Tundra drivers Terry Cook (sixth), Kyle Busch (eighth) and Mike Skinner (10th) had top-10 finishes in tonight’s 201-mile
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) race at Charlotte’s Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
Other Tundra drivers in the field included Johnny Benson (11th), Todd Bodine (12th), Ken Schrader (13th), Ted Musgrave
(22nd), Marc Mitchell (24th), Justin Marks (32nd) and Scott Speed (33rd).
Tundra [...]
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NASCAR-TRUCK: Charlotte: Toyota teams race quotes, notes
Published May 19th, 2008 in NASCAR Craftsman. 0 CommentsNASCAR-TRUCK: Charlotte: Race winner interview
Published May 19th, 2008 in NASCAR Craftsman. 0 CommentsMATT CRAFTON
, NO. 88 MENARDS/MCGUIRE-NICHOLAS SILVERADO, STARTED 18TH, RACE WINNER:
Talk about that first career win.
“It was awesome. Perseverance pays
off and we never gave up and we’ve got a really good crew. We’ve got
great owners, Duke and Rhonda Thorson and everyone did awesome. Crew
chief was awesome and everyone was behind me and I [...]
NASCAR-TRUCK: Charlotte: McCumbee post race interview
Published May 19th, 2008 in NASCAR Craftsman. 0 CommentsCHAD MCCUMBEE
, NO. 8 MALCOLMSON CONSTRUCTION SILVERADO, STARTED 7TH, FINISHED 2ND
You almost had a chance to win, you got to be excited. Take us through
the race and your emotions right now.
“Well you know we had a
little bit of a radiator problem early in the race and we had a miss
communication and didn’t know if [...]
NASCAR-TRUCK: Charlotte: GM teams race quotes, notes
Published May 19th, 2008 in NASCAR Craftsman. 0 CommentsMatt Crafton Scores Career-First Win at Charlotte
Concord, NC — Matt Crafton, No. 88 Menards/McGuire-Nicholas
Silverado, scored a dramatic win in the North Carolina Education Lottery
200 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway (LMS). The victory was the Tulare, CA
native’s first in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series competition.
Crafton, who started 18th, steadily worked his way through the field to
be a [...]
NASCAR-TRUCK: Charlotte: Hornaday, Sprague post qualifying interview
Published May 19th, 2008 in NASCAR Craftsman. 0 CommentsRon Hornaday
, No. 33 Camping World Silverado, Qualified 2nd:
ON HIS QUALIFYING RUN.
“Like always it’s Charlotte and it
was a good lap for us. I mean we picked up quite a bit and we’ll
take that. Camping World Chevrolet was awesome. We’re not usually
good qualifiers but the last couple of weeks we have been. [...]
NASCAR-TRUCK: Charlotte: GM teams qualifying quotes, notes
Published May 19th, 2008 in NASCAR Craftsman. 0 CommentsConcord, NC — Ron Hornaday, Jr., No. 33 Camping World Silverado, scored
his fourth NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) front row starting
position of the season for tonight’s North Carolina Lottery 200 at
Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
The three-time and defending NCTS champion will roll-off on the outside
of row one for the 134-lap/201-mile race. Hornaday’s Kevin Harvick, Inc.
teammate Jack Sprague, [...]
NASCAR-TRUCK: Charlotte: Ford teams race quotes
Published May 19th, 2008 in NASCAR Craftsman. 0 CommentsBRENDAN GAUGHAN — No. 10 Int’l MAXXFORCE Diesel Ford F-150 (Finished
3rd)
“Chad McCumbee and congratulations to Matt Crafton. He deserves
a win so much and to watch two young kids, Crafton and Chad go at it.
I told Chad, I said, ‘If you could have just hit him one more time.’
We made a great run at it. That’s [...]
NASCAR-TRUCK: Charlotte: Gaughan post race interview
Published May 19th, 2008 in NASCAR Craftsman. 0 CommentsBRENDAN GAUGHAN
— No. 10 Int’l MAXXFORCE Diesel Ford F-150 (Finished 3rd)
“It was a heck of a
night. We qualified 29th and I wasn’t worried about it one bit.
Bryan Berry and the Circle Bar guys build me race trucks and not
qualifying trucks. We knew we had a decent piece, but it’s a long
night. [...]
NASCAR-CUP: All-Star: Red Bull Racing race report
Published May 19th, 2008 in NASCAR Nextel. 0 CommentsAJ Allmendinger never needed the go-for-broke attitude in the Sprint
Showdown. The No. 84 Red Bull Toyota was that good and so, too, was the
driver. With a berth into Saturday night’s All-Star Race on the line,
AJ was at his best. He fought double- file restarts and led the final
19 laps of the second 20-lap segment in [...]
NASCAR-CUP: All-Star: GM teams race quotes, notes
Published May 19th, 2008 in NASCAR Nextel. 0 CommentsTeam Chevy Drivers Use NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race to Tune-Up for Coca
Cola 600 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway
Concord, NC - Team Chevy Impala SS drivers and crew chiefs maximized
tonight’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway to gain
valuable information for next week’s Coca Cola 600.
Tonight’s four-25-lap segments for a $$;1 million prize saw three [...]
NASCAR-CUP: All-Star: Toyota teams race quotes, notes
Published May 19th, 2008 in NASCAR Nextel. 0 CommentsFive Toyota Camrys competed in tonight’s Sprint All-Star race — Tony Stewart (fifth), AJ Allmendinger (17th), Dale
Jarrett (21st), Denny Hamlin (23rd) and Kyle Busch (24th).
Busch earned the pole for the All-Star race for the first time in his career and the first for Toyota.
Busch won the first 25-lap segment and led the first 13 laps [...]
Martin Finishes 9th in Sprint All-Star Race
CONCORD, N.C. (May 17, 2008) — Mark Martin and the U.S. Army/Dale
Earnhardt Inc. Team went with a two-tire strategy for the last 25-lap
segment in Saturday night’sSprint All-Star Race at Lowe’s Motor
Speedway. The strategybackfired, as Martin’s No. 8Chevy Impala SS
became too loose during the final run and the end result [...]
KASEY KAHNE
(No. 9 Budweiser Dodge Charger) Winner
CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU WON THE ALL-STAR RACE?
“I wouldn’t have
believed it until about lap 60 or so. At that point, our car was getting
better and better. We were making the right adjustments. In the final 50
to 75 laps we were pretty loose. We made one small adjustment [...]
SAM HORNISH JR. (Driver, No. 77 Mobil 1 Dodge Charger) 7th
YOU SCRAPED THE WALL EARLY IN THE ALL-STAR RACE. “Oh yeah, we scraped
it pretty good, too. We had a really good car. I thought we had a car
that was capable of running in the top-10 here. Once we got out there
running [...]
STEWART SOLID IN PRELUDE TO COKE 600
Home Depot Driver Finishes Fifth in NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race
In a race typically known for aggressive driving and spark-filled
crashes, Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte
(N.C.) Motor Speedway proved to be a rather refined affair.
That suited Tony Stewart just fine. The driver of the No. 20 Home [...]
Kasey Kahne had to fight his way into the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
All-Star event at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in North Carolina, and he did it
thanks to the fans who voted him into the non-points special event. Thanks to the
vote of the fans and his driving skills tonight, along with his Gillett
Evernham Motorsports team, the driver [...]
NASCAR-CUP: All-Star: Biffle, Kenseth post race interview
Published May 19th, 2008 in NASCAR Nextel. 0 CommentsGREG BIFFLE
— No. 16 Dish Network Ford Fusion (Finished 2nd)
“I tell you what, we were just a
mediocre car. I was running third, fourth right there and I was just way
too tight, way, way too tight. I think we finished in the first segment
second, I think, and then we fell back a couple [...]
CARL EDWARDS — No. 99 Office Depot Ford Fusion (Finished 10th)
“I thought we were the car to beat. I thought we were
gonna be great there (in the second half). I was already thinking about
what I was gonna do with all the money, having a good time, but something
with that last set of tires [...]
