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Busch Dominates California Nationwide Race
by: Thomas Chemris
(photo courtesy of Icon Sports Media)
Kyle Busch was in a league of his own as the veteran driver completely dominated the NASCAR Nationwide series Stater Brothers 300 at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana California. More at motorsportsnews.net/archives/2989
For more by Thomas, visit motorsportsnews.net/archives/category/nationwide-series
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Track Trash – Fontanamania
by: Racing Maniac
Hey, a couple of more finishes like this, and SirMark’s gonna start planning his (last) retirement party. At the most, I see maybe two or three top 5’s, but nothing more than that this year. I could be surprised, but when you’re in Las Vegas next week, see what the odds are…….. Read it at motorsportsnews.net/archives/3000
For more from RM, visit motorsportsnews.net/archives/category/track-trash
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And the Oscar goes to….
by: Chuck Abrams
What in the world was NASCAR thinking when they scheduled this race? Do they not know how hard it is to watch a race that goes into the evening is when the Oscar’s are on? That is considered to be one of the “don’t touch” shows in many households around the country. Touch more of this article at motorsportsnews.net/archives/3007
For more from Chuck, visit motorsportsnews.net/archives/category/chuckabrams
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TV Times – A Junior Win Would Be Just The Ticket At Las Vegas
by: Lou Modestino
Right now NASCAR could use some good news. It would be timely for NASCAR and Junior if they could catch a break and Junior pulls off a win in this weekend’s Cup race at Vegas. Pull off more of this article at motorsportsnews.net/archives/3012
For more by Lou, visit motorsportsnews.net/archives/category/tv-times
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Courtesy of Carolyn’s Jeff Gordon Newsletter
NASCAR’s Jeff Gordon among those to participate in
Fast Chats at LVMS
www.lvms.com/media/news/544047.html
NASCAR President Mike Helton and four-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon will be among the NASCAR personalities who field questions from race fans next week in Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s first Fast Chats program. There is no charge for race fans to attend Fast Chats as the lively question-and-answer sessions will take place on the LVMS midway, outside the entry gates. Others who will be “on the hot seat” for a 20-minute session include Las Vegas natives Kurt and Kyle Busch.
Earnhardt stuck in tangled web
sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=3928381&name=newton_david
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Clicking on Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s official Web site. A solid black page comes up. Clicking again. Another blank black page. Maybe it’s my computer. Maybe it’s a glitch in the system. Maybe Earnhardt’s Web site has befallen the same fate as its driver and crashed. Two races into the Sprint Cup season NASCAR’s most popular driver is 35th in points. It’s not the worse start in his 10-year career, but it’s close. In 2007, he crashed and finished 32nd in the opener at Daytona, followed by a 40th at California due to engine problems. This year, he caused a big crash and finished 27th at Daytona and was 39th at California due to engine problems It’s not an impossible hole to climb out of. In ‘07, he rallied with four straight finishes of 14th or better to move to 11th in points. But he never captured the consistency it took to get into the top 10, and he finished 16th in the final standings. In 2003, before the 10-race Chase format, he started 35th and 33rd. He turned that into the best point total of his career, finishing third behind Matt Kenseth and Jimmie Johnson. But this start feels different. It’s not so much the poor finishes, because Earnhardt had cars capable of finishing in the top 10 in both races. He may have been good enough to win at Daytona. It’s the negative vibes that surrounded the finishes. Earnhardt made two rookie-like mistakes on pit road to put him a lap down at Daytona, and then was vilified by many of his faithful fans after causing the 10-car wreck that took out many of the top cars.
Hopelessly Devoted: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Changes His Tune
And Gets The Love Treatment From Fox
blogs.courant.com/autoracing/2009/02/hopelessly-devoted-dale-earnha.html
Pre-game shows are hardly the place to go searching for hard hitting interviews, but Fox took sugar sweet, over the top adoration, to a new level prior to Sunday’s Sprint Cup Series Auto Club 500 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. Fox sent Darrell Waltrip to sit down with Dale Earnhardt Jr. for an interview that ran as part of Sunday’s pre-race show. Earnhardt’s wrecking of Brian Vickers, and consequently many of the frontrunners in last week’s Daytona 500, was the talk of the week on all fronts of NASCAR media in the days after the race. But it came as no surprise to see Fox send the grandfatherly Waltrip to chat with Earnhardt about the aftermath of his miserable day in Daytona. Waltrip has never shied away from being an unabashed Junior apologist, something he showed in the booth in the immediate aftermath of Earnhardt’s wreck at Daytona, and he did nothing to turn off the adoring compassion in tenderly walking Earnhardt through his interview. And the syrupy love only got ramped up back in the booth after the taped interview was televised.
Passing The Test: Tony Stewart Pleased With His New Bunch Two Races Into The Season
blogs.courant.com/autoracing/2009/02/passing-the-test-tony-stewart.html
After 10 seasons competing for one of the most potent organizations in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history, the were many wondering going into the 2009 season if Tony Stewart could remain a contender in the division as a team owner/driver with Stewart-Haas Racing. It’s a question that will take some time to be answered, but the early results have been all positive for the 2-time Sprint Cup Series champion. Stewart backed up his eighth place finish in the Daytona 500, the first points event for his new team, with another eighth place Sunday in the Auto Club 500 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif.
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Ask.com goes bigger at a quieter Daytona
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Gilliland Gives TRG Motorsports First Sprint Cup Finish …
By Team News
TRG Motorsports is based in Mooresville, North Carolina, where they run a NASCAR Sprint Cup team as well as a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team, and an ARCA RE/MAX Series effort. 2008 marked the first full season of competition for …
Perfect start: Top to bottom, Matt Kenseth’s team hot
USA Today – USA
17 car on NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series brought new meaning Sunday to the term “streaking to victory.” The driver, Matt Kenseth, is the first driver to win the …
www.usatoday.com/sports/motor/nascar/2009-02-23-matt-kenseth_N.htm
Tony Stewart off to strong start with new Stewart-Haas team
The Canadian Press – FONTANA, Calif.
16 Ford across his own air hose as he entered his pit box and NASCAR immediately penalized Biffle, pushing him back to 12th place. …
www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hJ8-nppAZ_uWu2owmZZigNIdPVEw
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Overnight Rating 5.3
Fox’s broadcast of Sunday’s Auto Club 500 at Auto Club Speedway in California earned a 5.3 overnight Nielsen Media Research rating and an 8 share in the nation’s largest television markets, Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Daily reports. Last year’s first race at California was postponed because of rain and run on Monday, so direct comparisons are not available, but the rating is 14.5 percent lower than the 6.2 Fox earned overnight for the track’s first race of the season in 2007.
Attendance Figures Just OK
NASCAR didn’t fill every seat at Auto Club Speedway on Sunday, but it filled enough to make track president Gillian Zucker happy. NASCAR estimated race attendance at 78,000 while one of the local papers estimated it at 55,000. Prior to the race, Zucker said she would have considered being 10 percent off the 2008 Labor Day weekend attendance (which NASCAR estimated at 70,000) a success because of the rains that suspended the event last year and the current economic times. The track’s grandstands seat 92,000. The track appeared to be about two-thirds to three-quarters full at the start of the race. The race lasted 3 hours, 40 minutes – including 37 laps run under caution because of intermittent drizzle – and empty seats became more noticeable throughout the event.
Biffle Disappointed
Roush Fenway Racing’s Greg Biffle was castigating himself for a pit-road error that he felt cost him a shot at the win following NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Auto Club 500. Biffle was battling for position and trying to gain ground on leader Jeff Gordon and on teammate Matt Kenseth on pit road on lap 209 when he almost overshot his stall. While he did stop inside the line, he had rolled across his air hose and had to back up so the team could complete his pit stop. Biffle fell from second to 12th with the miscue and recovered to finish fourth – but spent the moments immediately following the race wondering about what might have been. “This was a pretty fast car,” he said. “I just screwed it up. Trying to get greedy. You know, it was so hard to pass out here, and I was hoping to beat the 24 [of Jeff Gordon] out and I was trying to give my guys every advantage I could. I stopped in the box, I wasn’t out of the box, but the guy pulled the hose around, and we had this problem before. It’s just me stopping too deep in the box and caught them off guard and ran over the hose. And this box is super-long anyway. But they didn’t do anything wrong; it was my fault.”
Motorsports This Week on ESPN
NASCAR Nationwide Series from Las Vegas on ESPN2
The NASCAR Nationwide Series, the highest-rated TV series on ESPN2, makes its only appearance of the 2009 season at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend, and ESPN2 will have live, high definition coverage of the 300-mile race on Saturday, Feb. 28, beginning at 4 p.m. ET with NASCAR Countdown. ESPN2 will be the home of the NASCAR Nationwide Series all season, with selected races on ESPN and ABC. The race re-airs Monday, March 2, at 9 a.m. on ESPN Classic.
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Courtesy of Jayski
Truex Jr. to sport Wild Turkey Federation colors at Sprint Showdown: The National Wild Turkey Federation’s flying turkey logo will appear on the Earnhardt Ganassi Racing, Bass Pro Shops sponsored #1 Chevy, driven by Martin Truex Jr. Truex, who recently won the pole position and finished 11th in the Daytona 500, will be trying to win the NASCAR Sprint Showdown and earn his way into the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race both on May 16th at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Bass Pro Shops salute to the NWTF is a part of the Conservation Fund’s “Racing for America’s Wildlife” program. The program is designed to engage the NASCAR community in conserving America’s hunting and fishing heritage through habitat protection, restoration, education, and outreach. The NWTF is an over 500,000 member conservation organization with chapters across the United States, Canada and 10 other foreign countries. The Federation has worked with its volunteers, partners and wildlife agencies to restore wild turkey populations to 49 states and in parts of Canada. Bass Pro Shops is a dedicated supporter of NWTF’s Women in the Outdoors, JAKES, and Wheelin’ Sportsmen outreach programs. For more information regarding Bass Pro Shops store locations, products or special events, please visit www.basspro.com.(Bass Pro Shops PR), see an image of the scheme on my #1 Team Schemes page.(2-24-2009) www.jayski.com/schemes/2009/1cup.htm
Kenseth’s win means 2nd race fan headed to Homestead: Matt Kenseth’s back-to-back season-opening wins in his #17 Ford makes for back-to-back winners in Ford’s “We Race. You Win” national sweepstakes. For the second week in a row, a lucky fan will be notified this week about their trip to Ford Championship Weekend. The sweepstakes, announced January 22, awards one fan every time a Ford NASCAR Sprint Cup driver wins a points race this year. That lucky fan and a guest will win an all-expenses paid trip to Ford Championship Weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway. During the race weekend, one of those fans then will be selected as the grand prizewinner of a 2010 Ford Fusion. Kenseth’s first career Daytona 500 victory automatically created the contest’s first winner. His win in Fontana enables a second fan to win a trip to Ford Championship Weekend in Homestead, FL (Ford PR). More information about the contest on my Racing Contests page.(2-23-2009) www.jayski.com/pages/contest.htm#ford-fusion
Stewart’s Crew Grabs Tissot Pit Road Win in California: The #14 crew for Tony Stewart took top honors Sunday, winning the Tissot Pit Road Precision Award at the Auto Club 500 Sprint Cup race in Fontana, CA. Stewart’s Old Spice/Office Depot Chevy spent the least amount of time on pit road (260.940 seconds) during the 250 lap, 500-mile race at Auto Club Speedway. The winning pit road performance helped Stewart to an eighth-place finish in the second race of the season. The #14 over-the-wall crew consists of: Jeff “Gooch” Patterson (gasman), Scott Radel (catch can), Mike Casto (jackman), Kelly Kellis (front tire changer), Todd Drakulich (front tire carrier), Daniel Smith (rear tire changer), Mike Morneau (rear tire carrier) and Troy Welty (windshield). The team’s crew chief is Darian Grubb and the pit crew trainer is Joe Piette. The Tissot Pit Road Precision Award pays $5,000 for each Cup race to the winning pit road team. In addition, the team with the most pit road event wins will be awarded a $100,000 bonus at the completion of the 36-race schedule by Tissot, the official watch and timekeeper of NASCAR.(DMF Communications/Tissot PR)(2-24-2009)
Cup race for Kentucky in 2010 remains in doubt: A court schedule released Monday appears to be another blow for Kentucky Speedway’s chances of obtaining a date on the 2010 Sprint Cup calendar because the antitrust lawsuit between the track founders and NASCAR most likely won’t be resolved until at least late May. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday released its oral argument calendar for the week of March 9, and the case was not on the docket. The earliest the Kentucky-NASCAR case can now get on the calendar is the two-week session that begins April 20. It takes at least a month, and typically longer, for the appeals court to render a decision. NASCAR officials have repeatedly said that they would not consider a request from current Kentucky Speedway owner Speedway Motorsports Inc. to realign one of its Cup dates to Kentucky as long as the case is unresolved. That means that unless the speedway founders, who sold the track to SMI in December but retained the rights to the lawsuit, opt to drop the lawsuit, the case won’t be decided until late May at the earliest. NASCAR typically is well into its sanctioning process for the following year by that time. The appeals court could make a decision without a hearing, but it is not expected to do so. “I wouldn’t speculate as to when the court would hear the case, but I can say that a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series date will not be considered while the litigation against NASCAR, ISC, SMI and others remains,” NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston said in a statement Monday.(SceneDaily)(2-24-2009)
Special Deals on Indianapolis Tickets: Turn 3 of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is historically the “sweet spot” of action during the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, as some of the race’s most decisive passes and incidents have taken place there. Now, selected backstretch reserved seats will be available at a special value price for the 16th Allstate 400 at the Brickyard on Sunday, July 26, offering NASCAR fans great action at a great price. These seats are at the end of the back straightaway entering Turn 3 of the historic 2.5-mile IMS oval. Seats in Sections 41 through 50 of the Northeast Vista Backstretch, including the Northeast Vista Backstretch Platform (wheelchair-accessible seating), will sell for $45 each, a $30 savings. Tickets for the three events in 2009 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway – the 93rd Indianapolis 500, 16th Allstate 400 at the Brickyard and second Red Bull Indianapolis GP – can be ordered online at www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com at any time.(IMS PR)(2-24-2009)
Auto Club Speedway happy with turnout: Despite fears that the economic recession, the Academy Awards telecast and other factors might limit attendance to 60,000 or fewer, NASCAR estimated that the race drew about 78,000 people to the Auto Club 500 at Auto Club Speedway [seats 92,000] — 8,000 more than it said attended the Fontana race last Labor Day weekend. Auto Club Speedway, like many tracks nationwide, had cut prices on some seats in response to the economic pressure. “The turnout was awesome, I’m so thrilled with the crowd,” said track President Gillian Zucker. “It clearly shows how passionate Southern California is about NASCAR. That even in this kind of an economy that the crowd is that big says an awful lot.”(Los Angeles Times)(2-23-2009)
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The Race….for Sponsorship
FONTANA, Calif. — The most important part of Sunday’s Auto Club 500 was not what happened on the track but what took place in the garage, the suites and elsewhere.
Some teams had prospective sponsors at Auto Club Speedway as they look to find additional funding.
Teams looking for sponsors range from Roush Fenway Racing to Richard Petty Motorsports to Earnhardt Ganassi Racing and others.
www.roanoke.com/sports/racing/wb/195644
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Listen to Track Talk at a Special Time on Thursday
The Thursday, February 26th edition of Track Talk will be heard at a special time, due to a scheduling conflict. The show will broadcast live at 11:00 pm ET on the Prime Sports Network. Any guests for this show will be announced at a later date. The February 19th episode of Track Talk featured three-time Truck Series champion Ron Hornaday and 2008 Sprint Cup Rookie of the Year Regan Smith. Be sure to listen to the archive or download the podcast of that show anytime at PrimeSportsNetwork.com.
Numbers Game: Analyzing the Shelby 427 at Las Vegas
In winning the first two races of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, Matt Kenseth joined an exclusive list. Previously, a driver had opened with two consecutive wins only four times, most recently in 1997 when Jeff Gordon won the Daytona 500 and followed it up with a victory at Rockingham.
Full Story www.race2win.net/wc/09/02/nglvms.html
Crash at LVMS in 2008 is History to Gordon
After a frightening crash at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in 2008, could Jeff Gordon be hesitant returning to the 1.5-mile track for Sunday’s Shelby 427?
Full Story www.race2win.net/wc/09/02/lvchjg.html
Week 3: The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Top 12 – And Beyond
The following is a look at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series top 12, along with other notable drivers, going into the Shelby 427 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Full Story www.race2win.net/wc/09/02/top12_3.html
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Kenseth, Kyle Busch sit atop rankings
The top 35 Sprint Cup teams following the Auto Club 500 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif.
www.thatsracin.com/140/story/4190.html
Engines sour on three Chevy teams
By David Poole
FONTANA, Calif. – Engines were pushed to the limit – and sometimes beyond – Sunday night in the Auto Club 500.
Kevin Harvick, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Mark Martin all fell out of the race early with engine woes. Harvick finished 38th with Earnhardt Jr. 39th and Martin 40th.
“The motor blew up and I just got in my own oil going in the corner there,” said Harvick, who had finished second in the season-opening Daytona 500 a week ago. “It just didn’t give me any warning.
www.thatsracin.com/140/story/4142.html
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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
A crew member, Paul Chodora, was indefinitely suspended from NASCAR for violating the substance abuse policy. Brian Vickers got the pole Friday at California with a 183.439 mph lap. Sunday, Jimmie Johnson led early until light rain on lap six. That continued until lap 23. There was more rain about 20 laps later. Jeff Gordon passed Matt Kenseth for the lead on lap 196, but Kenseth got it back exiting the pits 12 laps later. He fended off several challenges from Gordon. Kevin Harvick had engine problems and brushed the wall. Hendrick teammates Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Mark Martin had engine problems. Kenseth averaged 135.839 mph with five yellows for 43 of the 250 laps.
Yes, He REALLY Said That
Dr. Jerry Punch, ESPN announcer, on if NASCAR drivers are paid too much. “As long as you have baseball players turning down $25 million for one year to play with the Dodgers, we should be OK over here.”
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California Dodge teams race quotes
KURT BUSCH (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger) Finished 5th AFTER A TOP 10 LAST WEEKEND AT DAYTONA, A TOP FIVE FINISH FOR YOU TONIGHT. NOT A BAD WAY TO START THE 2009 SEASON? “It was a good night for us. I felt that our car had a great set-up in it. Our crew on pit road [...]
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California Toyota teams race notes, quotes
KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 Interstate Batteries Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing Finishing Position: 3rd Was this a great weekend overall? “It was a great weekend. We had a great run there. We wish we could have been a little bit better, but a third -place finish isn’t too bad. We’ll take that. It’s a great run for [...]
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California GM teams race quotes, notes
MARK MARTIN, NO. 5 KELLOGG’S / CARQUEST IMPALA SS — Sidelined with engine problems: “A big thanks to all our fans out there; Kellogg’s and CARQUEST, and everybody at Hendrick Motorsports. It was a whale of an effort and I think we had a decent race car. I think we could have gotten to the top [...]
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California Ford teams race quotes, notes
DAVID RAGAN — No. 6 UPS Ford Fusion (finished 17th) “I thought we had a top-10 car all night. We had a bad pit stop on the green flag stop and I got into the wall and we just had some bad circumstances tonight. We got a lap down and couldn’t ever rebound. At times we [...]
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Break Media Expands Network for Men with NASCAR Enthusiast Web 2.0 Site “All Left Turns”
An interactive sports community for the tech savvy motor sports fan
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Break Media, the Internet’s premier entertainment community for men, announced today the launch of an innovative Web 2.0 NASCAR enthusiast site, All Left Turns. The new site will offer a fresh spin on the daily news, race analysis, driver interviews and profiles, rumors and cutting-edge commentary, all with an informed opinion and Break’s trademark sense of humor.
All Left Turns was developed by and for NASCAR fans who crave an online community to celebrate the racers, racetracks and the fans themselves. Users will be able to live vicariously through other users as people upload photos from race-day, create fan pages and interact through forums. Break has hired seasoned sports writer Stephen Thomas as Managing Editor to provide in-depth editorial coverage as well. Thomas has covered NASCAR for Sports Illustrated, CNNSI.com, FOXSports.com, and has written numerous articles for both ESPN The Magazine and Sporting News.
“Our proprietary research of men 18-34 clearly indicated that there was a huge endemic audience for NASCAR,” said Keith Richman, CEO of Break Media. “We developed All Left Turns to not only meet that need, but to provide the young NASCAR fan a true interactive community.”
The new Web site provides Break Media additional opportunities to distribute relevant premium content to millions of unique viewers per month while simultaneously opening a new channel for advertisers to reach niche NASCAR fanatics, who worldwide spend about $3 billion on licensed products alone. All Left Turns continues to build Break Media’s network of sports sites that already feature almost 100 entertainment, gaming, lifestyle, humor, music, and technology websites.
For the latest on All Left Turns, please visit www.allleftturns.com/ or for information on Break Media properties, please visit breakmedia.break.com/.
(thanks, Heather)
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Rheem adds 4 races to #33 sponsorship: In addition to the five races Rheem will sponsor with their red and black paint scheme, Rheem has recently made the decision to add four more primary races to the schedule with the focus on the Rheem tankless water heaters. The new paint scheme is known as “Hot Water Heaven,” and features a blue water spray across the front with water drop accents on the sides and rear of the car to portray the endless hot water available with a Rheem tankless water heater.(Kevin Harvick Inc PR)(2-23-2009)
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9-Time Champ Frank Kimmel Looking for 10th Title; Featured Guest on ‘30 at 30′ Tuesday, February 24
TOLEDO OH (2-24-09) – In our nation’s worst economy since The Great Depression, Frank Kimmel went from having no sponsor to having a full sponsor. It happened right before Daytona when Ansell and Menards joined forces with the 9-time ARCA RE/MAX Series champion for the 2009 season.
How did he do it? A portion of the answer is respectably proprietary; however, other components of the equation are crystal clear. To cut to the chase – it simply means something to be a 9-time ARCA RE/MAX Series champion.
[Read More] – www.arcaracing.com/news.cfm?contentid=7678
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I.N. Sider lists 20 things not to talk about this season in the new Behind [Closed] Garage Doors column, now posted at www.Valvoline.com.
Insider Racing News
insiderracingnews.com/Writers/AM/022409.html
Advertising Bargains Exist in NASCAR
by Allen Madding
Insider Racing News
insiderracingnews.com/Writers/BB2/022409.html
Kenseth and Gordon Battle the Final 32 Laps
by Ben Brumitt
RaceTalkRadio.com:
California Nightmare Not Dreaming, Making the Grade – California 1 by Dennis Michelsen
www.racetalkradio.com/soz/id232.htm
The Nascar Insiders
California Doesn’t Deserve A Cup Date
Since we are sort of in a “talking about tracks” mood (see Kentucky, Really? www.thenascarinsiders.com/2009/02/20/kentucky-really/), I figured I’d continue the conversation with a little bit on the Auto Club Speedway.
feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheNascarInsiders/~3/546196551/
Randy Moss Motorsports Cuts Salaries
As another sign of the times, we heard over the weekend Randy Moss Motorsports cut all employee salaries by upwards of 35 percent.
feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheNascarInsiders/~3/546132254/
No Tears, Just Jubilation in California
by Carol Einarsson
CHEERS to the spot on Drew Blick-ens-der-fer.
www.racejournalonline.com/index.cfm?Pagename=column&id=571
The Good, Bad, & Ugly – Shark Kenseth Can & Did Again, But The Childress Boys Could Not
Okay, Matt Kenseth might not exactly be Mr. Excitement, but like the shark on Jaws he just keeps on coming on to lay the bite on the opposition.
www.speedwaymedia.com/Articles/09/022409Thornton.asp
Kenseth is 2 and 3
Matt Kenseth enjoys the Gatorade shower in the Auto Club Speedway victory lane for the third time at the track after 500 miles.
www.speedwaymedia.com/Articles/09/022209Finnegan_Cup.asp
Ricky Craven Finding A Home At ESPN
dalyplanet.blogspot.com/2009/02/ricky-craven-finding-home-at-espn.html
The NASCAR On Fox Crew Grinds It Out
dalyplanet.blogspot.com/2009/02/nascar-on-fox-crew-grinds-it-out.html
Does Anyone Miss “Tradin’ Paint?”
dalyplanet.blogspot.com/2009/02/does-anyone-miss-tradin-paint.html
Meet The Original “Digger”
dalyplanet.blogspot.com/2009/02/meet-original-digger.html
Sirius Finds A Knight In Shining Armor
dalyplanet.blogspot.com/2009/02/sirius-finds-knight-in-shining-armor.html
I Surrender Just Don’t Hurt Me!
dalyplanet.blogspot.com/2009/02/i-surrender-just-dont-hurt-me.html
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T V * L I S T I N G S
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Courtesy of Jayski
Tue Feb 24
12:00 am NASCAR Now ESPN2
12:00 am This Week in NASCAR SPEED
8:00 am This Week in NASCAR SPEED
9:00 am SportsCentury – Al Unser Sr. ESPNC
5:00 pm NASCAR Now ESPN2
Wed Feb 25
12:00 am NASCAR Now ESPN2
12:00 pm NSCS Daytona 500 Replay SPEED
5:00 pm NASCAR Now ESPN2
Thu Feb 26
12:00 am NASCAR Now ESPN2
12:00 pm NSCS Auto Club 500 Replay SPEED
5:00 pm NASCAR Now ESPN2
Jayski does not list all the programming offered by SPEED; for complete listings go to their website, www.speedtv.com/schedule/
Always CHECK YOUR LOCAL LISTINGS!
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