Race Recap: Kurt Busch Wins Shootout at New-Look Daytona

by | Feb 13, 2011 | NASCAR

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Budweiser Shootout winner Kurt Busch got it right—Daytona is a whole new game.

With a push from 2010 Daytona 500 winner Jamie McMurray, Busch won Saturday night’s season-opening exhibition race when Denny Hamlin drew a black flag for passing below the yellow out-of-bounds line as the cars approached the finish.

Hamlin, who was inches ahead at the stripe, was demoted to 12th for the infraction and scored as the last car on the lead lap.
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RYAN PREECE READY TO CHALLENGE FOR SK MODIFIED® TITLE IN 2011 AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY

by | Feb 12, 2011 | Connecticut, Stafford

RYAN PREECE READY TO CHALLENGE FOR SK MODIFIED® TITLE IN 2011 AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY

(Stafford Springs, CT)—After moonlighting in the SK Modified® division at
Stafford Motor Speedway during the 2010 season, Ryan Preece has a full
schedule lined up for the 2011 season and he is ready to be a contender for
the 2011 track championship. Preece will run the full 2011 season at
Stafford in the same #40 Chassis Dynamics car that he drove last season for
Mike Paquette, Bob Hitchcock and Kelly Iverson, but the car will have a
fourth partner. Jean-Guy Poulin, who won the SK Modified® championship in
2008 as a car owner with Keith Rocco and in 2009 as a sponsor of Ted
Christopher, will supply the #40 team with engines for the 2011 season. The
car will also carry sponsorship from Sullivan and Sons for the 2011 season.
“We’re going to run the full season with the same deal as we had last
season,” said Preece. “Jean-Guy Poulin is coming on board with us to supply
us with a motor. We ran Jean’s motor for the last three races of 2010, and
it’s a real good motor.”
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