Archive for August 7th, 2007

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Bobby Gerhart, injured during last Saturday’s ARCA RE/MAX Series Pennsylvania 200 at Pocono Raceway, was released Wednesday afternoon from Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Gerhart, diagnosed with a left brachial plexus injury and a T6 compression fracture, has been fitted in a neck brace for comfort. The veteran driver has also been fitted with [...]

Nextel Cup driver Robby Gordon received a stiff fine and probation along with a not-so-subtle warning from NASCAR on Tuesday in response to his actions during and after Saturday’s Busch Series race at Montreal.
Gordon, who was parked and sat out Sunday’s Cup race at Pocono as part of his punishment, was fined $35,000 and placed [...]

It will be a homecoming of sorts for Regan Smith at this weekend’s Nextel Cup event at Watkins Glen International. The 23-year-old driver will not only compete near the area where he grew up, but he will also rejoin his teammates on the #01 U.S. Army team.

In an effort to move closer to securing a top-35 position in Owner’s Points, Valvoline Evernham Racing has reached a one race agreement with Patrick Carpentier to drive the #10 Valvoline/Stanley Tools Dodge in this weekend’s Nextel Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International. Carpentier recently made his first NASCAR start in the Busch Series [...]

A Toms River, N.J., man died after accidentally falling from the roof of a recreational vehicle during Sunday afternoon’s race at Pocono Raceway.

Citing ‘irreconcilable differences in the team philosophy,’ Red Bull Racing and Marty Gaunt, formerly the team’s vice president/general manager, have parted company effective immediately, the team announced Monday. The team, which is owned by Austria-based Red Bull energy drink founder Dietrich Mateschitz, has struggled in its first year in the Nextel Cup Series, with both [...]

Wood Brothers/JTG Racing has decided that the team will again focus their attention on the team’s full-time #21 Cup entry [with Bill Elliott], putting on hold plans to run a second Cup [#47] entry for [Busch Series driver Marcos] Ambrose on the Watkins Glen road course.

With late-afternoon temperatures approaching 100° and track temperatures exceeding 140°, Nextel Cup Series drivers #12-Ryan Newman, #1-Martin Truex Jr., #83-Brian Vickers and #6-David Ragan tested Goodyear tires Monday at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in preparation for the Bank of America 500 on Saturday night, Oct. 13.

Chrysler’s new chairman and CEO made his debut this morning at the automaker’s Auburn Hills headquarters. Chrysler’s Tom LaSorda, who had been CEO under DaimlerChrysler’s ownership, introduced Bob Nardelli, former head of Home Depot, at a morning press conference.

The NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series will hit the road this weekend at famous Watkins Glen International for Sunday’s race on the famed Upstate New York road racing circuit. ESPN will have live coverage beginning at 1 p.m. ET with the pre-race NASCAR Countdown program.
ESPN, which has televised more NASCAR Cup races than any other network, [...]