Archive for March 3rd, 2008

UPDATE:
Mike Skinner will replace AJ Allmendinger in the No. 84 Red Bull Racing Toyota beginning this weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
The team indicated that Allmendinger, who failed to qualify for the first three races, would eventually get back behind the wheel of its NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Toyota.

Afternoon Session (Monday):
1. Clint Bowyer, No. 07 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, 130.222 mph
2. Dave Blaney, No. 22 Bill Davis Racing Toyota, 130.166
3. Martin Truex Jr., No. 1 Dale Earnhardt Inc. Chevrolet, 130.091
4. Kurt Busch, No. 2 Penske Racing Dodge, 130.091
5. Kyle Busch, No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, 130.044

Rusty Wallace said Tuesday that the No. 64 Chevrolet Nationwide Series team he owns won its appeal to National Stock Car Racing Commission for a penalty issued at Daytona.

Las Vegas Motor Speedway officials say they have begun “an evaluation” of the area of the track where Jeff Gordon crashed during Sunday’s UAW-Dodge 400.
Gordon’s Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet bounced off the inside wall along the backstretch on lap 262 after making contact with Roush Fenway Racing driver Matt Kenseth. The impact occurred where one of [...]

NASCAR comes to Europe,” reads a headline out of the weekend’s Paris Tuning and Racing Show, an annual car show. But none of the four NASCAR manufacturers here, or any of the Cup tour teams mentioned, seem to know anything about it.
However, the Web site for a proposed 13-race series this season, at a variety [...]

THE MODERATOR: We’re joined in the infield media center today by today’s winning driver and winning crew chief of the UAW Dodge 400, driver of the 99 Dish Network Ford, Carl Edwards.
Carl, tell us about your run.
CARL EDWARDS: It was a great car. We just had a great, great Ford Fusion. I’m starting to [...]

THE MODERATOR: We welcome to the infield media center today’s third place finisher in the UAW Dodge 400, Greg Biffle. Greg, tell us about your run.
GREG BIFFLE: Well, I’ll argue that I had the fastest racecar today on the racetrack and the driver just screwed it up. I mean, you know, I got caught [...]

Carl Edwards and the Las Vegas-winning No. 99 Roush Fenway Racing team face possible penalties after NASCAR discovered the lid from the oil tank was off after the race.

Four-time series champion Jeff Gordon was critical of Las Vegas Motor Speedway following his hard hit on the inside retaining wall late in Sunday’s race.
Gordon’s spinning Chevrolet went head-first into the wall for the “hardest I’ve ever hit” after contact with Matt Kenseth. Gordon was upset the wall didn’t have the SAFER Barrier that [...]

Two-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart bruised his foot, but was otherwise fine following a frightening crash Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
“I was kind of worried, my legs, my entire legs from my hips down were just tingling,” Stewart said. “And I had pain in my lower back and that kind of scared me a [...]