SkinsBry Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Link to Burgundy Burner's weekly pick'em. http://www.extremeskins.com/showthread.php?t=281032 RACE LINEUP Shelby 427 | Las Vegas Motor Speedway March 1, 2009 | Race 3 of 36 POS CAR DRIVER MAKE SPONSOR SPEED TIME BEHIND 1 18 Kyle Busch Toyota M&M's 185.995 29.033 Leader 2 2 Kurt Busch Dodge Miller Lite 185.707 29.078 -0.045 3 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet Lowe's / Kobalt Tools 185.688 29.081 -0.048 4 00 David Reutimann Toyota Aaron's Dream Machine 185.624 29.091 -0.058 5 47 Marcos Ambrose Toyota Kingsford / Clorox / Little Debbie 185.459 29.117 -0.084 6 39 Ryan Newman Chevrolet Haas Automation 185.395 29.127 -0.094 7 9 Kasey Kahne Dodge Budweiser 185.382 29.129 -0.096 8 5 Mark Martin Chevrolet Pop-Tarts / Carquest 185.312 29.140 -0.107 9 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet Shell / Pennzoil 185.281 29.145 -0.112 10 14 Tony Stewart Chevrolet Old Spice / Office Depot 185.217 29.155 -0.122 11 12 David Stremme Dodge Penske Racing 185.077 29.177 -0.144 12 77 Sam Hornish Jr. Dodge Mobil 1 184.988 29.191 -0.158 13 25 Brad Keselowski Chevrolet GoDaddy.com 184.786 29.223 -0.190 14 31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet Caterpillar 184.565 29.258 -0.225 15 55 Michael Waltrip Toyota NAPA 184.540 29.262 -0.229 16 99 Carl Edwards Ford Aflac 184.495 29.269 -0.236 17 96 Bobby Labonte Ford Ask.com 184.432 29.279 -0.246 18 78 Regan Smith Chevrolet Furniture Row Companies 184.432 29.279 -0.246 19 44 A.J. Allmendinger Dodge Harrah's 184.395 29.285 -0.252 20 20 Joey Logano* Toyota The Home Depot 184.388 29.286 -0.253 21 83 Brian Vickers Toyota Red Bull 184.168 29.321 -0.288 22 187 Joe Nemechek Toyota NEMCO Motorsports 184.162 29.322 -0.289 23 42 Juan Montoya Chevrolet Energizer 184.118 29.329 -0.296 24 16 Greg Biffle Ford 3M 184.005 29.347 -0.314 25 1 Martin Truex Jr. Chevrolet Bass Pro Shops / Tracker 183.999 29.348 -0.315 26 113 Max Papis Toyota GEICO 183.974 29.352 -0.319 27 8 Aric Almirola Chevrolet TomTom 183.936 29.358 -0.325 28 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet DuPont 183.798 29.380 -0.347 29 34 John Andretti Chevrolet WindowWorld.com 183.786 29.382 -0.349 30 171 David Gilliland Chevrolet TRG Motorsports 183.749 29.388 -0.355 31 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet National Guard / Amp Energy 183.742 29.389 -0.356 32 7 Robby Gordon Toyota Jim Beam 183.486 29.430 -0.397 33 19 Elliott Sadler Dodge Stanley 183.461 29.434 -0.401 34 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota FedEx Office 183.293 29.461 -0.428 35 6 David Ragan Ford UPS 183.144 29.485 -0.452 36 98 Paul Menard Ford Johns Manville / Menards 182.921 29.521 -0.488 37 33 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet Cheerios / Hamburger Helper 182.772 29.545 -0.512 38 26 Jamie McMurray Ford Irwin Industrial Tools 182.574 29.577 -0.544 39 43 Reed Sorenson Dodge Valvoline 182.469 29.594 -0.561 40 17 Matt Kenseth+ Ford USG Sheetrock 182.143 29.647 -0.614 41 07 Casey Mears+ Chevrolet Jack Daniel's 181.928 29.682 -0.649 42 82 Scott Speed+* Toyota Red Bull 181.257 29.792 -0.759 43 64 Todd Bodine Toyota Gunselman Motorsports 183.231 29.471 -0.438 Did Not Qualify 44 28 Travis Kvapil Ford Yates Racing 183.181 29.479 -0.446 45 66 Dave Blaney Toyota Hyde Park Storage Suites 182.673 29.561 -0.528 46 73 Mike Garvey Dodge Quality Concrete / Jani-King 182.457 29.596 -0.56 47 41 Jeremy Mayfield Toyota All Sport 182.389 29.607 -0.574 48 09 Sterling Marlin Dodge Phoenix Racing 181.543 29.745 -0.712 49 36 Scott Riggs Toyota Red Bank Outfitters 180.820 29.864 -0.831 50 37 Tony Raines Dodge Long John Silver's 180.331 29.945 -0.912 51 51 Dexter Bean Dodge LiveWire Energy 174.154 31.007 -1.974 + Set by Owner Points * Denotes Rookie http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/headlines/cup/02/27/jjohnson.cknaus.return.to.las.vegas/index.html Johnson, Knaus return to scene of 48's 'worst' race Team finished two laps down in 29th last year at Vegas By David Caraviello, NASCAR.COM LAS VEGAS -- The last place Chad Knaus wanted to be was on stage, in front of a microphone. Hours earlier his No. 48 car had finished two laps down and in 29th place at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a startlingly poor performance that led some to wonder whether Jimmie Johnson's time atop the Sprint Cup tour was coming to an end. They wanted to fly home and figure out what went wrong. Instead they loaded the vehicle into the transporter, changed clothes, and walked into a tent outside Turn 3 -- where 3,000 representatives of their primary sponsor were waiting for them. Johnson, Knaus and company have enjoyed plenty of glory days together during their years in NASCAR's premier series, winning 40 races, three championships and more than $75 million to date. But if they had to choose a single low point, it would probably be last year's event in the desert, where they turned in what car owner Rick Hendrick has termed the worst race in the history of the 48 program, and followed that with a pride-swallowing sponsor event involving thousands of managers and supervisors from Lowe's. "I walked up on that stage and unfortunately I was the first one introduced. I had to go up there and do a two- or three-minute spiel," Knaus remembered. "I walked up there ... and was greeted with cheers and yells and screams. It felt really nice to walk up there and have that kind of reception after the kind of problems we had had that day. The first thing I said when I walked up there was, 'I hope you guys aren't [ticked] off at me.' They just all screamed, no, no. They still loved us. I knew at that point that we had to turn our season around. Not only for us, but for them too." Click link for the rest of the article. http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/headlines/cup/02/27/preview.kybusch.open.to.f1/index.html If F1 team wants to talk, Kyle Busch would listen Switch to open wheel something Busch has wanted to do By David Caraviello, NASCAR.COM LAS VEGAS -- For all he's accomplished behind a steering wheel, Kyle Busch has a rather limited open-wheel resume. Dwarf cars out at old Pahrump Valley Speedway. Legends cars at the Bullring, the .375-mile facility on the grounds of Las Vegas Motor Speedway. A few modified events. A handful of laps in a sprint car as a 14-year-old, as part of an exhibition to promote an event coming to town. But that wouldn't stop him from listening should the organizers of a planned American-based Formula One team call. Ken Anderson and Peter Windsor recently announced their plans to launch an F1 organization based in Charlotte, N.C., and field seats for two American drivers beginning in 2010. Their long wish list of drivers reportedly includes current IndyCar pilots Danica Patrick and Marco Andretti, Jonathan Summerton of the European A1GP series, and Busch, who won eight times last year in NASCAR's premier division. Busch has long been intrigued by the F1 circuit. The 23-year-old Las Vegas native was scheduled to take some laps in an F1 car at Motegi, Japan this past offseason for Toyota, the manufacturer that also backs his Joe Gibbs Racing team on the Sprint Cup tour. That trip had to be cancelled due to a conflict with the Nationwide Series banquet, much to Busch's chagrin. Although Busch said Friday he hasn't been contacted by anyone from the USF1 organization, if they want to talk, he'll listen. Click link for the rest of the article. http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/headlines/cup/02/27/las.vegas.notes.esadler/index.html Notes: Sadler impressed with LVMS safety upgrades By Sporting News Wire Service LAS VEGAS -- Elliott Sadler, currently 11th in the Sprint Cup Series championship standings, commended Las Vegas Motor Speedway for adding SAFER barriers to the inside wall on the backstretch, a response to the violet wreck Jeff Gordon suffered last year. Sadler also is a firm believer that other tracks should follow suit. "You hear all these owners of tracks spending all this money all the time to get a [Cup] date, so they must have money lying around somewhere," Sadler said. "I think to have a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series date, you should have soft walls all the way around the outside or inside of your race track. I know that it costs a lot [of money], but a lot of fans show up to watch us race every week. That's my opinion. There are some tracks that we could do better at." Edwards focuses on Sunday's race EdwardsDefending race winner Carl Edwards wasn't elated with his 16th-place qualifying run on Friday, but he wasn't overly disappointed either. Edwards is convinced he has something in reserve for Sunday's Shelby 427 Cup race. "It's not where we wanted to be, because I thought we could be faster, but there is more in the car," said Edwards, who will try to give owner Jack Roush his seventh win in 12 Cup starts at Las Vegas. Click link for the rest of the article. http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=522025 Kenseth goes for the record at Las Vegas February 26, 2009 By Bill Marx Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service Sunday's Shelby 427 Sprint Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway is all about Matt Kenseth, and why shouldn't it be? Kenseth has a shot at making history. He won the first two races of the season, and no driver has ever won the first three races of a Cup season (or Nationwide or trucks, for that matter). "I feel good about our chances in Las Vegas," Kenseth said. "You really have to have all the stars lined up to win, but I feel good going there." Kenseth has two wins at Vegas (2003-04). He led a race-high 146 laps in 2006 but finished second when Jimmie Johnson passed him seconds before taking the checkered flag. It was the only time Johnson led the race. In 2007, Kenseth finished fourth. Of Kenseth's 18 Cup wins, 10 are on intermediate tracks. "I feel like our stuff has been really competitive at those style of racetracks," he said. "Our cars have been good, and our pit crew has been right on the money. You never know what might happen in a race, but I feel we'll be competitive this weekend." Click link for the rest of the article. http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=521521 Allmendinger still hoping for full-season Cup ride Posted: February 25, 2009 AJ Allmendinger hasn't spent the last two-plus seasons trying to prove himself on NASCAR's top circuit to bail out now. Sure, having to race his way onto the grid week after week can get tiring. Yes, it's difficult living on Sprint Cup's perpetual bubble. Yet there's no place the 27-year-old would rather be. Not Formula 1. Not IndyCar. Give the affable California kid a decent Cup car and he'll take his chances. "I believe that this is the toughest racing series in the world," he said. "I haven't worked this hard for two years to go out there and give up on it." Maybe, but he might not have a choice. The driver of the No. 44 Dodge for Richard Petty Motorsports heads to Las Vegas this week a solid 13th in points but still in search for a sponsor with deep enough pockets to pick his team up for a full season. Click on the link for the rest of the article. http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=521494 DuPont cuts back track presence in a big way February 25, 2009 By Michael Smith Special to the Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service DuPont, long recognized as the leader in hospitality among NASCAR sponsors, is dramatically reducing its program this year as part of its companywide cost cutting. Instead of entertaining the 17,000 guests it had at 37 races last year, DuPont will buy hospitality packages at six races this season and will host fewer than 2,000 guests. "The economy has had a huge impact on us," said Larry Deas, DuPont's motorsports manager. "The current environment along with the high cost of hospitality have forced us to make significant cuts." Whether DuPont's cuts signal the beginning of the end for its sponsorship of Jeff Gordon's No. 24 Chevrolet remains to be seen. DuPont, which has been on the car since 1993, has been the only primary sponsor Gordon has known at Hendrick Motorsports and together they own the longest driver-sponsor-owner streak in the sport. DuPont's current contract with Hendrick Motorsports runs through the end of the 2010 season. Deas would not speculate on how DuPont's team deal might be affected in the future, but industry experts say it's a bad sign that an iconic sponsor has made such deep cuts, which could represent a savings well into the seven figures, analysts say. Most high-end team sponsorships cost $20 million or more a year before activation. Click the link for the rest of the article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOF44 Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Busch would be interesting to watch in F1. I think he has the kind of hyper aggressivenes that F1 requires. Might suit his driving style better than NASCAR if he can adjust to the cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsBry Posted February 28, 2009 Author Share Posted February 28, 2009 Busch would be interesting to watch in F1. I think he has the kind of hyper aggressivenes that F1 requires. Might suit his driving style better than NASCAR if he can adjust to the cars. His game plan makes sense. Go over there while he's still young and race for a few years before coming back to NASCAR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMike619 Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 **** man..I was banned for the week so I didnt get to pick. can I make my pick here or is it too late? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubble Screen Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 His game plan makes sense. Go over there while he's still young and race for a few years before coming back to NASCAR. I don't think there's much chance he goes to F1. Isn't his contract up with Gibbs in the near future? If so, I think he's probably putting his name out there in hopes that he gets a sweeter deal at JGR. Plus, he hasn't won a title yet. I know that bugs him the way he dominated the first 26 weeks last year, only to fizzle out in the Chase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OVCChairman Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 go figure, i pick Kenseth and he's starting 40th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubble Screen Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 go figure, i pick Kenseth and he's starting 40th No worries. Didn't he start last at Daytona? Plus, he's doing better in today's practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOF44 Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 I don't think there's much chance he goes to F1. Isn't his contract up with Gibbs in the near future? If so, I think he's probably putting his name out there in hopes that he gets a sweeter deal at JGR. Plus, he hasn't won a title yet. I know that bugs him the way he dominated the first 26 weeks last year, only to fizzle out in the Chase. If he did go to F1 I doubt seriously it would be with a new team. He'd try out and land a competitive ride or not go at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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