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Daytona 500

February 17, 2012 by · Comments Off on Daytona 500 

Daytona 500, NASCAR has confiscated part of Jimmie Johnson’s Daytona 500 car because of illegal modifications, a rocky start to Speedweeks for the five-time Sprint Cup Series champion.

NASCAR officials determined the No. 48 Chevrolet had illegally modified C-posts, an area of sheet metal between the roof and the side windows.

Officials cut off the C-posts and planned to ship them back to NASCAR’s research and development center in Concord, N.C., for further testing.

NASCAR is allowing the Hendrick Motorsports team to fix that area of the car before practice begins for the Feb. 26 Daytona 500. Qualifying is scheduled for Sunday.

NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp says the sanctioning body will wait until after the Daytona 500 to “address any further actions that may come out as a result of this.”

Daytona 500 Winner

February 21, 2011 by · Comments Off on Daytona 500 Winner 

Daytona 500 Winner, (AP) – Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne said he probably will not try to run for the Sprint Cup championship this year. The 20-year-old became the youngest winner in Daytona 500 history Sunday with a surprise victory in the biggest race in NASCAR. He is scheduled to run only 17 Cup races this season for the Wood Brothers, while he competes for the title of the Nationwide Series for Roush Fenway Racing-. Rules of Nascar drivers look this season are just a series of accumulating points, and Bayne chose the second in the Nationwide Series. He can change his mind, but it would not be given retroactive points for the Daytona 500.

NASCAR officials were still debating Monday whether his victory would be considered for seeding in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

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In a sport rich in tradition, Sunday’s scenario would be the equivalent of kindergarten child stealing lunch money one quarter of high school dating cheerleader hot looking. Big accessories to all those who share their Trevor Bayne Daytona 500 winner. Bayne, 20, has pushed a load of veteran Carl Edwards in the final lap – while feeling the warmth of Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch minutes earlier – to become one of the most unlikely winners in the history of 53 years of the Great American Race.

Younger, too. The kid cannot even drink a beer in Florida to celebrate. He just turned 20 on Saturday. “I do not even know where to go,” Bayne said, as he tried to find Victory Lane. It was also a forgotten place for team owners, the Wood Brothers iconic, which hit hard times lately. The Wood Brothers – the oldest active team in NASCAR – it does not even have a car for the 2008 race. The Ford team has won a Cup race for the first time since 2001, and his first Daytona 500 since David Pearson won here in 1976. Bayne was the winner in a race day survivor. NASCAR has always been a sport that encompasses the band’s country and western. But Sunday was on the way to metal.

Nascar 2011 The Game

February 20, 2011 by · Comments Off on Nascar 2011 The Game 

Nascar 2011 The Game, NASCAR The Game: 2011, also known as NASCAR NASCAR 2011 or 2011: The Game is the first edition of the NASCAR series racing simulator game. Developed by Eutechnyx and published by Activision, will be released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and on March 29, 2011. It will be the game NASCAR first time since the contract between EA Sports and NASCAR expired. The game will also feature online racing for 16-players. A damage model has been included with cars catapulted into the air and barrel-rolling over the others. All 23 tracks on the Sprint Cup Series race will be present in the game 3 December 2010, announced Eutechnyx 22 drivers that were added to the game.

NASCAR The Game: 2011 is the first game for NASCAR Eutechnyx. One feature will be a career mode, allowing gamers to participate in all the tracks on the 2010 schedule and compete for a championship Sprint Cup Series. The game will feature the damage caused by accidents fierce on the runway. Certain types of accidents include cars to catapult into the air and barrel rolling over the others. It will also show fragments of the car, commonly called the debris scattered on the runway. This allows all areas of the car to show damage build realistically regarding the impacts during the race. His is also expected to have improved the AI compared with the actual characteristics of drivers. The player will also be able to set and adjust the handling of their car, and change the paint color, decals, numbers and sponsor logos. Controls and HUD will be fully customizable so.

Racing games have gone beyond the stage of realism in their evolution. Realistic level, just based on the expectation of Test Drive and Dirt 3 releases, this is a given in-kind rules have evolved to the point that the graphics realism and fidelity to detail of the car are simple points departure. There is something unique about racing games that focus on authenticity, Gleem a speedometer near detection unit of the flavor of the driver’s seat to the rapid and so realistic landscapes and views of race. This relentless pursuit of authenticity is what drives the evolution racing game and is a central theme in the video game trailer to play Nascar 2011: The Game.

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.

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