Posted on October 14th, 2007 by
CONCORD, N.C. – first he conceded the race to a team mate fearing a fuel issue that wouldn’t let him finish the race on Saturday night. However, luck had something else in plan for him as he managed to cross the finish line despite all his concerns. This was his sixth win of the season which brings him closer to the fifth NEXTEL cup title. He is now 68 points ahead of team mate Jimmie Johnson, the win has also helped him widen the points gap between the two and further his claim on the title.
“Just an incredible day for the team,” Gordon said. “We needed to get to the finish. We had such a hard time getting to the finish, whether we were wrecking or having a mechanical problem.”
At first Gordon’s Chevrolet developed a pick up problem that had him worried about losing large amount of fuel and Read more »
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Posted on October 11th, 2007 by
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Patrick Carpentier has joined the ever growing league of star drivers from other championship transferring to NASCAR for the next season. Franchitti had moved to Chip Ganassi last week only to join the likes of Montoya and Sorenson. Carpentier, the former Champ Car star will be seen driving the number 10 Dodge for Gillett Evernham.
“We are excited to add Patrick Carpentier to our organization for 2008,” co-owner George Gillett said. “Patrick has shown tremendous talent in every series he has driven throughout his career and has a bright future in NASCAR.
“We are committed to giving Patrick the best resources and opportunities available to make this transition and we look Read more »
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Posted on October 8th, 2007 by
TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) – with the win at Talladega Superspeedway Gordon is now the all time leader on restrictor-plate tracks. In true Hollywood style, Gordon passed his team mate in the very last lap to claim the victory.
This victory takes him past the legendary late Dale Earnhardt and confirmed his status of a legend in the making, however, Dale Earnhardt wasn’t comfortable on receiving the title of NASCAR’s best plate racer.
“I’m blown away by that, to me (Earnhardt) was the man on restrictor plates,” Gordon said. “I watched him do things and I knew they were cheating or something in his carburetor, and then I maybe pulled a couple of those moves throughout Read more »
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Posted on October 5th, 2007 by
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Juan Pablo Montoya snagged his ride last year when Dario Franchitti tried to make into the stock cars racing, another year at the open wheel racing and another series championship in his name and an Indianapolis 500 victory as well to his credit, this time round when Chip Ganassi called again with a new offer Frachitti was up for the taking as he had nothing to prove and there was probably nothing else he could have achieved at the IndyCar series.
“We had conversations last year, and one of the options going into the ‘07 season was NASCAR,” Franchitti said in a Wednesday telephone interview. “Then with Juan coming along, it didn’t work out. And looking back, I am really happy it didn’t work out. To win the Indianapolis 500 this year, and then the open-wheel title in my last race, it was a great Read more »
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Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) – there was just a 28 point difference in the standings between six of this year’s chase drivers when they took off, but against all expectations there were no thrilling or memorable moments noted witnessing drivers fighting each other for that extra point and at the end of the race six or more chase drivers managed 29th or worse.
The race was brought to an abrupt end as darkness covered the horizon faster than expected and under caution there was only one driver who was sure of his win at the Kansas Speedway this Sunday and that was Greg Biffle.
“Let me tell you what, he didn’t win the race,” said fifth-place finisher Jeff Gordon. “Clint Bowyer is the winner of this race in my opinion, no offense to Greg Biffle.” Read more »
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Posted on September 29th, 2007 by
The pit wall was lined with writers and photographers hoping to catch the glimpse of the peace summit which was about to start. The cars of the two drivers Denny Hamlin and Kyle Petty, who were attacking each other on the track and off the track the whole of the previous week, were lined up in a nose to tail fashion in a very convenient way in the qualifying line Friday at Kansas Speedway, this offering the much awaited perfect reconciliation opportunity between the two.
But nothing happened just it didn’t need to.
“My rule is, Sunday night at midnight, I stop thinking about the previous week,” Petty said right after his qualifying lap. “You spend too much time thinking about last week’s race, you’ll drive yourself crazy.” Read more »
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Posted on September 26th, 2007 by
The winner Carl Edwards,has been penalized 25 driver championship points because he was found in violation if the rules during the post race inspection. He is the winner of the Nextel Cup held on Sunday at the Dover international Speedway. Due to the points being lost, Edwards now stands at the sixth position instead of the third in the Chase standings. He is now a good 28 points less than the leader of the Chase Jeff Gordon.
The Rule of Section 12-4-A i.e. the actions detrimental to stock car racing, have found to be violated as the No 99 Ford that was driven by Edwards, was found to be lower than the standard set in the area of the right rear. Read more »
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Posted on September 23rd, 2007 by
Carl Edwards has shown himself to be full of grit and determination when he went on to win his first Chase race in the last two seasons and also jump five points in the race for the Chase for the championship standings and all this was done on the Race track full of smoke and wrecks and cars skidding all around.A NASCAR penalty is however not a distant possibility and he might just be fined for it.
The rear right fender was found to be too low in the post race inspection. In a similar incident in July in New Hampshire, the penalty was 25 points for the driver and $25000 fine for the crew chief in both the cases. Read more »
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Posted on September 20th, 2007 by
Jimmie Johnson has now got the distinction of starting first in Dover on the track as well as in the standings.
Johnson got another push to the second consecutive title in his second pole of the season at Dover, when he took the first spot with a lap of 154.765 mph at the Dover international Speedway on Friday. He is also the Nextel cup points leader.
Not starting any bad than the ninth position Johnson currently is the leader of the points standing as regards the second race in NASCAR’s chase in the Nextel cup championship.
“It’s tough to say how important track position is going to be,” Johnson said. “The thing I’m most excited about is having the first pit stall.” Read more »
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Posted on September 17th, 2007 by
NEXTEL Cup
This is the highest level pf professional competition in sports, this also makes it the most popular and the most profitable of the NASCAR series. In 2006 the NEXTEL Cup had 36 races over a course of 10 months, with the prize money to the tune of $4 million at each race stake.
2004 was the year when NEXTEL took sponsorship over of the premier serious from the them sponsor R.J. Reynolds, and then renaming it as Winston Cup and then further on to the NEXTEL Cup Series. A new points system for the championship by the name of “The Chase for the NEXTEL Cup” was made which created a situation where drivers only within the 400 points of the leader or the top ten drivers to be eligible for the championship. This changes in 2007 when the announcement came from NASCAR that they were changing “The Chase” Read more »
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CONCORD, N.C. – first he conceded the race to a team mate fearing a fuel issue that wouldn’t let him finish the race on Saturday night. However, luck had something else in plan for him as he managed to cross the finish line despite all his concerns. This was his sixth win of the season which brings him closer to the fifth NEXTEL cup title. He is now 68 points ahead of team mate Jimmie Johnson, the win has also helped him widen the points gap between the two and further his claim on the title.
