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AND: We have a New Busch Nationwide CHAMPION!!!!

Chase Elliot has Won the 2014 Championship. The Horn is going off at the Fire House in Dawsonville, GA on TV right now.

And as icing on the cake Bad Brad passed Kyle Busch on the last lap to take the Win after KB led the most.

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!

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Keselowski wins at Phoenix; Elliott Clinches Championship: #22-Brad Keselowski won the DAV 200 - Honoring America's Veterans at Phoenix International Raceway. He passed pole sitter #54-Kyle Busch, who had dominated the race, on the final lap. The rest of the top 10: #11-Elliott Sadler, #3-Ty Dillon, #9-Chase Elliott, #20-Erik Jones, #2-Brian Scott, #62-Brendan Gaughan, #6-Trevor Bayne, and #7-Smith.
With his 5th place finish, Chase Elliott clinched the 2014 NASCAR Nationwide Series championship over Regan Smith.
There were 5 cautions for 33 laps and 6 lead changes among 4 leaders. (11-8-2014)

[Chode]

w00t!

[al baby]

He is the biggest a hole on the planet ok one of them

[McGruff]

I missed the end of the race. Won’t tomorrow.

[mabarker1]

BTW, I should have mentioned that it was a GWC.

[mabarker1]

And He is the Youngest ever to Win NASCAR Major 3 Series Championship!

Chase Elliott

Race car driver

• William Clyde Elliott II, known as Chase Elliott, is an American stock car racing driver. A development driver for Hendrick Motorsports, he currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, ... Wikipedia
• Born: November 28, 1995 (age 18), Dawsonville, GA
• Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m)
• Nationality: American
• Parents: Bill Elliott, Cindy Elliott
• Siblings: Starr Elliott, Brittany Elliott

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JR Motorsports Championship Notes Package:
Chase Elliott, the driver of the #9 NAPA AUTO PARTS Chevy, clinched the 2014 NASCAR Nationwide Series championship after scoring a fifth-place finish today at Phoenix International Raceway.  The rookie driver from Dawsonville, Ga., will carry an insurmountable 52-point lead into next week’s season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.  This marks the first national touring series championship for JR Motorsports, the company owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr.

A FRATERNITY OF CHAMPIONS: Elliott becomes the 24th driver to win a NASCAR Nationwide Series championship in this, the 33rd year of the series.

NASCAR’S YOUNGEST CHAMPION: At the age of 18 years, 11 months and 18 days, Elliott will officially become the youngest driver to win a championship in any of NASCAR’s top-three national touring series next Saturday.  He will break the record previously held by Brian Vickers, the 2003 Nationwide Series champion at the age of 20 years, 0 months and 22 days.

ON THE BRINK OF HISTORY: If Elliott is named 2014 Sunoco Rookie of the Year, he would become the first driver in any NASCAR national series to win the championship and rookie of the year in the same season.  The award’s winner is not determined until the end of the season because its format factors off-track merit as well as on-track performance.  Elliott entered the Phoenix race weekend with a 52-point lead in the ROY standings.  Three former rookie-of-the-year winners who came close to winning series championships were James Hylton (Sprint Cup in 1966), Kurt Busch (Camping World Truck in 2000) and Kyle Busch (Nationwide in 2004).

CHAMPIONSHIP ‘KNOW HOW’: This marks NAPA AUTO PARTS’ third championship since becoming a NASCAR team sponsor in 1996.  NAPA won championships with Dale Earnhardt Inc. (DEI) and driver Ron Hornaday, Jr., in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series in 1996 and 1998.  This is NAPA’s first season as a sponsorship partner of JR Motorsports.

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: Bill Elliott, the 1988 Sprint Cup champion, and Chase Elliott, the 2014 Nationwide Series champion, become the fifth father/son duo to win NASCAR national series championships.  They join an esteemed list that includes Lee Petty (Sprint Cup in 1954, 1958 and 1959) and Richard Petty (Sprint Cup in 1964, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975 and 1979), Ned Jarrett (Sprint Cup in 1961 and 1965) and Dale Jarrett (Sprint Cup in 1999), David Pearson (Sprint Cup in 1966, 1968 and 1969) and Larry Pearson (Nationwide in 1986 and 1987), and Dale Earnhardt Sr. (Sprint Cup in 1980, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1994) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Nationwide in 1998 and 1999).

A LONG TIME COMING: JR Motorsports’ first Nationwide championship comes in its ninth season in the series.  The company started competing full time in the NNS in 2006 (it entered one race in 2005).  Mark Martin delivered JRM its first victory on March 1, 2008, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.  Since then JR Motorsports has earned 21 victories.  The 2014 season has featured nine victories from four drivers - Kevin Harvick (4), Chase Elliott (3), Regan Smith (1), and Kasey Kahne (1).  Elliott’s top-finishing points position supplants the company’s previous best of third (achieved three times by Brad Keselowski in 2008 and 2009 and Regan Smith in 2013).

DECORATED DRIVERS: While this is JR Motorsports’ first championship, the company’s current stable of drivers has five Nationwide Series titles among them - Earnhardt Jr. with two (1998, 1999), Harvick with two (2001, 2006) and Elliott with one (2014). 

OWNERSHIP HAS ITS PRIVILEGES: Elliott’s championship marks the third for Earnhardt Jr. as an owner.  His first company, Chance 2, won Nationwide Series championships with driver Martin Truex Jr., in 2004 and 2005 in partnership with Dale Earnhardt Inc.

THE HENDRICK CONNECTION: Elliott is the fifth driver to win his first career championship with Rick Hendrick, co-owner of JR Motorsports.  Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Brian Vickers and Jack Sprague were the others.  This is Hendrick’s 16th overall championship and second in the Nationwide Series. 

STORYBOOK SEASON: Elliott’s championship-winning campaign has featured three victories - the Texas 300 at Texas Motor Speedway on April 4, the VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200 at Darlington Raceway on April 11, and EnjoyIllinois.com 300 at Chicagoland Speedway on July 19.  His Texas win came in only his sixth career start, making him the second-youngest winner in Nationwide Series history behind Joey Logano, who in 2008 was three months younger than Elliott was in 2014 when scoring his first victory.  However, Elliott became the youngest multiple-race winner with his victory the following week at Darlington. 

BOWTIE BRIGADE: This marks the 18th time that a Chevrolet driver has won the Nationwide Series championship.  Chevrolet is close to winning the Bill France Performance Cup, which is awarded to the Nationwide Series’ top manufacturer, for the 16th time.  Chevrolet entered the Phoenix race weekend with a 34-point lead in the manufacturers’ standings.

POWER SOURCE: This will be the 15th NASCAR championship and second Nationwide Series championship for Hendrick Motorsports engines, which supplies the motors for all JR Motorsports teams.  Hendrick Motorsports engines won its first NNS championship in 2003 with Brian Vickers.

PEACH STATE CHAMPIONS: Elliott becomes only the second Georgia-born NASCAR champion.  His father and 1988 Sprint Cup champion, Bill Elliott, was the first.  There are three others who were not born in Georgia but were longtime state residents and considered “from Georgia.”  Red Byron (born in Anniston, Ala., but resident of Georgia most of his life) was the first NASCAR modified champion in 1948 and first strictly stock champion in 1949.  Tim Flock (born in Fort Payne, Ala., but resident of Atlanta, Ga.) won Sprint Cup titles in 1952 and 1955.  Rex White (born in Taylorsville, N.C., but later moved to Georgia and still resides in Fayetteville, Ga.) won the 1960 Sprint Cup championship.  Before the formation of NASCAR in 1948, there were other drivers from the peach state considered “national champion” drivers, including Roy Hall (Dawsonville, Ga.) in 1940, 1941 and 1946, and Lloyd Seay (Dawsonville, Ga.) in 1938 and 1941. Ed Samples (Atlanta, Ga.) won stock car championships in 1946 and 1949.  

DAWSONVILLE DIAMONDS: Bill and Chase Elliott aren’t the first racers to come from the town of Dawsonville, Ga.  In fact, the small Georgia community has given stock car racing a long line of successful racers not named Elliott. The list includes:
"           Ted Chester, car owner - Sprint Cup champion in 1952 with driver Tim Flock.
"           Gober Sosebee, driver - winner of two Sprint Cup races; two-time winner on Daytona’s beach and road course prior to NASCAR’s inception in 1948.
"           Bernard Long, driver - Daytona’s beach and road course winner in 1941.
"           Roy Hall, driver - national champion in 1939.
"           Lloyd Seay, driver - winner of more than 40 races; inaugural class of Georgia Racing Hall of Fame (2002).
"           Harry Melling, owner - NASCAR champion owner in 1988 with driver Bill Elliott; won Daytona with Elliott in 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1991.
"           Raymond Parks, owner - won the first two NASCAR championships as Red Byron’s car owner in 1948 (modified class) and 1949 (strictly stock class, now known as Sprint Cup); inaugural class of Georgia Racing Hall of Fame (2002); inducted into International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2009.

RING MASTER: Greg Ives has won championships in six of his 11 years in the sport of NASCAR.  Joining Hendrick Motorsports in 2004 as a mechanic in the 24/48 shop, Ives quickly elevated to an engineering role on the No. 48 team.  He was part of Jimmie Johnson’s historic run of five Sprint Cup championships from 2006-10.  The Bark River, Mich.-native came to JR Motorsports as a rookie crew chief in 2013.  Following the season, Ives will return to Hendrick Motorsports to begin his new role as Earnhardt Jr.’s crew chief on the No. 88 Nationwide Insurance / Diet Mountain Dew team.

QUICK WORK: Chase Elliott is the first driver since Brad Keselowski in 2010 to clinch the Nationwide Series championship before the final race of the season at Homestead-Miami Speedway.  The last non-Sprint Cup Series driver to secure the title early was Martin Truex Jr., in 2004.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS: With Elliott clinching the top spot, the quest now for JR Motorsports is for Regan Smith to finish second.  If Smith holds on to the runner-up position after next week’s season-finale at Homestead-Miami, JR Motorsports would become the first team in 14 years to finish first and second in the series point standings.  The Greg Pollex-owned ppc Racing did it in 2000 with drivers Jeff Green and Jason Keller. 

AS GOOD AS IT GETS: If Smith finishes second in the 2014 Nationwide Series standings, JR Motorsports will have successfully finished first and second in each of its racing divisions this year - the Nationwide Series with Elliott and Smith, and the NASCAR Whelen All American Series at Hickory Motor Speedway with late model drivers Josh Berry and William Byron.(JR Motorsports)(11-8-2014)

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• Cope crew member has heart attack: Upon arrival at the airport in Phoenix, team members of the #70 Derrike Cope racing team had a different challenge to face before getting to the track this weekend. One of the team members, Dan, had a massive heart attack, team work kicked in and Mark, the motor man of the team, went to work and provided life saving CPR for about 12 minutes till the EMT's arrived on the scene. After getting Dan stabalized they transported him to the hospital. Dan had immediate surgery and had to have his heart stabilized from an erratic heart beat. Later, they performed a second surgery to insert some stents in his vascular system to give his heart some relief. Dan is doing well and expected to recover fully. Quick thinking by the team and the knowledge of CPR by his teammate Mark is what saved his life.(Let's Talk Racing)(11-8-2014)

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And He is the Youngest ever to Win NASCAR Major 3 Series Championship!

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And in this episode of:

As the Crankshaft Turns...

UPDATE: Busch has been accused of domestic assault by his ex-girlfriend, and police in Delaware said Friday they are investigating. The Dover Police Department said the allegations were brought to the department Wednesday. Busch's ex-girlfriend, Patricia Driscoll, 36, said the allegations involved an incident inside his motorhome at a race at Dover International Speedway in September. The couple broke up about a week before. Driscoll has filed court documents asking that a judge order Busch to stay away from her and not contact her. She also is asking that Busch undergo a psychiatric evaluation and be evaluated by a certified domestic violence treatment agency. The documents, filed Wednesday, say Busch was despondent the night of Sept. 26 after his poor performance at the qualifying session. "He was verbally abusive to her and said he wished he had a gun so that he could kill himself," the documents say. Driscoll said Busch, 36, called her names and accused her of "having spies everywhere and having a camera on the bus to watch him." He then jumped up, grabbed her face and smashed her head three times against the wall next to the bed, Driscoll says in the documents. Driscoll says she pushed Busch away and ran from the bedroom, going to a nearby bus to put an ice pack on her head and neck. She said the incident caused her severe pain, difficulty breathing and bruising on her neck. A hearing in the case is scheduled for Dec. 2.(in part from the Associated Press)

UPDATE3: Kurt Busch's ex-girlfriend waited nearly six weeks to file a domestic assault claim with police because she was locked in a custody battle over her son, the attorney for Patricia Driscoll said Saturday. Mark Dycio told USA TODAY Sports that Driscoll did not immediately go to Dover police after the alleged assault occurred on the advice of counsel. She's currently involved in a fight for custody over son Houston with her ex-husband. After the custody situation was stabilized, Driscoll then went to the Dover police and provided them with text messages, photographs and people with knowledge of the situation to support her claims, Dycio said.(full story at USA Today)(11-9-2014)

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Crews remain permitted around cars after race: NASCAR will not change its postrace procedure Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway in reaction to the fight between crews at Texas Motor Speedway. After races, the top cars plus select others are stopped on pit road while the remainder drive into the garage and park at their haulers. Crews often surround the car to push it to inspection or onto the hauler. It can add to the volatility of situatons when drivers and/or teams are angry with each over. NASCAR won't make any changes to its procedure this weekend. All eight of the Chase drivers - the four who advance as well as the four eliminated - will be stopped on pit road after the race, with the lone exception if one of them wins, they'll head to victory lane. "We've got two races left," NASCAR Senior Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton said. "We've had some issues. The tension level is high. The competition level is at an all-time high. The pressure is at an all-time high to perform. We feel like the teams don't want to what they've done and misbehave. We'll address it in the offseason like so many things that we do."(Sporting News)(11-9-2014)

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Leffler named to West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame: The late Jason Leffler will be one of six new members inducted into the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame Class of 2015. The hall's chairman of the board, Ken Clapp, announced the names Saturday at Phoenix International Raceway. Leffler, a native of Long Beach, California, died in a crash in June 2013. A winner of two NASCAR Nationwide Series races and a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, Leffler also made 73 Sprint Cup Series starts. A member of the National Midget Hall of Fame, Leffler won three consecutive USAC championships form 1997 to 1999.
Crew chief Jerry Baxter, currently atop the pit box for Kyle Busch Motorsports' #54 Camping World Truck ride with Darrell Wallace Jr., started his career in Southern California, building cars for Ivan Baldwin and eventually buying Baldwin Engineering. As a consultant, he helped Michael David win the 2007 K&N Pro Series West title before moving to North Carolina to work for Michael Waltrip Racing, Eddie Sharp Racing and now KBM.
Another pit boss, Doug Richert, is on the list. The youngest Sprint Cup championship crew chief directed Dale Earnhardt's first title run in 1980 for owner Rod Osterlund. In 509 Sprint Cup starts over 25 years, he won 13 times while working with several drivers including Darrell Waltrip, Neil Bonnett, Buddy Baker, Benny Parsons, Davey Allison and Greg Biffle. Richert also crew-chiefed Ron Hornaday Jr. to his first Camping World Truck title in 1996.
John Cardinale, the vice president of communications at Sonoma Raceway for nearly two decades, was an active member of the board of directors for the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame. Starting as a sportswriter for the Antioch (California) Ledger, Cardinale turned his passion for motorsports into a career at the Napa Valley road course. Cardinale died in 2013 after a battle with gastric cancer.
Warren Razore, a native of Seattle, built a business in refuse disposal and a distributorship of Peterbilt trucks. In the late 1980s, he was among the top car owners in the K&N Pro Series West, fielding cars for Roy Smith and Derrike Cope. He died in 1999 after complications from treatment for Hodgkin's Disease.
Jim Williams, a self-made man who became a major supplier of beef to various companies including McDonalds, was an associate sponsor of cars owned by Roger Penske. Al Unser drove to his fourth Indianapolis 500 win with Williams' name on his car. He was a driving force behind the creation of Irwindale (California) Speedway. The Los Angeles area short-track oval hosted the NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown, a showcase for young drivers.
The induction ceremony will be held on Thursday, June 25, 2014 heading into Sprint Cup race weekend at Sonoma Raceway.(NASCAR.com)(11-9-2014)

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Bullins heading Wood Brothers Racing? After winning the DAV 200 Honoring America's Veterans, Keselowski slipped and mentioned that this would be the last race for crew chief Jeremy Bullins with the Team Penske's Nationwide Series team. When asked what made Saturday's Phoenix win special, Keselowski replied, "I've got the boss (Roger Penske) here, I've got Jeremy here, his last year, our last race of the year driving the 22 car..." Bullins is rumored to be heading to Wood Brothers Racing next season to oversee Ryan Blaney's program in the #21 Motorcraft Ford. He's worked with Blaney since the 20-year-old third generation racer made his debut in 2012. Next season, Team Penske begins its technical alliance with the venerable Wood Brothers Racing team. Bullins joined Penske prior to the 2012 season after working as the race engineer for Kevin Harvick at Richard Childress Racing. The 37-year-old Walnut Cove, N.C. native graduated from North Carolina State University and worked with the Wood Brothers early in his career. He was the car chief and crew chief for Jon Wood's Late Model and Pro Cup cars and the shock specialist/engineer for the #21 Ford in the late 1990s through 2002.(Motorsport)(11-9-2014)

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going to a nearby bus to put an ice pack on her head and neck.

And in the Drivers Motor Coach Corral NOBODY else saw this happen?

Who's nearby Bus?

I also want to know if they had broken up the relationship- WHY was she in Kurt's bus?

NASCAR is a very tightly knit Community.

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That was my question. Who’s bus did she go to? Someone would have known. And if it was the week after they broke up, why was she in his bedroom?

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Race Fans! This may be a more exciting race than the championship! For the soap opera today, will someone take out Brad? Who will win? Will we have to be educated in domestic violence? Will the non-winning racers make it to the final four?

See you in a few hours!

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will someone take out Brad? Who will win? Will we have to be educated in domestic violence? Will the non-winning racers make it to the final four?

Will there be any actual racing...or just the usual over-hyped demolition derby and politics?

[Chode]

more like as the stomach turns... cameras, spy's, sounds like a drug test is in order

[B4Ranch]

That was quite the race with Elliott yesterday. Thanks for the write-up.