Test Speeds
Day 3 (AM)
Pos. No. Driver Make Time Speed
1. 20B Mike McLaughlin Chevrolet 48.785 184.483
2. 14 Sterling Marlin Chevrolet 48.865 184.181
3. 26A Jamie McMurray Ford 48.941 183.895
4. 66 Jeff Green Chevrolet 48.948 183.869
5. 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 48.990 183.711
6. 25A Casey Mears Chevrolet 49.010 183.636
7. 20 Mike McLaughlin Chevrolet 49.035 183.542
8. 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 49.039 183.527
9. 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 49.079 183.378
10. 14 Sterling Marlin Chevrolet 49.080 183.374
11. 1A Martin Truex Jr. Chevrolet 49.109 183.266
12. 13B Regan Smith Chevrolet 49.128 183.195
13. 96 Tony Raines Chevrolet 49.149 183.117
14. 22 Dave Blaney Toyota 49.196 182.942
15. 88B Ricky Rudd Ford 49.203 182.916
16. 16B Greg Biffle Ford 49.215 182.871
17. 43B Bobby Labonte Dodge 49.239 182.782
18. 13A Regan Smith Chevrolet 49.260 182.704
19. 44B Dale Jarrett Toyota 49.262 182.697
20. 8A Kerry Earnhardt Chevrolet 49.355 182.352
21. 22A Dave Blaney Toyota 49.358 182.341
22. 60A Boris Said Ford 49.377 182.271
23. 10B Scott Riggs Dodge 49.379 182.264
24. 37 Bill Elliott Dodge 49.394 182.208
25. 10A Scott Riggs Dodge 49.399 182.190
26. 04A Eric McClure Chevrolet 49.429 182.079
27. 33B Scott Wimmer Chevrolet 49.435 182.057
28. 41 Reed Sorenson Dodge 49.464 181.951
29. 26B Jamie McMurray Ford 49.507 181.792
30. 33A Scott Wimmer Chevrolet 49.549 181.638
31. 1B Martin Truex Jr. Chevrolet 49.612 181.408
32. 7 PJ Jones Ford 49.643 181.294
33. 27 Kirk Shelmerdine Chevrolet 49.659 181.236
34. 48A Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 49.703 181.076
35. 83B Brian Vickers Toyota 49.737 180.952
36. 44 Dale Jarrett Toyota 49.830 180.614
37. 7A PJ Jones Ford 49.838 180.585
38. 9A Kasey Kahne Dodge 49.846 180.556
39. 41 Reed Sorenson Dodge 49.865 180.487
40. 9B Kasey Kahne Dodge 50.040 179.856
Test Speeds
Day 3 (PM)
Pos. No. Driver Make Time Speed
1. 66 Jeff Green Chevrolet 48.200 186.722
2. 44C Dale Jarrett Toyota 48.253 186.517
3. 96A Tony Raines Chevrolet 48.270 186.451
4. 10A Scott Riggs Dodge 48.278 186.420
5. 7A PJ Jones Ford 48.284 186.397
6. 41 Reed Sorenson Dodge 48.288 186.382
7. 14 Sterling Marlin Chevrolet 48.288 186.382
8. 22 Dave Blaney Toyota 48.289 186.378
9. 1B Martin Truex Jr. Chevrolet 48.295 186.355
10. 9B Kasey Kahne Dodge 48.305 186.316
11. 10B Scott Riggs Dodge 48.348 186.150
12. 88B Ricky Rudd Ford 48.438 185.805
13. 16B Greg Biffle Ford 48.451 185.755
14. 16A Greg Biffle Ford 48.451 185.755
15. 22A Dave Blaney Toyota 48.452 185.751
16. 14X Sterling Marlin Chevrolet 48.452 185.751
17. 43 Bobby Labonte Dodge 48.459 185.724
18. 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 48.483 185.632
19. 25B Casey Mears Chevrolet 48.523 185.479
20. 37 Bill Elliott Dodge 48.534 185.437
21. 9A Kasey Kahne Dodge 48.538 185.422
22. 48A Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 48.609 185.151
23. 83A Brian Vickers Toyota 48.616 185.124
24. 20B Mike McLaughlin Chevrolet 48.762 184.570
25. 04 Eric McClure Chevrolet 48.766 184.555
26. 44B Dale Jarrett Toyota 48.810 184.388
27. 26A Jamie McMurray Ford 48.876 184.139
28. 13B Regan Smith Chevrolet 49.032 183.554
29. 8A Kerry Earnhardt Chevrolet 49.072 183.404
30. 29A Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 49.106 183.277
31. 66H Jeff Green Chevrolet 49.108 183.270
32. 8B Kerry Earnhardt Chevrolet 49.127 183.199
33. 1A Martin Truex Jr. Chevrolet 49.154 183.098
34. 25A Casey Mears Chevrolet 49.179 183.005
35. 13A Regan Smith Chevrolet 49.247 182.752
36. 96 Tony Raines Chevrolet 49.294 182.578
37. 60A Boris Said Ford 49.363 182.323
38. 04A Eric McClure Chevrolet 49.421 182.109
39. 7 PJ Jones Ford 49.451 181.998
40. 26B Jamie McMurray Ford 49.468 181.936
41. 83B Brian Vickers Toyota 49.553 181.624
42. 33B Scott Wimmer Chevrolet 49.560 181.598
43. 27 Kirk Shelmerdine Chevrolet 49.627 181.353
44. 33A Scott Wimmer Chevrolet 49.634 181.327
45. 41X Reed Sorenson Dodge 49.641 181.302
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1. 88B Ricky Rudd Ford 48.282 186.405
2. 26A Jamie McMurray Ford 48.541 185.410
3. 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 48.611 185.143
4. 10B Scott Riggs Dodge 48.631 185.067
5. 14X Sterling Marlin Chevrolet 48.674 184.904
6. 13B Regan Smith Chevrolet 48.943 183.887
7. 33B Scott Wimmer Chevrolet 49.023 183.587
8. 43B Bobby Labonte Dodge 49.044 183.509
9. 22A Dave Blaney Toyota 49.059 183.453
10. 60B Boris Said Ford 49.063 183.438
11. 60A Boris Said Ford 49.084 183.359
12. 83B Brian Vickers Toyota 49.085 183.355
13. 22 Dave Blaney Toyota 49.127 183.199
14. 33A Scott Wimmer Chevrolet 49.196 182.942
15. 9A Kasey Kahne Dodge 49.202 182.919
16. 44C Dale Jarrett Toyota 49.213 182.879
17. 04A Eric McClure Chevrolet 49.217 182.864
18. 10A Scott Riggs Dodge 49.236 182.793
19. 27 Kirk Shelmerdine Chevrolet 49.279 182.634
20. 37 Bill Elliott Dodge 49.337 182.419
21. 04 Eric McClure Chevrolet 49.427 182.087
22. 9B Kasey Kahne Dodge 49.589 181.492
23. 43 Bobby Labonte Dodge 49.604 181.437
24. 37B Bill Elliott Dodge 49.778 180.803
25. 83A Brian Vickers Toyota 49.843 180.567
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Rudd Leads Final Cup Test
Sixteen of the 26 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series teams remained for the four-hour makeup testing session on Thursday at Daytona International Speedway. Ricky Rudd, driving the No. 88 Ford for Robert Yates Racing, was the fastest with a lap of 186.405 mph. Rounding out the top five were Roush Racing’s Jamie McMurray (185.410), Richard Childress Racing’s Kevin Harvick (185.143), Evernham Motorsports’ Scott Riggs (185.067) and two-time Daytona 500 winner Sterling Marlin (184.904).
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Updated 1/11/2007 8:40 PM ET
By A.J. Perez, USA TODAY
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Boris Said was one of the "scrubs" left at Daytona International Speedway on Thursday.
Half of the 14 teams that tested during the make-up session will have to race their way into next month's Daytona 500. The rest are safe, having finished within the top 35 in owner's points in 2006.
"There will probably be 25 people going for those spots," noted Said, a road-racing specialist who says he will attempt to make seven Nextel Cup races this season. "If you are in the top (four) of the scrubs (the first day of qualifying), you're in the show."
Those who miss out in the qualifying session Feb. 11 will have one last chance to make the field of 43 four days later at the Gatorade Duel, two 150-mile qualifying races. Said concedes that one-car operations such as his SoBe No Fear team enter at a severe disadvantage.
"We are an underdog team," he said. "We only have five full-time employees."
That didn't stop Said from unexpectedly capturing the pole here at the Pepsi 400 last July. He was in the lead until Tony Stewart passed him with two laps to go. Said finished fourth, a feat he's not overly optimistic he can pull off at the prestigious 500-miler here Feb. 18.
"It's the hardest race in NASCAR to make, especially now with all the new Toyota teams coming in," he said. "Having to make it on time is going to be a nail-biter. It will be like a win for us."
Ditto for Morgan-McClure Motorsports. Cup veteran and 2002 Daytona 500 champion Ward Burton will try to put the No. 4 car on the Daytona grid. The team also will try to qualify Busch driver Eric McClure, nephew of team owner Larry McClure, in the 500.
Eric McClure said his team has about 1/20th the funding of some of NASCAR's multicar efforts, such as Roush Racing and Hendrick Motorsports. Throw in the new crop of Toyota teams and some expanded established teams such as Ginn Racing (formerly MB2 Motorsports), and McClure becomes a realist.
"We're definitely at a disadvantage when we compete against these guys," McClure said. "You have to work a little harder and a littler smarter. It seems like the past few years, there's been a Cinderella story at the Daytona 500. I really believe we can be that this year."
Think Green
Haas CNC Racing's Jeff Green retained the quickest time after the first week of testing concluded Thursday afternoon. He made that run (186.722 mph) Wednesday afternoon.
Dale Earnhardt Inc. (Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Martin Truex Jr.) and Hendrick Motorsports (Jimmie Johnson and Casey Mears) were among the teams that didn't return for the rain date, a session that was scheduled after Monday's afternoon session was wiped out.
The fastest time Thursday was run by Robert Yates Racing's Ricky Rudd (186.405 mph).
This week's test consisted of about half the Cup teams, with the others slated to run around the 2.5-mile superspeedway next week.
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Four-time Nextel Cup champion Jeff Gordon and heralded rookie Juan Pablo Montoya headline the drivers attending the Nextel Cup test session Monday through Wednesday at Daytona International Speedway.
While about half the teams practiced last week, the rest of the teams will get their shot on the 2.5-mile oval as they prepare for the 2007 season and the Daytona 500.
Among the drivers who will get their first restrictor-plate test with new teams are Mark Martin with Ginn Racing and Jeremy Mayfield with Bill Davis Racing.
Mayfield will be one of five Toyota drivers at the test as they work on the debut of the Camry. Joining him will be Mike Skinner (in a third BDR car), AJ Allmendinger (Team Red Bull), Michael Waltrip (Michael Waltrip Racing) and David Reutimann (MWR).
In addition to Gordon and Martin, the other top-10 drivers from last season testing this week will be Matt Kenseth, Denny Hamlin, Jeff Burton and Kyle Busch.
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The Wire
AJ Allmendinger will finish his week of testing at Daytona International Speedway early.
Allmendinger, the open wheel star and newest addition to the Red Bull driver lineup, will step aside Tuesday to allow teammate Brian Vickers to return.
Vickers, who has more stock car experience than Allmendinger, will help the team try to find the speed that has eluded them so far in the Daytona test sessions. Vickers scheduled test session was last week, but team officials confirmed Monday that they would bring him back to Daytona. During last week’s session, Vickers and Team Red Bull posted the slowest laps among the Toyota’s that tested.
Allmendinger managed a 34th place lap on the speed charts on Monday.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - All eyes turned to Kurt Busch's No. 2 Car of Tomorrow Dodge in Jackson Hewitt Preseason Thunder testing after he recorded a lap of 191.188 mph around the 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway.
Today, which was the final day of NEXTEL Cup testing, teams had the option of bringing out a third car (C) and Penske opted to use their COTs with Busch and Ryan Newman.
Busch's speed in his 2C Dodge, that was using a 1 1/8 plate, was over six mph faster than Jeff Gordon's "Car of Today" speed of 184.596 mph in the a.m. session.
"It's good to have the data," crew chief Roy McCauley said in regards to the 1 1/8 plate. "But I don't see us from my standpoint racing that. If I had to guess it looks like it will be a one inch."
Both of the Penske cars tried a number of combinations throughout the day.
"We worked on gear and plate (one inch and and 1 1/8), Mike Nelson and Ryan did the opposite," McCauley said. "That was the trend just to see what way we would go. We were just trying to get a baseline where things are at.
Newman's team started with a 15/16 plate and then went to a one inch and kept the same gear in it for the first two runs.
With Busch's speed by far the fastest on the day that raised the question in the garage area how legal the car actually was.
"It's 100 percent legal to the rules that I have," McCauley said about the No. 2 Dodge COT.
Paul Menard led the rain-shortened afternoon drafting session with a lap of 187.099 mph, which was the fastest over the two weeks of Cup testing.
Kyle Busch (186.765 mph), Jeff Green (186.722 mph), Dale Earnhardt Jr. (186.606 mph) and David Ragan (185.536 mph) rounded out the top five in the seven sessions conducted at Daytona
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'Scrubs' hunt Daytona glory
Busch Breaks 190 mph in "COT"
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