Posted on 02/04/2008 5:11:50 PM PST by WestCoastGal
St Pos |
Qual Rank |
Car# | Driver | Manu | Qual Speed |
Prev Year Ops |
1 | 1 | 48 | Jimmie Johnson | Chevy | 187.075 | 1 |
2 | 3 | 78 | Joe Nemechek | Chevy | 186.498 | x |
3 | 6 | 5 | Casey Mears | Chevy | 186.054 | 5 |
4 | 9 | 60 | Boris Said | Ford | 185.893 | x |
5 | 15 | 88 | Dale Earnhardt, Jr. | Chevy | 185.479 | 15 |
6 | 16 | 83 | Brian Vickers | Toyota | 185.475 | x |
7 | 19 | 84 | AJ Allmendinger | Toyota | 185.422 | x |
8 | 22 | 66 | Scott Riggs | Chevy | 185.193 | 31 |
9 | 23 | 12 | Ryan Newman | Dodge | 185.143 | 13 |
10 | 26 | 01 | Regan Smith # | Chevy | 184.964 | 17 |
11 | 27 | 87 | Kenny Wallace | Chevy | 184.953 | x |
12 | 32 | 70 | Jeremy Mayfield | Chevy | 184.612 | 33 |
13 | 34 | 2 | Kurt Busch [CH1] | Dodge | 184.540 | x |
14 | 35 | 19 | Elliott Sadler | Dodge | 184.521 | 27 |
15 | 36 | 99 | Carl Edwards | Ford | 184.487 | 9 |
16 | 38 | 15 | Paul Menard | Chevy | 184.415 | 29 |
17 | 40 | 1 | Martin Truex, Jr. | Chevy | 184.290 | 11 |
18 | 41 | 41 | Reed Sorenson | Dodge | 184.264 | 23 |
19 | 42 | 42 | Juan Pablo Montoya | Dodge | 184.241 | 21 |
20 | 43 | 77 | Sam Hornish, Jr. # | Dodge | 184.226 | 7 |
21 | 44 | 07 | Clint Bowyer | Chevy | 184.106 | 4 |
22 | 45 | 21 | Bill Elliott [CH3] | Ford | 184.009 | x |
23 | 47 | 43 | Bobby Labonte | Dodge | 183.857 | 19 |
24 | 49 | 45 | Kyle Petty | Dodge | 183.374 | 35 |
25 | 50 | 09 | Sterling Marlin | Chevy | 183.326 | x |
26 | 51 | 96 | J.J. Yeley | Toyota | 182.994 | 25 |
27 | 53 | 08 | Carl Long | Dodge | 180.796 | x |
St Pos |
Qual Rank |
Car# | Driver | Manu | Qual Speed |
Prev Year Ops |
1 | 2 | 55 | Michael Waltrip | Toyota | 186.734 | x |
2 | 4 | 00 | David Reutimann | Toyota | 186.463 | x |
3 | 5 | 22 | Dave Blaney | Toyota | 186.120 | 34 |
4 | 7 | 28 | Travis Kvapil | Ford | 185.958 | 30 |
5 | 8 | 11 | Denny Hamlin | Toyota | 185.947 | 12 |
6 | 10 | 24 | Jeff Gordon | Chevy | 185.858 | 2 |
7 | 11 | 10 | Patrick Carpentier # | Dodge | 185.766 | x |
8 | 12 | 20 | Tony Stewart | Toyota | 185.651 | 6 |
9 | 13 | 6 | David Ragan | Ford | 185.594 | 24 |
10 | 14 | 17 | Matt Kenseth | Ford | 185.517 | 4 |
11 | 17 | 27 | Jacques Villeneuve # | Toyota | 185.452 | x |
12 | 18 | 8 | Mark Martin | Chevy | 185.429 | 16 |
13 | 20 | 38 | David Gilliland | Ford | 185.410 | 32 |
14 | 21 | 44 | Dale Jarrett [CH2] | Toyota | 185.345 | x |
15 | 24 | 16 | Greg Biffle | Ford | 185.071 | 14 |
16 | 25 | 26 | Jamie McMurray | Ford | 185.010 | 18 |
17 | 28 | 7 | Robby Gordon | Dodge | 184.85 | 28 |
18 | 29 | 9 | Kasey Kahne | Dodge | 184.828 | 20 |
19 | 30 | 37 | Eric McClure | Chevy | 184.828 | x |
20 | 31 | 18 | Kyle Busch | Toyota | 184.809 | 22 |
21 | 33 | 29 | Kevin Harvick | Chevy | 184.589 | 10 |
22 | 37 | 49 | Ken Schrader | Dodge | 184.483 | x |
23 | 39 | 40 | Dario Franchitti # | Dodge | 184.351 | 26 |
24 | 46 | 31 | Jeff Burton | Chevy | 183.884 | 8 |
25 | 48 | 34 | John Andretti | Chevy | 183.673 | x |
52 | 50 | Stanton Barrett | Chevy | 182.823 | x |
Thank you to the racing god’s that Jr’s in the first Duel. I have to go to work by 4pm central time. :P
Thanks for the Ping. What did I miss? and when do you leave...
SCORE!!!
Had to come to work, too much slacking last week.
FRIDAY MORNING!
Thanks!
I dunno...just general dirt. Who they ae? Are any of them any good? Any predictions?
I just heard Dave da Pain say the race has never been rained out?
That would be truly amazing, if true, in 50 years of racing.
2008 Rookie of the Year
Candidates (ROTY)
Patrick Carpentier, #10 - Gillette Evernham - Canadian Formerly Champ and Indy car driver. He ran the Busch race in Canada last year and the Glen for Evernham.
Dario Franchitti, #40 - Ahhhhh Scotish and quite handsome with a beautiful wife Ashley Judd. I had to copy his stats.
Career Racing Highlights
Signed with Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates to drive #40 Dodge Avenger in 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Won the 2007 IndyCar Series Driver Championship
Captured the 91st Indianapolis 500 becoming only the second Scottish born driver to win it since Jim Clark in 1965
Has 18 victories and 17 pole positions in his U.S. open-wheel career; is the winningest British driver in U.S. open-wheel history
Has accumulated 63 top-five and 95 top-10 results in his open-wheel career
Finished 8th in the 2006 IndyCar Series driver’s championship
Finished 4th in the 2005 IndyCar Series driver’s championship
Won at California Speedway from the pole in the final race of 2005
Scored his third career IRL win at Nashville in 2005
Earned two wins and one pole position in the 2004 IRL Season
Posted 10 wins and 11 pole positions in CART and finished runner-up in the 1999 driver’s championship
Finished among the top seven in CART in four of his six seasons
Sam Hornish, #77 for Penske - http://www.samhornish.com/sam/index.cfm?cid=2634&subnavkey=career
Michael McDowell, MWR #00 Will take over for Reutimann when he takes the 44 ride from DJ when he retires.
Regan Smith, #01 Do drove the US Army car for Ginn racing which has now been purchased by DEI mostly for their property. Most Ginn employees lost their jobs but Smith will pilot the 01 which is no longer the Army car, but I don’t know and don’t really care who their sponsor is. Sorry it’s a DEI thing with me.
Jacques Villeneuve, #27 for Bill Davis Racing - CART and IRL championships and the Indy 500. I remember his first race last year at Dega of all places. He did drop to the back so as not to be in the way.
Hope that helps
I predict Dario will do the best. What do I know, I mainly concentrate on Jr. If not for him I wouldn’t be watching anyway.
Hendrick dedication
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - While Saturday night’s Budweiser Shootout win at Daytona International Speedway was special to everyone involved with the Hendrick Motorsports organization, and Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s team in particular, crew chief Tony Eury Jr. noted that it was especially so for team member Joey Arnold.
“My setup guy, Joey Arnold, his kid was 5 years old and had a terminal disease and died last Tuesday,” Eury said.
Returning from a recent test session at California Speedway, Eury said, he was surprised to see his crewman busy at work.
“I said ‘Joey, what are you doing here?’ His kid had died the day before,” Eury said. “He said ‘This is my best chance to win the Daytona 500 and I want to be a part of it.’”
Eury said that with men like that helping with his team, he doesn’t see how things can go wrong for the group.
“To me that kind of dedication from that guy, that meant a lot to me, so I told Joey that [the Shootout win] was for him,” an emotional Eury said shortly after the race. “You put yourself in a position where something like that happens; it is unbelievable that there is that much dedication and that much [desire] to win these races. A lot of people don’t realize how big these races are. I mean there are a lot of families out here that don’t get to come week to week and a lot of time ... people say this sport makes a lot of money. The way I look at it, you get paid to not have a life sometimes.
“When things like that happen, it hits me emotionally and I am so thankful that I have people that dedicated behind me and I go out here and perform for them.”
http://www.scenedaily.com/stories/2008/02/04/scene_daily329.html?from_rss=1&from_chex=1
Hey ST, do you have infield passes?
We’re looking for a pic of the 88 hauler. :D If you can get it.
Sorry, no such luck. :)
LOL!
A LOT! Thanks!
Guess we have a lot of new liberal types in NASCAR now.
Telephoto lens??
Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the Budweiser shootout in Daytona driving across the finish line with new NASCAR accepted SPEK gauges made by ProParts. Dale Earnhardt Jr. and teammate Jeff Gordon are both planning to run the new gauges in the Daytona 500. The new gauges are brighter than the Autometer gauges and have built-in warning lights that flash the background lighting of the gauges if trouble is detected. The new gauges monitor engine pressure and temperatures and alerts the drivers of trouble for added safety. The tachometer has built-in Pit Road RPM lighting designed by ProParts to keep the driver focused on the car in front of them and not the pointer on the old style tachometer.
Article: Stewart-Busch fight brings extra attention to NASCAR
“With the web site, the hits over the last 24 hours, 48 hours, I’ve heard some good things about that,” Dale Earnhardt Jr. said. “That just brought a lot of attention to this race, to Speedweeks. It needed a shot in the arm. What happened in practice gave it that.”
NASCAR is still deciding whether to punish Stewart and Busch, two former Cup series champions with a history of bad blood.
“On the race track, I think they’re going to let us go back to running over each it looks like,” Earnhardt said. “Get ready. That’s all I’ve got to say. I’ve got to get my dukes up. Be ready, I tell you. Got to watch those hands.”
Link: http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/7780684/Stewart-Busch-fight-brings-extra-attention-to-NASCAR
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