NASCAR Nationwide Series Quals Fall Victim to Rains
Kevin Harvick (above) meets the media after being awarded the top starting spot in Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series O’Reilly 300 race. Rain cancelled qualifying so per the rule book, the field is set by owner points.
Young series regulars making strides in 2008 with solid top-10 points ranking
Ambrose, No. 59 team, have to right the ship after crew chief Giles departs
RICHMOND,Va. (March 25, 2008) – In this 60th anniversary season of NASCAR, short tracks like Richmond International Raceway are recognized as having laid the foundation for the sport.
Classic racing, beating and banging, no apologies … those are the words drivers use to describe competing at the .75-mile oval.
If it sounds old school, it is.
Nashville’s Stand-Alone Event At No Loss For Excitement
Edwards, Bowyer Ready To Battle For Points Lead
Series Tests At Richmond March 24-25 To Begin Open Week
Prime Time Players: Series In The Spotlight At Nashville
The first stand-alone event of the NASCAR Nationwide Series season at Nashville Superspeedway has plenty of drama attached to it.
First and foremost, who’s got something for Carl Edwards (No. 60 Scotts Miracle Gro Ford), the reigning series champion who has three straight wins at Nashville?
NASCAR Nationwide Series
Sharpie MINI 300
Bristol Motor Speedway
Fast Facts
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Race Winner: Clint Bowyer
Age: 28
Team: No. 2 BB&T Chevrolet
Owner: Richard Childress
Crew Chief: Dan Deeringhoff
Clint Bowyer won the Sharpie MINI 300, his sixth victory in 114 NASCAR Nationwide Series races.
Tire problems plague Kyle Busch for second time
HAMPTON, Ga. — Matt Kenseth may not have had the dominant car in Saturday’s Nicorette 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, but his No. 17 Ford was first to the finish line.
Benefitting from Kyle Busch’s blown tire, which took the dominant car out of contention, Kenseth held off Kevin Harvick by .159 seconds during a green-white-checkered-flag finish that took the race three laps beyond its scheduled distance. The win was Kenseth’s first of the year and 24th in the series.
Record cautions and tricky track surface leaves many with bruised egos and torn-up race cars.
LAS VEGAS (March 1, 2008) — Before Mark Martin allowed himself to celebrate his victory in the NASCAR Nationwide Series Sam’s Town 300 Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, he felt compelled to offer his condolences to a former teammate and a current one.
Martin pulled away from Greg Biffle in a green-white-checkered-flag restart that took the race two laps beyond its posted distance of 200 laps and extended his series record to 48 career victories, but the driver of the No. 5 Chevrolet was subdued after triggering a wreck on Lap 195 that eliminated Carl Edwards, his former Roush Fenway Racing teammate, and Brad Keselowski, his teammate-for-a-day at JR Motorsports.
As Edwards and Keselowski raced side by side toward the stripe on Lap 195, a tap from Martin turned Edwards’ Ford into Keselowski’s Chevrolet, sending both cars spinning into the frontstretch wall.
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