NASCAR vows to fix Kentucky Speedway traffic problems
LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Bruton Smith boasted about the largest crowd to attend a NASCAR race this season: More than 100,000 fans filled Kentucky Speedway in its inaugural Sprint Cup Series event. Unfortuna
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Sunday, July 18, 2010 – 19:02
The Daily World ELMA — It was past the bewitching hour when Eunice, LA. driver Jason Johnson finally got the checkered flag to complete a sweep of the Brownfield Memorial At Grays Harbor Raceway in Elma. Johnson?s efforts earned him over $ 13,000.00 for his weekends work, $ 10,092.00 for Saturday?s…
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17 year old Newgent returns & conquers SB Speedway
17 year old Zachery Newgent returned to the race track for the first time tonight since his crash at South Bend Motor Speedway last week. The New Prairie senior needed the jaws of life last week, but
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Puleo pulls out Street Stock win at Waterford Speedbowl
Al Stone III, looking for his 27th-career win to pull ahead of Ed Gertsch Jr. was battling Josh Galvin late in the 25-lap Street Stock feature Saturday at Waterford Speedbowl when the division points leader Ed Puleo suddenly pulled up alongside on the outside, and took advantage of the battle between the two front-runners. Puleo pulled even with both with two laps to go and passed Galvin on the …
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NASCAR ‘won’t rest’ until Kentucky fixed
LOUDON, N.H. – Bruton Smith boasted about the largest crowd to attend a NASCAR race this season: More than 100,000 fans filled Kentucky Speedway in its inaugural Sprint Cup Series event. Unfortunat…
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Kentucky NASCAR debut run off road by traffic
Bruton Smith boasted about the largest crowd to attend a NASCAR race this season: More than 100,000 filled Kentucky Speedway in its inaugural Sprint Cup event.
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Stewart-Haas finally in front row
This article has been read 0 times. LOUDON, N.H. – Stewart-Haas Racing finally gets top billing. Ryan Newman won his 47th career pole, turning a track-record lap of 135.232 mph Friday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and Tony Stewart was second to give SHR its first front-row sweep.
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Dakota Modified Wraps
After 5 fast nights of racing, the Dakota Modified Tour has wrapped up. It started in Mandan Sunday, and wound it’s way up to Estevan, Williston, and Dickinson, and it’s finishes back where it all started. Ear plus were needed for this race, we were at
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Fairly or not, spikes in test scores haunt some schools
Superintendent Kevin J. McHugh suspects that the Pennsbury School District may be a victim of its own success. In 2009, the Bucks County district began requiring high school students to demonstrate proficiency in math and reading before they could graduate.
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Young guns getting it done
The young gun revolution has started in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series. The national stock car tour has seen three first-time winners this season, and they are all 20-something guys.
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Sheppard takes win Sunday at speedway
Fans and racers packed into Lincoln Speedway for the UMP Summer National Late Model show Sunday. The UMP Modifieds saw a record 40 cars in attendance vying for a shot at the winner’s circle and the $ 1,000 payout.
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NASCAR Weekly Report

5/17/09

Author:  Matt Gerwitz

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CONCORD, N.C. – Smoke was on fire Saturday night at Lowe’s Motor Speedway for the NASACAR Sprint Cup Series’ annual all-star race. Tony Stewart, whose nickname in the garage is “Smoke”, won his first race as an owner-driver by passing Matt Kenseth with two laps to go. Though the all-star race is not a points race, the winner’s purse over million makes for some great competition and exciting racing. The winnings are sure to help the bottom line for Stewart-Haas racing which is running its inaugural season on NASCAR’s senior circuit.

Jeff Gordon had a very strong car, sticking to the bottom of the track most of the night. Inside of ten laps the number twenty-four was in a back-and-forth battle with Kyle Busch for the lead. With eight laps to go Gordon was three-wide with Busch in the middle and Ryan Newman on the high side. Assuming he was clear on the right, Gordon allowed himself to drift up at the same time Busch and Nedwman were coming down. The contact sent him into the grass, then up the track and into the wall. Asked afterwards about the contact, Gordon said that it was just a group of guys racing really hard.

Matt Kenseth finished second, Kurt Busch was third, Denny Hamiln fourth, and Carl Edwards fifth. Mark Martin, Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Jamie McMurray and Dale Earnhardt Jr. rounded out the top ten. The Sprint Cup Series returns to Lowe’s Motor Speedway next weekend for the Coca-Cola 600, long considered the series most difficult endurance race.

Meanwhile, the Camping World Trucks returned to action at Lowe’s on Friday night after taking off the last two weekends. Points leader Mike Skinner crashed just 35 laps in, ending his night and causing him to surrender the points lead to second place driver Ron Hornaday. For his part, Hornaday went on to win the 200 mile race and build a lead of 84 points over Skinner. At one point Hornaday was a lap down when he got caught in the pits by a caution flag. He battled back and took the lead from Matt Crafton on lap 106. Kyle Busch and Crafton both tried to catch Hornaday, but he clearly had the better truck and finished the job.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The Nationwide Series was off this week, but there was still action in the front office. NASCAR announced on Wednesday that Michael Allen, crew chief for Terry Cook’s number 91 Chevolet has been fined for violations at Darlington on May 7th. The ,500 fine is the result of three violations of the 2009 Nationwide Series rule book, all dealing with equipment that does not conform to the rules. Allen has not made any moves to appeal the fine. The Nationwide Series resumes this Saturday at Lowe’s, as Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards and Jason Leffler lead the field in the Carquest Auto Parts 300.

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Here are the last 4 laps of the Auto Club 500. Kevin Harvick has a flat tire before the green flag. Jeff Burton spins the tires, allowing Gordon and Johnson to get around him. Kenseth holds off Gordon to win.

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NASCAR racing is all about speed, adrenaline, checkered flags, and, unfortunatley, accidents and injuries. Its in the news almost on a daily basis nowadays. “Dale Earnhardt Jr. briefly lost consciousness and he hid a significant head injury from his team and NASCAR last year”, “Winston Cup driver Jerry Nadeau, critically injured during a crash during practice at Richmond International Raceway”, etc… We will discuss what causes these crashes and injuries and what is currently being done to prevent them and why more needs to be done.

The worst injuries result in death and lately their have been numerous basal skull fractures received by drivers like Dale Earnhardt and Adam Petty. Doctors have determined that a helmet harness is a good protective measure to stop some of these injuries. A basal skull fracture can result fro a severe whipping forward motion and/or a sudden abrupt stop – as in Dale Earnhardt’s case. A basal skull fracture almost always results in immediate death. Another highly effective measure is shock or crash absorbing walls instead of steel reinforced concrete walls that have zero give – These could have spared Jerry Nadeau from his severe injuries or at least limited them. These walls are now being introduced and installed at several tracks.

NASCAR is over 50 years old. Why does it take a famous death or several to begin safety measures or to take them more seriously? Why is it that our own automobiles have air bags, side airbags, crumple zones, etc… Can’t these same devices be reconfigured for NASCAR specs. Air bags have been proven in tests to be highly effective at speeds well over 100 mph. NASCAR drivers deserve more protection than we are currently giving them. The problem is that more attention has been given to advertising, advertisers, and speed. Placement of advertisers stickers on the car were and still are more important than the driver. More money is spent to make sure the different advertisers have their brands clearly displayed on the driver and car than on any safety measures. Some safety measures are thought of as increasing too much weight and are therefor discarded (thicker firewalls, absorbant

Take any other sport – Football, Baseball, basketball – the athletes don’t have stickers, or patches with 50 different sponsors all over them. They are actually more concerned about athlete safety over advertising revenue in these sports, not in NASCAR, though. Yes, NASCAR is experiencing a huge winfall in earnings lately, but that cannot bring back the great legends like Dale Earnhardt. There is no problem with sport profits, but lets focus a little more on safety of our athletes. With all the money NASCAR has they should already be installing safety walls at all tracks, not just a few. Lets focus on safety rather than just on advertising dollars. That way we won’t be left praying for our drivers outcome after a crash anymore.

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