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Daytona 500 Lineup

February 24, 2012 by · Comments Off on Daytona 500 Lineup 

Daytona 500 Lineup, The Daytona 500 lineup is set.

Roush Fenway Racing captured the front row starting spots in Sunday’s qualifying session with Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle, respectively. Teammate Matt Kenseth will start fourth by virtue of winning today’s second Gatorade Duel with Stewart-Haas Racing’s Tony Stewart – winner of the opening Duel – in third position.

Michael McDowell, Robby Gordon, Joe Nemechek and Dave Blaney all raced their way into Sunday’s 500 courtesy of their finishing spots in today’s Duels.

The starting lineup for Sunday’s race:

1. Carl Edwards, Roush Fenway Racing No. 99 Ford
2. Greg Biffle, Roush Fenway Racing No. 16 Ford
3. Tony Stewart, Stewart-Haas Racing No. 14 Chevrolet
4. Matt Kenseth, Roush Fenway Racing No. 17 Ford
5. Dale Earnhardt Jr., Hendrick Motorsports No. 88 Chevrolet
6. Regan Smith, Furniture Row Racing No. 78 Chevrolet
7. Marcos Ambrose, Richard Petty Motorsports No. 9 Ford
8. Jimmie Johnson, Hendrick Motorsports No. 48 Chevrolet
9. Jeff Burton, Richard Childress Racing No. 31 Chevrolet
10. Elliott Sadler, Richard Childress Racing No. 33 Chevrolet
11. Michael McDowell, Phil Parsons Racing No. 98 Ford
12. Joey Logano, Joe Gibbs Racing No. 20 Toyota
13. Kevin Harvick, Richard Childress Racing No. 29 Chevrolet
14. Kyle Busch, Joe Gibbs Racing No. 18 Toyota
15. A.J. Allmendinger, Penske Racing No. 22 Dodge
16. Jeff Gordon, Hendrick Motorsports No. 24 Chevrolet
17. Robby Gordon, Robby Gordon Motorsports No. 7 Dodge
18. Ryan Newman, Stewart-Haas Racing No. 39 Chevrolet
19. Jamie McMurray, Earnhardt Ganassi Racing No. 1 Chevrolet
20. Kasey Kahne, Hendrick Motorsports No. 5 Chevrolet
21. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Roush Fenway Racing No. 6 Ford
22. Mark Martin, Michael Waltrip Racing No. 55 Toyota
23. Brad Keselowski, Penske Racing No. 2 Dodge
24. Dave Blaney, Tommy Baldwin Racing No. 36 Chevrolet
25. David Ragan, Front Row Motorsports No. 34 Ford
26. Martin Truex Jr., Michael Waltrip Racing No. 56 Toyota
27. Aric Almirola, Richard Petty Motorsports No. 43 Ford
28. Kurt Busch, Phoenix Racing No. 51 Chevrolet
29. Danica Patrick, Stewart-Haas Racing No. 10 Chevrolet
30. Clint Bowyer, Michael Waltrip Racing No. 15 Toyota
31. Denny Hamlin, Joe Gibbs Racing No. 11 Toyota
32. Bobby Labonte, JTG Daugherty Racing No. 47 Toyota
33. David Gilliland, Front Row Motorsports No. 38 Ford
34. Joe Nemechek, Nemco Motorsports No. 87 Toyota
35. Juan Pablo Montoya, Earnhardt Ganassi Racing No. 42 Chevrolet
36. Casey Mears, Germain Racing No. 13 Ford
37. Paul Menard, Richard Childress Racing No. 27 Chevrolet
38. David Reutimann, BK Racing No. 93 Toyota
39. Landon Cassill, BK Racing No. 83 Toyota
40. Trevor Bayne, Wood Brothers Racing No. 21 Ford
41. Tony Raines, Front Row Motorsports No. 26 Ford
42. David Stremme, Inception Motorsports No. 30 Toyota
43. Terry Labonte, FAS Lane Racing No. 32 Ford

Daytona 500: Latest

February 20, 2011 by · Comments Off on Daytona 500: Latest 

Daytona 500, (AP) – A rare pair of engine failures for Richard Childress Racing Kevin Harvick hit contenders Jeff Burton and the Daytona 500. Harvick car lasted only 22 laps before defending what his team was suspected of a broken engine block. Burton’s car was then given after 92 laps.

Harvick said that the problem probably has nothing to do with the concerns of overheating acting to push the car in the style of writing two cars, which dominated Speedweeks at Daytona. “I do not think so,” said Harvick. “Overheating would have happened at a point where it flies, you see the water start to come out (the radiator).”

But Burton said the style of racing at Daytona this tax year on engines.

“We ask a lot of drivers out here for you,” said Burton. “These are difficult situations.”

Team RCR engines are built by Earnhardt-Childress Racing, a joint venture between the team of Childress and Dale Earnhardt Inc. next Sunday issues, they were considered among the most powerful and reliable in the field.

Burton is not sure if the engines P. left by others in the area would be able to last.

“We thought we were well within our limits, but maybe not,” said Burton.

Harvick, the 2007 Daytona 500 champion, was a favorite early season Sunday after having shown a lot of speed during Speedweeks. He was lined up behind Matt Kenseth when his engine exploded, sending smoke from under his No. 29 Chevrolet.

“We never blow engines,” said Harvick.

Harvick said his oil temperature reading was a little high, and he was backing up from behind Kenseth’s car to take his car cooled when the engine exploded.

“We had an oil temperature reaches over, but nothing unusual, and I had just gone,” said Harvick. “At the beginning of the race, even if you get hot, it is usually not a catastrophic failure like we just had. ”

Harvick, who finished third in last year’s Sprint Cup, said it was an easy way to start the new season.

“Obviously, we arrive at the biggest race of the year, and that happens from the start is just something you do not really want to happen,” said Harvick. “It’s just a these things happen. We’re going years and years without engine failure, and they do a great job on this. It happens. ”

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Trevor Bayne

February 20, 2011 by · Comments Off on Trevor Bayne 

Trevor Bayne, In 0.007 seconds – about the width of one of his godfather Oreo – Tony Stewart won Saturday afternoon Drive4COPD Nationwide Series 300 at Daytona International Speedway. It was the second photo-finish with a margin of victory in the thousands of a second this week, coming two days after Jeff Burton won a race of 150-mile qualifying by 0.005 seconds.

Stewart finished 11th in the 120-lap race Nationwide restarted after a major accident and frontstretch brief red flag. But he and Landon Cassill quickly found each other and connected in a tight project. Cassill first shot then pushed forward Stewart when Stewart beat pole winner Clint Bowyer with a final time outside your password. Cassill finished third and Dale Earnhardt Jr., Reed Sorenson, Jason Leffler, Kyle Busch, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Michael Waltrip and Trevor Bayne.

Only eight drivers led, but they swapped the lead 35 will equal the record time. Bowyer led eight times for 40 laps, Joey Logano 10 times for 22 laps, Brad Keselowski three for 17 laps, Busch six 17 laps, Stewart 13 laps five, two for nine laps Bayne, Mike Wallace and Danica Patrick a ride a turn. Twenty-eight of the 35 lead changes involving drivers leading to no more than five rounds, and half of that 28 were for drivers operating a single round. Bower and Keselowski each led once for 12 laps, the longest race in advance for anyone.

“All I can say about this race is that it’s weird and different,” said Stewart, who has now won 10 races in Nationwide, including six at Daytona. “Landon pushed and pushed and pushed, and did a really good job (in the closing laps). We have got momentum and never verified. We have never been in a scenario where we had the momentum. We had the benefit of having an air pocket to get momentum we just ran ’em down; we got just enough time. ”

Trevor Bayne is yet another case where there is a push most valuable item in the Daytona 500 today, as he powered a number of drivers from different teams head to Saturday NASCAR Nationwide Series season opener.

This has been very well the position in his second career race Sprint Cup, but it was not a great consolation over 20 years the native of Knoxville.

“We had the car to win,” said Bayne. “We really did.”

With six laps to go following a warning, Bayne started fourth, but fell back on the squad while his clutch unknowingly stuck in third gear. He eventually hooked up with Ricky Stenhouse Jr., his teammate for a tandem helped draft final assault, but it was too late, that Bayne has completed more than seven seconds behind race winner Tony Stewart in 10th place.

Tony Stewart scored his fourth straight victory in the season opening NASCAR Nationwide race at Daytona Speedway (Florida) International with its No. 4 nose Oreo / Ritz Chevrolet Impala in front of his Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI) teammate Clint Bowyer within 300 DRIVE4COPD.

The 0007 of a second margin of victory were the closest finish third in Nationwide Series history and the closest in series history at Daytona since the introduction of electronic scoring in 1993. He was also sixth winning from Stewart in the Nationwide Series race at Daytona in February over the last seven years.

“Wow is the first thing,” said Stewart, who now has 16 total wins at Daytona, which binds the second on the entire track time win list with Bobby Allison, 18 wins behind the legendary Dale Earnhardt (34). “It will take some time to reach 34. It’s a pretty cool feeling to know that we closed on something he has done here. This was his playground. You just watched play with guys here. It was the best there. To be even remotely close to him in the record books in anything here, is very humiliating. ”

Beyond the statistics, Stewart win was equally impressive with the way it was done. The driver of the No. 4 Oreo / Ritz Chevy overcame a right rear puncture at the end of the race, and he resumed on lap 11 114 120-lap contest.

“I knew we had a good car in practice,” said Stewart. “We have no right as well as we hoped (14e), but we were pretty sure we knew we were going to race a lot better than we practiced. ”

Stewart and Bowyer spent most of the race as drafting partners. With new asphalt at Daytona for the first time since 1979, the fastest way around the 2.5-mile oval meant to be a part of a tandem of two cars.

The duo wrote together for most of the race, each driver redemption from time to time so that neither their car engines would overheat. Stewart wound leading five times for 13 laps; Bowyer and eight times for 40 laps high.

Their plan was to stay together and fight to the end – what they did, but not without a hiccup.

With the race under a yellow flag at lap 106, Stewart’s spotter, Bob Jeffrey, noticed the top of the forum frontstretch that the right rear tire on Stewart Oreo / Ritz machine was flat. But with the release of caution, Stewart was able to cure his way back to pit road without a flat tire coming off and damaging the tunnel carved wings of his Chevy Impala.

With four fresh Goodyears, Stewart returned to action in 11th place with just six laps remaining. He was not worried, because just before the green flag dropped for the final sprint to the finish, Stewart told his team as he was using a “pusher good,” he had “plenty of time to do what I need to be done. ”

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Daytona 500 Start Time

February 20, 2011 by · Comments Off on Daytona 500 Start Time 

Daytona 500 Start Time, The event happened with NASCAR great time Daytona 500 set to begin today at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time live from Florida. The starting lineup includes all the best riders in the Daytona 500 start time, which relates the new season of stock car racing. The race will take place one day after the tenth anniversary of the tragic accident of Dale Earnhardt, who killed the popular race. His son, Dale Earnhardt Jr. had seized pole position for the race but has since lost due to injury suffered in recent days put on the back of the pack in the last row.

The race consists of 200 laps, which equates to 500 miles on newly rebuilt track. Speeds on the new surface have been well beyond 200 miles per hour. Kurt Busch has the pole position for today’s race, despite Earnhardt is listed as the first to start. Jeff Gordon will be n the front row next. With the possibility of lengthening the NFL season, which could put the Daytona 500 in conflict with the Super Bowl, and give teams more than one season, his 38 NASCAR compact weekends racing (36 events points) between the date of February and later on the weekend of Thanksgiving.

Typically, the Daytona 500 was run on the Sunday before the third Monday in February – the weekend before President’s Day. Now it will be the weekend following President’s Day, Daytona International Speedway president Joie Chitwood said.

The NFL, in its ongoing collective bargaining, plans to extend its season and the future Super Bowl dates had the potential to conflict with the 500.

“We will not deny that part of it is also in the treatment of the NFL, NASCAR Vice President of Racing Operations Steve O’Donnell said.” Who knows where they go with a schedule of 18 parties? But we want to move forward from this. Anyway, we think it’s the right thing to do. ”

The move will eliminate the March NASCAR weekend off has generally been between the third and fourth races of the season.

“We have a very short offseason, which gives us a little time to shorten the season, even slightly,” said O’Donnell. “When you look at the calendar in general, historically we have a week off in this fourth week.

“It does not take a genius to know that hurt our momentum throughout the season.”

The Daytona 500 will remain as the opening weekend of the NASCAR season. The rest of Speedweeks schedule, which includes the Budweiser Shootout, Daytona 500 qualifying and two 150-mile qualifying races will be announced at a later date.

Daytona 500 Start Time

February 19, 2011 by · Comments Off on Daytona 500 Start Time 

Daytona 500 Start Time, The Daytona 500 drops the green flag Sunday afternoon in the 53rd annual Great American Race. It’s the Super Bowl of NASCAR, but it also represents the beginning of a new season, and he gives a lot of drivers new hope to qualify for the Chase for the Championship and a chance to run the champion five times Sprint Cup, Jimmie Johnson.

This is certainly not the day of Johnson if, as the No. 48 was not all that great of a story running here at Daytona International Speedway. He only qualified 23rd with uncertain returns in the Budweiser Shootout earlier this week, and it is a situation where he is just hoping to turn into another of these prototypes consistent Top 15 finishes makes it so oh dangerous.

However, we are looking for winners here, not men who can finish in the top 15, and there are many great drivers to invest in the 500.

If you are a conspiracy theorist, man, you should be in paris on the NASCAR action this week is Dale Earnhardt Jr. (1100) is the tenth anniversary of the death of his father, Dale Earnhardt Sr. and NASCAR is nothing more than love for Little E to break this horrible losing sequence that lasted more than 90 races on the biggest stage of NASCAR.

The starting time Daytona 500 is a time after 1 tomorrow, EST. The exact time Daytona 500 start-up is uncertain, as there is plenty of pageantry to go first. Coverage begins at noon EST FOX, so maybe most of the warm-up exercises will be completed within 13 hours. However, the green flag for the race and the NASCAR season should at least be somewhere between 1-1:30. Once the time arrives to start the Daytona 500, then fans will have all the answers to their questions in the 250 rounds.

Tomorrow’s edition of the Great American Race is surrounded by uncertainty. The new surface of the Motor Speedway is racing drivers more cautious so far this week. Therefore, there is concern that the usual excitement and chaos of tomorrow could be exhausted.
The starting time Daytona 500 is scheduled for noon tomorrow, February 20 on FOX. Coverage of the Daytona 500 2011 12 o’clock start, even if the actual race will not begin until 1:00 p.m.

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