside at Kansas SPEED
Sat Sept 27
2:00 am NASCAR Now ESPN2
2:30 am Amercian Hunter – Jeff Hammond OUT
5:50 am Real Sports w/Bryant Gumbel – Jimmie Johnson HBO
11:30 am NNS Kansas Pole Qualifying SPEED
12:30 pm NSCS Kansas Practice SPEED
3:00 pm NNS Countdown ESPN2
3:30 pm NNS: Kansas Lottery 300 ESPN2
6:30 pm NSCS Final Kansas Practice ESPN2
7:00 pm Tradin’ Paint SPEED
7:30 pm NASCAR Performance SPEED
Sun Sept 28
1:30 am NNS: Kansas Lottery 300 ESPN2
8:00 am Real Sports w/Bryant Gumbel – Jimmie Johnson HBO
10:00 am NASCAR Now ESPN2
10:00 am NASCAR Performance SPEED
10:30 am NASCAR in a Hurry SPEED
11:00 am NASCAR RaceDay SPEED
12:00 pm NASCAR Camping World Series: Stafford Motor Speedway HDNet
1:00 pm NSCS Countdown ABC
2:00 pm NSCS: Camping World RV 400 at Kansas ABC
7:00 pm SPEED Report SPEED
7:00 pm Music & Motors – Getting the Call RFD
8:00 pm NASCAR Victory Lane SPEED
9:00 pm Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain SPEED
10:00 pm NASCAR Now ESPN2
Mon Sept 29
2:00 am SPEED Report SPEED
4:00 am NASCAR Victory Lane SPEED
2:30 am NSCS: Camping World RV 400 at Kansas ESPN2
8:00 am NASCAR Victory Lane SPEED
9:00 am Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain SPEED
12:00 pm Racing Across America – Dover SPEED
12:00 pm NSCS: Camping World RV 400 at Kansas ESPNC
5:00 pm NASCAR Now ESPN2
8:00 pm This Week in NASCAR SPEED
9:00 pm HorsePower Tee Shot Tour SPEED
Jayski does not list all the programming offered by SPEED; for complete listings go to their website, http://www.speedtv.com/schedule/
Always CHECK YOUR LOCAL LISTINGS!
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