Sprint Cup Starting Lineup: Las Vegas
Quote selected text Published March 2nd, 2008 in Sprint Cup Starting Lineups
POS, CAR, DRIVER, MAKE, SPONSOR, SPEED, TIME, BEHIND
1 18 Kyle Busch Toyota M&M’s 182.352 29.613 Leader
2 99 Carl Edwards Ford Dish Network 181.586 29.738 -0.125
3 8 Mark Martin Chevrolet U.S. Army 181.293 29.786 -0.173
4 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet Nicorette / DuPont 181.238 29.795 -0.182
5 27 Mike Skinner Toyota Bad Boy Mowers 181.117 29.815 -0.202
6 16 Greg Biffle Ford 3M 181.105 29.817 -0.204
7 66 Scott Riggs Chevrolet State Water Heaters 180.868 29.856 -0.243
8 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet National Guard / AMP Energy 180.838 29.861 -0.248
9 2 Kurt Busch Dodge Miller Lite 180.777 29.871 -0.258
10 19 Elliott Sadler Dodge Stanley Tools 180.717 29.881 -0.268
11 5 Casey Mears Chevrolet Pop-Tarts / CARQUEST 180.656 29.891 -0.278
12 10 Patrick Carpentier* Dodge Valvoline 180.608 29.899 -0.286
13 17 Matt Kenseth Ford USG Sheetrock 180.469 29.922 -0.309
14 00 David Reutimann Toyota Aaron’s Dream Machine 180.379 29.937 -0.324
15 12 Ryan Newman Dodge ALLTEL 180.355 29.941 -0.328
16 44 Dale Jarrett Toyota UPS 180.270 29.955 -0.342
17 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet Shell / Pennzoil 180.240 29.960 -0.347
18 1 Martin Truex Jr. Chevrolet Bass Pro Shops / Tracker 180.234 29.961 -0.348
19 49 Ken Schrader Dodge Qtrax.com 179.994 30.001 -0.388
20 77 Sam Hornish Jr.* Dodge Mobil 1 179.958 30.007 -0.394
21 07 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet Jack Daniel’s 179.934 30.011 -0.398
22 55 Michael Waltrip Toyota NAPA AUTO PARTS 179.862 30.023 -0.410
23 83 Brian Vickers Toyota Red Bull 179.826 30.029 -0.416
24 70 Jeremy Mayfield Chevrolet Haas Automation 179.820 30.030 -0.417
25 31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet AT&T Mobility 179.796 30.034 -0.421
26 20 Tony Stewart Toyota The Home Depot 179.575 30.071 -0.458
27 22 Dave Blaney Toyota Caterpillar 179.354 30.108 -0.495
28 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota FedEx Kinko’s 179.265 30.123 -0.510
29 01 Regan Smith* Chevrolet Coors Light 179.259 30.124 -0.511
30 96 J.J. Yeley Toyota DLP HDTV 179.164 30.140 -0.527
31 42 Juan Montoya Dodge Texaco / Havoline 179.003 30.167 -0.554
32 7 Robby Gordon Dodge Jim Beam 178.992 30.169 -0.556
33 84 A.J. Allmendinger Toyota Red Bull 178.962 30.174 -0.561
34 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet Lowe’s 178.944 30.177 -0.564
35 28 Travis Kvapil Ford Yates Racing 178.489 30.254 -0.641
36 38 David Gilliland Ford FreeCreditReport.com 178.465 30.258 -0.645
37 41 Reed Sorenson Dodge Target 178.389 30.271 -0.658
38 26 Jamie McMurray Ford Crown Royal 178.347 30.278 -0.665
39 9 Kasey Kahne Dodge Budweiser 178.330 30.281 -0.668
40 6 David Ragan Ford AAA Insurance 178.312 30.284 -0.671
41 43 Bobby Labonte Dodge Cheerios “Circle of Helping Hearts” 178.271 30.291 -0.678
42 15 Paul Menard Chevrolet Johns Manville / Menards 177.913 30.352 -0.739
43 45 Kyle Petty Dodge Wells Fargo 177.439 30.433 -0.820
44 78 Joe Nemechek Chevrolet Furniture Row/ DenverMattress.com 177.334 30.451 -0.838
45 40 Dario Franchitti* Dodge Target 177.212 30.472 -0.859
46 34 John Andretti Chevrolet Front Row Motorsports 45.952 117.513 -87.900
- Kyle Busch wins hometown pole in Las Vegas
- Hamlin scores home track pole at Richmond
- Rain cancels Cailfornia qualifying, Johnson to start from pole
- Biffle wins pole at Dover
- ‘Front Row Joe’ jumps up to win pole at Talladega
With the COT calling it sprint cup doesnt really fit, those speeds look really slow compared to the old car.
Yeah but sometimes slower = better racing.
just drive hard and go fast now that is racing. not racing slower = a better race, it just makes people not want to watch nascar as much, if you keep throwing these stupid rules in.
GO ROBBY GORDON
i don’t know where else to vent, so i just picked a page…changing the pepsi 400 to the coke zero 400? I’M GETTING TIRED OF EVERYTHING IN NASCAR CHANGING MORE THIS YEAR THAN IT EVER HAS BEFORE!!! new numbers, new drivers, new races, new series names?!?!?! when will it all end, and get rid of those open wheel drivers!! i hate juan pablo, and we don’t need any more of them! nascar is starting to piss me off! let’s get back to racing! stop CHANGING EVERYTHING!!! i could understand if it was for the better, but it’s for the worse. there’s already a sprint car series…nextel was fine…all these sponsors need to swallow their damn pride and accept a little competition, so who cares if sprint/nextel run the races?? let ryan newman and jeff burton have their sponsors! so you think if only sprint/nextel is in nascar it makes me want to use it more? hell no, i love my verizon and even if i didn’t have them, i can appreciate a good competition, let them run on their cars to show you aren’t fazed by their business!! i swear there are more children in nascar than there are at the local daycare center. i just want my real racing back! =(.
l0l Where to start
1. Pepsi did not want to renew their contract with ISC, Now ISC is changing from Pepsi to Coke in a certain order with Daytona being first, and Cali/Dega being last. That is not NASCAR that is Pepsi.
2. Open wheelers have always been in NASCAR, and I welcome them with open-arms. To me when former Champions of any series come into NASCAR because they want to experience what NASCAR racing is about, that Makes me look at NASCAR as finally after years of trying, that it has finally become a recognized style of Real racing, instead of just be “Rednecks going in circles for 4 hours”
3. Another note about the open wheel drivers…. 98% of the current Cup drivers were open wheel drivers before the came to NASCAR, as Sprints/Midgets/Modifieds are all considered open wheel race cars.
4. Winston, Busch, Craftsman all have the same exclusivity contract as Sprint/Nextel has, and all used it the same.
5. Real Racing has always and will always be at your local short track where men and women race cars they have built, they work on, and they earn almost no money to drive.
pepsi could have cancelled because of something nascar has done. i totally agree with nascarlover
I doubt it. They did not want to spend the money it costs to renew it, same reason Bud left as the official beer. Over the years NASCAR has gotten more popular so now the costs for those companies would be more to sponsor (read as Advertise) with their product.
Remember while they call it sponsorship, its really advertising, and just like all advertising it costs money, and the bigger the “thing” is that the advertising is being placed on the more it’ll cost to advertise.
And before you or anybody says “Well they left because NASCAR is greedy and wanted more money”, Look at the prices from the Super Bowl ads from this year compared to 10 years ago its the same basic principle as with the NASCAR sponsorships, except the NASCAR ones get shown/talked about for 40 some weeks a year as compared to one day. And also think about if you ran a business and had advertisers, you would charge them more as the value of your business went up.