Backstretch Motorsports

HOMESTEAD-MIAMI — Jimmie Johnson has accomplished racing’s version of the hat trick…. three championships in a row.

He did it with a 15th -place finish in southern Florida’s grand finale for the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship. Carl Edwards won the battle, so to speak, but Johnson won the war.

On a day when he only needed a 36th-place finish to clinch his third title in a row, Johnson brought his Lowe’s Chevrolet into the thick of the battle, steadily clicking off position after position in the 267-lap race.

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DOVER, Del. — Greg Biffle is up on the wheel. For the second consecutive week, Biffle outraced the field down the stretch and won the Camping World RV 400 Presented by AAA at Dover International Speedway.

Biffle, who ran with the leaders most of the day, turned up the adrenaline with 24 laps to go and dogged teammate Matt Kenseth for 15 laps before finally passing Kenseth with a eight laps remaining.

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LOUDON, N. H. — Greg Biffle, a true, hard-charging stock car driver,
hasn’t been talked about that much in the buzz leading up to NASCAR’s
Sprint Cup Chase for the Championship. Some might say he was “The
Forgotten Man.” Not anymore. Biffle won Sunday.

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Roush Fenway Racing and UPS announced today that David Ragan will be behind the wheel of the No. 6 UPS Ford Fusion in 2009. The official press conference was held at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway infield media center.

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FONTANA, CALIF. (August 30, 2008) — Give Kyle Busch credit for being a quick study.

Nudged out of the way and deprived of a win by Carl Edwards in last Saturday’s Sprint Cup race at Bristol, Busch didn’t let Edwards anywhere near his rear bumper in the closing laps of Saturday night’s Camping World RV Service 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Auto Club Speedway.

After a restart with eight laps remaining, Busch pulled away, as he had done consistently all night long, to hold off his nemesis and win the race under caution when Josh Wise wrecked on the white-flag lap.

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Qualifying Fast Facts
Bristol Motor Speedway
Sharpie 500
Provided by NASCAR Statistics
Pole Winner: Carl Edwards
Age: 29
Team : No. 99 - Office Depot Ford
Owner: Jack Roush
Crew Chief: Bob Osborne

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Edwards outduels Busch for win, bonus points

BROOKLYN, MICH. — It was Old West style showdown stuff — Kyle “Rowdy” Busch vs. Carl “Mr. Clean” Edwards.

On the final restart, there were two laps for all the gold after 400 miles of lead-swapping between NASCAR’s hard-charging gunslingers.

Edwards, in this one, gunned Busch down, blowing him away in a two-lap dash at the end. The No. 99 driver earned 10 more bonus points, cutting the gap between him and the No. 18 team to forty points heading into the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.

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Long Pond, PA) — Intensity in racing is nothing new. Strategies of speed and performance are tough enough to maintain. Compound them with the unexpected factors that can happen during an event, it can be downright nerve-racking. That is when the heat is on. Winners know it and know how to deal with the heat it brings.

Increasing intensity as the NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup looms ever closer is overwhelming, and can take even the most seasoned of championsip contenders to the brink of self-destruction.

Carl Edwards won the Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500, his 11th victory in 142 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races. He not only etched his name into the records books at Pocono Raceway again, he gained another all-important 10 bonus points that put him in second-place potential in the Chase berth.

But not without some heated and unsure moments.

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NASCAR Nationwide Series
Kroger 200
O’Reilly Raceway Park
Race Fast Facts

Race Winner: Kyle Busch
Age: 23
Team: No. 18 Z-Lines Toyota
Owner: Joe Gibbs
Crew Chief: Jason Ratcliff

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BEACH, FLA. — Fireworks started the Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca-Cola Saturday night. Fireworks ended the race as well, both on and off the track.

In a wild and wooly finish so typical of races at Daytona International Speedway, Kyle Busch won by a whisker over hard-charging Carl Edwards with a chain-reaction accident behind them sending up a cloud of smoke that covered the track.

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