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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.

Kasey Kahne

February 20, 2011 by · Comments Off on Kasey Kahne 

Kasey Kahne, Kasey Kahne Kenneth (pronounced / ke n /; Born April 10, 1980) is a NASCAR driver full time. He participated in the Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour’s. It is the driver of the No. 4 Red Bull Toyota Camry for Red Bull Racing Team. Kahne also drives the Nationwide Series # 38 Great Clips Chevy Impala for Turner Motorsports.

Off the beaten, Kahne is active in charitable work and is a member of the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation. He also owns his own race team, Kasey Kahne Racing, competing at the World of Outlaws series, commissioning of two cars, one for Joey Saldana, and one for Cody Darrah. His team also fields a car for the USAC Sprint Car series for Brady Bacon and Brad Sweet USAC dwarfs. Kahne is a two-time Skagit Speedway winner of the annual Jim Raper Dirt Cup memory (2002 and 2003) and holds the current record for the fastest lap at Skagit.

Kahne began racing open wheel sprint cars at Deming Speedway 17 in Deming, Washington, before moving to Skagit Speedway in Alger, Washington, and then he moved to USAC. In 2001, Kahne took a trip to Pennsylvania where he won the match of the season at Williams Grove Speedway history. Steve Lewis, who had also employed future NASCAR drivers Jeff Gordon, Jason Leffler, Tony Stewart and Kenny Irwin, Jr, hired him. In his first year on the tour, he was named rookie of the year and win the National Midget Championship. He continued to run USAC, as well as the Toyota Atlantic Series and the World of Outlaws.

Kahne in 20 starts in the Nationwide Series driving the # 98 Channellock Ford Taurus for Robert Yates Racing. His best finish was a tenth place finish at Cabela’s 250. In 2003 he moved to the Ford # 38 Akins Motorsports Clips. He won his first pole at Michigan International Speedway and his first nationwide race at the Ford 300. In 2004, he also made a pair of starts in the Craftsman Truck Series at Darlington Raceway and Homestead-Miami Speedway, driving the # 2 Team ASE Racing Dodge Ram for Ultra Motorsports, winning both races.

Kasey Kahne today at the Daytona 500 is over with the finishing line in sight, after blowing an engine for the second time this week, with less than 20 laps to go. Kahne ran all day, staying on the lead lap and in the thick of things at Daytona International Speedway. Before his engine blew up, a problem plaguing many in Dayton, he was able to make a run at the checkered flag, but it did not help.

The warning was the 14th race, easily eclipsing the Daytona 500 and Daytona International Speedway record. It was a day filled with yellow flags and laps behind the pace car, an unfortunate side effect of spinouts and problems plaguing the area of the engine.

As for the race itself, Ryan Newman has the lead, followed by Denny Hamlin, David Ragan, Clint Bowyer and Trevor Bayne. Dale Earnhardt Jr. is still running strong, sitting in 10th place and in position to make a run late. Tony Stewart is in ninth position, just ahead of Earnhardt Jr.

Kasey Kahne, under a one-year contract with Red Bull Racing was mignored either by media or ignored most of the media this week all high speed.

It began last Saturday night when Kahne # 4 had an engine failure before reaching the eighth round. Usually, if a driver is out of the race, they questioned what was wrong with the engine. Kahne was the only car with engine problems still not been interviewed during the race or after.

[Source: via wikipedia nad various online soures, image via WWW.NASCAROAD.COM]

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