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Bud Shootout 2012

February 18, 2012 by · Comments Off on Bud Shootout 2012 

Bud Shootout 2012, The Budweiser Shootout starts off the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup season (February 18) with nothing at stake but money … and maybe some momentum. This all-star race at Daytona International Speedway doesn’t offer points but pits the top drivers from a year ago against each other along with past Shootout winners. So who might have the best chance to win? Here are the top six contenders.
6. Jimmie Johnson – He won the race in ’05 and the 500 the following year but successes have otherwise been hard to come by at the big Florida track for ‘Five-time’. But expect a renewed vigor in the #48 camp and watch him be near the front for the Shootout … and for the rest of the season.

5. Carl Edwards – I have a feeling he will be a contender in every race this year and the Shootout will be no different. He’s never won at Daytona but I’d be surprised if Cousin’ Carl wasn’t near or in the lead of this race at some point.

4. Tony Stewart – Any race at Daytona will have the current Cup champ as a favorite. He’s won a total of six times at the two-and-a-half mile facility so expect ‘Smoke’ to be leading at some time in the race with the prospects for victory at the end.

3. Dale Earnhardt Jr. – A four-time winner at the venerable track, Jr. has always had a good feel for Daytona and can dominate with the right setup. I’d anticipate him being at or near the front of the pack all race and maybe giving JR Nation what they so badly want – an Earnhardt win.

2. Kyle Busch – This could be a special season for the sometimes troubled driver and what better way to put 2011 in the rear-view mirror, than a victory at Daytona. He can win any race he’s in but has garnered only one win at this track: the 400 in ’08 (source – About.com). But watch him be at the front of the Shootout all race.

1. Kevin Harvick – Winner of two of the last three Shootouts and always a favorite at Daytona, it’s hard not to choose the 36 year old from Bakersfield, California. The #29 was one of the best cars all last year and I think Harvick’s out to prove he should be a champion – so what better way than to win the opening race.

No, I don’t have Gordon, Hamlin, Kayne, Kenseth, Keselowski or Kurt listed. For one reason or another, I just don’t see them as Shootout winners. By the way, the drivers say this might be the most important Bud Shootout ever due in part to unknowns (source – USA Today). Two-by-two tandem racing may still be a part of the scheme here, so it’s possible the outcome will come down to who you’re hooked up with that will determine success or failure.

Bud Shootout, updates

February 12, 2011 by · Comments Off on Bud Shootout, updates 

Bud Shootout, The new track at Daytona International Speedway will be very welcoming to all those who want high-speed chase. Just ask Kyle Busch and Joey Logano. They all reached speeds over 203 mph during the final workout for the night Shootout Friday. They were not alone. Eight other drivers exceed 200 km / h as they are engaged in projects of two cars.

And like last season, NASCAR officials will host the aggressive driving, to reasonable limits. “The Shootout pits the top drivers all together at Daytona in a race and everyone will go for something -. The victory,” said Brian Vickers. “I like the direction the sport is heading to NASCAR wants us to ourselves on the track – racing hard – and does not” baby sit ‘as we bump into writing and it will be great. To a hell of a race. ”
The wait is over. Tonight at 8 ET on FOX, the NASCAR season begins with the operation of the Budweiser Shootout; a non-indent-point of the money will certainly be high intensity.

What can you expect to see? Consider this your cheat sheet for when the green flag drops tonight.

The 24 teams participating in Shootout tonight has a total of one hour and 45 minutes to practice Friday night, but it is still not enough to be able to predict what will happen tonight. Take Kevin Conway. Last year’s rookie of the year found no one to draft with sessions on Friday, but it is planned to start 16 24 drivers today. Derrike Cope is in a similar situation, even if he chose to focus on a single car drives it, but it started ninth session. This does not mean it’s a recipe for disaster for both drivers – remember that that’s life is in this race as a former winner of the Daytona 500 – but how they react is one of many great mysteries that will only be resolved tonight, when the green flag drops.

Tonight’s race will be a pleasure to watch the drivers take risks they would not no championship points on the line – oh, and for the reward money to win, not bad for a work overnight. But remember that this is just a drink; the meal comes in a little over a week with the workings of the Daytona 500 (Sunday, February 20 at noon ET on FOX). Look for teams to try different things and pilots to test the limits of their cars and the track it.

Nascar

February 12, 2011 by · Comments Off on Nascar 

Nascar, The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is a family owned and operated the auto racing sanctions and regulates many sporting events. Bill France Sr. founded it in 1947-48. In 2009, the company’s CEO is Brian France, son of the late breakfast Bill France Sr., NASCAR is the primary sanctioning body for stock car racing in the United States. The three largest the Sprint Cup Series, Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series sanction racing series NASCAR. It also oversees NASCAR Local Racing, the Whelen Modified Tour, Whelen All American Series and NASCAR iRacing.com. NASCAR sanctions over 1,500 races at over 100 tracks in 39 states and Canada. NASCAR racing exhibit presented at Suzuka and Motegi circuit in Japan, Mexico and Calder Park Raceway Australia.

NASCAR headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida, but it also has offices in four North Carolina cities: Charlotte, Mooresville, Concord, and Conover. Regional offices are also located in New York, Los Angeles, Bentonville, Arkansas, and international offices in Mexico City and Toronto. In addition, because of his southern roots, all but a handful of NASCAR teams are still based in North Carolina, especially near Charlotte.

NASCAR is a sport most viewed work in terms of viewership in the United States. In fact, professional football is the only sport in the United States, have more viewers than NASCAR. Internationally, NASCAR races are broadcast in over 150 countries. NASCAR holds 17 of the top 20 attended sporting events one day in the world and claims 75 million fans that purchase more than 3 billion and annual sales of licensed products. Fortune 500 companies that have sponsored NASCAR more than any other motor sport, although it has been in decline since the early 2000s.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Daytona Beach became known as the place to set world speed records on land, supplanting France and Belgium as the preferred location for the speed record with eight consecutive world records set between 1927 and 1935. After an historic race between Ransom Olds and Alexander Winton in 1903, the beach became a mecca for racing enthusiasts and 15 records were set on what became the Daytona Beach road course between 1905 and 1935. At the time the Bonneville Salt Flats became the premier destination for the pursuit of speed records in 1936, Daytona Beach became synonymous with fast cars. Drivers raced on a 4.1-mile (6.6 km) course, consisting of 1.5 to 2-mile (3.2 km) stretch of beach as a straightaway, and a narrow paved road by the sea, A1A, than the other. Two tight, deep ruts and sand covered towers at each end connected the two straight lines.

Stock car racing in the United States has its origins in smuggling during Prohibition, when drivers ran contraband whiskey made primarily in the Appalachian region in the United States. Bootleggers needed to distribute their illicit products, and they typically used small fast vehicles to better evade the police. Many drivers change their cars for speed and handling and increased cargo capacity, and some of them came to love the frantic pace of driving on winding mountain roads.

The repeal of Prohibition in 1933 dried up some of their business, but by then Southerners had developed a taste for moon and a number of drivers continued, “runnin ‘shine, this time to evade” the tax “trying to impose their operations. The cars continued to improve, and by the late 1940s, races with these cars were running for pride and profit. These races have been fun People in the U.S. rural south, and are more closely associated with the Wilkes County region of North Carolina. Most races in those days were of modified cars. Vehicles, streets have been lightened and strengthened.

NASCAR replaces carburetors injection times during the 2012 season of Sprint Cup. But the limiter plates used to slow the cars at Daytona and Talladega will remain for the foreseeable future.

Freescale Semiconductor and McLaren Electronic Systems have introduced Friday at a news conference at Daytona International Speedway that companies chosen to produce the new fuel injectors. Freescale processors will provide for engine control units from McLaren. McLaren also provides teams Izod IndyCar and Formula One.

Thanks to the electronic fuel injection allows a precise amount of fuel depending on the amount of air flowing into the engine (carburetor is less effective because it establishes an optimum amount of fuel at a specific point during one engine cycle).

Peter van Manen, managing director of McLaren Electronic Systems, said fuel injection would give NASCAR more in their arsenal “to tinker with the restrictor plates are used to keep vehicles below 200 km / h and more long, fastest tracks on the circuit.

But the vice president of competition Robin Pemberton said plates have been “the easiest way and most economical” to reduce speed. Currently located on the carburetor to reduce the airflow to the engine (and thus steal cars a few hundred horses), Pemberton said the plate would go on a throttle body (“Part of the air flow through is basically the same”) in the fuel injection system.

“We knocked out several hundred horses, and this is the best way to settle it now,” said Pemberton. “We have a few things to work on next year to possibly change it.”

Daytona 500

February 12, 2011 by · Comments Off on Daytona 500 

Daytona 500, (AP) – The recently refurbished area at Daytona International Speedway is fast. Very fast. Maybe too fast. In the most significant test on the 2 ½-mile superspeedways, cars top 203 mph Friday during practice for the Budweiser Shootout. Joey Logano turned his fastest lap with an average speed of 203,087 mph in the second of two test sessions. Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch has exceeded 203 mph. Several others followed closely. In all, 10 cars hit 200 mph. Four others were in the range of 199 mph, creating some concern on the track’s most famous NASCAR.

“The conditions are great, four-time champion Jeff Gordon NASCAR said.” It’s really good; it has a lot of grip. Fast. ”

But will the sport’s governing body to allow these speeds to last? Two-time champion of the Daytona 500 Bill Elliott exceeded 210 mph during qualifying for the Daytona 500 in 1987, and NASCAR responded by introducing horse-sapping restrictor plates next year.

“I do not think the plate will shift gears a lot,” Gordon said. “We are locking and that is making it faster. I’m curious to see if they do something. ”

NASCAR already reduced the size of the restrictor plate Daytona after a tire test in December. The speed was then 197.5 mph.

Another adjustment could be on tap.

Yes it’s cool but no way it will last, “driver Brad Keselowski posted on Twitter.

NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp said officials would monitor the speed during Daytona 500 practice on Saturday “and see how things settle out.”

The 24 cars entered in the race Saturday night’s exhibition was in practice rounds. But instead of the pack of three races across many expect when the green flag drops, drivers connected in bumper-to-bumper, training in tandem and wrote their way around the track’s most famous NASCAR.

Projects of two cars were faster than anything seen at Daytona in years.

“The game has changed, man,” said Gordon. “We just figured it out. Everybody’s figured out how to shut himself behind the other guys. Once you get there, and you hit it and hit it away. Now we have achieved, we’ve figured out how to hold the brake and bring the car there. Once you get in, they’re just hooked.

“You did not think you could drive around this track, and you certainly could not before, but with the new pavement and as smooth and as much grip as he was, now you can.”

Daytona has recently completed his second rehabilitation project, the first since 1979. Notorious bumps in turns two and four have gone, as is the pothole misleading who suffer from stroke last February. Pit road is wider for added security. The result is a smooth track that leads to fewer tires makes handling almost a non-issue and creates fast laps.

The Shootout could be a wild, 75-laps event.

“Who knows how this will work?” Dale Earnhardt Jr. said.

Drivers with teammates on the field should have an advantage, especially if the race ends up being decided by two cars connections.

“Everyone who tries to push, push, when and how long to push,” said Busch.

The speeds are not only eye opener Friday. The lights on the backstretch was released during the second practice session, with several cars racing through the dark at over 200 mph. Track officials quickly ended the session, parked the car and got the problem solved.

Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Nascar Schedule

February 12, 2011 by · Comments Off on Nascar Schedule 

Nascar Schedule, The dream of every NASCAR fan to win the lottery and starting his own race team. NASCAR fans Denette Joe did just that, parlaying his dollar and his dream to his own race team after winning the Mega Millions lottery.
The Fredericksburg, Virginia native was a little lower down on his luck before picking the winning ticket. In fact, Denette was unemployed.

“I was a construction worker until January 2009 and then I got laid off,” said Denette. “In May 2009, I hit the lottery and I’m still laid off.”

“I played the lottery, as I usually do and woke up one morning in May and found that I had won,” said Denette. “Needless to say I went from there to the race track. ”

At the racetrack, in fact, at Richmond International Raceway, Denette met Hermie Sadler, NASCAR driver and SPEED TV personality. Denette and Sadler clicked during a ride around the track in celebration of his lottery win and the partnership was formed.

“During the check presentation for the lottery, he (Sadler) drove me around the track and that’s what I had with him,” said Denette. “We became friends, and we’re still good friends.”

“One thing led to another and we started talking about leaving our team,” said Denette. “And that’s what we did.”

Denette decided to focus on the truck series because of its affinity for racing vehicles.

“I like trucks initially,” said Denette. “I drive a truck myself if I am a little partial to trucks. I always loved the course and this will be the best start. ”

After claiming his winnings of more than 70 million, and Denette decided to work first with his new mentor in the field of Sadler NASCAR truck race at Bristol in 2009, with Sadler at the wheel. Denette Sadler continued to support in different courses during 2010 before deciding to start his own team for 2011.

This year, Denette launch its new team of Camping World Truck, Joe Motorsports Denette. The new owner plans to attend the truck race season opener at Daytona and will continue throughout the 2011 calendar.

“To begin, we expect to win races and win the championship,” said Denette confidence. “Jason White will drive our truck and No. 23 GunBroker.com is our main sponsor.”

“We’re running all 24 races and we will do and fight for the championship.”

Denette is more comfortable in his new team, and his driver, citing the experience of white race and its pole at Daytona last year. “I think he can do it again this year,” said Denette.

White will be paired with crew chief Chad Kendrick, fresh off his stint with Germain Racing, where he worked with riders such as Max Papis, Stacey Compton, Narain Karthikeyan, and Timothy Peters. The driver of 31 years, participated in its fourth year in the series, reflects the confidence of its new owner well.

“I feel like I’m finally somewhere I can grow, be competitive and race wins,” White said. “With this team behind me and my sponsor, I feel like we will not only win races but fight for the championship. ”

Denette spares no effort in its tracks. Under the tutelage of Sadler, he bought the equipment top notch, and of forming an alliance with Kevin Harvick Inc.

“We rent a place to house all our trucks KHI,” said Denette. “Kevin Harvick also all of our chassis and bodies and we have basically an alliance if we get our research and development of it.”

Although Denette try to be as involved as he can in all aspects of his team of new trucks, it focuses on the business side of operations.

“But as many chances as I can get to go to the shop, I am,” said Denette. And as often as I can get the title, I’ll go away. ”

Denette said, however, it might not be able to make the trip himself for the first race of the season at Daytona.

“My wife is expecting a baby, due next week and we do not know if he’ll wait until then,” said Denette with a chuckle. This will be their first child and he realizes that although he now owns a NASCAR team, he has little control over his son decides to enter the world.

“When he is ready, it is ready,” said Denette.

Although Denette has many new transitions in her life, her husband and her father unemployed owner of NASCAR truck team, he is mainly defined as a racing fan.

“I’ve been a NASCAR fan all my life,” said Denette. “Now, rather than sitting in the stands watching the race, I’m part of it. I’ll be in the stands and part of the action. ”

“A lot of times, I want to pinch myself,” Denette continued. “And I think, I hope I do not wake up from this dream.”

Turn One Racing, founded by NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver, Stacy Compton, GMP arrived early this morning to test before Daytona. Drivers, Justin Marks and Cole Whitt tested the NASCAR Camping World Truck.

“This will be my first full season in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and I’m looking forward to Daytona and the rest of the year in the Truck Series,” said Whitt.

With one race behind him NCWTS at Homestead in 2010, Whitt has a turn as a full time driver Red Bull Racing Team Development with Turn One Racing for 2011.

Whitt teammate, Justin Marks, is no stranger to the NASCAR truck series. Marks ran a partial season in the NCWTS in 2008 before running a partial schedule ARCA in 2009 and a full schedule in ARCA 2010. Marks will return to NCWTS at Daytona in the Chevrolet Silverado No. 66.

Both drivers were impressed by GMP and had a successful test.

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