Wednesday, July 27, 2011

NASCAR NATIONWIDE SERIES NASHVILLE RACE REVIEW

Brett Winningham
7/27/2011 1:02 pm

       Carl Edwards wins the Federated Auto Parts 300 Saturday night at Nashville marking his 34th NASCAR Nationwide series win beating his teammate Ricky Stenhouse Jr. to the line by 0.647 seconds. Top 10 Unofficial results of the Federated Auto Parts 300 1st Carl Edwards, 2nd Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 3rd Austin Dillion, 4th Justin Allgaier, 5th Aric Almirola, 6th Sam Hornish Jr. 7th Drew Herring, 8th Reed Sorenson, 9th Trevor Bayne, 10th Kenny Wallace. Unofficial top 10 points standings after Nashville 1st Reed Sorenson 702 +1, 2nd Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 697 +1, 3rd Elliott Sadler -2 688, 4th Justin Allgaier -- 672, 5th Aric Almirola -- 631, 6th Jason Leffler -- 608, 7th Kenny Wallace -- 605, 8th Steve Wallace -- 558, 9th Michael Annett -- 550, 10th Brian Scott -- 537. Race Status of the Federated Auto Parts 300 225 of 225 laps were completed, 3 cautions for 16 laps under yellow, 4 leaders, 7 lead changes, 43 cars started, 13 finished on the lead lap, time elapsed 2 hours 16 minutes 13 seconds, average speed 134.009 mph. margin of victory 0.647 seconds. Lap leaders of the race Carl Edwards led 125, Brad Keselowski led 88, Austin Dillion led 9 laps, Elliott Sadler led 3 laps. Nationwide series news story of the week, Travis Pastrana is set to make his 1st start in the NASCAR Nationwide series this weekend at Lucas Oil Raceway park in Indianapolis. Also new to the NASCAR Nationwide series race this weekend is NASCAR.COM announced yesterday that there will now be a RaceView product that will be now available for this weekend’s NASCAR Nationwide series race and 2 other NASCAR Nationwide Series races this season for free, and those races are Watkins Glen August 13th and Richmond on September 9th and will allow race fans to follow all 43 NASCAR Nationwide series stars out on the race track with live scanner also which came available last season for the Nationwide series. Race can be seen on espn and heard on MRN radio at 7:30 P.M. My pick’s this weekend to win the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Lucas Oil Raceway park is Aric Almirola, for trucks I’m going with Austin Dillion. For the NASCAR Sprint cup series this weekend im going with you guessed it Juan Pablo Montoya.

Friday, July 22, 2011

NASCAR CAMPINGWORLD TRUCK SERIES LUCAS DEEP CLEAN 200 REVIEW

             This weekend the NASCAR Campingworld truck series was off in Nashville TN. Austin Dillion started on the pole the 3rd time this season with a speed of 156.808 mph 30.603 seconds, and won his 3rd NASCAR Campingworld truck race in his career beating Johnny Sauter to the line by 3.981 sec. Timothy Peters finished 3rd in tonight’s race. 4th Nelson Piquet Jr., 5th Parker Kligerman, 6th Todd Bodine, 7th James Buescher, 8th David Starr, 9th Elliott Sadler, 10th Joey coulter. Unofficial points standings after the Lucas Deep Clean 200 1st Johnny Sauter, 2nd Austin Dillion, 3rd James Buescher +1, 4th Cole Whitt -1, 5th Timothy Peters +1, 6th Matt Crafton -1, 7th Parker Kligerman +1, 8th Joey Coulter +1, 9th Ron Hornaday -2, 10th Todd Bodine. Race status after the Lucas Deep Clean 200 time of race 1 hour 31 minutes 25 seconds, Average Speed 131.214 mph, 3 Cautions for 13 laps, Margin of Victory 3.981 seconds, and 8 Lead changes. Tomorrow is the NASCAR Nationwide series race at Nashville Austin Dillion was Fastest in final practice this evening at a 30.71 seconds 156.277 mph. qualifying will be on ESPN-2 at 3:30 P.M. est. race can be seen and heard on ESPN and MRN radio at 7:30 P.M. est. My pick to win is Michael Annett.
 

Monday, July 4, 2011

KENTUCKY CUP RACE STATS AND PREDICTIONS

Brett Winningham
7/4/2011 11:20 pm

             This weekend the top 3 NASCAR racing series tours on to the Kentucky speedway for 4 days of racing action. Many of the teams are looking forward to Thursday when it will be the first time the NASCAR sprint cup series will hit the track as a test day. Also this weekend is the first time in a while that a track had a complete sale out for the inaugural running of the Quakerstate 400. This weekend many people’s favorite driver to win will probably be Joey Logano or Carl Edwards since them two has a lot of success when the NASCAR Nationwide series has been racing at Kentucky. Dale Earnhardt Jr. will also be one of the drivers to watch heading into this weekend at Kentucky He’ll be looking forward to break his winless streak. Another driver that a lot of people will be watching out on the race track in Kentucky this weekend will be Jeff Gordon. Some fans might think we could see a first time winner again this year this weekend at Kentucky. This weekend Michael Waltrip will return to the NASCAR Sprint Cup series in the number 15 Aarons Toyota Camry the paint scheme will be honoring his brother Darrell Waltrip for
getting inducted into the NASCAR hall of fame in Charlotte North Carolina earlier this year. Some Kentucky track facts the 1.5 mile D-shaped oval was completed in 2000. it’s a 14° banked in the turns track 8° on front stretch 4° on backstretch. The track is located in Sparta, KY. My pick to win the Campingworld truck series race is Austin Dillion for the Nationwide series race is Carl Edwards and for the NASCAR Sprint cup series race is Joey Logano.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

NASCAR WEEKEND RACE REVIEW FROM DAYTONA

Brett Winningham
7/3/2011 3:20 p.m.
 
                This weekend was the NASCAR Nationwide series race at Daytona for the Subway Jalapeno 250, Joey Logano beat Jason Leffler to the line by 0.040. It was Joey’s 1st win this season in the NASCAR Nationwide series season his last win came at Kansas Speedway last year in the fall. Unofficial results from the Subway Jalapeno 250 Joey Logano gets his ninth win of his NASCAR Nationwide Series career 2nd Jason Leffler, 3rd Reed Sorenson, 4th Kyle Busch, 5th Justin Allgaier, 6th Michael Annett, 7th Kenny Wallace, 8th Elliott Sadler, 9th Aric Almirola, 10th Danica Patrick. Unofficial points standings after this week’s NASCAR Nationwide series race at Daytona 1st Reed Sorenson, 2nd Elliott Sadler, 3rd Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 4th Justin Allgaier, 5th Jason Leffler, 6th Aric Almirola, 7th Kenny Wallace, 8th Steve Wallace, 9th Brian Scott, 10th Michael Annett. Race stats from this weekend 100 of 100 laps were completed, 6 cautions for 23 laps, 13 leaders for 36 lead changes, 29 cars on lead lap 43 cars started, time elapsed 2 hours 6 minutes 8 seconds, Average speed 134.025 miles per hour.

          David Ragan wins his first NASCAR Sprint cup series race at Daytona in his 163rd attempt this weekend in the Coke Zero 400 last night. David led 15 of the 170 laps of the race. David Ragan won over his team mate Matt Kenseth by 0.159 sec. David in the media center said after the race: “We were happy for the win we should be higher in the points than we are now”-David Ragan. Unofficial results after the Coke Zero 400 David Ragan gets the win, 2nd Matt Kenseth, 3rd Joey Logano, 4th Kasey Kahne, 5th Kyle Busch, 6th Jeff Gordon, 7th Kevin Harvick, 8th Paul Menard, 9th Juan Pablo Montoya, 10th A.J. Allmendinger. Unofficial points standings after the race 1st Kevin Harvick +1, 2nd Carl Edwards -1,
3rd Kyle Busch +2, 4th Kurt Busch --, 5th Matt Kenseth +1, 6th Jimmie Johnson -3, 7th Dale Earnhardt jr. --, 8th Jeff Gordon +1,
9th Clint Bowyer -1, 10th Ryan Newman --. Race stats from the Coke Zero 400 170 of 160 laps completed 6 cautions for 20 laps 25 leaders for 58 lead changes 43 cars started 26 cars finished on lead lap average speed 159.487 miles per hour time elapsed 2 hours 57 minutes 8 seconds.