Archive for April 2nd, 2007

JAMIE MCMURRAY — No. 26 Irwin Ford Fusion (Finished 9th)
“At the beginning of the race we had a great car. I drove too hard at the beginning. I told myself to take it easy on the brakes, but I couldn’t help it. I just kept kind of hustling the car and I wore my stuff [...]

SCOTT RIGGS (No. 10 Valvoline/Stanley Tools Dodge Avenger) — 8th
“We made some pretty big changes on the car this morning. We talked about it last night, and we were pretty bad in Happy Hour yesterday. We made a lot of big changes, and we knew we needed to free it up to get it to [...]

JIMMIE JOHNSON CAPTURED SECOND CONSECUTIVE WIN FOR IMPALA SS AT MARTINSVILLE
Team Chevy Drivers Sweep Top-Seven Finishing Positions in Goody’s Cool Orange 500
Martinsville, Va. - Jimmie Johnson, No. 48 Lowe’s Impala SS, battled his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon, No. 24 DuPont Impala SS, to the checkered flag to grab the second consecutive win for the [...]

Dale Jarrett in the No. 44 UPS Toyota Camry finished in the 28th position after starting from the 38th position and spinning once during the event. David Reutimann in the No. 00 Domino’s Toyota Camry finished in the 33rd position after starting from the 43rd position and battling handling problems throughout the event.
Dave Blaney in [...]

Jeff Gordon may not have been thrilled to find himself second in the Goody’s Cool Orange 500 at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday, but he wasn’t interested in roughing up teammate Jimmie Johnson too much in the closing laps.
Not that Gordon didn’t beat and bang on his teammate. He just refused to spin out Johnson in [...]

AT&T’s lawsuit against NASCAR, in which it asks for an injunction to allow it to rebadge Jeff Burton’s #31 car from Cingular-orange to AT&T blue this spring, may have quick resolution, perhaps even as soon as the end of this month, according to sources close to the situation.

Several helmets that belonged to the Nextel Cup Series #48 team were stolen on Sunday, April 1st.
They were stolen from the infield pit area while the Goody’s Cool Orange 500 race winner, Jimmie Johnson and crew were in victory circle celebrating.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. led at Martinsville until the rain showers came, causing a 33-minute red flag period on lap 357. Dale Jr. climbed back into his car as the leader, but was showered in debris from a stationary jet track dryer. Some of the debris became lodged in Dale Jr’s left eye, but he was [...]

When the Car of Tomorrow debuted a week earlier in Bristol, several drivers – most notably 2003 series champ Matt Kenseth - complained of the foam padding in the right side of the door melting and releasing noxious fumes. NASCAR insisted that the cars that had problems with the foam had incorrectly installed, a charge [...]

Felix Sabates plans to sell his 20% interest in the Nextel Cup organization he owns with Chip Ganassi in five years. “I’m leaving,” Sabates said. “I’ve told Chip I’m leaving in five years.”