2006 Busch Series Threads

[mrsmopar12]

Race Lineup
Dollar General 300 | Lowe's Motor Speedway
October 13, 2006 | Race 31 of 35


Pos. Car Driver Make Sponsor Speed Time Behind

1 60 Carl Edwards Ford Henkel Duck Tape/PolySeamSeal 186.245 28.994 Leader
2 17 Matt Kenseth Ford Ameriquest Mortgage 186.181 29.004 -0.010
3 18 J.J. Yeley Chevrolet Vigoro/The Home Depot 185.963 29.038 -0.044
4 112 Mike Skinner Dodge Goulds Pumps/ITT 185.752 29.071 -0.077
5 42 Casey Mears Dodge Texaco/Havoline 185.484 29.113 -0.119
6 11 Paul Menard Chevrolet Menards/Hot Shot 184.938 29.199 -0.205
7 148 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet Lowe's 184.893 29.206 -0.212
8 33 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet Dollar General 184.540 29.262 -0.268
9 22 Kenny Wallace Ford AutoZone 184.495 29.269 -0.275
10 6 David Ragan Ford Scotts WinterGuard Fertilizer 184.376 29.288 -0.294
11 20 Denny Hamlin Chevrolet Rockwell Automation 184.250 29.308 -0.314
12 64 Jamie McMurray Dodge Top-Flite XL Extreme 184.225 29.312 -0.318
13 90 Stephen Leicht Ford CitiFinancial 184.036 29.342 -0.348
14 21 Jeff Burton Chevrolet U.S. Coast Guard 184.030 29.343 -0.349
15 9 Kasey Kahne Dodge Wisk 183.993 29.349 -0.355
16 35 Regan Smith Ford Fresh Express 183.855 29.371 -0.377
17 8 Tony Stewart Chevrolet Goody's Headache Powders 183.667 29.401 -0.407
18 5 Kyle Busch Chevrolet Lowe's/Sta-Green Winterizer 183.580 29.415 -0.421
19 77 Bobby Labonte Ford Dollar General 183.549 29.420 -0.426
20 44 David Reutimann Dodge Cottman Transmission 183.107 29.491 -0.497
21 00 Johnny Sauter Chevrolet Haas Automation/Yellow 183.057 29.499 -0.505
22 19 Aric Almirola Chevrolet Husqvarna 183.051 29.500 -0.506
23 132 Dave Blaney Chevrolet Hass Avocados from Mexico 183.014 29.506 -0.512
24 2 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet ACDelco 183.001 29.508 -0.514
25 06 Todd Kluever* Ford 3M Scotchgard Paint Protector 182.679 29.560 -0.566
26 4 Auggie Vidovich Dodge 9Lives Morris' Million Cat Rescue 182.624 29.569 -0.575
27 88 Shane Huffman Chevrolet U.S. Navy "Heritage" 182.451 29.597 -0.603
28 138 Jason Leffler Chevrolet Great Clips 182.383 29.608 -0.614
29 16 Greg Biffle Ford Ameriquest / FreeCreditReport.com 182.192 29.639 -0.645
30 59 Stacy Compton Ford Kingsford/Bush's/Lowes Foods 182.119 29.651 -0.657
31 25 Ashton Lewis Ford U.S. Marines 182.076 29.658 -0.664
32 23 Brad Keselowski Chevrolet Heath Shuler for Congress 181.470 29.757 -0.763
33 66 Scott Wimmer Ford Duraflame Quick Coals 181.305 29.784 -0.790
34 27 Casey Atwood Ford VIVA/Breast Cancer Rsrch Fndtn/ALDI 181.299 29.785 -0.791
35 114 Ted Musgrave Dodge Family Dollar 181.269 29.790 -0.796
36 10 John Andretti* Ford Camping World/RVs.com 181.105 29.817 -0.823
37 50 Danny O'Quinn Jr.* Ford Transamerica 181.044 29.827 -0.833
38 41 Reed Sorenson Dodge Discount Tire 180.989 29.836 -0.842
39 47 Jon Wood Ford Armor All 180.802 29.867 -0.873
40 01 Jay Sauter Chevrolet Western Union 180.012 29.998 -1.004
41 1 Mike Wallace+ Dodge Miccosukee Gaming & Resorts 179.587 30.069 -1.075
42 99 Michael Waltrip+ Dodge Family Dollar - - -
43 72 Brad Baker Chevrolet Vector Security 181.141 29.811 -0.817

Did not Qualify
44 36 Tim Sauter Chevrolet Lester Buildings 181.008 29.833 -0.839
45 0 Kertus Davis Chevrolet Schlage 178.707 30.217 -1.223
46 180 Robert Richardson, II Chevrolet McKinney Pipe & Steel 177.026 30.504 -1.510
47 104 Eric McClure Chevrolet Hefty 177.014 30.506 -1.512
48 49 Derrike Cope Ford Triad Custom Decks 176.569 30.583 -1.589


+ Set by Owner Points
* Denotes Rookie

[mrsmopar12]

Unofficial Race Results
Dollar General 300
Lowe's Motor Speedway
October 13, 2006
Race 31 of 35

Fin St Car Driver Make Sponsor Pts/Bonus Laps Status

1 23 #132 Dave Blaney Chevrolet Hass Avocados from Mexico 185/5 203 Running
2 42 #99 Michael Waltrip Dodge Family Dollar 175/5 203 Running
3 30 #59 Stacy Compton Ford Kingsford/Bush's/Lowes Foods 165/0 203 Running
4 2 #17 Matt Kenseth Ford Ameriquest Mortgage 165/5 203 Running
5 37 #50 Danny O'Quinn Jr.* Ford Transamerica 155/0 203 Running
6 21 #00 Johnny Sauter Chevrolet Haas Automation/Yellow 150/0 202 Running
7 24 #2 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet ACDelco 146/0 202 Running
8 11 #20 Denny Hamlin Chevrolet Rockwell Automation 142/0 202 Running
9 8 #33 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet Dollar General 138/0 202 Running
10 31 #25 Ashton Lewis Ford U.S. Marines 134/0 202 Running
11 4 #112 Mike Skinner Dodge Goulds Pumps/ITT 130/0 202 Running
12 18 #5 Kyle Busch Chevrolet Lowe's/Sta-Green Winterizer 127/0 202 Running
13 6 #11 Paul Menard Chevrolet Menards/Hot Shot 129/5 201 Running
14 13 #90 Stephen Leicht Ford CitiFinancial 121/0 201 Running
15 22 #19 Aric Almirola Chevrolet Husqvarna 118/0 201 Running
16 17 #8 Tony Stewart Chevrolet Goody's Headache Powders 115/0 201 Running
17 34 #27 Casey Atwood Ford VIVA/Breast Cancer Rsrch Fndtn/ALDI 112/0 201 Running
18 25 #06 Todd Kluever* Ford 3M Scotchgard Paint Protector 109/0 201 Running
19 9 #22 Kenny Wallace Ford AutoZone 106/0 200 Running
20 20 #44 David Reutimann Dodge Cottman Transmission 103/0 200 Running
21 33 #66 Scott Wimmer Ford Duraflame Quick Coals 100/0 200 Running
22 19 #77 Bobby Labonte Ford Dollar General 97/0 200 Running
23 39 #47 Jon Wood Ford Armor All 94/0 199 Running
24 35 #114 Ted Musgrave Dodge Family Dollar 91/0 199 Running
25 36 #10 John Andretti* Ford Camping World/RVs.com 88/0 199 Running
26 5 #42 Casey Mears Dodge Texaco/Havoline 90/5 198 Out of Race
27 1 #60 Carl Edwards Ford Henkel Duck Tape/PolySeamSeal 92/10 198 Out of Race
28 28 #138 Jason Leffler Chevrolet Great Clips 84/5 198 Running
29 41 #1 Mike Wallace Dodge Miccosukee Gaming & Resorts 76/0 196 Running
30 43 #72 Brad Baker Chevrolet Vector Security 73/0 195 Running
31 12 #64 Jamie McMurray Dodge Top-Flite XL Extreme 75/5 182 Out of Race
32 3 #18 J.J. Yeley Chevrolet Vigoro/The Home Depot 67/0 168 Running
33 26 #4 Auggie Vidovich Dodge 9Lives Morris' Million Cat Rescue 64/0 114 Out of Race
34 32 #23 Brad Keselowski Chevrolet Heath Shuler for Congress 61/0 113 Out of Race
35 14 #21 Jeff Burton Chevrolet U.S. Coast Guard 58/0 108 Out of Race
36 10 #6 David Ragan Ford Scotts WinterGuard Fertilizer 55/0 103 Out of Race
37 16 #35 Regan Smith Ford Fresh Express 52/0 101 Out of Race
38 38 #41 Reed Sorenson Dodge Discount Tire 49/0 94 Out of Race
39 27 #88 Shane Huffman Chevrolet U.S. Navy "Heritage" 46/0 89 Out of Race
40 40 #01 Jay Sauter Chevrolet Western Union 43/0 72 Out of Race
41 29 #16 Greg Biffle Ford Ameriquest / FreeCreditReport.com 40/0 42 Out of Race
42 7 #148 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet Lowe's 37/0 21 Out of Race
43 15 #9 Kasey Kahne Dodge Wisk 34/0 7 Out of Race


* Denotes Rookie

[mrsmopar12]

Congrats to Dave Blaney on his first Busch Cup win! What I saw of it, that was a pretty intense race with 3 red flags and numerous wrecks and cautions. The last few laps were tense with Kenseth taking the 4th place backwards! By the way my 48 wish came true-- from the wall to the garage.~lol~Johnson ended up in 42nd place. Now if we can just repeat it tomorrow night............................~lol~

[mrsmopar12]

By Ron Lemasters Jr., Special to NASCAR.COM
October 14, 2006
01:49 AM EDT (05:49 GMT)


CONCORD, N.C. -- Michael Waltrip finished second in the weirdest, most bizarre Busch Series event in the series' 25-year history, and he summed up the evening with the perfect sound byte.

"You'd better stay tuned," he quipped. "Dave Blaney will probably fail post-race inspection."

Blaney won the Dollar General 300 when Matt Kenseth spun off Turn 4 as the pair came side-by-side toward the checkered flag, and that was about the most normal thing that happened in more than 200 laps.

The only thing missing Friday night was a black cat, and absolutely no one would have been surprised to catch a glimpse of the Headless Horseman.

On Friday the 13th, there was plenty of voodoo to go around, as the evil reputation that the beautiful new asphalt at Lowe's Motor Speedway earned in May doesn't seem to have faded into the blue-gray October sky.

Oh, and by the way, Kevin Harvick clinched the Busch Series title with four races remaining.

But he didn't have the title until Edwards stopped spinning after a late-race crash, and the two wrecks that followed left Harvick with a ninth-place finish. Harvick needed to gain 32 points to clinch the title, but he was forced to pit early for a flat tire and fell back to 35th place.

"I was a little bit disappointed," Harvick said. "You can't control flat tires, but I like to control the things that we can control on pit road. We weren't very good in the pits [Friday night], but we did a good job preparing it. This thing was fast."

For some reason, nobody at Lowe's Motor Speedway seemed to know how to handle a simple gas-and-go pit stop by Mears with 18 laps remaining, and that's where the night took a turn toward the macabre.

NASCAR officials needed a six-minute red flag to sort out who the proper leader was after Mears ducked onto pit road to get a splash of fuel to finish the race and rejoined the race ahead of Edwards, who stayed out. But NASCAR reversed the order after the lengthy delay.

Still, the battle wasn't over.

Mears ran Edwards down and was pushing for the lead with two to go, got up into the marbles and spun, taking Edwards out in front of a packed front grandstand.

Mears drove directly to the garage area, and smack into a confrontation with one of Edwards's crewmen, which TV cameras caught. It was only a bit of yelling, but the normally easy-going Mears was absolutely livid.

He calmed down enough to talk to the camera and took blame for the crash that sidelined both himself and Edwards.

"We had a better car at the end," Mears said. "Carl was doing all he could to keep it on the bottom and not get in the lane. I got the outside and he started running up the track and it took off. I got loose and took him out."

As to the post-crash ugliness, Mears said, "one of Carl's guys had words for me but kept walking off. I don't know who it was, but what he said wasn't good. I was going to get him anyway, and I was talking to him while he was walking off."

Edwards saw the replay and shrugged.

"That's what happens sometimes," he said. "You go on the outside of the guy and it sucks the nose around. If that had been the last lap, it would have been the coolest finish ever."

Neither driver anticipated a problem with the other, as there was no contact until Mears got loose and spun.

As if there weren't enough going on, some serious doubt cropped up as to what Saturday night's Bank of America 500 might hold in store. Cup drivers had nearly all the major incidents in Friday's race, which bodes ill for Saturday's 334-lap event.

In a scene eerily reminiscent of last year's twin debacles on the 1.5-mile D-shaped track, every handful of laps it seemed there was a Cup regular in the fence, spinning down the frontstretch or it seelved in some other sort of mischief.

During the middle stages of the race, Auggie Vidovich and Jeff Burton collided in a violent crash just before a 58-lap burst that ended, predictably, with another crash -- this one involving Jamie McMurray. Otherwise, there was only one stretch of green-flag run longer than 10 laps.

Burton's No. 21 Chevrolet broke a carburetor and lost seven laps fixing it -- denying car owner Richard Childress the opportunity to clinch the car owner's title Friday night.

In the first 24 laps, Nextel Cup drivers Kasey Kahne, Greg Biffle (both on Lap 7) and Jimmie Johnson (Lap 11) had all found the wall, along with Busch regular Shane Huffman.

Kahne and Biffle were involved in a regular ol' racing crash, which ticked off the normally mild-mannered Kahne to no end.

"We had a car that was capable of running very well here tonight, but David Reutimann ended that for us," Kahne spat after climbing out of his car. "I can't believe he's going to be in Cup next year."

Ouch.

[mrsmopar12]

HAMPTON, Ga. (Oct. 28, 2006) – Indianapolis 500 winner Sam Hornish Jr. will have ExxonMobil Corp.'s Mobil 1 brand on his Penske Racing Dodge Charger when he attempts to qualify for the Nov. 11 NASCAR Busch Series race at Phoenix International Raceway and the Busch Series season-ending Nov. 18 event at Homestead-Miami Speedway, it was announced Saturday at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

"ExxonMobil has been a longtime sponsor of Penske Racing, and I'm proud to make my NASCAR debut in the No. 39 Mobil 1 Dodge," Hornish said. "I've had a great deal of success at Phoenix and Homestead in IndyCars, and hopefully, I can transfer that experience to the Busch car. I also remain committed to competing in the 2007 IndyCar Series in an attempt to repeat at the Indianapolis 500 and series champion."

Hornish is the winningest driver in IndyCar Series history and the only driver to win three IndyCar championships – 2001, 2002 and 2006. He has competed at Phoenix and Homestead six times each, visiting victory lane twice at PIR – 2001 and 2005 – and three times at Homestead – 2001, 2002 and 2004.

"ExxonMobil is thrilled to have its Mobil 1 brand sponsor Sam Hornish Jr. in his Busch Series debut," said Jerry Kohlenberger, President, ExxonMobil Lubricants & Petroleum Specialties Co. "Our 15-year relationship with Penske Racing has furthered both organizations' leadership in performance and innovation. We are proud to expand our association with Penske Racing and Sam into the future."

In 2007, Penske Racing will expand its NASCAR Busch Series presence with Hornish and fellow Penske drivers Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman with each running multiple races. Hornish will compete in a limited number of Busch Series races in 2007 that do not conflict with his IndyCar commitments.

"When Sam came to Team Penske three years ago, his goal was to win the Indianapolis 500 and to secure our first IndyCar Series Championship," Roger Penske said. "He accomplished both of these goals during the 2006 season. Sam also had a vision of competing in our other racing platforms, and we are pleased to be in a position, with ExxonMobil, to provide him with this opportunity."


GO PENSKE!!!

[desertroots]

I never found your reply, if any, when I asked if you think this could be the end of Newman with Penske if he does not pick it up next year. Hornish is a Penske favorite. Is Ryan's contract up after next year? I think you will see Ryan drive out of his mind next season. He has to sell himself. I am not saying anything bad about Newman, I just think he is in a tough situation. Then again, it all depends on how Sam does in his Busch races.

[mrsmopar12]

Hey desert!

Always good to see you here and to read your posts. Yes, I did reply to your question:

Another Open Wheel Driver to Nascar-Allmendinger

Look out next year, because I think Newman will be back strong. With Dodge bringing out the Avenger, (sounds like something out of a Marvel comic! ) things will get better. It has to handle better than the Charger! Newman's contract runs through 2008, so I don't think there will be a change there before that. It has been a frustrating season for the 12 and 2 teams for sure!

Too bad that Robby got caught. He got the stiff fine because he isn't one of Nascar's "pretty boys". Newman isn't either and so our drivers have to fight for all they get and deal with the penalties too. I could go on.....but that is something I know that you know already!

Have a good one desert, and I look froward to having more conversation with you!

[desertroots]

Thanks, I could not find the response. Well that is good for Ryan then, he is safe. I believe that Sam will be good in just about anything he drives. He has a lot of talent and he is with the team that has and always will have that drive to win. The NASCAR Penske team had a rough season this year, but I would have to agree with you, watch out for them on 07. By the end of next year they might be putting out a 3 car effort.

[mrsmopar12]

Posted on Thu, Nov. 09, 2006

Hornish has experience
at Phoenix, hopes it helps
Busch Series Notebook
By JIM UTTER
The Charlotte Observer

AVONDALE, Ariz. – The NASCAR Busch Series suddenly seems the series of choice for Indianapolis 500 winners.

Reigning Indy 500 champion Sam Hornish Jr. will attempt to join Juan Pablo Montoya, the 2000 winner of the 500, in Saturday’s Arizona.Travel 200 at Phoenix International Raceway (3:40 p.m. Eastern, NBC).

It will be Hornish’s first NASCAR start.

Montoya, who will drive Cup Ganassi Racing’s No. 42 Dodge full time in the Nextel Cup Series next season, will be making his third start. His best finish so far is an 11th at Memphis.

Hornish, who still plans to compete full-time in the Indy Racing League next season with Penske Racing, will also attempt the season finale Busch race at Homestead, Fla., and in expected to run several Busch and Automobile Racing Club of America events when time allows next season.

In the meantime, Hornish will concentrate on making the field for his first NASCAR start. One advantage – he has plenty of experience at Phoenix.

“I’ve completed a lot of laps at Phoenix in an IndyCar the last several years. Hopefully, that experience will transfer to our preparations this week with the Busch car,” Hornish said.

“We’re taking a car that has had a great deal of success since its debut earlier this season with Kurt (Busch) at Charlotte.”

[Bud_Racing_8]

Harvick is on pase to what i think is to tie the record of 10 wins in one seasson. Another thing he will break is the most points scored in one bush seasson. So what do you think? Will he tie the most wins and break the most points to be scored in a seasson or neather? I think he will do both but what do yall think?