Archive for May 18th, 2008

Expect NASCAR to tell Sprint Cup teams that they’ve gone far enough - and in some cases, too far - with making crooked cars. Sprint Cup Series director John Darby said Saturday that teams will get a memo, likely this week, telling them to “clean up” the way they’re turning their wheels to help the [...]

WHAT KIND OF A CHALLENGE WOULD IT BE FOR KYLE BUSH TO TEST IN AN F1 CAR?
Montoya: “I think the first problem he’s going to have, whether they’re going to try and give him a test to try the car or a test for real? It’s like what we did for Jeff (Gordon). We took [...]

CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU WON THE ALL-STAR RACE?
“I wouldn’t have believed it until about lap 60 or so. At that point, our car was getting better and better. We were making the right adjustments. In the final 50 to 75 laps we were pretty loose. We made one small adjustment with the track bar, [...]

SAM HORNISH JR. (Driver, No. 77 Mobil 1 Dodge Charger) 7th
YOU SCRAPED THE WALL EARLY IN THE ALL-STAR RACE. “Oh yeah, we scraped it pretty good, too. We had a really good car. I thought we had a car that was capable of running in the top-10 here. Once we got out there running I [...]

Chip Ganassi didn’t enter his #40 Dodge in the All-Star race activities because driver Dario Franchitti is still nursing a broken left foot. The car will be back for next week’s Coca-Cola 600 here at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, but Ganassi believes Sterling Marlin will be behind the wheel instead of Franchitti.

GREG BIFFLE — No. 16 Dish Network Ford Fusion (Finished 2nd)
“I tell you what, we were just a mediocre car. I was running third, fourth right there and I was just way too tight, way, way too tight. I think we finished in the first segment second, I think, and then we fell back [...]

“I thought we were the car to beat. I thought we were gonna be great there (in the second half). I was already thinking about what I was gonna do with all the money, having a good time, but something with that last set of tires on that last run, it was just off. I [...]

Five Toyota Camrys competed in tonight’s Sprint All-Star race — Tony Stewart (fifth), AJ Allmendinger (17th), Dale Jarrett (21st), Denny Hamlin (23rd) and Kyle Busch (24th).

Concord, NC - Team Chevy Impala SS drivers and crew chiefs maximized tonight’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway to gain valuable information for next week’s Coca Cola 600.
Tonight’s four-25-lap segments for a $1 million prize saw three Chevrolet drivers capture top-10 finishing positions, but more importantly brought a wealth of information to [...]