Backstretch Motorsports

TALLADEGA, ALA– Tony Stewart survived a couple of huge wrecks and a record number of leaders to win the AMP Energy 500 here Sunday at a track that produces excitement by the barrel.

Stewart held off hard-charging rookie Regan Smith, who made a last-lap daredevil pass below the yellow line in trying to beat the two-time champion.

NASCAR rules prohibit passing below the yellow line that separates the racing track from the apron.

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By Reid Spencer

TALLADEGA, Ala. (October 4, 2008) — With a brilliant last-lap move through the tri-oval at Talladega Superspeedway, Todd Bodine won Saturday’s Mountain Dew 250 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race with a much-needed assist from new points leader Ron Hornaday Jr.

Bodine was pushing Kyle Busch through the final corner, but contact from Bodine’s No. 30 Toyota loosened Busch’s No. 51 Tundra enough for Bodine to dodge to the outside and pick up a push from Hornaday, who crossed the finish line second, .075 seconds behind the race winner.

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Qualifying Fast Facts
Talladega Superspeedway
AMP Energy 500

Coors Light Pole Winner: Travis Kvapil
Age: 32
Team : No. 28 - Academy Sports & Outdoors Ford
Owner: Doug Yates
Crew Chief: Todd Parrott

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Sept. 29, 2008) – Talladega Superspeedway is dubbed the “wild card” in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup for a reason. Standings shuffling – and championship hopes shattering – races have been staged at Talladega:
2004: Jeff Gordon came into Talladega as the points leader. He finished 19th in the race, and was bounced from atop the standings by eventual series champion Kurt Busch. Gordon finished the year in third.

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TALLADEGA, Ala. (April 26, 2008) — Polesitter Tony Stewart held off a last-lap challenge from Dale Earnhardt Jr. on Saturday to claim his first victory at Talladega Superspeedway in any series.

“Boys, we won at Talladega!” Stewart shouted as he crossed the finish line in the Aaron’s 312 NASCAR Nationwide Series race .302 second ahead of runner-up David Stremme. It was Stewart’s third NASCAR Nationwide win of the season.

Bobby Hamilton Jr. ran third, Jason Leffler fourth and Mark Green fifth, as Earnhardt dropped to sixth after Stewart repelled his last-ditch run on the final lap.

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Joe Nemechek exited the Front Row Motorsports No. 78 National Day of Prayer Chevrolet Impala SS with a huge smile. He had not only set the fastest time of the ‘go or go home’ drivers having to have speed to make the show, he had posted the fastest time of the Sprint Cup qualifying session overal, winning the Coors Light Pole Award for the Aaron’s 499 with a lap of 51.103 seconds, 187.386 mph.

This is Nemechek’s fourth pole and 11th top-10 start in 27 races at Talladega Superspeedway.

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BIRES EAGER FOR EXCITING TALLADEGA CHALLENGE

Kelly Bires is brimming with excitement ahead of the Aaron’s 312 at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama this weekend.

The Clorox driver’s enthusiasm for the close and fast brand of racing created by a restrictor plate race on a superspeedway is clear when you look at the results Bires has earned in just a short space of time on superspeedways.

This will be the third start on a superspeedway in the NASCAR Nationwide Series for Bires, with 16th place at Daytona International Speedway last fall and a stunning 12th place in the 2008 season opener at Daytona in February.

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Talladega, Al. – Jeff Gordon finds himself in a peculiar position – outside the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series cut-off.
It’s a position he’s been in after every race but one this season (Gordon was in ninth after Martinsville). But prior to this season, the last time Gordon was outside the Chase cut-off was back in 2006 – after race No. 17 at Daytona (he was in 12th, when only 10 drivers made the Chase).
But Gordon’s season looks destined to right itself this weekend. Too many statistics suggest a return to the top 12 for the four-time champion:

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