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“Maybe it’s time to turn the page and start a new chapter for everybody,” Harvick told ESPN before the end of last season.

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fter 10 mostly successful seasons at NASCAR’s highest level, Kevin Harvick is no longer the prize free agent in the 2010 Sprint Cup Series. Harvick signed a multi-year contract with Richard Childress Racing after he and team owner Richard Childress came to terms over the weekend.

The two-time Busch Series champion leads the Cup series by 69 points over Kyle Busch after the All-Star break, is a comfortable third in the Nationwide Series after two wins and 10 top-10 finishes, and won two of his three Camping World Truck Series starts, finishing second in the other. Kevin Harvick Inc., co-owned with his wife, Delana, continues to shine before the main event with Harvick and defending Truck champion Ron Hornaday Jr. behind the wheels.

Still, Harvick gets no respect. The battle for the championship is already boiling down to fifth-place Denny Hamlin and fourth-place Jimmie Johnson according to media, with Kyle Busch given an outside chance.

“We had a mechanical failure at Martinsville or [the points lead] would be 200 points,” Harvick said before Dover. “If we can beat them in the first 10 [races], we can beat them in the last 10.”

Following a disappointing ’09, Harvick broke his 115-race winless streak with a huge win at Talladega. He heads back to Charlotte with five consecutive top-10s — six counting the AllStar race — and a season-high nine for the season. In spite of

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his early achievements, the 12-time Cup series winner was not linked with any of NASCAR’s other elites before re-signing with Childress.

Shell/Pennzoil, longtime sponsor of the No. 29 Chevrolet at RCR, previously announced it would leave at the end of this year and move to undistinguished Penske Racing. Shell/Pennzoil specially chose driver Kurt Busch, whose career credentials are slightly better than Harvick’s. The elder Busch is a distant 237 points behind in the current Cup standings.

“We have three or four companies that we are dealing with now,” Childress says of potential sponsors for ’11. “I hope in the very near future we will have that to announce.”

Harvick continues to excel in a partial Truck series tour and regularly out-shines Hornaday Jr., the all-time winner on the circuit.

Until his runner-up at Nashville, Harvick had won the last four truck races he’d entered, as well as two of his previous six. The Martinsville win — his 54th in NASCAR and eighth in a truck — tied him with Lee Petty for 11th on the career win list among NASCAR drivers.

Harvick, 34, has historically struggled at the venues on this month’s schedule, but it’s not happening this year. He’s off to one of his best starts ever in May after finishes of third, sixth, and seventh.

He called his 6 spot at Darlington a victory of sorts and hopes for a better effort at Charlotte, one of his least favorite tracks, even after his ’07 All-Star victory and sixth-place finish last Saturday. May has typically been one of his worst months in the Cup season, and a high finish in the Coca-Cola 600 would

first third of the season add momentum for the summer stretch.

“I look at Charlotte as the biggest challenge for me,” Harvick says. “It’s the racetrack that I dislike going to the most. For us to win there [in ’07] was a huge accomplishment.”

A strong point for Harvick, even when the victory total was low, has been his car’s consistency and minimal mechanical failures.

The ’07 Daytona 500 winner once finished a record 80 consecutive races before crashing twice in ’09, at Fontana and Bristol.

“The cars were just way off last year,” he said, “and this year the cars have speed and they’re more comfortable to drive. And you can make good days out of bad days because you can get your car where it needs to be.”

Despite his ’09 slump, Harvick’s rapid climb made negotiations tougher for him and Childress, who’s had some sticky moments with the temperamental driver who took over for Dale Earnhardt in ’01.

Rumors had Harvick wanting out of his contract early last year, which apparently made talks more

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contentious this season as he gained additional leverage on the racetrack. Characterized as intense and moody, Harvick brooded before media sessions and refused to answer questions regarding his contract status.

“Maybe it’s time to turn the page and start a new chapter for everybody,” Harvick told ESPN before the end of last season.

“Sometimes when you get to the end of the book you just shut the page. It was a good book to read and it was a lot of fun to experience the situations.

But sometimes it’s just best for everybody involved to just say, ‘Alright, I’m going to read another book.’”

Frustration mounted for Harvick and Childress through the middle of last season when things weren’t going well.

They and the parties involved used the offseason to cool down, and came into the new year with a new perspective and fresh outlook.

“To be able to race for a championship this year has been our goal and an accomplishment,” said Harvick after he re-upped. “We want to run for championships every year. We are positioned as well as we have ever been to race for a championship.”

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Juan Pablo While driving the No. 42 Target Chevrolet for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing, Montoya has been feast or famine.

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nown as one of the best auto racers in the world and a road-course specialist before entering NASCAR, Juan Pablo Montoya made the transition and won rookie-of-the-year honors in 2007. He also paved the way for other open-wheelers and foreignborn drivers to come aboard. But he hasn’t lived up to his earlier hype, and his star billing is still on hold. Montoya’s international reputation came from his Formula One and Champ car success, yet his victory count in NASCAR has yet to double since his rookieseason win at Infineon.

There have been 510 NASCAR Sprint Cup races in North Carolina. 419 drivers in NASCAR’s three national series (all-time) have their home state recorded as North Carolina. here have been 43 race winners from North Carolina in NASCAR’s three national series; 28 in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

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After three full seasons in weighty “stock cars,” the Colombia native and Miami resident was a Chase qualifier last year and finished eighth in points. Riding an up-and-down season in 2010, he recently dropped to 19th in the point standings despite two top-five finishes and another top-10 in his last four events.

“I think we’re as good as we were [last season] in the Chase,” Montoya says on NASCAR. com. “We’re not making too many more mistakes than we did last year. We still have to work on our pit stops, but I think in general it’s a little bit better.”

While driving the No. 42 Target Chevrolet for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing, Montoya has been feast or famine. He’s either fighting for a win on the last lap or the 42 is struggling to finish back-of-the-pack.

In 12 starts he has a respectable four top-fives and six top-10s to go with five finishes of 34th or worse, along with a 26 spot after a late accident at Bristol. Engine trouble at Fontana (37th), a late accident at Texas (34th), rear suspension problems at Dover (35th), another crash at Las Vegas (37th), and tire failures at Martinsville (36th) have put him behind too frequently.

EGR teammate Jamie McMurray is also slowing down after failing to capitalize on his surprise Daytona 500 win in February, despite two runner-ups in his last four races. Similar to Montoya, the former Roush Fenway driver has four finishes in the 30s and two positions at 29th and 24th, and is likewise balancing from both extremes in ’10.

“For us, it was a really tough day,” Montoya said after coming in 37th following the last points race at Dover, normally one of his favorite racetracks.

Montoya’s unfilled expectations over three-and-a-half seasons are bad news for NASCAR officials, who had hoped to grow their diversity program and tap into the growing Hispanic population in the United States (over 14 percent) for a bigger fan base. The 2000 Indianapolis 500 winner did not enter NASCAR as part of a diversity effort. His proven ability and experience enabled him to avoid the lower ranks, and his worldwide celebrity landed him a top-level ride without having to hone his skills in an ARCA, Truck series, or Nationwide car.

Montoya, 34, is the only Latino driving full-time at the Cup level. According to NASCAR, nearly 21 percent of its race fans are minority status, and the call to Your Racing News Source

branch out and go global has never been greater. NASCAR has wanted to change its “white, good-oldboy” perception for years, and Montoya was supposed to help lead the way.

“It’s a sport that’s evolving,” says Brian France, NASCAR Chairman and CEO. Adds basketball great Brad Daugherty, co-owner of JTG Daugherty Racing and an ESPN/ABC racing analyst — and also the cofounder (with France) of NASCAR’s Diversity Council, “In order to have faces of color in the stands, you have to have to have faces of color driving the race car.”

The Council was started a year after NASCAR’s Diversity Internship Program began in 1999.

Efforts to bring in ethnic and gender variety increased in 2001, which brought on the Drive for Diversity initiative in ’04. The diversity drive has not produced any regulars at the Cup level, although Aric Almirola, an American of Cuban descent, led the Camping World Truck Series in points after six events and is two points behind Todd Bodine after last weekend.

Indy car legends Mario Andretti and A.J. Foyt won the Daytona 500 in 1969 and 1972, respectively, but Tony Stewart is the only former open-wheel driver in recent years to reach stardom in NASCAR. Racers coming in from other forms of motorsports tend to struggle in larger, heavier, cookiecutter box-cars after succeeding in lighter, sleeker, and more aerodynamic race cars.

Whereas Montoya became a weekly contender last season and a sudden threat to win on ovals, this year he either finishes strong, or he barely finishes.

“I don’t think it’s over yet,” Montoya says on NASCAR.com of the ’10 season. “We just have to keep working on it and see what happens.”

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yle Busch’s (No. 18 KBM Toyota) win in the North Carolina Education Lottery 200 was not only Toyota’s first Camping World Truck Series victory at Charlotte Motor Speedway, but it was Busch’s 70th NASCAR national series victory – ninth on the all-time list. “I have been fortunate to be surrounded by great people,” said Busch during the postrace press conference.

“When they come (the wins) and you get another one, it’s just another tally. I can count probably a good 20 to 30 that I’ve given up. The scary part is that I have 70 now.” Busch made his first NCWTS start in 2001 at the age of 16. He scored his first career win four years later at Charlotte.

Ron Hornaday Jr. is the only other NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver in the top 10 on the combined win list. He sits eighth with 49 victories – only five away from scoring his 50th victory in the truck series. Busch has 18 NCWTS wins.

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A few week’s ago, Smith came out and said that he had been in talks with Bernard in regards to offering a

$20 million bonus to any driver who could win the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day.

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ony Stewart seemed to start a trend soon after making the move to NASCAR and into the Sprint Cup Series. The former IndyCar racer left open-wheel racing with one desire still unfulfilled -- winning the Indianapolis 500. For several seasons after making the move to stock cars, he didn’t let his new career venture get in the way of going after the Indy 500 trophy. Despite the CocaCola 600, NASCAR’s longest race, being held on the same day, he made the

trip from Indianapolis to Charlotte on race day, racing 500 miles at the Brickyard, then traveling the Charlotte Motor Speedway to race 600 more miles in the day’s NASCAR event.

Several other former IndyCar drivers who had made the move to NASCAR have also pulled the double -- John Andretti and Robby Gordon to name a couple.

In all, eight drivers have performed the Indianapolis 500/Coca-Cola 600 double, but only Andretti, Stewart, and Gordon have done it on the same day.

A few years ago, race times changed, and there was no longer the time necessary between races to make the trip from Indy to Charlotte and gone were the days of trying to run both races. Speedway Motorsports Inc.’s Bruton Smith and IndyCar’s Randy Bernard are looking into changing that, though. But what the two have in mind isn’t merely a schedule adjustment. They’re also considering an enticing

bonus to anyone who can win both races on the same day -- something that’s never been done before.

A few week’s ago, Smith came out and said that he had been in talks with Bernard in regards to offering a $20 million bonus to any driver who could win the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day. That would be in addition to the purses already offered to the winner of each race. While Smith is willing to talk, the IndyCar folks are still keeping pretty tight lipped in regards to the plan.

Of course, there would also be the scheduling matter to address. Smith contends that the Indy 500 could start two hours earlier -- at 11 a.m. ET instead of the current scheduled time of 1 p.m. ET. According to NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick, though, Smith also has the option of changing his schedule. According to Harvick, Smith could move the Coca-Cola 600 to Saturday night. But then, that would take away from the feat of racing 1,100 miles and winning two races in the same day. Granted, the primary prestige of the accomplishment would be winning IndyCar’s biggest race and NASCAR’s longest and one of its biggest races, but wouldn’t winning both on the same day be even more phenomenal?

Of course, it’s already too late to get the ball rolling for 2010, with the two races just a few days away, but Smith has his eyes on 2011. If all the details are worked out, Smith and Bernard would split the cost of an insurance policy to ensure that the money’s there in case someone actually pulls it off.

While most of the previous double-dippers were, at the time,

As far as NASCAR drivers go, Brad Keselowski feels he’s in the perfect environment to pull the double.

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a desire to do both. current NASCAR drivers who had Of course, Penske may formerly been IndyCar competitors, not even be interested in the the $20 million bonus, if enacted, is expected to draw current IndyCar deal, and even if he is, he already has an IndyCar driver in Briscoe drivers to the NASCAR race. who has already expressed Rumor has it that Penske Racing IndyCar driver Ryan Briscoe interest in the challenge.

Aside from the Penske sent team higher ups a volunteer note soon after hearing of the prize camp, there are several other current NASCAR drivers who package. may actually have a legitimate As far as NASCAR drivers shot of pulling it off. After go, Brad Keselowski feels he’s in all, Juan Pablo Montoya is a the perfect environment to pull former Indianapolis 500 winner. the double. After all, he’s a part of Granted, he hasn’t won a Sprint Penske Racing’s NASCAR stable.

Cup Series event on an oval, Penske’s IndyCar program isn’t too but he does have a Cup win, shabby. Actually, it’s probably the albeit on a road course, most successful and he’s made himself IndyCar team a contender to visit going when NASCAR’s victory lane it comes to week in and week out.

Indy 500 Nothing is set in performance. stone yet. The IndyCar Keselowski people aren’t even hinted on the comfortable talking SPEED-TV show about it yet. But Smith Wind Tunnel a seems determined to couple of weeks ago that he’d like Sam Hornish Jr. get the ball rolling as far as getting drivers to give it a try. to run both races. And when Keselowski may not Bruton Smith sets his mind to have Indy Car experience, but something, it usually happens. he has a teammate who is an Indianapolis 500 winner in Sam Hornish Jr. If Penske were to enter one of his NASCAR drivers in the Indianapolis 500 to attempt the two wins in one day feat, chances are that he would probably try it with Hornish.

But then again, Hornish doesn’t have a Sprint Cup win and Keselowski does. Besides, Hornish hasn’t even come out and said he has Bruton Smith

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Track Distribution: Too Many Intermediate Tracks?

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ASCAR has seen a major transition from the track distribution of the 1990s to the track distribution of today.

The primary difference in the distribution lies in the number of intermediate tracks that are included in the schedule. From 1996 to 2010, the number of intermediate tracks on the NASCAR Cup schedule has more than doubled. In 1996, there were only six intermediate tracks on the Cup schedule, while the 2010 schedule tallied fourteen intermediate tracks.

Is this a positive or negative? This is a difficult question to provide a definitive answer for. Both sides of the coin carry advantages and disadvantages of their own.

What spurred the massive addition of intermediate tracks to the schedule? During NASCAR’s massive growth in the 1990s, more and more people made their way to the tracks, or at least attempted to. The current tracks at the time were not having much trouble filling the grandstands, especially the short tracks. The problem lied in the fact that short tracks can only seat so many people. Less track space equates to less seating space. Historically, short tracks sold all of their tickets months in advance, and were forced to turn many people away, which ultimately equated to lost profits.

NASCAR and track owners quickly saw this as an

Racing in close proximity keeps everyone interested.

opportunity. By building larger tracks that seated sometimes more than 100,000 more people, both would have the opportunity to increase attendance and revenues. Thus, the intermediate track explosion began. NASCAR initiated a massive growth plan that would include tracks such as Texas, Las Vegas, Chicago, California, Homestead, and Kansas City to the Cup schedule between 1996 and 2001, while unfortunately tracks such as Wilkesboro and Rockingham were phased out.

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Cup cars squeezed onto a halfmile or one mile track cannot be duplicated on a larger track.

Ultimately, fans love cars bumping, trading paint, and getting in wrecks.

Constant action keeps even the less interested motorsports fan glued to the end of their seat.

On the contrary, intermediate tracks oftentimes produce racing that is “spaced out”, which can on occasion have a difficult time keeping even the most adamant motorsports fan interested for 3 to 4 hours on a Sunday afternoon. Once the cars have gone 10-15 laps under green, a 3-5 car length gap between practically each car on the track has been created, if not more. After these space gaps are in place, the racing loses a lot of the excitement commonly associated with short track racing.

Intermediate tracks also posed another advantage for track owners. Larger tracks would enable them to bring in additional racing series, such as IRL/CART, which were very popular at the time. Ultimately, larger tracks would allow owners to not only

seat more people for the NASCAR race(s), but also bring in more races from other series to fill the seats even more times per year.

However, as open-wheel racing began to lose its popularity in the United States, tracks also began to lose those additional race opportunities.

The loss of interest in open-wheel racing within the United States can be paralleled to the loss of interest in intermediate track racing: zero to little contact and single-file racing. Contact breeds excitement, no matter what sport you are in. What makes the National Football League more exciting than golf? What has sparked the ever-growing sport of Ultimate Fighting? What subject typically draws more attention than any other within sports? The answer is the same – Contact.

Racing in close proximity keeps everyone interested.

Should intermediate tracks be eliminated from the Cup schedule? The answer is definitely not, but a fewer number of intermediate races and a higher number of short track races would likely go a long way in returning the sport of NASCAR to its glory days. A mixture of tracks on the schedule is a good thing. It keeps things mixed up, and forces drivers to perform under different settings.

The fact that grassroots racing is the foundation of NASCAR, and that grassroots racing is equivalent to short track racing should be a good reminder that NASCAR should not stray too far away from its core. Short track racing has provided both the grassroots fan and NASCAR fan alike with many exciting and memorable finishes over the years.

Hopefully, the number of times that NASCAR visits a short track facility only increases in the future and never diminishes.

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hen President Ronald Reagan was shot in a failed assassination attempt in 1981, legend has it that the man known as The Great Communicator kept his sense of humor, even as his life literally hung in the balance.

Being wheeled into surgery to remove a bullet that had pierced his chest, punctured his lung, and stopped just an inch away from his heart, a weak but coherent Reagan said to the trauma surgeon, “I hope you’re a Republican.”

It takes a courageous person to crack jokes at a time of personal peril, but doing so has its perks. It not only exposes the strength of the individual, but puts everyone around them at ease during the most trying of times.

This same character trait was recently revealed in NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Brian Vickers, who, at age 26, is battling a shocking and serious health threat.

News of Vickers’ frightening health scare first leaked out on May 13th when it was revealed that he had been replaced for that weekend’s Cup race at Dover, and that he had been hospitalized for what was cryptically termed an “unspecified medical condition.”

A tense 24 hours passed before an official press conference was convened, at which time Red Bull Racing GM Jay Frye revealed that Brian was being treated for multiple blood clots involving his left leg and both lungs. The website eMedicine.com reports that the latter condition, termed pulmonary embolism, is a “potentially lethal condition that

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can cause death in all age groups.”

Though pundits originally speculated that Vickers would not be out of the car for long, it was learned late last week that the blood clots, along with the anticoagulant therapy being administered to treat them, would keep him out of the car for the remainder of the 2010 season.

It was a devastating blow to the young driver who’d found a home at start-up Red Bull Racing in 2007, following three seasons in the Hendrick Motorsports Cup stable and a 2003 Nationwide Series championship.

But, to nearly everyone’s amazement, just one week after missing the Dover race and days after being released from the hospital, Brian Vickers held a press conference to set the record straight about his situation and tackle questions head on. “I am here today to answer everything.

I’m not going to hold anything back from you. I’m going to be completely honest with you.

We’re not going to speculate, but we’re going to tell you exactly what’s going on,” he said at the start of the session.

After making the stunning announcement that he would not be driving his No. 83 Cup car for the rest of this year, Vickers described his emotions: “As you can imagine, this is killing me,” he said. “No pun intended.”

It was a quick and artful quip from someone dealing with devastating disappointment - not to mention his own mortality - at a relatively young age. Especially

coming from a guy whose hobbies include mountain biking, scuba diving, kayaking, skydiving, and other risky endeavors.

Those close to Vickers know him for his acerbic wit and practical jokes, but there is also an intellectual side that fans may not be aware of. Along with racing cars and engaging in extreme sports, Vickers is a voracious reader who enjoys investing and learning about finances, subscribes to the Wall Street Journal and The Economist. He also likes working for the environment, traveling, and studying science, including an avid interest in NASA and space exploration.

He graduated high school early with

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honors and a 4.43 GPA, took a Dale Carnegie course in public speaking, and lists “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” as one of his favorite movies.

Brian earned his first NASCAR Cup win the hard way, clipping teammate Jimmie Johnson on the last lap of the 2006 Talladega UAW-Ford 500 and setting off a wreck that took out both Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. as Vickers pulled away for the victory. Rumors at the time were that Vickers received death threats from angry fans, and officials of Charlotte Motor Speedway - the site of the subsequent week’s race - beefed up security for him at the track that weekend.

But, if nothing else, Vickers is a survivor, as he demonstrated even before the Talladega episode. In October of 2004, his best friend Ricky Hendrick died in the tragic Martinsville-area plane crash that took the lives of ten people en route to the racetrack for that Sunday’s Cup race.

Vickers was driving in the race and Hendrick was to have been his spotter. He never arrived.

Four years earlier, Adam Petty, a close friend of Brian’s since childhood, lost his life in an accident at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Despite the challenges and hardships Brian Vickers has faced in his young life – or, perhaps, because of them – he is coping

with his current health crisis with courage and optimism. “As disappointing as this is, it’s an opportunity that I’m going to use to make the most of life and try to make it a positive, learn something from it,” Vickers said last week. “I’m going to spend some time with the race team, learning some different roles. Spending some time on the pit box, trying to understand more of what they go through, what they do. Spend some time on the spotter stand … I’m not going to be coming to every single race. I’m going to take some time off, doctor’s orders. I’m going to do some stuff, quite frankly, that I’ve wanted to do that I haven’t been able to do my whole life, my career, and some things that I hope to not be able to do for many, many more years, maybe 15 years to come when I get back on the race track ... I do expect to be back in the car next season and to win the Daytona 500.”

After Vickers’ press conference, Cup driver Elliott Sadler summed up the sentiments of thousands of NASCAR fans, as well as many in the garage, who’ve been impressed with Brian’s poise in the face of adversity. “Utmost respect for Vickers to come to track and do announcement,” Sadler posted on Twitter. “It takes a hell of a man to do what he is doing!! I couldn’t imagine.”

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Gibbs tries to quickly defuse Busch-Hamlin tension

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happen between teammates because they’re competitive and both of them are wanting to win a race,” he said. “We love that in both guys.”

Their insistence that the issue was resolved would have been easier to believe if Busch hadn’t sneaked out a side door of the hauler, ran around the front away from where reporters had gathered, and ALWAYS COMPETITIVE! DARLINGTON, SC - MAY 07: Denny Hamlin, driver of the #20 Z-Line Designs / Operations Helmet Toyota leads Kyle Busch, driver slipped in a side of the #18 Z-Line Designs / Racing for Kids Toyota, during the NASCAR Nationwide series Royal Purple 200 presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts at Darlington door of his own Raceway on May 7, 2010 in Darlington, South Carolina. (Photo by John Harrelson/Getty Images for NASCAR) hauler.

And he he angry Kyle Busch was for his move with eight laps left At first, Busch had no use wasn’t joining in the happy talk. back. The driver who always that caused Busch to hit the wall for watching TV. Busch wasn’t talking at all. seems to run up front, yet and end his chances of winning $1 “It was the old Kyle for a “He has a championship can also come unglued at any million. little while,” Hamlin said, referring winning team and I have a moment, had parked his mangled Gibbs, the Super to the hothead reputation Busch championship winning team,” car within inches of Denny Bowl-winning coach with the has been trying to shed of late.

Hamlin said. “Our wheels are Hamlin’s hauler.

Washington Redskins before “Then the new Kyle came and met moving and we don’t need to put The All-Star race was still switching sports, relied heavily on with us.” the brakes on, especially in an going on late Saturday night, but his people skills.

With Gibbs mediating, incident in a race that doesn’t car owner Joe Gibbs knew he “I think in pro sports, if Hamlin and Busch watched the matter anyway.” had to act immediately to avoid a you’ve been on the sidelines or video and told their sides.

Indeed, all this turmoil and potentially season-altering crisis. you’ve been in racing you’re going “Kyle brought up a great there were no points on the line The week began with talk to have people get mad about point. What should we expect Saturday night at Charlotte Motor of Busch or Hamlin, who have things,” Gibbs said. “It’s spur of when we come to this race?”

Speedway. But they’ll be back at combined to win five of the last the moment type things. I think Hamlin said. “Do we need to have seven Sprint Cup points races, what was much more meaningful a meeting beforehand and say, perhaps finally ending Jimmie is we met in there.”

‘OK, we don’t share the same Johnson’s four-year reign as series Not before forming a plan. jerseys today, is it every man for champion.

Gibbs joined Busch in Hamlin’s himself?’ My feeling was, 10 laps It would be more difficult hauler. After Busch’s brother, Kurt, to go, I’m afraid so, we’re not to do if these Joe Gibbs Racing won the race and Hamlin finished teammates. I think we both have teammates were rolling around on fourth, Hamlin was told to park an understanding of that and it’s the floor trading punches, since his car at the edge of the garage. good from here on forward.

Busch had just declared on the He was met by several team “Kyle is the most talented radio that, “I swear to God, I am members, and escorted to the person in this garage and he gets going to kill (him).” suddenly crowded hauler. it. He just gets a little hot under the Gibbs hustled to catch Gibbs had ordered the collar sometimes.” up to Busch, who climbed out of incident — in which Hamlin tried to Gibbs, too, insisted the his ruined car, punched the air block his teammate’s attempt to meeting ended peacefully and with and stormed into Hamlin’s trailer. pass him for the lead in the closing the issue behind them.

Hamlin was still on the track, but laps — cued up on their video “You’ve got good cars.

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the same track next weekend for NASCAR’s longest race, the CocaCola 600.

Busch is second in the points standings and Hamlin fifth.

JGR seems poised to end Hendrick Motorsports’ dominance in this series — if its drivers can keep their cool.

“It’s a good problem to have for our team,” Hamlin insisted. “For two guys to be wanting to go for the win like they are, it’s all you can ask for. Myself, I’m so confident that one of the two of us are going to win that 600 next weekend.”

After a down year last season, by his standards, Busch is rounding into form. He’s won two of the past three Sprint Cup races.

He won the Truck Series race over the weekend for a staggering 70th victory in NASCAR’s top three series at age 25.

But Busch has had numerous run-ins in the past. It was just three years ago that he was feuding with his brother, Kurt, in this race, prompting Kurt Busch to joke that “I’m not eating any Kellogg’s any time soon,” in reference to Kyle’s sponsor.

Hamlin, too, had a dispute with former teammate Tony Stewart in 2007. Gibbs cut short a vacation to mediate that problem.

Gibbs was in the same role again late Saturday night, and confident it won’t linger.

“No, I don’t have a knack,” he said. “I think what was real good was both of them wanted to talk it out, which was good. We talked it out and I think we had a good discussion about it. I think we’re ready to go race the 600 and race as teammates.”

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Kyle Busch Jeff Burton Matt Kenseth Denny Hamlin David Reutimann Greg Biffle Kevin Harvick Carl Edwards Tony Stewart Joey Logano Jeff Gordon Martin Truex Jr. Ryan Newman A.J. Allmendinger Mark Martin Jimmie Johnson Clint Bowyer Brad Keselowski Kurt Busch Kasey Kahne Paul Menard Casey Mears Scott Speed Regan Smith David Gilliland David Ragan David Stremme Elliott Sadler Travis Kvapil Dale Earnhardt Jr Robby Gordon Jamie McMurray Kevin Conway * Sam Hornish Jr. Juan Montoya Marcos Ambrose J.J. Yeley Joe Nemechek Bobby Labonte Mike Bliss Dave Blaney Michael McDowell Johnny Sauter

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Kevin Harvick Leader Kyle Busch -69 Matt Kenseth -126 Jimmie Johnson -131 Denny Hamlin -150 Jeff Gordon -163 Greg Biffle -187 Jeff Burton -199 Kurt Busch -237 Carl Edwards -281 Mark Martin -293 Martin Truex Jr. -334 Ryan Newman -364 Tony Stewart -371 Clint Bowyer -376 Dale Earnhardt Jr. -377 Jamie McMurray -422 Joey Logano -436 Juan Montoya -446 David Reutimann -506 Kasey Kahne -531 David Ragan -541 Paul Menard -551 Brad Keselowski -558 A.J. Allmendinger -566 Scott Speed -583 Brian Vickers -610 Marcos Ambrose -700 Elliott Sadler -718 Sam Hornish Jr. -755 Regan Smith -758 Travis Kvapil -783 Bobby Labonte -823 Robby Gordon -869 David Gilliland -951 Kevin Conway* -1025 Mike Bliss -1147 Max Papis -1269 David Stremme -1294 Joe Nemechek -1305 Dave Blaney -1346 Michael McDowell -1420 Bill Elliott -1478

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Kurt Busch does his trademark Unwind Lap after winning the NASCAR Sprint All Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Photo Credit: John Harrelson/Getty Images for NASCAR

By: Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service After storming from fifth place to the lead when teammates Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch tangled on Lap 93 of 100, Kurt Busch survived two late cautions and held off Martin Truex Jr. to win the Sprint All-Star Race for the first time.

Busch's win made the evening extra special for team owner Roger Penske, whose IndyCar drivers Helio Castroneves, Will Power and Ryan Briscoe finished first, second and fourth, respectively, in pole qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 earlier in the day.

Most of the action in the Saturday night extravaganza was packed into the final 10-lap segment, in which only green flag laps counted toward the total.

Joey Logano ran third, followed by Hamlin and Tony Stewart. Kevin Harvick, Brad Keselowski, Matt Kenseth, Greg Biffle and Bobby Labonte completed the top 10 in the non-points NASCAR Sprint Cup race that paid $1,028,309 to the winner.

Kurt Busch was well on his way to victory after completing Lap 98 of 100, but Kyle Busch bounced off the wall at the end of the tri-oval and clipped Kasey Kahne's Ford to cause the fifth caution of the night.

On the restart with two laps to go, Kurt Busch picked the outside lane and took the green flag with Jimmie Johnson beside him, followed by Logano and Hamlin.

Busch pulled away again, but before the cars got back to the finish line, Johnson spun across the infield grass to put the race under yellow for the sixth time.

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Busch then put the race away in the final two-lap dash.

"Way to go boys!" Busch exulted on the radio after taking the checkered flag. "A million cool one—whoo!"

Minutes later, he savored the win in victory lane.

"Man, this car was a rocket ship at the end," said Busch, who had scraped the wall in the third segment of the race. "This is huge.

This is one of the big marquee events. We were able to dodge the wrecks and, ultimately, we had the fastest car when it counted."

Hamlin and Kyle Busch were battling on Lap 93, with Busch getting a strong run to the outside of the No. 11 Toyota. Hamlin moved up the track in front of his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, and Busch hit the outside wall after running out of room.

After a blown tire sent Kyle Busch into the wall and then into Kahne, he drove to the garage, telling his crew on the radio that they needed to keep him away from Hamlin. After the race, Hamlin, Busch and team owner Joe Gibbs were closeted in the No. 11 transporter, according to a Twitter post from SceneDaily.com's Bob Pockrass.

After a 10-minute break between the third and final segments—during which crews could work on the cars but were not allowed to change tires—Johnson led the field back on the track and then to the pits for mandatory fourtire pit stops.

Hamlin was first off pit road, followed by Kyle Busch and Johnson. Mark Martin, Logano and

Jamie McMurray followed in the next three positions when the field took the green flag for the final 10lap shootout.

A wreck in the first corner, however, damaged eight cars and eliminated Martin, McMurray, David Reutimann, Jeff Gordon and Carl Edwards.

Truex and Biffle transferred into the main event by claiming the top two spots, respectively, in Saturday evening's Sprint Showdown. On Lap 33 of 40, Truex took the lead from Biffle, who had stayed out on old tires (as did David Ragan), when the rest of the field stopped for fresh rubber on Lap 18—two laps short of the end of the first segment.

Nevertheless, Biffle was able to hold off third-place finisher Jeff Burton for the second transfer position. Edwards, who finished 10th in the Showdown, completed the 21-driver field as the winner of the Sprint Fan Vote.

Juan Pablo Montoya had one of the fastest cars in the Showdown, but his progress through the field was halted abruptly when he turned across the nose of Regan Smith's Chevrolet and crashed into the outside wall as the cars entered Turn 1 on Lap 17.

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1 Kurt Busch 2 Martin Truex Jr. 3 Joey Logano 4 Denny Hamlin 5 Tony Stewart 6 Kevin Harvick 7 Brad Keselowski 8 Matt Kenseth 9 Greg Biffle 10 Bobby Labonte 11 Ryan Newman 12 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 13 Jimmie Johnson 14 Kyle Busch 15 Kasey Kahne 16 Casey Mears 17 Mark Martin 18 Jamie McMurray 19 David Reutimann 20 Jeff Gordon 21 Carl Edwards

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2010 NASCAR Schedules

Kyle Busch Ryan Newman Jamie McMurray Reed Sorenson Jason Leffler Kevin Harvick Brad Keselowski Greg Biffle Brian Scott * Colin Braun * Carl Edwards Denny Hamlin Brendan Gaughan Steve Wallace Michael Annett Justin Allgaier Tony Raines Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Scott Lagasse Jr. Landon Cassill Kenny Wallace Mike Bliss Willie Allen Eric McClure Clint Bowyer Joe Nemechek Kasey Kahne Paul Menard Trevor Bayne Michael McDowell Mark Green Chad McCumbee Jason Keller Mike Wallace Robert Richardson Jr. Josh Wise Morgan Shepherd Kevin Lepage Johnny Chapman Chase Miller Kevin Hamlin Brian Keselowski David Gilliland

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Brad Keselowski Leader Kyle Busch -55 Kevin Harvick -63 Carl Edwards -199 Justin Allgaier -209 Paul Menard -290 Joey Logano -387 Greg Biffle -518 Jason Leffler -566 Tony Raines -566 Trevor Bayne -568 Brian Scott* -572 Brendan Gaughan -575 Steve Wallace -592 Michael Annett -638 Scott Lagasse Jr. -645 Kenny Wallace -657 Mike Wallace -670 James Buescher* -712 Joe Nemechek -745 Michael McDowell -747 Eric McClure -758 Reed Sorenson -822 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.* -833 Mike Bliss -841 Brian Keselowski -868 Brian Vickers -882 Jason Keller -903 Kelly Bires -942 Colin Braun* -989 Jamie McMurray -1009 Josh Wise -1010 Shelby Howard -1069 Robert Richardson Jr. -1082 John Wes Townley -1131 Clint Bowyer -1137 Scott Riggs -1150 Willie Allen -1190 Scott Wimmer -1193 Mark Green -1215 Morgan Shepherd -1238 Denny Hamlin -1245 Danny Efland -1247

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California

Jimmie Johnson

Feb. 20

California

Kyle Busch

Mar. 6

Atlanta

Feb. 28

Las Vegas

Jimmie Johnson

Feb. 27

Las Vegas

Kevin Harvick

Mar. 27

Martinsville Timothy Peters

Mar. 7

Atlanta

Kurt Busch

Mar. 20 BRISTOL

Justin Allgaier

April 2

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Kevin Harvick

Mar. 21

Bristol

Jimmie Johnson

April 3

nasheville

Kyle Busch

May 2

KANSAS

Johnny Sauter

Mar. 29 Martinsville Denny Hamlin

April 9

Phoenix

Kyle Busch

May 16

Dover

Aric Almirola

April 10 Phoenix

Ryan Newman

April 17 Texas

Kyle Busch

May 21

Charlotte

Kyle Busch

April 18 Texas

Denny Hamlin

April 24 Talladega

Brad Keslowski

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April 30 Richmond

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June 12 Michigan

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Kyle Busch

May 7

Darlington

Denny Hamlin

July 11

iowa

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Darlington

Denny Hamlin

May 15

Dover

Kyle Busch

July 16

madison

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Dover

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Charlotte

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July 23

Indianapolis

8 p.m. SPEED

May 30

Charlotte

5:45 p.m. FOX

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NASHVILLE

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July 31

pocono

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Pocono

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June 12 KENTUCKY

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nashville

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darlington

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3 p.m. TNT

June 26 Loudon

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bristol

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Daytona

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Chicago

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July 17

madison

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Sept. 18 loudon

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July 25

Indianapolis

1 p.m. ESPN

July 24

Indianapolis

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Pocono

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iowa

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Oct. 23

Martinsville 1 p.m. SPEED

Aug. 8

Watkins Glen 1 p.m. ESPN

Aug. 7

Watkins Glen 2 p.m. ESPN

Oct. 30

Talladega

4 p.m. SPEED

Aug. 15

Michigan

1 p.m. ESPN

Aug. 14

Michigan

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Texas

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Bristol

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Aug. 20

Bristol

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Nov. 12

Phoenix

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Atlanta

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montreal

2:30 p.m. ESPN2

Nov. 19

Homestead

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Atlanta

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Sept. 26 Dover

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Sept. 25 Dover

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Kansas

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Kansas

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California

3 p.m. ESPN

Oct. 9

California

4:30 p.m. ESPN2

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Charlotte

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Oct. 15

Charlotte

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Oct. 24

Martinsville 1 p.m. ESPN

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MADISON

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Talladega

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texas

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Texas

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Nov. 13

Phoenix

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Phoenix

3 p.m. ESPN

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Homestead

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Homestead

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Kyle Busch Todd Bodine Ron Hornaday James Buescher Elliott Sadler Mike Skinner Aric Almirola Jason White David Starr Timothy Peters Matt Crafton Johnny Sauter Tayler Malsam Ricky Carmichael Justin Lofton * Nelson Piquet Jr. Narain Karthikeyan Jennifer Jo Cobb Hermie Sadler Mario Gosselin Brad Sweet Brett Butler * J C Stout Norm Benning Terry Jones Donny Lia T.J. Bell Brad Keselowski Chris Eggleston * Dennis Setzer Michael Guerity Ryan Sieg Brent Raymer Wes Burton Austin Dillon * Mike Garvey

Todd Bodine Leader Aric Almirola -2 Timothy Peters -86 Ron Hornaday -103 Matt Crafton -166 Johnny Sauter -180 Ricky Carmichael -182 Mike Skinner -184 Jason White -193 David Starr -193 Tayler Malsam -270 Justin Lofton* -276 Kyle Busch -281 Austin Dillon* -305 Mario Gosselin -310 Ryan Sieg -360 Brett Butler* -423 Jennifer Jo Cobb* -449 Norm Benning -452 Johnny Benson -467 James Buescher -499 Kevin Harvick -508 Rick Crawford -541 Stacy Compton -549 Donny Lia -592 Brent Raymer -612 Chris Eggleston* -698 Elliott Sadler -709 Brian Ickler -738 Max Papis -745 Dennis Setzer -749 Shane Sieg -751 Chris Fontaine -765 Steve Wallace -776 Narain Karthikeyan -777 Donnie Neuenberger -781

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Busch Holds Off Bodine For Charlotte Win

Kyle Busch grabs the checkered flag to celebrate his win in the North Carolina Education Lottery 200 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

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olesitter Kyle Busch survived a scrape with the wall and held off Todd Bodine in a twolap dash to the finish to win Friday night's North Carolina Education Lottery 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Busch, who owns the No. 18 Toyota he drove to victory, crossed the finish line .228 seconds ahead of Bodine to give Toyota its first truck series victory at the 1.5-mile racetrack. Ron Hornaday Jr. was third, followed by James Buescher and Elliott Sadler.

The victory was Busch's second in five starts this season, his third at Charlotte and the 18th of his career. Busch has won three straight races in NASCAR's top three touring series, having triumphed in last weekend's Nationwide and Sprint Cup events at Dover.

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On Lap 40 of 134, Busch's Toyota broke loose while leading and slammed the outside wall, damaging the front splitter. Initially, Busch slowed after the contact and lost three positions but began working his way back to the front.

As luck would have it, the brush with the wall helped correct a loose handling condition.

"I made it where I could drive it," Busch said. "I knocked some 'tight' into it. This team did a great job in preparing this truck to come here, and I tried to screw it up. I guess the driver owes the car owner a little something today."

On Lap 65, Bodine passed Brad Keselowski for the second spot and regained the lead when Sadler made a green-flag pit stop on Lap 67. Busch stayed out front until Lap 80, when Brent Raymer's truck blew an engine and went up in a ball of fire in the tri-oval to

cause the third caution of the race.

After a lengthy pit stop to repair the right front fender on his Tundra, Busch restarted ninth on Lap 90. He gained two spots on the restart lap before Ryan Sieg blew his right front tire and slammed the Turn 3 wall to bring out the fourth yellow flag.

Eleven laps after a restart on Lap 95, Busch passed Bodine for the second position and held it until Dennis Setzer's hard contact with the Turn 2 wall slowed the field for the fifth time. With an excellent restart on Lap 118, Busch took the lead from Hornaday but ran only three green-flag laps before Donny Lia spun off Turn 2 and crashed nose-first into the inside wall on the backstretch.

Bodine leads the series standings by two points over Aric Almirola, who finished seventh.

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11th Annual MAHLE Engine Builder Showdown Ends with Fourth Straight Championship for Pro Motor Engines Charlotte, North Carolina Pro Motor Engines once again made history Thursday, capturing their fourth consecutive MAHLE Engine Builder Showdown championship with a record-breaking build time.

In a fierce neck-and-neck battle, the Pro Motor Engines team of Josh Hypes and Matt Jackling built a complete Chevrolet R07 race engine and successfully ran it for one minute in an astounding 18 minutes, 3 seconds, beating last year’s record by over a minute and defeating the Hendrick Motorsports team of Mike Maiwald and Scott Vester.

Team Hendrick Motorsports and team Pro Motor were neckand-neck in the competition, with Pro Motor firing their engine first.

Maiwald and Vester were close behind, but while their engine was running during the mandatory one minute, it became silent at the 57-second mark due to a disconnected fuel line. Hendrick reconnected and re-fired their engine, ending with a final build time of 20 minutes, 1 second.

“This competition is intense, no question about it,” said Hypes referring to the MAHLE Engine Builder Showdown, which took place as part of “NASCAR Rev’d Up,” a kick off event for All Star Race Week in Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina. “This was our first year representing Pro Motor after Dennis (Borem) and Darrell (Hoffman) took the championship the previous three years in a row. We are thrilled to win it again.”

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“We gave it our best,” said Maiwald of the runner-up team. “Even though we lost, we still feel pretty good for making it to the final round. We want to say thanks to MAHLE for continuing to host this competition and for their support of the engine builders.”

Former crew chiefs Jeff Hammond and Larry McReynolds hosted the MAHLE Engine Builder Showdown, which is a tiered, three-round competition designed to recognize the knowledge, skill and speed of professional engine builders who assemble special performance engines for NASCAR teams.

A total of six teams competed. Joining Pro Motor Engines and Hendrick Motorsports

The Pro Motor team, Josh Hypes and Matt Jackling (center) with Ted Hughes (Team Leader – Program Development for MAHLE Clevite), left and Jeff Hammond, right, during the check presentation on the main stage at the NASCAR Rev’d Up event. Photo credit: Harold Hinson Photography

were: Earnhardt-Childress Racing Engines, Penske Racing Engines, Triad Racing Technologies, and 2009 runner-up Roush-Yates Engines.

“This is another MAHLE Engine Builder Showdown that will go down in history,” said Bill

McKnight, Team Leader - Training for MAHLE Clevite. “It was an exciting competition from the very start, and Hypes and Jackling’s record-breaking build time for a fourth Pro Motor championship is something to be very proud of.

Both teams should be proud of

their accomplishments.”

2010 MAHLE Engine Builder Showdown champions, Hypes and Jackling took home a cash prize for their efforts and will have their name engraved on the prestigious Randy Dorton Memorial Trophy.

Charlotte Motor Speedway: A Brief C

onstruction began on Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1959 and the track’s first NASCAR Sprint Cup race was held on June 19, 1960. The track was repaved midseason in 1994. The track name changed from Charlotte Motor Speedway to Lowe’s Motor Speedway in 1999. It changed back to Charlotte Motor Speedway for the 2010 season. The track was re-paved again before the 2006 season. · There have been 102 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points races at Charlotte Motor Speedway, two races per year

since the track opened in 1960.

In 1961, there were two 100-mile qualifying points races held the week before he May race. The first six fall races at Charlotte were 400-mile events (1960-65). · 37 drivers have posted poles, led by David Pearson with 14.Fireball Roberts won the pole for the first race and Joe Lee Johnson won the first race in 1960. David Pearson posted 11 straight poles at Charlotte from the fall of 1973 through 1978.Ryan Newman leads all active drivers in poles, with eight. Jeff Gordon has seven.

· Jeff Gordon won five straight poles for the spring races between 1994 and 1998. 42 drivers have won races, led by Bobby Allison, Darrell Waltrip and Jimmie Johnson, with six each.

David Reutimann became a firsttime series winner last May after winning the Coca-Cola 600. · There have been 13 back-to-back victories, including three consecutive by Fred Lorenzen (fall 1964 and both 1965) and four straight by Jimmie Johnson (both in 2004 and 2005).

A sweep has occurred eight times, including each season from 20042007. 14 races have been won

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from the pole, the last by Jimmie Johnson last October. · Jimmie Johnson won the 2003 Coca-Cola 600 from the 37th starting position, the furthest back a race winner has started. A number of active drivers earned their first win at CMS: Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth, Bobby Labonte, Jamie McMurray, Casey Mears and David Reutimann. Inactive drivers David Pearson, Buddy Baker and Charlie Glotzbach also got their first series win at Charlotte.

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ast year, the top story that came out of the NASCAR Sprint Pit Crew Challenge presented by Craftsman, one of the most popular events leading up to the annual Sprint All Star Race, was written by Marty Smith of ESPN. Smith’s account of Jack Kerr, who won $10,000 in the individual jack man category of competition, then donated his winnings to the family of a critically injured 4-year-old boy, reignited the spirit of selflessness and compassion in its readers, inspiring similar acts of generosity from many of them.

By comparison, this year’s most visible story seems to be the fact that Denny Hamlin’s girlfriend piloted his No. 11 Toyota to the Pit Crew Challenge in his stead, wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan, “All We Do Is Win.” Not quite as heartwarming, perhaps, but that’s OK. It was inspirational enough for the crew, and ultimately proved prophetic, as well, as the No. 11 team earned the victory and the $70,000 cash prize that comes with it.

The Pit Crew Challenge is a fun event, and an important one, serving as a great way to drive home a point we sometimes seem to forget, no matter how many races we watch – truly, NASCAR is a team sport. Every team member has a specific task to perform, and they all work together to create a community that is functional, efficient and, ideally, very fastmoving.

I had a great time serving as one of the guest speakers for Career Day at a local elementary school last week.

Pit Crew Members Are ‘Roll’ Models

By: Cathy Elliott | GUEST COLUMNIST The gist of the event was this: business people from the community went to the school and talked about their jobs to seven fourth-grade classes, then answered questions from the kids.

The assortment of jobs represented was pretty diverse, ranging from cosmetology to firefighting, although those two really might not be all that different, when you think about it. In the event of a perm gone bad, for example, a certain level of firefighting expertise could come in handy.

There were also policemen and bankers, and then there was

CHARLOTTE, NC - MAY 19: The #18 M&M’s Toyota pit crew race the #71 TRG Motorsports Chevrolet pit crew during the NASCAR Sprint Pit Crew Challenge at Time Warner Cable Arena on May 19, 2010 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by John Harrelson/Getty Images for NASCAR)

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me. Nobody, and I include myself in that group, is quite sure how to define my job, but I gave it a valiant effort, complete with various NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver stand-ups and a chunk of original Darlington Raceway asphalt, squirreled away from the repaving project a few years back.

The day went surprisingly well. NASCAR was still top-of-mind in town, as the race weekend was only a couple of weeks in the rear view mirror, and the props really helped. Remember this the next time you’re invited to do some public speaking -- bring along a few cardboard representations of superstar athletes and a big chunk of old rock, and hide behind all of them as much as you can. You’ll be golden.

The most surreal moment of the day came when I opened it up for questions by asking the kids if anyone had discovered a potential career that day. Great news for the town – there is plenty of police protection and lots of great hair days in its future.

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CHARLOTTE, NC - MAY 19: The #18 M&M’s Toyota pit crew race during the NASCAR Sprint Pit Crew Challenge at Time Warner Cable Arena on May 19, 2010 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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those guys who change the tires on Jeff Gordon’s car.” Jeff, I was pleasantly surprised to learn, is still the driver of choice among the younger crowd.

When I asked the young man how in the world he had settled on that job, he said, “It’s like, you know, totally cool. And you only have to work a few seconds at a time.”

Wow. We are so accustomed to watching those guys hop over the wall, gas up a stock car, slap four tires on it and send it on its way that we have almost become desensitized to how impressive that actually is.

Think about it this way. If you were to take a nice bite of your burger just as that car was pulling into its pit stall, and if you were to chew it 20 times like you’re supposed to, the car would be long gone before you even swallowed that first bite. That’s how fast they are.

That’s also how wellconditioned they are. Those spectacular 13 seconds are the result of many hours of grueling physical training and absolute dedication to being the best. A pit crew becomes a winner in exactly

the same way a musician gets to Carnegie Hall. Practice, practice, practice.

It’s great to see these hard-working team members get the recognition – and for some, the nice financial bonus – they so richly deserve. Your favorite driver, whoever he may be, wouldn’t be so visible or successful, and probably wouldn’t have sold you all those hats and T-shirts bearing his car number and his likeness, without a solid pit crew protecting his back.

It is important to note that these fourth-graders recognized Jimmie Johnson and Joey Logano from various commercials and things on TV, but they’ve also been watching the races, and they’ve been noticing the guys who are not behind the wheel, but behind the wall.

When you’re so good at your job that you make it look easy, you also make it look fun.

Kids admire you, and want to emulate you. So that aspiring rear tire changer was right about one thing. To serve as a positive role model is like, you know, totally cool.

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Out with the Old By: Bryce Arghiere | SpeedWeekly

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ith Kyle Busch’s two wins this month—in Richmond and Dover—has come a storm of media attention for Joe Gibbs Racing and the No. 18 M&M’s Toyota Camry team. When speaking to Busch—who is riding a streak of six consecutive top-ten finishes—the past few weeks, interviewers have often focused on his growth as a driver this year, frequently asking about the differences between “old Kyle” and “new Kyle.” Ironically, none of the talk about “new Kyle,” a patient and steadfast driver committed to consistency rather than flashy stats, began until Busch recently won three races in three weeks, including the Nationwide Series and Cup Series events at Dover International Speedway.

In large print on the biography section of Busch’s webpage (kylebusch.com) is a quote from Busch “on winning”: “It’s no secret how much I want to win as a driver, and I want to win as a team owner just as badly.”

While Busch’s eighteen career Cup Series victories and his wins behind the wheel for Kyle Busch Motorsports, the

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Truck Series and late model team he founded last year, reveal his passion—and knack—for winning, his intense desire to win races belies his new approach.

“It’s all about trying not to make our bad days worse and be our own worst enemy,” Busch said when asked following his win in Dover about his new outlook. “But, you know, you got to give and take, sometimes. I’m learning that a little bit more. That doesn’t mean we still aren’t going to want to lead laps and win races. It doesn’t mean we’re not going to try to do that. We need to make sure this M&M’s team focuses on what it needs to focus on and not what everyone else is doing, for now, to keep going forward.”

Busch, whose sixty-nine career wins in NASCAR’s top three divisions (NSCS, NNS, CWTS) are tied for ninth most all time, still cares about racking up victories as much

as ever, but no longer thrives on it.

Instead, he aims to secure strong— or at least respectable—finishes in every race, salvaging points in races which seem fated to end dismally. During a twenty-one race Cup Series winless streak, which he endured between the Sharpie 500 last August in Bristol and the Heath Calhoun 400 on May 1 in Richmond, Busch tallied nine toptens, with only four finishes lower than fifteenth. Perhaps even more telling are his twenty-one finishes during the span, a far cry from his inaugural Cup Series season (2004) in which he finished only two races in six starts.

After finally ending the drought, Busch, who for all his recent changes is no less jocular, laughed with reporters about his winless streak. “As far as not being able to win in twenty-one races, shucks, darn, gee, golly, sorry,” he said in Richmond. “I certainly wish it

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wasn’t twenty-one races. But, you know, it was a long end of the year last year. You know, we maybe should have won a few weeks ago. But it doesn’t work out that way sometimes. It stinks to not win every single weekend or not every twenty-one weekends or twenty-one races, but it certainly feels nice to come out here with another good win and get another good finish.”

Of course, after the win he was also asked some of those “old Kyle-new Kyle” questions. “For the old Kyle Busch, he would have folded,” he joked. “The new one, he stuck in there, he dug hard. He kept going.

“It was a character-building night, for sure,” he added on a serious note. “We kept our head down and kept digging. We didn’t let it bother us too bad. I felt like we were getting passed. But it was weird because you had guys that were short pitting, you had guys that were on different strategies that were coming to pit road. You got guys passing you that have just come off pit road, like [Kevin Conway’s] 38 car passing me, [Sam] Hornish is passing me, guys like that on tires. I’m thinking, man, I’ve got to be running fifteenth by now. But it was just a weird night.

So as far as all of the things go inside the racecar, we kept our handle on it.”

For Busch, who ranked fifth in the Cup Series point standings prior to his recent wins, the strategic changes have already begun to pay dividends. Currently second in points, sixty-nine points behind leader Kevin Harvick, Busch

has three top-fives, seven top-tens, and one pole to go along with his two wins, and has led 558 laps—or nearly fifteen percent of the total laps run through twelve races.

Further, his twelve finishes put him on pace to do something he’s never done in his Cup Series career: finish all thirtysix races.

By coming to terms with the unpredictable and often unmerciful nature of raceday competition, Busch has contended each week and stayed high in points. “There’s been a lot of learning for me so far this year,” he said after racing in Dover “We’ve had cars that haven’t been capable of top-fives or top-tens and we’ve gotten some top-fives and top-tens

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with those cars. We’ve had cars we should have won, maybe Phoenix or somewhere else, and we ran tenth or fifteenth with those cars. You know, it’s frustrating to see those days when you run well and not really get what you deserve. But then you see the days where you struggle a little bit and you kind of steal one out of there.”

“It’s all about trying not to make our bad days worse and be our own worst enemy,” —Kyle Busch

A thirteenth-place finish in the point standings last year led Busch, who missed the Chase for the first time since 2005, to reevaluate his racing ethos. “I’ve gotten smarter,” he said recently.

“There were plenty of times that I could have made moves this year at certain points of the race and I decided to back off and wait a lap and let it happen on its own. So, it’s been a lot better and I’ve thought about things a lot more. It seems to me that success is becoming a little easier when you are patient when you need to be, but also aggressive when you need to be.”

Team owner Joe Gibbs sees Busch’s recent driving

experience, including his nine wins and points title in the Nationwide Series last year, as key to his Cup Series transformation. “I think one thing that’s helped Kyle is winning that Nationwide championship last year,” Gibbs said after Busch’s win in Richmond. “I think he had real patience there. There were days where he had to take third, fourth. Of course, it’s different over there because you’re not racing as many cars up front that really have a chance. I think this year, you know, had this been last year with three or four of the things that happened to us in some of the races this year, particularly this one, I think you probably would have seen a different reaction. I appreciate the new Kyle.”

Busch’s challenges at Richmond, which Gibbs alluded to, included battling to the front of the field after squandering an early lead, besting Jeff Gordon on a restart with five laps to go, and holding Gordon off down the stretch before crossing the finish line threequarters of a second ahead of him.

Busch was understandably jovial with reporters afterwards.

“Did I have a plan? . . . No,” he responded when asked about the late restart. “My plan was just to drive it as hard as I could and make whatever happen happen. It seemed to work, you know, off the cuff.”

Genial and engaging with the media, Busch, nicknamed “Rowdy,” is no stranger to controversy—on and off the track. On many occasions, he has drawn the ire and contempt of fans, including last June when he celebrated a Nationwide Series win in Nashville by smashing a $30,000 hand-made guitar—his winner’s trophy, no less—into victory lane. He has also angered Jr. Nation—the contingent of diehard Dale Earnhardt Jr. fans—through his seemingly derisive pre-race habit of bowing to them, spats with Dale Jr., and presumptuous comments. “Dale Jr.

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is the Most Loved and I’m the Most Popular,” he once said.

Over the years the twentyfour year-old Busch has acquired a slew of unflattering epithets, from brat to bad-body to boldfaced.

He did little to bolster his image following Saturday’s All-Star Race in Charlotte, where he was knocked out of contention after teammate Denny Hamlin blocked him, causing him to crash into the wall with eight laps to go.

“Somebody better keep me away from Denny Hamlin after this race,” Busch screamed into his radio. “I swear to God, I’m going to kill that [expletive]. His entire [expletive] fault! I had this race won!

It was won!”

Busch and Hamlin reportedly settled their conflict in a sit-down with Gibbs after the race.

If for no other reason, Busch’s fiery temper seems useful for the cultural visibility it provides. For his clout as a pop-culture icon, he was ranked seventieth in January on Bloomberg Businessweek’s annual list of “America’s 100 Most Powerful Athletes.”

Busch has always excelled as a businessman, and seems to have as many endorsement deals as any driver in NASCAR. Though he has yet to win a Cup Series title, little has stopped his rise in the media world. But for all of old Kyle’s success as a media magnet, new Kyle seems poised to have at least as much as this year as a driver.

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NASCAR deserves credit for positive changes By: Jenna Fryer | AP Auto racing writer

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t’s been easy the last several seasons to kick NASCAR as it struggled with sinking ratings, slipping sponsorships and, worst of all, lousy racing.

It’s not fair, though, to talk only about what’s gone wrong, particularly at a time when NASCAR is doing many things right. Those positive turns are often overlooked, partly because it’s far more fun to flog all the flaws than it is to dish out credit for making positive change.

It’s been almost a year since NASCAR opened its ears in two town-hall style meeting between top executives and the competitors. The sport was in trouble — the economy had wreaked havoc on everyone’s bottom line, and nobody was all that thrilled with the competition — and NASCAR was willing to listen to ideas.

There was initial concern that those May 26 meetings were nothing more lip service. Looking back, they were actually a major turning point for the industry because actual changes have followed.

NASCAR switched to the popular double-file restart format two weeks after the town-hall meeting, and plans to eliminate the wing that so offended race fans began taking shape. When

NASCAR received considerable backlash over the watered-down October race at Talladega, the “boys, have at it” policy was born.

Fans displeasure with never knowing what time a race was going to begin was fixed by the consistent start times policy that went into effect this season, and the decision was made to put the entire Chase for the Sprint Cup championship on ESPN to streamline yet another aspect.

Struggling at this time last year with the fallout from Jeremy Mayfield’s failed drug test and the confusion many drivers claimed they had over NASCAR’s toughened new policy, a list of banned substances was created and made available to teams at the start of this season.

NASCAR chairman Brian France and his top management team spent the offseason individually meeting with every race team to discuss the tract they were taking in a bid to stop the bleeding. For a series that had forever been run like a dictatorship, this open attitude was a refreshing change.

CHARLOTTE, NC - MAY 23: NASCAR vice chairman and executive vice president Jim France speaks during the 2010 NASCAR Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Charlotte Convention Center on May 23, 2010 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

And if there was any doubt that NASCAR was willing to do whatever was needed to save the show, it responded to the many customers left dissatisfied when the first race of the year, the exhibition Budweiser Shootout, ended under caution. Entered into competition just four days before the season-opening Daytona 500, the new policy of three attempts at a green-white-checkered flag ending has radically improved the racing this year.

So here they are, a year later, coming off one of the most celebratory weeks in NASCAR history.

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anticipation. NASCAR celebrated all of last week with numerous Hall of Fame events, then moved to the race track for Saturday night’s annual All-Star race.

The racing, like it has been for most of the year, was much improved. Granted, the field had to first figure out how to catch four-time defending series champion Jimmie Johnson, but ever since the wing was replaced by the traditional spoiler in March, ol’ Double J hasn’t seemed so invincible anymore.

The “have at it” policy, designed to allow drivers to self-police on the track while also encouraging more emotion, again gave NASCAR a juicy storyline when teammates Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch raced each other hard for a shot at the win. When that aggressiveness led to a race-ending crash for Busch, he threatened to kill Hamlin over his team radio (lovely to see you again, “old” Kyle!).

By the time team owner Joe Gibbs had diffused the situation with a closed-door meeting, it was already Sunday and attention had shifted into the inaugural Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Nobody knew what to

expect out of the ceremony that honored founder Bill France Sr., his son, Bill Jr., seven-time champions Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt, and pioneer Junior Johnson.

What those in attendance were treated to was a walk down memory lane that reminded everyone just how special NASCAR really is. It was a celebration of both the past and the present, and a rare opportunity for the entire industry to step back and look at everything that’s going well right now.

“It made me proud to be part of the, proud to be a driver,” said three-time champion Darrell Waltrip. “It makes me even prouder just to be part of the community, the NASCAR community. We have come so far, and done so much.”

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Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M’s Toyota, hits the wall after an incident on track during the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 22, 2010 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images for NASCAR)

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recious points toward the Sprint Cup championship may not be on the line when it comes to the Sprint All-Star Race, but it’s still seems to be one of the most coveted wins available on the Sprint Cup Series schedule each and every year. When it comes to

the All-Star Race it’s all about pride. And, oh yeah, a cool million doesn’t hurt, either.

With the exception of one year when the event was hosted

by Atlanta Motor Speedway, the All-Star Race has always been in the race teams’ backyards

at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

With most of the drivers, team members, and owners calling the Charlotte area home, the Sprint AllStar Race provides an opportunity for NASCAR’s best to show off for friends, family, and the hometown crowd. Team members who don’t normally get to travel to races are even on hand for the Sprint All-Star Race.

With the desire to have bragging rights at home, add a purse that’s over a million dollars. Then, on top of that, add in the fact that there are no points on the line. What you end up with is a race — a jubilant Kurt where nobody’s said in victory points racing and nobody cares who lane. finishes second -- a race in which there’s nothing to lose and everything to gain.

“Second is not what we came here for,” this year’s secondplace finisher, Martin Truex Jr., said.

With emotions running so high for the All-Star Race, tempers can flare, rivaling those that rear their heads at short tracks. The motto of the Busch brothers’ hometown of Las Vegas, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” doesn’t apply in Charlotte, at least not when it comes to the All-Star Race. Just ask them.

After getting together in the All-Star race in 2007, brothers Kurt and Kyle Busch didn’t speak

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to each other for about six months.

It took their grandmother telling them that they weren’t going to spoil her Thanksgiving to get them to mend fences and start speaking again. Things may be all fine and good now in Busch family, but now Busch seems to be caught up in a feud within another kind of family -- the Joe Gibbs Racing family.

After Saturday’s edition of the Sprint All-Star Race, Busch expressed serious displeasure when he fell out of the race early, feeling that teammate Denny Hamlin cost him the win. During the final 10-lap segment, Busch attempted to pass Hamlin on the outside but instead got into the wall. Both continued, but Busch soon got caught up in another incident with Kasey Kahne when Busch blew a tire, lost control, and clipped Kahne, sending both drivers’ cars into the wall, ending their night a few laps prematurely.

Busch blamed Hamlin for the incident, saying that Hamlin crowded him into the wall in the earlier incident, resulting in his tire going down a few laps later. Right after climbing out of his wrecked race car, Busch went directly to the No. 11 (Hamlin’s) hauler to wait for Hamlin so that he could express his displeasure to his teammate, personally, as soon as the race was over.

“We talked about it and, basically, Kyle was just frustrated,” Hamlin said of the conversation he and his teammate had after the race.

Meanwhile, his brother, Kurt Busch piloted his No. 2 car to the

Sprint All-Star Race win and on to victory lane for not only his first All-Star win, but his first win in any NASCAR special event. While fences may be mended in the Busch family, two family members were feeling emotions of opposite extremes at the end of Saturday night’s events.

“This is huge,” a jubilant Kurt said in victory lane.

While pride may have a lot to do with the strong desire to win the one race where nobody cares who finishes second, a purse of just over $1 million just adds to the frenzy.

“I could smell it (the money),” Truex said of being so close to the win.

Some teams claim that they use the preliminary Sprint Showdown and the All-Star Race somewhat as a test session for the Coca-Cola 600 coming up the following weekend at Charlotte.

After all, wouldn’t logic say that the 600 is more important? After all, there are championship points involved, and isn’t the ultimate goal to win the championship.

Sometimes logic goes out the window, though, and the pride factor sets in when the all or nothing emotions of the Sprint AllStar Race take hold.

“What this race is all about is winning,” third-place finisher Joey Logano said.

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Dennis Queen Brandon Rogers Kaleb Pressley Darrell Williams Wayne Webb Scottie Hicks Lance Gatlin Everette McMahan Zach Franks Jerry Williams Jr Mart Nesbitt - DQ Coleman Pressley

Front Wheel Drive 1 47 Cameron Gunter 2 72 Everette Craine 3 20 Terry King 4 92 Jacob Chandler 5 37 Greg Stephens 6 34 Bobby Hurst 7 7 David Nesbitt 8 10 Donny Holland 9 01 Josh Ramsey 10 12 Nicholas Shelton 11 21 Michael 12 22 Ricky Webb - DNS SuperLateModel 1 99 Jake Crum 2 9 David Flynn 3 17 Mart Nesbitt 4 1 Jackie Buckner 5 92 Dennis Queen Road Hogs 1 69 2 14 3 75 4 1/2 Mini Cup 1 1 2 35 3 5

Travis Baldwin Robert Barndt

Billy Hyden Paul Bufford Tony Taylor

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Street Stock 1 18 2 3 3 5 4 33 5 15 6 7 8 8 07 9 15 10 22 11 28 12 8

Kayla Holland Michael Rice Shelby Marler Milton Metcalf TJ Williams Joey Mull Jesse Clark Tyler Worley Marvin Green Jr Mike B Wesley Mull Melody Chandler Robert Fox Rickey Ford Greg Messer Kenny Cloud - DQ

HIGHLAND RIM SPEEDWAY Late Model 1 84 2 22 3 16 4 25 5 9 6 5 7 99 8 55 9 06 10 3 11 52 12 90 13 46

Michael House Mike Barrett Austin Brawley Wayne White Hunter Willis Bobby Terry Chad Willis James Climer David Guenther Sam Willard Billy Brock Ellis Gardner Brice Crabtree

Sportsman 1 8 2 T48 3 03 4 71 5 53 6 11 7 99 8 00 9 18 10 94

Thomas Pannell Howard Tucker Rick Stamper Jonathan Wilhite, Jr. Kyle Ivey Gary Adcock Walton Garrison Cory Jones Chad Adams Charles Adkins

Pro Truck 1 3 2 98 3 68 4 10 5 9 6 44 7 84 8 22

Ryan Arms Matt Spurlock Richard Hamilton Ty Colbert Douglas Colbert Lesley Best Jay Jay Williams Thomas Williams

Super Stock 1 32 2 18 3 52 4 39 5 71 6 99 7 29 8 75 9 15 10 42 11 11 12 47 13 12 14 61

Roger Birdsong Jr Charlie Briley Jeff Belt Danny Johnson Willie Coats Bill Benson Matt Hamlett James Curthers Kevin Tuders Daniel Adcock Nick Frederick Josh Hagewood Charles Vance Justin Dishman

FWD Mods 1 04 2 H 1 3 25 4 D11 5 14 6 3 7 08 8 A1 9 19 10 7 11 T11 12 88 13 34 14 16 15 80 16 58

Joey Williams Terry Hudson Scott Conner Terry Duke David Frost Sam Arnold Paul Lambert Mark Cummings Kenny Zollars Judy Nuckols Chance Holmes Travis Craig Jason Turner Kevin Gregory Christopher York Carl Landin

Challenger 1 3 2 40 3 56 4 22A 5 78 6 18 7 11 8 13

Aaron Ashcraft Toby Tobitt Sean Frederick Larry Thomason Michael Watson Jamie Vanetten Justin Martin Boo Jones

Pure Stock 1 68 2 8 3 11X

Carl Porter Sr Mike Forsythe Terry Jackson

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4 11 21 13 29 71 32 55 12 18 33 711 00 00

Michael Oldham Tink Jackson Mitchell Vickers Charles Goddard Sr. Jim Bork Donald Porter Tony Kelton Timothy Franklin Derrick Harrington Terry Swift William Wales Lesley Pearce Bobby Joe Rippy Matt Boshers

Rim Runner 1 26 2 11 3 79 4 2 5 14 6 19 7 31 8 18 9 7 10 08 11 20 12 62 13 43 14 80 15 6

Donold Webb Justin Martin Joshua Johnson Chris Allen Kevin Figueroa Tyler Hester Justin Dickens Phillip Bilyeu Jerry Meeks Chuck Adcock Tony Hardin Laura James Zena Jennkins Kandice Tayor David Lassiter

Chevettes 1 92 2 32 3 2 4 29 5 07 6 1 7 84 8 31 9 3

Paul Ramsey Phillip Lawrence Jeffery York Phillip Lawrence Richard Ramsey Danny Rice Paul Ramsey Jr. Phillip Lawrence Barry Satterfield

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NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Environmental Solutions Night CROSSROADS FUEL SERVICE LATE MODEL STOCK CARS - Twin 75s Race #1 1 26 Danny Edwards 2 40 C.E. Falk; 3 21 Greg Edwards 4 82 Woody Howard 5 55 Mark Wertz 6 41 Wesley Falk 7 29 Casey Wyatt 8 01 Jeff Shiflett 9 2 Matt Waltz 10 7 Dude Gibbs 11 64 Rick Gdovic 12 45 Doug Warren 13 06 Dean Shiflett 14 46 Brandon Gdovic 15 1 Kyle Waltz 16 38 Duane Shreeves 17 21B Robbie Babb 18 55A Shawn Balluzzo 19 40C Bruce Kimmel Race #2 1 41 2 82 3 21 4 26 5 1 6 40 7 7 8 45 9 06 10 2 11 29 12 38 13 46 14 64 15 01 16 21B 17 55A 18 55 19 `40C

Wesley Falk Woody Howard Greg Edwards Danny Edwards Jr. Kyle Waltz C.E. Falk Dude Gibbs Doug Warren Dean Shiflett Matt Waltz Casey Wyatt Duane Shreeves Brandon Gdovic Rick Gdovic Jeff Shiflett Robbie Babb Shawn Balluzzo Mark Wertz Bruce Kimmel

PEPSI GRAND STOCKS - 40 laps 1 07 Mark Claar 2 36 Jammie Goode 3 14 Paul Lubno 4 9 Rodney Boyd 5 19 Robbie Parker 6 8 Ricky Derrick 7 01 Chris Hott 8 11 Tommy Sweeney 9 77 Carl Livingston 10 28 Billy Fisher 11 55 Mike West

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Harold Stanley Connie Stanley Jimmy Adkins Henry Barnes

CASEY CYCLE CITY INEX LEGENDS - 25 laps 1 17 Brad Hancock 2 20 Cameron Patrick 3 30 Joe Hendricks Jr. 4 33 Rette Causey 5 08 Jamie Price 6 14 Woody Howard 7 0 Steve Keesee 8 7 Spencer Saunders 9 51 Jamie Laine 10 88 Chris Raiford 11 87 Darrell Vance 12 4 Bobby Gobble 13 38 Kim Forrester 14 3 Adam Florian; 3 15 02 Kyle Resco; 2

EZ AUTO OF NEWPORT NEWS UCARS - 25 laps 1 20 Michael Joyner 2 21 Sammy Gaita 3 89 Allen Dail 4 22 Bill Eaker 5 36 Andrew Condrey 6 98 Matt Morgan 7 23 Nelson Moody 8 57 Ben Zoellner 9 2 Michael Waters 10 5 Jesse Jones 11 14 Landon Florian 12. 77 Andrew Graham 13 10 John Matthews 14 25 Robbie Salas 15 00 Trey Gurganus Larry Drommerhausen 16 13 17 12 Eric Schaffer 18 73 Jayson Vaught 19 26 Randy Prillaman RHONNDA CLAIBORNE, REALTOR HRKC PRO WINGED CHAMP KARTS - 20 laps 1 4 Mike Dayton 2 00 Bill Dailey 3 99 Chris O’Brien 4 44 Ashley Mullis 5 1 Spencer Saunders 6 33 Casey Wyatt 7 39 Chuck Weeks 8 80 Jake Harberts 9 17 Harold Gay 10 24 Vaughan Crittendon 11 29 Ryan Hudgins 12 64 John Savage 13 59 Charlie-Ray Lorah 14 16 David Millard 15 26 Dwain Smith 16 46 David Phelps 17 63 Clif Savage

LONESOME PINE RACEWAY Late Model 1 74 2 44 3 80 4 19 5 88 6 34 7 14

Caleb Holaman Nate Monteith Blake Jones Wayne Hale Dalton Hopkins Vic Thomas Don Monteith

Chargers 1 80 2 1 3 40 4 10 5 16 6 48 7 75 8 47 9 22 10 11 11 66 12 17

Blake Jones Brad Housewright Royce Peters Steve Sims Freddie Taylor, Jr Paul Shull Steve Wright Jena Wagner Ryan Stiltner Robbie Ward Austin Peters Kevin Wolfe

Street Stock 1 22 2 6 3 25 4 18 5 03 6 23 7 16 8 65 9 8

Roger Neece Chris Tunnell Rob Austin Doug Austin Bobby Helton Tommy Hess Freddie Taylor, Sr James Mills Jared Bruner

Mod 4 1 17 2 16

Brad Ball Freddie Taylor, Jr

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Pure 4 1 88 2 51 3 83 4 65 5 22 6 37 7 26 8 94 9 24 10 06 11 8 12 17 13 04 14 13 15 81 16 16 Legends 1 66 2 11 3 31 4 64R 5 57 6 87 7 23 8 38 9 14 10 64B 11 21 12 12 13 30 14 44 15 32 Renegade 1 21 2 19 3 41 4 30

Kirby Gobble Danny O’Quinn Chase Brashears Hershell Robinette Joshua Gobble Cody Dutton Kyle Lockrow Dan Hall Josh Estep Tim Presley James Mills B.C.Penley Kenny Nix John Ketron Tom Hodges Justin Penley Bill Livesay B.J.Large Steve Skeen Matt Stiltner John McClanahan Dean Barrett Jackie Jackson Steven Ross Dace Johnson Cody Johnson Greg Turner Justin Carroll Hayden Woods Carl Stanley Zack Walton Brian Tinker Tyler Goodwin Jim Brown Beard McAuley Taylor Coffman Robbie Jackson Drew Shortridge Mitch Gibson Mark Stiltner Steve Skeen Josh Turner

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Late Model - 75 Laps 1 43 Eddie Johnson 2 71 Steve Zuskin 3 0 Chris Dodson 4 99 Chris Hopkins 5 12 Michael Solaimani 6 6 Shannon Marano 7 39 Brandon Hendrick 8 95 Shayne Lockhart 9 50 Raymond Pittman III 10 4 Adam Resnick 11 18 Brad Davis 12 25 David Mooney 13 7 Mike Kersey 14 02 Greg Fernandez 15 51 Jason Pittman 16 98 John Eversole Modifieds - 50 Laps 1 4 Thomas Stinson 2 36 Chris Johnson 3 9 Rusty Wood 4 37 Chris Hoylman 5 21 Ryan Wilbourne 6 38 Michael Johnson 7 19 Kyle Wood 8 23 Stacey Wilbourne 9 73 Mike Tomlin 10 22 Tim Layne 11 8 Mike Rudy Street Stock - 50 Laps 1 06 Brian Smith 2 31 James Groome 3 92 Ricky Stotler 4 17 Gary Turner 5 97 James Loving 6 911 Travis Nicely 7 40 Todd Ruggles 8 8 Justin Groome 9 15 Shawn Sutphin 10 41 Jason Beck 11 29 Paul Clemons

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32 79 58 33 96 38 82 08 6 39 69 01 25

O.K. Wilson Robbie Groome Bobby Corbitt Dan Rodgers Alex Ayers Jesse Hendricks Mike Ganoe Wayne Groome Chris Bryant Bo Tuck Ethan Ayers Chris Kantzler Michael Sutphin

Champ Kart - 20 Laps 1 11 Buzz Moore 2 18 Brad Davis 3 38 Stanley Holmes 4 22 David Emory 5 01 Stan Holmes 6 21 Cameron Wood 7 98 J. D. Eversole 8 00 Randy Emory 9 28 Ricky Gum 10 16 Wes Simmons 11 88 Josh Barefoot 12 02 Clint Gunn 13 12 Daniel Davis 14 8 Tommy Chambers 15 4 Kenny Miller

RACE SERIES

ARCA RACING SERIES TOLEDO SPEEDWAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

17 16 77 44 88 52 22 60 76 25 34 14 36

Chris Buescher Joey Coulter Tom Hessert Frank Kimmel Matt Crafton Ken Schrader Dakoda Armstrong Patrick Sheltra Jerick Johnson Mikey Kile Darrell Basham Chase Mattioli Robb Brent

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81 6 32 80 26 48 59 23 1 55 15 31 02 11 30 06 28 10 0

Craig Goess Kyle Fowler Justin Marks Tim Cowen Brad Smith Andrew Belmont Nick Igdalsky Rob Jones Chad McCumbee Steve Arpin AJ Frank Tim George Jr. Josh Williams Bryan Silas Terry Jones Tyler Miles Levi Youstert Marc Easton Wayne Peterson

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HICKORY MOTOR SPEEDWAY WearCrete Racing 150 1 10 Ryan Blaney 2 67 Jeff Fultz 3 9 Chase Elliott 4 66 Daniel Hemrick 5 51 TJ Reaid 6 15 Colt James 7 112 Augie Grill 8 35 Devin Jones 9 110 Danny Bagwell 10 711 Jimmy Doyle 11 5 Spencer Wauters 12 09 Randy Gentry 13 29 Allen Karnes 14 58 Don Young 15 23 Jimmy Weller 16 167 Tim Brown 17 17 Brandon Maloy 18 91 David Quackenbush

K&N Pro Series East & West, Iowa Speedway 1 18 Max Gresham 2 33 Ty Dillon 3 76 Darrell Wallace, Jr. 4 70 Corey LaJoie 5 17 David Mayhew 6 00 Ryan Truex 7 71 Eddie MacDonald 8 22 Jonathon Gomez 9 9 Kevin Swindell 10 20 Eric Holmes 11 1 Josh Richards 12 36 Chad Boat 13 21 Blake Koch 14 68 D.J. Shaw 15 30 Jeff Anton 16 27 Daryl Harr 17 02 Brett Moffitt 18 40 Matt Kobyluck 19 77 Miguel Paludo 20 4 Sergio Pena 21 65 Stan Silva, Jr. 22 39 Brennan Newberry 23 08 Joey Gase 24 2 Ryan Gifford 25 37 Andrew Smith 26 6 Luis Martinez, Jr. 27 60 Taylor Barton 28 35 Andrew Ranger 29 86 Brad Bennett 30 19 Josh Combs 31 61 Brett Thompson 32 63 John Salemi 33 88 Michael Self 34 16 Moses Smith 35 7 Greg Rayl 36 8 Mackena Bell 37 3 Wes Banks 38 84 Cole Whitt 39 26 Greg Pursley 40 11 Jason Patison 41 12 Paulie Harraka 42 7 Ryan Duff 43 24 Zach Germain 44 15 Jack Sellers

CRA: Ryan Blaney Leads Flag to Flag at Hickory By: CRA PR Staff

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ugie Grill set fast time for the CRA Southern Six Pack Tour WearCrete Racing 150 at Hickory Motor Speedway this past Sunday. He then drew a four for the invert putting 16 year old Ryan Blaney on the outside of the front row. Blaney used that position to take the lead on the

opening lap over Danny Bagwell by just a few inches, he then built that lead by as much as 10 car lengths and went on to lead every lap of the race for the win.

“I have to thank my Dad (Dave Blaney) for working so hard on my car this week.” Blaney stated in Victory Lane. “Our crate motor really helped today. The track was really slick, and these

crate motors don’t have enough horsepower to spin the tires so I was getting everything to the track.

It really worked out well today.”

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turn on lap 137 sending James spinning and both cars to the tail.

This moved Jeff Fultz up to second where he finished, Chase Elliott passed Daniel Hemrick for third as the two entered turn three coming to the checkered flag. Hemrick finishing fourth and T.J. Reaid finished fifth.

Reaid came from the tail to his fifth place finish after pitting late in the race under a caution flag for adjustments on the car. James and Grill came from the tail to finish sixth and seventh respectfully.

Devin Jones who finished eighth battled not only the cars on the track, but a flu bug that had been bothering him all day. He held on to finish on the lead lap.

Only four cars dropped out during the event. Racing in his first Super Late Model race Brandon Maloy dropped out after 105 laps when his radio quit working “I just wanted to get out of everyone’s way, without a radio I could have caused an accident.”

Maloy commented, drawing praise from fellow competitors

for his sportsmanship. David Quackenbush dropped out early after rear end problems. Tim Brown, eight time modified champion at Bowman-Gray Stadium and one of the stars of the Madhouse reality series, had a strong run going in his first time in a Super Late Model when he hit the wall hard in turn three after a part broke in the front suspension.

Jimmy Weller was running on the lead lap when his control arm came loose and he snapped backwards hitting the inside backstretch wall.

The WearCrete Racing with Jeff Fultz Fast Qualifier Award went to Augie Grill, the RaceTrailerSales.com Halfway Leader Award went to Blaney and the AR Bodies Cool Move of the Race Award went to Elliott for his move to pass Hemrick on the last lap.

The next event for the CRA Super Series is the Rowdy’s Revenge 251 at the Berlin Raceway on June 15. The event will feature 251 laps of racing as drivers compete for a possible $25,000 payday. For more information see www.craracing. net.

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CRA SERIES AT HICKORY MOTOR SPEEDWAY

A large crowd was left standing on their feet for most of the race at Newport Speedway Saturday night May 22. The 97 car of Wayne Webb lead the pack early in the 75 lap LMS race. The 7 car of Brandon Rogers, soon got by Webb to lead, but the 92 car of Dennis Queen (shown in 3rd) missed all the spins, crashes & wrecks and went on to win the action packed race.

an Blaney (winner , Jeff Fultz (2nd place), Ry are ht rig to t lef e: lan y place).

Shown in victor ry) and Chase Elliott (3rd for the CRA 150 at Hicko

The #5 car of Jesse Clark appeared to be the car to beat in the Street Stock Race Saturday night May 22 at Newport Speedway. However, the racing machine of Clark’s had a few mechanical issues and ended up finishing third. The #18 car of T. J. Williams turned out to be the stronger car for the night as he later crossed the stripe to take the checkered flag.

Joey Mull (not in photo) finished second.

The #66 car of Jeff Fultz, the eventual second place finisher ahead of the eventual third place finisher, the #9 car of Chase Elliott in the CRA 150 at Hickory Motor Speedway on May 23, 2010.

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The History Channel’s Mad House star Tim Brown in the #167 Car hit the wall hard in turn three, and came to rest in turn four. He was shook up a bit, but was fine. Brown ran in the CRA 150 at Hickory Motor speedway, May 23, 2010.

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NASCAR Whelen All-American Series at Langley Speedway

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Danny Edwards Jr. and Wesley Falk posted their first victories of the season, splitting the A.V.E.S. Twin 75s for the Crossroads Fuel Service Late Model Stock Cars, the headlining events of Saturday evening’s NASCAR Whelen All-American Series program at Langley Speedway.

Race #1: In the opener, Edwards started on the pole, at 89.243 mph, and led all the way, holding off C.E. Falk at the checkers to score a narrow win.

Woody Howard shared the front with Edwards for the start of the race and offered a brief challenge to the polesitter before settling into second. Mark Wertz emerged from the shuffle in third, followed by C.E. Falk and Greg Edwards.

Falk grabbed the third spot from Wertz on lap 4, only to see the move negated by the first caution flag, which waved for Dude Gibbs’ spin in Turn 4.

On the double-file restart, Edwards quickly cleared Howard, while Falk and Wertz battled side-by-side behind them. Wertz claimed third place on lap 6 and brought Greg Edwards along with him, dropping the defending division champ back to fifth.

Greg Edwards overtook Wertz for third on lap 8. This time, it was Falk who tagged along, moving into fourth on lap 9. Five laps later, Falk got the better of Edwards and grabbed third as they headed into Turn 1.

Meanwhile, at the front, Danny Edwards Jr. was easing away from Howard. By lap 22, he had stretched the margin to almost half a straightaway. An even greater gap separated Howard from Falk. The field was bunched, though, when the second caution flag flew on lap 22.

Back under green, Danny Edwards Jr. sailed off into Turn 1 with the clear-cut advantage,

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leaving Howard to scuffle with Falk for the runner-up spot. Falk nabbed the position on lap 23, then turned his attention to the leader, who was up by three lengths.

Up to the midway mark, Danny Edwards Jr. maintained a consistent three- to four-length margin over Falk. As the second half of the race began, though, traffic started to become a factor and Falk began to creep into contention.

Behind the lead duo, the battle for third was beginning to heat up between Howard and Greg Edwards. Edwards took the position on lap 54, only to see Howard return the favor on lap 62.

Back at the front, Danny Edwards Jr. had shaken free of the slower machines and widened his lead to five lengths. On lap 64, however, he began dealing with lapped cars again and Falk closed the gap. In the meantime, Howard and Greg Edwards renewed their duel with Edwards retaking third on lap 70.

The last of the race’s three caution flags flew on lap 73 when Jeff Shiflett and Matt Waltz tangled and Shiflett spun at the start/finish line.

For the final restart, the field launched in single-file formation with Falk nipping at the leader’s heels. In Turns 3 and 4, they made contact and Falk drove alongside, while Edwards chased his car up the banking.

Edwards and Falk were door-to-door for the last two circuits.

While Falk held the preferred inside lane, Edwards managed to generate enough momentum from the top side to hold him at bay.

At the finish, Danny Edwards Jr. was the winner by just 51-thousandths of a second - about three feet - over Falk. Greg Edwards was third, followed by Howard and Wertz. Wesley Falk headed up the second five, in sixth, while Casey Wyatt, Shiflett, Waltz and Gibbs completed the top 10.

In Victory Lane after the event, Edwards recounted the late-race tussle with Falk: He’s been tough, so that was to be expected.

I knew he was gonna be coming.

About lap 52, I started getting a little freer than I wanted and I was trying to ride and save what I could. We didn’t need that restart there at the end, but it was good to win that way.

We beat him fair and square, beat him to the line. It was tough. He got in my door a little bit there, tried to shove me up in the wall. Good, clean race, though. I’m just glad to be here.

Seems like it’s been forever since we made it to Victory Lane. Hopefully, we’ve got the car coming back our way. We’ve gotta get over here and work on it a little bit and see if we can get it a little bit better for the second race.

Race #2: In the nightcap, Wesley Falk took the lead for good on lap 55 and pulled away in the closing circuits to seal the victory.

The starting lineup for the second event was determined by the finishing order from the first race with an inversion of the top eight.

Jeff Shiflett landed on the pole with Wyatt alongside.

On the first try at a start, Shiflett spun his rear tires off the fourth corner and the field began to stack up. He was turned sideways and impacted the outside wall at the start/finish line as the other drivers scattered.

When the smoke cleared, the polesitter and his brother, Dean Shiflett, along with C.E. Falk, had all sustained damage and were heading to the pit lane. Wertz, meanwhile, took a vicious blow and was eliminated. Wesley Falk moved up to the pole as the field gathered for another try.

Under green for a second time, Jeff Shiflett, now at the back of the pack, spun at the start/finish line and the second yellow flag waved.

Finally under way, Wyatt nosed ahead of Wesley Falk to lead lap 1. Falk rallied on the second circuit and pushed his machine out front, then cleared Wyatt on lap 3.

Howard took over second, while Wyatt slipped to third.

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Greg Edwards slipped by Wyatt for third on lap 5 and Danny Edwards Jr. followed his brother’s cue on lap 6. At the front, Howard had drawn a bead on Wesley Falk and was hunting for the point.

Before the battle for the lead could develop further, though, the last of the race’s three caution flags flew on lap 11 for a four-car pileup in Turn 3. Involved were Rick Gdovic, Matt Waltz, Duane Shreeves and Jeff Shiflett, who completed a caution flag hat trick to bring his night to an early end.

On the double-file restart, Howard edged ahead of Wesley Falk to take over the lead. He cleared Falk’s #41 in Turn 1 on lap 12 and began to slip away. The Edwards brothers were a car-length behind Falk, while nearly half a straightaway separated fourth-place Danny Edwards Jr. and fifth-place Wyatt.

Kyle Waltz made his first appearance in the top five on lap 21, scooting ahead of Wyatt on the back straightaway. Meanwhile, at the front, Howard had opened a four-length gap over Falk, a margin he would maintain past the midway point.

With 41 laps on the board, Falk began to chip away at Howard’s lead. By lap 47, he had trimmed his deficit to just two lengths as slower traffic loomed ahead.

Howard cleared the lapped machines on the 52nd circuit, clinging to a lead of little more than a single car-length over Falk, who had the leader in his sights.

On lap 54, Falk ducked underneath Howard in Turn 4 and pulled even. The two dueled for a lap with Falk gaining the upper hand off the fourth corner on lap 55. Within four laps, he had opened a twolength edge.

With the laps winding down, Howard mustered one last push for the lead, pulling to within a car-length of Falk’s rear bumper. He slipped in Turn 4 on lap 68, though, and Falk darted away, ending the rally.

At the finish, Falk was the winner by 0.586-second ó about three lengths ó over Howard. Greg Edwards was third, followed by Danny Edwards Jr. and Kyle Waltz.

C.E. Falk, minus most of his front-end bodywork, was sixth, while Gibbs, Doug Warren, Dean Shiflett and Matt Waltz rounded out the top 10.

After receiving congratulations from his brother in the winner’s circle, Wesley Falk gave

a simple account of his drive to the victory: ìWe just fought hard the whole race. Kinda got put behind the 8-ball, getting stuck behind Woody after that restart and all, so we just kept our heads cool and we kept fighting and fighting and we finally caught him and made our move and we’re in Victory Lane. I just kept running my line and didn’t look in the rear-view mirror. Anthony told me don’t look back there. I got that.

And, we just fought hard and I just stayed out front, ran my line and we got the victory.î Looking forward to next Saturday night’s Budweiser 100, the support event for the USARacing Pro Cup Series’ Hampton 250, Falk said, ìWe’ve got a little bit more changes to do, but we should be ready.î In the evening’s other feature events: In the 40-lap Pepsi Grand Stock feature, Mark Claar grabbed the lead on a restart at lap 10 and rolled to his first win of the year.

Jammie Goode claimed the pole for the event, qualifying at 78.308 mph. Claar started on the outside of Row 1, but got freighttrained as the race began, falling all the way to fifth before finding a place in line.

At the front, Goode enjoyed a two-length lead over Robbie Parker, who was busy with a challenge from Paul Lubno.

Lubno took over second on lap 9 and brought Rodney Boyd along with him. A lap later, the first caution flag waved when Tommy Sweeney and Ricky Derrick tangled in Turn 3.

As the field bunched for the ensuing restart, Claar decided to test his luck on the outside of the race leader. He gave up the fifth spot in line and drove alongside Goode.

Back under green, the bid paid off as Claar edged ahead of Goode by half a car-length. He cleared Goode’s machine on lap 11 and eased away, while Lubno stepped up to challenge Goode for second.

Lubno and Goode traded the runner-up spot a couple times with Goode taking the position for good on lap 18. The tussle, though, allowed Claar to pad his lead to over half a straightaway.

May 27 - June 2, 2010

NOTES 17-Year-Old Chris Buescher Wins Menards 200 at Toledo

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ractice: check. Qualifying: check. The Menards 200 Presented by Federated Car Care at Toledo Speedway: Huge, emphatic, victorious check.

Chris Buescher led 126 of 200 laps in the No. 17 David Ragan Fan Club/Shriners Ford, including the final 76, to cruise to victory Sunday in the sixth race of the 2010 ARCA Racing Series Presented by RE/MAX and Menards season.

The 17-year-old Roush Fenway Racing development driver from Prosper, Texas became the 18th driver in 67 series races at the 0.5-mile oval to win from the pole, and in turn gave the Roulo Brothers yet another victory on a track that has provided much success.

"It's awesome.

Unbelievable, to say the least," Buescher said. "All the guys with the Roulo Brothers team, Roush Fenway, David Ragan, my parents, my family, were backing this. To be fastest in practice, qualify on the pole, and win the race, it's an ideal weekend."

The win is Buescher's sixth top-10 finish in just nine career ARCA Racing Series starts, and his first in two starts in 2010.

Buescher employed the assistance of Roush Fenway NASCAR Sprint Cup driver David Ragan on the spotter's stand.

"Just like I told everybody, he's a racer," Buescher said of Ragan. "He knows exactly what needs to happen, and you understand it more when you get several points of view. He was really able to point me in the right direction."

Buescher was quick to point out, however, that his mentor from NASCAR's top ranks was not the only voice to be thanked. "(Crew chief) Gary Roulo's on the radio just as much as my spotter. He really helped," he said.

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charge, closing to within a halfsecond of the lead, before finishing as the runner-up for the second consecutive ARCA Racing Series race at Toledo.

"We just had a great car.

We knew going into the race that we were going to have a good car," Coulter said. "We were patiently aggressive coming through there.

I was able to keep the tires pretty good, but we just used it up there at the end."

Buescher knew Coulter was a threat; as such, he kept his focus in front of him, not on the menace in his rear window.

"I didn't look in the mirror once," Buescher said. "I didn't want to see him. They were all on the radio saying, 'Get all you can get,' so I drove the wheels off that thing."

Buescher exploded from the pole and built a sizable advantage through the first 20 laps, before the race's second caution. Veteran Ken Schrader, who was making his first ARCA start of the season, wouldn't let Buescher away on the ensuing green flag, and eventually passed the youngster on the first turn of the 51st lap.

Schrader built his lead to just under a full second, but Buescher closed in as the race neared its halfway point. Contact between Patrick Sheltra, Tim George Jr., Robb Brent, Craig Goess, and A.J. Frank brought out a red flag just after the completion of Lap 100, and Tom Hessert took the lead when Schrader drove to the pits on the yellow flag that followed.

Buescher, who had fallen to fifth off of pit road, surged back to the point, overtaking Dakoda Armstrong on the backstretch of Lap 113. A crafty backstretch crossover move would give Buescher the advantage on Lap 125, and the lead was his for good.

Hessert maintained the second position until Lap 183,

when Coulter made the final pass on his surge to the front. Coulter's 1.727-second deficit to Buescher with 17 laps remaining fell to a halfcar-length advantage with just five laps to go, but victory was not to be. The finish was all too familiar for Coulter, who led 70 laps at Toledo last fall before finishing second to Justin Lofton.

Hessert finished third, and Frank Kimmel and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series veteran Matt Crafton - in his first ARCA Racing Series start - filled out the top five. Schrader, Armstrong, and Sheltra were the last three drivers to finish on the lead lap, and Jerick Johnson and Mikey Kile completed the top ten. The race was slowed by ten cautions.

Ragan, who traveled to northern Ohio only this morning after finishing sixth in last night's Sprint Showdown at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway, was quick to heap praise on the winning driver.

"That's a big win for myself, Gary Roulo, Roush Fenway. We'll give Jack Roush a call and let him know," Ragan said. "Chris Buescher did a nice job and he deserves it.

"It's my first win as a spotter. I guess if something doesn't work out driving, I'll have something to do. It's just a lot of fun to come back to the short track. It makes me wish I was out there but Chris did an excellent job."

Sheltra assumed the series points lead by 10 over previous leader Justin Marks, who lost

ground with a flat tire late in the race. Steve Arpin, Hessert, and Kile comprise the remainder of the top five through six races.

The ARCA Racing Series Presented by RE/MAX and Menards features 20 events at 17 tracks on its 2010 schedule.

The series has crowned an ARCA national champion each year since its inaugural season in 1953, and has toured over 200 racetracks in 28 states since its inception.

The series tests the abilities of drivers and race teams over the most diverse schedule of stock car racing events in the world, annually visiting tracks ranging from 0.4 mile to 2.66 miles in length, on both paved and dirt surfaces as well as left- and right-turn street and road courses.

Founded by John Marcum in 1953 in Toledo, Ohio, the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) is recognized among the leading sanctioning bodies in the country. Closing in on completing its sixth decade after hundreds of thousands of miles of racing, ARCA administers over 100 race events each season in two professional touring series and local weekly events.

UARA-STARS Newport Bound By: UARA-Stars PR Staff The UARA-STARS will hit the Newport Speedway Friday May 28, 2010 from 2 - 6 p.m. for practice and will follow that up with racing action on Saturday, May 29, 2010.

Racing along with the STARS will be the local divisions of Street Stock for 35 laps, Front Wheel Drive 25 laps and Legends 25 laps to make up a great night of racing excitement for the fans.

The UARA-STARS have had six races with six different winners already in 2010 and it could be any mans show at Newport as well. The Stars and the locals will battle it out to see who will bring home the checker in an action packed 150 lap event. Will there be a repeat winner or could winner number Your Racing News Source

seven be added to the list. Winners up to this point have been Shane Huffman, Clint King, Coleman Pressley, Brennan Poole, Kyle Grissom and Brandon McReynolds.

Dennis Queen and Junior Franks have pre registered for the UARA segment of the nights racing action. Queen and Franks each have a 2010 Newport win to their credit.

For more info visit www. uara-stars.com or call 828-6923833.

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he RTM series is the only IMCA-type modified tour in the region and brings the excitement and unique style of open-wheel racing to thousands of race fans. Each RTM event is 75 laps in length and is filled with side by side racing, deep rumbling engines, and edge-of-your-seat action that will have fans talking for weeks.

The Rolling Thunder Modifieds are committed to expand our presence in South Carolina and eventually into northern Georgia within the next few years. We have been blessed to race alongside some of the top series in America including, USAR Pro Cup (formerly Hooters Pro Cup) (May 1 - Hickory and June 12 South Boston), ISCARS Dash Touring Series (May 1 - Hickory) and PASS - Pro All Star Series (May 29 - Concord) and (August 28 – South Boston). Just being in the same paragraph with those tours is such an honor.

The top value in the Rolling Thunder Modifieds tour is the respect shown both on and off the track. These men race alongside one another constantly and understand and honor the roots of racing. It is not uncommon to see a wife or a girlfriend wiping off the last few pebbles from the Hoosier race tire so that her driver can do his best

and be safe. It is not uncommon for crew members to pay their own way into the race track to support his or her race team, just to stand in 100+ degree heat all day and all for the love of racing. It is not uncommon to for teams to drive for hours sleeping at rest stops in the cabs of their haulers.

The Rolling Thunder Modifieds have crowned 8 different champions since its inception in 1992 and most recently in 2009 when Ronnie Davis won his 3rd championship in the history of the tour. This year AJ Winstead and Joe Scarborough have both been to victory lane and are currently 1-2 in the points. Jimmy Humblet is currently third with 2 top 5’s, Rookie Trevor Edwards is fourth with 2 top 5’s and Rookie Chris Brown finishes out the Top 5. Cale Gale won the other Rolling Thunder Modified event at Orange County Speedway in his only appearance this season.

The Rolling Thunder Modifieds are poised to attack one of the most grueling schedules in years with 13 races currently on the schedule including two races at Langley Speedway and two races at South Boston Speedway, both venues in the area of the majority of the tour’s drivers. With races at former NASCAR tracks Hickory and North Wilkesboro the season will be one of the best ever!

The tour’s race at Old Dominion Speedway was rained out and has been rescheduled for June 26, 2010. The drivers noted that the banking makes the track really fast and look forward to settling

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the score in a few weeks. With races at Ace Speedway, Newport Speedway and Shenandoah Speedway following Old Dominion, the tour doesn’t get to rest for long as they then prepare for their second trip to South Boston. With a double point’s race at Coastal Plains Raceway before the second visit to Langley Speedway, the championship will still be in question as the modified tour heads to North Wilkesboro Speedway and Wilkes County to finally crown its champion for 2010.

With the majority of drivers from the Richmond, VA area this week’s race at Concord Motorsports Park with the PASS South Series will combine the best drivers from the Richmond area against the best from the Charlotte area. This will be the tour’s first visit to Concord Motorsports Park since 2007.

Rolling Thunder Modifieds Flagman Tommy Walls says, “It is a track that I grew up watching since I was 8 or 9 years old and although I have been involved in racing for over 47 years, I have never flagged at Concord. “ Tommy is most definitely looking forward to flagging at Concord this Saturday.

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Langley Speedway @

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AJ Winstead

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2010 Season Standings After race 3 of 13 Pos.

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Poles

Starts

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435

2

430

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AJ Winstead

1

3

0

3

93

Joe Scarbrough

1

3

2

3

3

380

11

Jimmy Humblet

0

2

0

3

4

325

32

Trevor Edwards

0

2

0

3

5

285

6

Chris Brown

0

0

0

3

6

265

5

Michael Leech

0

2

0

2

7

240

12

Robert Conner

0

1

0

2

8

220

43

Warren Lipford

0

0

0

2

9

195

42

Chris Hoylman

0

0

0

2

10

185

10

Doug Hammer

0

0

0

2

11

155

83

Cale Gale

1

1

1

1

12

125

8

Mike Hanbury

0

1

0

1

13

120

75

Johnny Petrozelle

0

0

0

1

13

120

0

Wayne Hartley

0

0

0

1

15

115

91

Dean Slappy

0

0

0

1

16

110

5

Todd Bradbury

0

0

0

1

17

105

26

Kenny Wilson

0

0

0

1

17

105

1

Edward Ditges

0

0

0

1

19

100

88

Marty Hanbury

0

0

0

1

19

100

73

Mike Tomlin

0

0

0

1

21

95

83

Scott Lawrence

0

0

0

1

21

95

55

Greg Burgess Sr.

0

0

0

1

21

95

13

Bobby June

0

0

0

1

24

90

77

Hunter Slayton

0

0

0

1

24

90

18

Greg Burgess Jr.

0

0

0

1

26

80

1

Anthony Kincaid

0

0

0

1

27

75

10

David Winslow

0

0

0

1

28

70

14

Ronnie Davis

0

0

0

1

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aturday night, Highland Rim Speedway hosted some of the spine tingling, wheel to wheel paint swapping action that has made it famous for nearly 50 years! The Chevettes started things with a 20 lap race. The race had some three wide action for the lead as well as a few near misses, but in the end, it was Paul Ramsey holding off the hard charges of John Vibbert for the win. The pair had a great two car run going all the way to the checkers.

Jeffery York was third with Phillip Lawrence taking the fourth spot.

Richard Ramsey was fifth.

A. J. Carlisi showed them how it was done in the Legends race. The 14 year old set fast time of the night and went on to lead every single lap of the race. The win was the second in as many attempts. Carlisi held off the 15 car by a fender at the line.

The Rim Runner race ran incident free until the final lap of the race. Donold Webb, Jr. led every single lap of the race with Justin Martin working the track behind him. Martin and Fast Time Winner Candice Taylor pulled up within striking distance on Webb in the final laps. As the trio circled the track for the final time, Taylor got into the wall on the back stretch bouncing off ending her night in a puff of smoke. Martin didn’t give up chasing Webb all the way to the checkers. Web b won the race by a wheel over Martin.

Joshua Johnson came home third.

Chris Allen and Kevin Figueroa were fourth and fifth respectively.

It took only seven laps for Fast Time Winner, Joey Williams to make his way to the top spot in the Front Wheel Drive Modified class. Once he was there, Williams checked out on the pack opening up an entire straight away over his nearest competitors. The race was behind Williams for second. Terry Hudson and Scott Conner had an all out duel to the stripe with Hudson taking the second spot by a bumper over Conner. Terry Duke was fourth followed by Erick Frost for fifth.

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returned to the Rim this week. It appeared to be Cole Williams’ race.

Williams had led nearly every single lap. But with 5 to go, Billy Christie and Ronnie Binkley got a run on Williams. Williams held his line as Binkley came to life in the final laps of the race. As the pair came around turn four for the checkered flag, the tangled and both spun. Christie seized the opportunity to floor it and pick up the win! Eldon Isenburg was second. Greg Gresham took third.

Frank Dye and early race leader Williams were fourth and fifth respectively.

Aaron Ashcroft made it two for two in the Challenger class. Ashcroft took the lead from Toby Tobitt at the restart on lap 12. With Ashcroft in the lead, Tobitt tried every corner to get his position back. Ashcroft won the race, his second in as many weeks. Fast Time Winner, Tobitt went home second. Early race leader, Sean Frederick was third.

Patrick Thomason wound up fourth followed by Michael Watson.

The Pro Truck Race was led by Bobby Wingo from flag to flag. But during a post race inspection, his truck was found to be too low awarding the win to Ryan Arms. The win was the first of the season for Arms. Matt Spurlock took second. Track officials and crews had to jump to action when Spurlock’s rotor caught fire after the race. Third went to Richard Hamilton with Ty Colbert coming in fourth.

Thomas Pannell ended his streak of bad luck with a win in the NorthCrest Medical Center Sportsman class. Pannell took the top spot on lap four and never let it go. The win was no easy one for him. Fast Time Winner, Howard Tucker kept the heat turned up high on Pannell as they rounded the track. Tucker came home second with Rick Stamper taking third. Jonathan Wilhite fell off the pace in the final laps but still came in fourth. Kyle Ivey took the fifth spot.

The Tracy Langston Ford Super Stock race is not one to

soon be forgotten. Jeff Belt took the driving duties over from an injured Clint Ivey. Belt and Roger “Little Man” Birdsong, Jr. started on the front row of the race and ran the first eleven laps wheel to wheel. As the pair looped the track, they came up on some traffic. The flagman gave the lay over flag, but not everyone was clear of the wheel to wheel racers.

As the leaders barreled down the front stretch, Birdsong gave the lapped car a bump sending him around and bringing out the caution. After a lengthy clean up, they were back underway with Birdsong finally taking the lead on lap 14. Birdsong came back after a disqualification last week to win this week. Charlie Briley was second with Belt coming away third. Danny Johnson and Willie Coats were fourth and fifth respectively.

Michael House swept the Hooters Late Model race. House used a bump and run move on Austin Brawley to take the lead on lap six. Three laps later the caution flew for a stalled car.

On the restart, House and Mike Barrett pulled away from the rest of the pack. At the line, House led the way with Barrett on his bumper for second. Brawley was a straightaway back for third. Wayne White and Hunter Willis finished out the top five.

The Pure Stock race came down to a two lap shoot out. Lee Ford, Tink Jackson and Mike Forsythe had a three way battle for the lead when a lapped car got in the mix, bringing out the yellow with just two laps to go.

On the restart, Ford held the lead with Jackson finishing a half a car length over Forsythe. Jackson took third. Michael Oldham was fourth with Terry Jackson finishing fifth.

Racing continues Saturday night with USA Motor & Machine Night. One lucky driver in each class will walk away with a $100 bonus compliments of USA Motor & Machine! The Pro Trucks will have a 50 lap race plus racing in 9 other classes. Check www. highlandrim.com or www.facebook. com/highlandrimspeedway for all the details.

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Pass South brings short track action to Charlotte Speed Week fans– for FREE! By: PASS South PR Staff Greater Charlotte is a Mecca for motorsports this week as thousands of race fans converge on the region for a nonstop week of motorsports mania. Races, shop tours, the popular Charlotte Speed Street activities and so much more make this a can’t miss week for hard core race fans.

In 2010 the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) will add another exciting element to racing’s version of Woodstock with the addition of a 150 lap Pro All Stars Series super late model race on Saturday May 29 at the well known Concord Speedway, just up the road from the “Big Track”. The fifth race of the PASS South racing season will bring together the fastest short track drivers and cars from throughout the southeast to challenge the track that’s billed as the world’s fastest ½ mile tri-oval.

It would be a great show for a twenty dollar bill, but Pro All Stars President Tom Mayberry has shocked the racing world by offering FREE GENERAL ADMISSION tickets to the 8,000 seat speedway. All you have to do to gain admission is print off the race ticket at www.proallstarsseries.com or www.concordmotorsportpark. com . The only charge will be a reasonable ten dollars for parking, regardless of how many race fans are in the car.

“It’s a pretty tough time for our country as a whole, and we felt that a promotion like this would b e a great way to introduce this exciting brand of racing to a new group of fans, and say thank you to everyone

that have supported PASS in our first ten years of existence,” said Mayberry.” Our drivers and teams put on one of the best racing shows in the country, and we hope that a capacity crowd will take advantage of this opportunity to see them in action.”

The PASS super late models feature 100% green flag racing for the advertised distance as well as double file restarts throughout the event, adding two very exciting elements to their races.

Preston Peltier leads the point standings after four events with third generation racer Ryan Blaney, Heath Hindman, Jay Folgleman and Andy Loden close behind.

Time trials are set for Saturday May 29 at 5:00 PM. Heat racing goes green at 7:00 PM and an on track driver’s meet and greet session takes place at 8:00 PM, followed b y the PASS 150. The Rolling Thunder modifieds join PASS for this special event The address for Concord Speedway is 7940 U.S. Hwy 601 South in Concord, North Carolina, a fifteen minute drive from Charlotte Motor Speedway. Visit the speedway on line at www. concordmotorsportspark.com .

The Pro All Stars Series web site is www.proallstarsseries. com . Visit the site for entry lists, schedules and your FREE printable Concord Speedway tickets.A list of locations where free tickets may be picked up in the greater Charlotte area is posted as well.

May 27 - June 2, 2010

John Gibson Knocking On Victory, Point Lead Door Heading To Langley Speedway For Hampton Virginia 250

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ince joining the USARacing Pro Cup Series in 2006, John Gibson has always fielded a car that performed well, but Lady Luck seemed to never want to visit the Springfield, Mo., native. That, however, isn’t the case this year.

Heading into Saturday’s Hampton Virginia 250 at Langley Speedway, Gibson is not only close to scoring his first career USAR Pro Cup Series victory, but taking the point lead as well.

“I feel like if we could get ahead of Clay [Rogers, standings leader] in one of these races and lead some laps and finish a few spots ahead of him, we could

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In the season’s first four races, Gibson hasn’t finished outside the top 10. In fact, he’s placed outside the top four only once and he took second at New Smyrna [Fla.] Speedway in his Mitigator Ford Fusion. The 25-yearold Gibson readily admits it’s the best start he’s had to a season since he joined the series.

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runs, but we’ve always ended up having some bad luck,” the Statesville, N.C., resident said.

“Like a couple of years ago in the first race at Lakeland [Fla.] we were running in the top 5, someone missed a shift in front of us with 20 (laps) to go and we got caught up in a wreck. It just always seems like we have these good runs, but not had the luck that usually needs to come with it.

“This year, it’s all kind of come together. We’ve known we were capable of running this way for quite some time, but we just haven’t had the luck to go with it. The way we ended last year where we knocked off seven straight top 10s (before finishing 17th in the season finale) I knew we could come into this year running that well if we could keep the momentum going. I think some people are surprised (at our performance), but everybody with our team isn’t because we’ve known that we can run this way.

“I’ll admit I was kinda surprised at Gresham, first race of the year, that we led 50 laps and finished third. It kinda caught me off guard because I didn’t think we’d hit the ground running that quick, but we’ve been able to use some pit strategy a couple of times and we’ve caught the breaks that we needed. It’s been a good year so far and we’re just hoping we can keep it going.”

Gibson cites acquiring Jody Lavender as his crew chief and a second car, as well as a change in the team’s luck, as instrumental in the team’s good performances this year. However, the 0.395-mile, slightly-banked Langley Speedway could present Gibson with his Your Racing News Source

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Gibson describes Langley as being “one of my worst tracks” last year even though he finished 10th and seventh, respectively.

“For some reason, last year I just didn’t get around that track that well,” Gibson said. “I think we can be decent there, but we’re just going to have to work on it a little bit. It’s a fun track and I absolutely love going there and racing because the fans pack that place. We had that four-wide finish there last year, so I really like racing there. It makes it more

fun for us when you come around on the frontstretch and you see that place packed. It’s a pretty neat place. To pass somebody, you either have to show a lot of patience or put the chrome horn to them, but it’s a fun place to get around. I just need to get around it a little better.”

Saturday’s USAR Pro Cup Series action begins at noon with qualifying at 4:30 p.m. Fans will have the opportunity to meet the drivers during an autograph session at 5:45 p.m. The May 29 race begins at 7 p.m.

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Max Effort Gets It Done In The End

Gresham edges fellow rookie Dillon at the line for Iowa victory

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ax Gresham got the better run off Turn 4 of the final lap - just barely - and beat Ty Dillon to the finish line by .039 seconds to win Sunday's Goodyear Dealers of Iowa 200 at Iowa Speedway. It was the second straight win for the 17-year-old from Griffen, Ga., who added his name to an impressive list of past winners of the annual combination race between the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and West.

Joey Logano (2007), Brian Ickler (2008) and Kyle Busch (2009) are past winners of the event, which ended with a greenwhite-checkered finish in front of a crowd of 20,414.

"That's a very elite group of winners and I'm glad to add my name to it," Gresham said. "I really didn't want to see that last restart because I had a pretty good lead.

We were battling with (LaJoie) and (Dillon) and three wide heading into Turn 1. The next lap (Dillon) and I battling really close and rubbing is racing. That was a close finish."

The top four finishers were all East rookies with Darrell Wallace Jr. in third, followed by LaJoie.

David Mayhew finished fifth overall and was credited with a West win as the series' top finisher. It's

Mayhew's third career win - all at Iowa. He was the top finishing West driver at Iowa last May and won the subsequent West stand-alone event in the fall.

On the final restart, Dillon drove to the inside of leaders Gresham and Corey LaJoie to make it three-wide as they crossed the line to take the white flag. Dillon and Gresham continued side-by-side for the entire final lap with Gresham taking the checkered flag first by just a few feet.

"I can't thank Dillon enough for racing me clean," Gresham said.

"I went to the inside, but (Gresham) was able to get a good run from the high side," Dillon said.

"Coming out of (Turn) 4, he had that momentum going coming off the high side and we were so bogged down after dive-bombing into one."

Dillon had a slow qualifying run and started 39th in the 44-car field, but slowly worked his way to the front.

"We put oursleves in a hole. We were just trying to play it smooth, work our way up through there and have a good pit stop which we did," Dillon said. "We've had a rough start to the season.

This is awesome for us. We'll get a win."

Max Gresham (18) edges Ty Dillon (33) for the win.

Photo Credit: Meg Bestell-Eide

Likewise, LaJoie started 21st and was in contention for the win on the final restart. After they went three wide, he lost the leaders and then Wallace was able to get by for third.

For Wallace, who won the East opener at Greenville (S.C.) Pickens Speedway but wrecked the following week at South Boston (Va.) Speedway, Iowa was a perfect way to bounce back.

"It was pretty crazy; I'll tell you that," Wallace said. "I told myself not to give up too much in three coming to the checkered flag.

I held them down there, and was able to pick off Mayhew and LaJoie and get a third-place finish."

Racing was three-wide for the lead going into the final lap at Iowa. Photo Credit: Dave Puumala

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Ryan Truex, Eddie MacDonald, Jonathon Gomez, Kevin Swindell and Eric Holmes rounded out the top 10 in Sunday's race.

The Iowa race is one of the showcase events for the NASCAR K&N Pro Series, which is the top step on the NASCAR developmental series ladder, and there were plenty of future stars on display. Gresham is a Joe Gibbs Development driver, giving the organization three victories at Iowa. Dillon, 17, is the grandson of NASCAR Sprint Cup car owner Richard Childress.

Wallace, 16, drives for Revolution Racing as part of the Drive for Diversity initiative with NASCAR and is also a JGR development driver. LaJoie, 18, is the son of twotime NASCAR Nationwide Series champion Randy LaJoie. And Mayhew, 28, has ties with Kevin Harvick, Inc. The win allowed Gresham to take over the East points lead over defending series champion Truex, 469-456. Wallace moved to third. Cole Whitt, who entered the race with the points lead and led 31 laps, dropped to fourth when a transmission issue ended his day on Lap 139.

Ryan Gifford was second in the points but struggled to a 24thplace finish, ending his run of five consecutive top five finishes. He fell to fifth in the points standings.

Mayhew led the first 72 laps and a race-high 86 overall.

Pit stop strategy, however, cost

him the lead and he was unable to work his way back to the front.

He did take over the West points lead, though, with his finish and Greg Pursley's misfortune. Pursley hit the Turn 2 wall while running second on Lap 130. The two had begun the weekend with the same points total, with Pursley in first on the tiebreaker. Mayhew now leads Holmes, 510-453, with Pursley back in third with 432.

Jonathon Gomez and Josh Combs round out the top five in points.

Brett Moffitt, Gresham's JGR teammate and a native of nearby Grimes, Iowa, led 54 laps.

But he wound up 17th after he wrecked on Lap 195. He and LaJoie made contact battling for second when they made contact coming out of Turn 2. That incident set up the final restart.

Two-time NASCAR Canadian Tire Series champion Andrew Ranger made his series regular-season debut and finished 28th. He had previously competed in the postseason NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown twice.

The race will air on SPEED on Thursday, May 27 at 1 p.m.

ET. The West will return to the track at Douglas County Speedway in Roseburg, Ore. on June 5, while the East next races at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway on June 6.

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and three more times by Reed Center, a research and education Sorensen (who drove it Saturday Cup Series driver Hermie Sadler institution which seeks to in Nashville) in April Nationwide and his brother Eliot Sadler, his month Braun Racing improve the lives of those with who Series races. currently drives and Dollar General in the Nationwide are developmental disorders, and Series, also contributed to the launching an extensive pledged their support for autism There may have been many campaign to raise awareness Jamie McMurray Foundation of research and for the center’s in reasons that Braun Racing autism and garner support 2007, lobbying with McMurray selected mission. for the No. 32 Dollar General team autism research. Their efforts to raise funds. Hermie Sadler, to are race for additional contributions. the latest of many by NASCAR whose daughter Halie Dru has To the outsider, however, these Firstly, Vickers and Sorenson drivers, teams, and tracks to been diagnosed as autistic, – focus who efforts might seem like mere has led finished 0.199 seconds behind on benefiting those diagnosed many efforts to raise awareness formalities with of of another perfunctory Kevin Harvick to claim second autism and informing the public and support for autistic individuals pro sports charitable program. place in Saturday’s Nashville and their families. about the neurodevelopmenta 300 And the Braun Racing and l – Dollar have been successful condition. throughout General campaign may not their careers at the tracks on seem After the 2007 campaign, he which any different from the intermittent they are stressed the importance of The Braun Racing-Dollar charitable programs educating scheduled to General campaign will the public about autism. in most other start in April “Now, for us it’s about educating last throughout the sports.

But Nationwide the other people about autism so month of April, which that seasoned race when we take Halie to different is Autism Awareness Series fan will likely places and she doesn’t act Month, incorporating competition. like a recall a slew of More normal eight-year-old child would World Autism NASCAR outreach in a public setting people might Awareness Day on importantly, efforts every however, year, is understand why she does April 2. Each of remembering far crew chief those things, instead of Braun Racing’s more than the Trent Owens’s just assuming she’s four Nationwide handful mandated passion an ill-behaving Series cars – the by the tacit codes for rallying child,” Sadler No. 38 Great of pro sports support for said.

Clips Toyota, protocol. autism research and awareness. the No. 10 Owens, whose two-year-old “That’s ABF/Beringer son Indeed, NASCAR has been involved kind Vineyards Toyota, was diagnosed with autism last in numerous service and outreach year, was thrilled to hear about the No. 11 Dollar the efforts, including recent programs campaign.

General Toyota, targeting diversity among NASCAR and the No. 32 drivers, crews, and owners; “I was really excited to hear about animal Dollar General welfare; wildlife conservation; Dollar General’s partnership Toyota – will don with support for the disabled; children’s Autism Speaks,” he said. the Autism Speaks “There health, education, and well-being; are still so many unknowns blue puzzle piece with and many other areas. this disorder, which as a parent logo during the of a child with autism is one of month to promote the the That said, it should come as biggest challenges. There are campaign. still no surprise that this month’s a lot of ‘why’s’ and ‘how’s’ and campaign for autism awareness this organization is dedicated to isn’t the first in NASCAR. funding research into answering Far from it. In April 2007, those questions. Every trip to Jamie McMurray, whose Victory Lane is special, but eleven-year-old niece has putting the No. 32 car into Victory been diagnosed with Lane during Autism Awareness autism, partnered with Month will make it extra special, the charitable NASCAR thanks to Dollar General and their Foundation for an auction, generosity.” with the proceeds going to the Jamie McMurray Foundation to benefit Autism Speaks. Former Nationwide and

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Reigning Champion Ronnie Clifton of Walkertown took the checkered in the second Sportsman race of last event, boosting him from 14th up to 7th in the points, and Pinnacle resident Barry Edwards’ third and fourth place finishes move him from ninth up to fourth in the points.

The K&N Filters Street Stock 50, the longest and most prestigious race of the season for the 104.1 WTQR Street Stock Series, was postponed due to rain on Saturday. Last season’s Rookie-of-the-Year Zack Clifton of Walkertown had the fastest qualifying lap. After the top six qualifiers redrew for starting position, veteran Doug Wall plucked the pole as his starting spot.

In the Time Warner Cable Stadium Stock Series, one of the scheduled two races was completed on Saturday. However, the rain postponed the completion of the second race, meaning that the points races won’t be updated until after this Saturday’s racing.

This Saturday is the

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In addition, Dollar General has made a generous contribution to Autism Speaks, the nation’s largest autism research and support organization, and will make additional donations of the same amount after each race won during the month by Braun Racing’s No. 32 Dollar General car, which will be driven once by Brian Vickers

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of what our job is, and what autism from the committee, fans at awareness month is all about. individuals, families, and society; The this year’s event will have the funds that you raise are great, assistance in passing legislation but chance to make a contribution the awareness of the disease to to extend benefits to those is Autism Speaks on race day. with really what it’s all about.”

Each autism; and provisions for those person who turns in a voucher who offer help and instruction upon purchasing their ticket Currently, NASCAR and race will to family members of autistic tracks automatically have a portion of around the country offer fans individuals. many their ticket cost donated to Autism ways to educate themselves about Speaks. Fans can get a copy autism and to show their support of Events such as those held in the voucher online, beginning for those diagnosed. Fans across in conjunction with Autism Speaks July, at the Carolinas Walk the nation can Now at HMS and programs like the make contributions one online through the Jamie McMurray for Autism Speaks website (www. started walknowforautismspeaks.org/ Foundation (jamiemcmurray.com recently / carolinas). foundation), and are likely to

by Braun find local tracks at which they can Racing Funds raised for Autism Speaks to make contributions to Autism and Dollar at HMS this year will be donated Speaks and learn more about to the Autism Speaks Charlotte autism spectrum disorders.

Chapter through HMS’s “Team Hickory” group at One regional track that will afford a walk fans in the southeast these opportunities this year is Hickory Motor Speedway (www. hickorymotorspeedway. com). Firstly, HMS is giving a portion of the proceeds from every issue of SpeedWeekly sold at the track each week to the Autism Speaks Charlotte for the Carolinas event to be held Chapter.

General make many fans, drivers, do at Charlotte Motor Speedway for starting charitable programs. on owners, including Braun Racing worldwide, including one in In any sport, though, the fans October 9. Over 8,000 supporters 110 Second, the track will host must children, who owner Todd Braun, proud to have autism. This be play were just on hand as important to help raise a role more in the Autism Speaks Night associated with NASCAR and year fans get the chance to auto shaping public perception as than $400,000 at last year’s stand the Walk. racing. at the Races, tentatively behind NASCAR and local tracks athletes, owners, coaches, Fans can make contributions and to scheduled for August as they work to raise autism league officials. Loyal, respectful, Autism Speaks, support walkers, “We are very proud to join 28. Last year, the awareness. In the process, Dollar and philanthropic fans have and register for the Walk at the General in creating awareness first year HMS held fans can show the public what of earned Carolinas NASCAR Walk Now for Autism and auto racing autism,” Todd Braun said. “Working the event, members racing and its followers are their reputation for kindness Speaks webpage (listed above). all and together, we can bring more from a Walk Now about, and support research generosity every bit and as much as attention to this disorder and for Autism Speaks education on an increasingly help charitable owners, drivers, By contributing to Autism Speaks, and to raise funds for Autism Speaks committee gave common and little-understood officials have. fans aren’t supporting merely which supports fans information disorder. autism research a single cause. Rather, their and advocacy.” about autism Beginning this month and donations will benefit a network and the work Every twenty minutes, on continuing through the year, of Autism-related causes targeted And fans, drivers, and owners done by Autism average, another family receives have NASCAR and many local

by Autism Speaks, including tracks every reason to be proud of Speaks. In news that their child has autism. the like Hickory Motor Speedway support for research into autism’s sport, especially considering addition Autism Speaks is asking race the are stepping up their efforts causes, treatments, prevention, and numerous other sports which to getting fans for help. It’s our turn to make to support the estimated potential cure; aid for increasing 1.5 headlines more often for arrests information listen. million Americans, including awareness of autism’s affects one on and fights and scandals than they in 70 boys, and tens of millions

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a fifth place finish by Tim Brown puts him only one point behind Myers.

As if the points race wasn’t tight enough, Lee Jeffreys’ win on Saturday moves him up to tie Brown for second in the points – putting him within easy striking distance of the points lead. Jeffreys has made it his aim to show that he’s as strong of a competitor as the drivers who receive so much attention on television – and moving this close to the points lead has certainly done that.

In the Webb Heating & A/C Co. Sportsman Series, hard-charging Derek Stoltz of Walkertown fought his way through the field to claim an 11th- and second-place finish on Saturday, strengthening his points lead.

Ryan Robertson of Winston-Salem moves up to second with a ninth and an eighth place finish. Michael Adams of Yadkinville drops down to third in the points after finishing 18th and 9th.

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urt Myers started off last season at Bowman Gray Stadium with a streak of mechanical problems and bad luck, putting the Walnut Cove resident behind in the points race. He came on strong at the end of the season but could never overcome the points gap between him and Tim Brown of Cana, VA. Now in 2010, Myers is smiling. Three races into the season, he’s passed Tim Brown for the points lead in the Bill Plemmons RV World Modified Series. Myers qualified third in the first scheduled 25-lapper last Saturday, while Brown only managed a sixth place qualifying effort.

As the race started, Myers darted past Randy Butner of Pfafftown to claim second – and then proceeded to put the pressure on pole-starter Lee Jeffreys of Wallburg. Jeffreys would defend the lead, giving Myers a second-place finish.

The performance allowed Myers to claim the points lead. But

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fast and furious USG Modified 50 for the Bill Plemmons RV World Modified Series. The top 6 qualifiers will redraw for starting position, and the DoubleFile “Choice” Restart Rule will be in effect. The action-packed night, featuring racing for all four divisions, is presented by 100.3 the Buzz – and don’t forget about the 109 U-Pull-It Chain Race at the end of the night. Gates open at 6:00 for practice, qualifying begins at 7:10, and the first race begins at 8:00 PM – this Saturday night.

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