Archive for March 25th, 2007

FIN, ST, CAR, DRIVER, MAKE, SPONSOR, PTS/BNS, LAPS, STATUS, WINNINGS
1 20 5 Kyle Busch Chevrolet CARQUEST / Kellogg’s 190/5 504 Running 179,400
2 29 31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet Cingular Wireless 170/0 504 Running 161,691
3 1 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet DuPont 170/5 504 Running 165,586
4 40 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet Shell / Pennzoil 165/5 504 Running 154,911
5 11 16 Greg Biffle Ford Jackson Hewitt 155/0 504 Running 111,900

The rear end of Greg Biffle’s car, which finished fifth in the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, was too low in postrace inspection and the team faces potential penalties for the violation, NASCAR Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton said Sunday night.
Pemberton said teams were given a quarter-inch tolerance for the rear of [...]

Kyle Busch held off teammate Jeff Gordon on a restart, then beat Jeff Burton in a drag race to the finish line to win the first Car of Tomorrow race Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Busch took the lead with 16 laps to go on a smooth pass around Denny Hamlin in thick traffic and stayed [...]

Nextel Cup driver and team owner Michael Waltrip has been relieved of his duties as co-host of the Speed Channel show “Tradin’ Paint,” network officials confirmed Friday. Waltrip will remain on Speed’s show “Inside Nextel Cup” and will continue to work in the broadcast booth for Speed Channel’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series broadcasts.

Robby Gordon said Friday that his new shop in Charlotte, N.C., will not be ready in May as he had hoped.
“The weather this winter has just killed us,” said Gordon. “We’re moving dirt and getting up to speed on that, it’s just taking longer than I wanted, to be honest with you, to get the [...]

Ginn Racing development driver and motocross champion Ricky Carmichael made his stock car debut Saturday night in a super late model race at Columbia Motorsports Park [Lake City, FL].

Roush Fenway Racing will have to decrease its number of Nextel Cup teams from five to four by the start of the 2010 season, team president Geoff Smith said Saturday.
NASCAR announced in 2005 that it would limit organizations to four fulltime Cup teams and that it would work with Roush to get down from four [...]