LAS VEGAS POST RACE REVIEW

Brett Winningham

3/6/11 11:42 P.M.

Today at Las Vegas Carl Edwards come to the top of the leader board and wins the Kobalt Tools 400.  Carl Edwards led 66 of 267 laps of today’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.  Ford has gotten 2 wins in 2011 and expect them to get more wins this season as we got 33 more NASCAR Sprint Cup races to go.  Tony Stewart had A rough day today after his pit crew having trouble on pit road which costed the win from Tony Stewart.  Another driver who did real well today was Juan Montoya, Juan got his best finish at Las Vegas today of 3^rd his previous best finish was 19^th place.  Some race stats from today’s race at Las Vegas 267 laps of 267 were completed.  Race ran for 2 hrs 57 min 37 sec. 7 cautions,  15 leaders, 22 lead changes, average speed 135.513 miles per hour, Tony Stewart ran the fastest lap speed of the day at 182.408 mph, and cars that finished on the lead lap 22.  Top 10 in today’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race 1^st Carl Edwards, 2^nd Tony Stewart, 3^rd Juan Pablo Montoya, 4^th Marcos Ambrose, 5^th Ryan Newman, 6th Martin Truex Jr. 7^th Denny Hamlin, 8^th Dale Earnhardt Jr. 9^th Kurt Busch, and 10^th Brian Vickers.  Top 10 unofficial point’s standings after Las Vegas 1^st Tony Stewart, 2^nd Kurt Busch, 3^rd Carl Edwards, 4^th Juan Pablo Montoya, 5^th Ryan Newman, 6^th Paul Menard, 7^th Martin Truex Jr. 8^th Denny Hamlin, 9^th A.J. Allmendinger, 10^th Dale Earnhardt Jr.  The NASCAR Nationwide race was also good on Saturday afternoon as Mark Martin claimed the checkered flag at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.   Mark Martin won the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Las Vegas in his last 2 attempts.  Justin Allgaier also had a great day Saturday.  Danica Patrick got her best finish 4th yesterday. Brad Keselowski on the white flag lap not only ran out of fuel, but also blew a tire and smacked the wall in the middle of turn one and two.  Kyle Busch also had a rough day after trying to pass Brad Keselowski in the grass on the front stretch and spun and hit the wall just before turn one.   Race stats from the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Las Vegas 200 laps of 200 laps were ran, race time 2 hrs 17 min and 43 seconds, 6 cautions, 27 laps under caution, 6 leaders, 11 lead changes, 10 cars finished on the lead lap, average speed was 132.790 mph.  Top 10 in the Sam’s Town 300 1^st Mark Martin, 2^nd Justin Allgaier, 3^rd Brad Keselowski, 4^th Danica Patrick, 5^th Trevor Bayne, 6^th Carl Edwards, 7^th Denny Hamlin, 8^th Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 9^th Jason Leffler, 10^th Kenny Wallace.  Unofficial points in the NASCAR Nationwide Series after yesterdays Las Vegas race 1^st Reed Sorenson, 2^nd Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 3^rd Jason Leffler, 4^th Danica Patrick, 5^th Justin Allgaier, 6^th Trevor Bayne, 7^th Aric Allmirola, 8^th Kenny Wallace, 9^th Mike Bliss, 10^th Joe Nemechek.  Next week is A off week for the NASCAR Sprint Cup series and NASCAR Nationwide series, but the NASCAR Camping world truck series will be racing in Darlington this weekend practice will not be aired, but qualifying will be on speed at 3:30 P.M. est. and the Too Tough to Tame 200 will be on Speed at 5 P.M. est. on Saturday.  My pick to win the NASCAR Truck series race this weekend at darlington is Kasey Kahne.