NASCAR Number
By Bill Marx
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service
(May 31, 2010)
3: Consecutive years the Busch brothers, Kurt and Kyle, have won consecutive races in the Sprint Cup Series. Kyle won at Dover on May 16, and Kurt won Sunday at Charlotte. (For good measure, Kurt also won the non-points Sprint All-Star Race in between on May [...]
Greg Biffle continued his strong start to the 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series with a sixth-place finish Saturday in the Scotts Turf Builder 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Biffle ran in the top 10 all race long and paced the field for 44 laps en route to his third top-10 finish of the season. After leaving [...]
Some news tidbits from the world of NASCAR:
11 — Consecutive top-five finishes for Jeff Gordon in Cup Series races at Martinsville Speedway, site of this week’s Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500.
Except for a sixth-place finish in April 2004, Gordon has 13 top-fives, — including two wins — in his past 14 Cup races at the [...]
Justin Allgaier grabbed the first win of his NASCAR career Saturday by passing teammate Brad Keselowski on a late restart, then holding him off over the closing laps at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Allgaier, last year’s Nationwide Series rookie of the year, had to hold his line over the final 27 laps to keep Keselowski from passing [...]
Below is the starting grid for the 2010 Food City 500, which takes place on Sunday from Bristol Motor Speedway:
POS
CAR
DRIVER
MAKE
SPONSOR
SPEED
TIME
BEHIND
1
20
Joey Logano
Toyota
The Home Depot
124.630
15.396
Leader
2
2
Kurt Busch
Dodge
Miller Lite
123.857
15.492
-0.096
3
66
Dave Blaney
Toyota
Prism Motorsports
123.850
15.493
-0.097
4
48
Jimmie Johnson
Chevrolet
Lowe’s
123.817
15.497
-0.101
5
24
Jeff Gordon
Chevrolet
DuPont
123.698
15.512
-0.116
6
42
Juan Montoya
Chevrolet
Target
123.626
15.521
-0.125
7
17
Matt Kenseth
Ford
Crown Royal
123.499
15.537
-0.141
8
99
Carl Edwards
Ford
Scotts
123.403
15.549
-0.153
9
47
Marcos Ambrose
Toyota
Little Debbie
123.308
15.561
-0.165
10
00
David Reutimann
Toyota
Aaron’s Dream Machine
123.269
15.566
-0.170
11
14
Tony Stewart
Chevrolet
Office Depot / Old Spice
123.245
15.569
-0.173
12
98
Paul Menard
Ford
Pittsburgh Paints / Menards
123.166
15.579
-0.183
13
5
Mark Martin
Chevrolet
GoDaddy.com
123.103
15.587
-0.191
14
31
Jeff Burton
Chevrolet
Caterpillar
122.929
15.609
-0.213
15
11
Denny Hamlin
Toyota
FedEx Express
122.906
15.612
-0.216
16
38
David Gilliland
Ford
Taco Bell
122.898
15.613
-0.217
17
1
Jamie McMurray
Chevrolet
Bass Pro [...]
Colin Braun will be adding a familiar logo onto his No. 16 Ford this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway.
As part of the partnership between Ford Driving Skills For Life and Braun, the Ford DSFL logo will appear on Braun’s uniform and the No. 16 Con-way Freight Ford for the remainder of the 2010 season. Braun [...]
Some news tidbits from the world of NASCAR:
Joe Nemechek and the guys on his Cup and Nationwide series teams are competing among themselves and against their fans in an NCAA Tournament Bracket Challenge.
The challenge, which can be found on NEMCO Motorsports’ Web site — www.nemcomotorsports.com/brackets.htm — allows fans to enter their bracket picks and track [...]
Eliminate Boris Said and Michael McDowell from the entries for the 2010 Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway this weekend, but add David Stremme and Michael Waltrip to the mix.
As of this post, 45 entries have been submitted for the race. Stay tuned to Your Track Pass nwhen the entry list and more Bristol [...]
50 entries, including the recent addition of Scott Wimmer, have been submitted for the NASCAR Nationwide Series Scotts Turf Builder 300 this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway.
In the above number of entries, eleven of them are full-tme Sprint Cup drivers. Below is the current list of entries entered for the 2010 Scotts Turf Builder 300:
Entry [...]
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