by Jay | Mar 28, 2011 | NASCAR
Busch Dominates, but Settles for Solid Third-Place Finish at Fontana
Interstate Batteries Team Leads Race-High 151 Laps, Gains Two Spots in the Standings
Date: March 27, 2011
Event: Auto Club 400 (Round 5 of 36)
Series: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Location: Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. (2-mile oval)
Start/Finish: 8th/3rd (Running, completed 200 of 200 laps)
Winner: Kevin Harvick of Richard Childress Racing (Chevrolet)
Kyle Busch dominated Sunday’s Auto Club 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., leading five times for a race-high 151 laps. But despite the strong effort, the driver of the No. 18 Interstate Batteries Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) couldn’t hold off the hard charges of Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick in a nine-lap shootout to the finish, and he wound up third.
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by Jay | Mar 28, 2011 | NASCAR
NSCS Race Recap: Last-Lap Pass Gives Harvick Win at Fontana
FONTANA, Calif.—Hometown boy (finally) makes good.
Kevin Harvick, who grew up in Bakersfield—about 150 miles from Auto Club Speedway—needed a last-lap pass of Jimmie Johnson to win for the first time at the 2-mile track, in his 18th attempt.
Harvick won Sunday’s Auto Club 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, powering his No. 29 Chevrolet to the outside of Johnson’s No. 48 Chevy through Turns 3 and 4 and beating Johnson to the finish line by .144 seconds.
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by Jay | Mar 28, 2011 | Road Racing
FRANCHITTI DOMINANT IN HONDA GRAND PRIX OF ST. PETERSBURG VICTORY
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — There are multiple advantages to starting on the front row on IZOD IndyCar Series road/street course. In the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, one was avoiding the six-car pile-up in Turn 1 of the first lap.
Dario Franchitti and pole sitter Will Power were among those who kept their cars’ noses clean at the start and subsequent side-by-side restarts through 100 laps on the 1.8-mile, 14-turn street circuit by the bay, and that’s the way they completed the season opener.
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by Jay | Mar 28, 2011 | NEMA, New England
NEMA Lites’ Jake Stergios is World Class Sim Racer
BY MARK McKEON
CHESTER, VT – NEMA Lite Midgets racer Jake Stergios of Candia, NH recently returned from Hannover Germany where he finished fifth in the Intel GP World Finals, a computer based simulated racing event organized by iRacing.com.
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by Jay | Mar 27, 2011 | Connecticut, Stafford
5-TIME SK MODIFIED® CHAMPION BOB POTTER RECALLS INAUGURAL CARQUEST TECH-NET SPRING SIZZLER AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY
(Stafford Springs, CT)—When the green flag falls on the CARQUEST Tech-Net
Spring Sizzler on May 1st this year, it will mark the start of the 40th
edition of “The Greatest Race In The History of Spring.” The CARQUEST
Tech-Net Spring Sizzler is the longest continuous running event on the
Whelen Modified Tour calendar and the Sizzler has had some of the biggest
and best names in modified racing find their way to CARQUEST Victory Lane.
The Spring Sizzler was born in 1972 with Dr. Dick Berggren, Lew Boyd, and
Bruce Cohen putting the race together at a time when all the prestigious
events were held in the fall. Their new idea for a major race in the
springtime was an overwhelming success with over 100 cars in the paddock
area and an overflow crowd of 11,500 packing the Stafford grandstands. Jack
Arute purchased the rights to the race from Berggren, Boyd, and Cohen after
that inaugural Sizzler and it has been the showcase event of the Stafford
schedule every year since.
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by Jay | Mar 27, 2011 | Connecticut, New England, Stafford
CARQUEST BELTS & HOSE PIT PARTY TO USHER IN 2011 SEASON AT STAFFORD MOTOR SPEEDWAY
(Stafford Springs, CT)—The CARQUEST Belts & Hose Pit Party is a Stafford
Speedway tradition that has spanned the better part of two decades, with the
first Pit Party taking place during CARQUEST Fall Final Weekend on September
30, 1990. The CARQUEST Belts and Hose Pit Party tradition will continue at
Stafford on Sunday, May 1st as part of the 40th Annual CARQUEST Tech-Net
Spring Sizzler pre-race festivities.
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by Jay | Mar 27, 2011 | NASCAR
KYLE BUSCH CONTINUES WINNING STREAK AT AUTO CLUB SPEEDWAY
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, Calif. (March 26, 2011) – A risky pit decision paid off for Kyle Busch and his No. 18 Z-Line Designs Toyota on Saturday during the Royal Purple 300 NASCAR NNS race at the Auto Club Speedway as Busch finished victorious by .713 seconds for the third consecutive race and fifth time in six starts.
Busch spoiled the day for pole-sitter Carl Edwards (No. 60 Roush Fenway Racing Ford) and Kevin Harvick (No. 33 Rheem Pool and Spa Heaters Chevrolet), who battled all day and led for a combined 112 of 150 laps of the race and finished second and third, respectively.
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by Jay | Mar 27, 2011 | Road Racing
POWER EARNS POLE FOR HONDA GRAND PRIX OF ST. PETERSBURG
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Saturday, March 26, 2011) – For the second consecutive year, Will Power earned the PEAK Performance Pole Award for the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.
Power, driving the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske car, posted a quick lap of 1 minute, 01.9624 seconds (the quickest of the weekend) with 2:15 left in the 10-minute Firestone Fast Six shootout for his 11th IZOD IndyCar Series pole. He set a series record last season with eight.
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by Jay | Mar 26, 2011 | Video
The final 8 laps of the Buddy’s Home Furnishing Blizzard Series opener at Five Flags Speedway (FL). Augie Grill, Grant (more…)
by Jay | Mar 26, 2011 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series
Cody Hodgson: NASCAR K&N Pro Series East
Greenville Pickens Speedway Race Preview
Cody Hodgson of Escalon, Calif., makes his NASCAR K&N Pro Series East debut in the Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet 150 at Greenville Pickens Speedway in Greenville, S.C., on Saturday, March 26. The Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate joins Dave Davis Motorsports to tackle the entire 12-race schedule in 2011. A two-time WKA Grand National Champion in the go-kart ranks with some experience in regional Late Models and Formula 3 open-wheel cars, this marks the 19-year-old Hodgson’s first full-time foray into stock car racing. Though he has never competed at any of the 10 tracks on the K&N Pro Series East schedule, he did test at Greenville Pickens with Dave Davis Motorsports earlier this month.
WHO: Cody Hodgson, Escalon, Calif.
TEAM: Dave Davis Motorsports, No. 03 Ocala Gran Prix Dodge
BEST CAREER GREENVILLE PICKENS SPEEDWAY FINISH: N/A
LAST RACE AT GREENVILLE PICKENS SPEEDWAY: N/A
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