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Boy, if only there were some kind of way to determine where Brad Keselowski was on the track at any given time. Something like a large floating arrow … Anyway, have fun with this one, folks. High degree of difficulty after our recent easy pink Kyle one.

After the jump, the easy pink Kyle one.

Dick Smothers:
The funny thing is not the ridiculous firesuits that Kyle’s team is
wearing, but that is sporting a picture of Carl Edwards on his car.

Joshua:
With full apologies to the guys of Monty Python:
I’m a driver, and I’m okay.
I’ll work all night and I slept all day.
I’ll drive my laps. I eat my lunch.
I sit down in the lavatory.
When "Sam" wants to, I take her out
for nice things and drink tea.
I’ll drive my laps. I skip and jump.
I like to doodle flowers.
I put on women’s clothing
And hang around in bars.
I’ll drive my laps. I’d wear her heels,
But don’t you fret
This is just the start of a deal
With Victoria’s Secret.

Nathan B:
Crew chief: "Who doesn’t love love? I don’t FREAKIN’ love love, you jackholes!"

And everybody back away from frank very slowly:
That freakin KRY-BABY-KYLE-PUSS even his tears are PINK when he KRY’S
bogger eaten moroon. gu gu ga ga freak of nature
hahahahhahahahahaahahahaha loser

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Maybe Mark Webber and Lewis Hamilton decided to one up Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick? Ah, who are we kidding. They probably don’t even watch NASCAR.

While Harvick and Hamlin made contact in practice, Webber and Hamilton — the drivers running 1-2 in the F1 points standings — made contact in the race. And it cost Hamilton dearly.

Going into Singapore, Webber and Hamilton were separated by five points. Webber’s already been in the middle of some controversy this season for an incident involving front wings with his teammate Sebastian Vettel and also went airborne at Valencia. You probably know Hamilton more for his girlfriend (the Pussycat Dolls’ Nicole Scherzinger) even though he may be the most popular driver in the world. (Yes, believe it or not, it’s not Dale Earnhardt Jr.)

(As an aside, if you watch one F1 race all year, Singapore is definitely on the short list. The race is run downtown at night and it’s absolutely stunning. It’s basically the Monaco race run eight hours later in the day and minus the incredible wealth)

After a pit stop, Hamilton had run down Webber and made a move to the outside entering turn 7 when Webber was held up by a lapped car. As Hamilton moved to clear Webber, Webber held his line and Webber’s right front popped Hamilton’s left rear in the apex of the corner.

Somewhat miraculously, the shot was clean enough for Webber that he was able to continue without damage but it broke the suspension on Hamilton’s car, knocking him out of the race.

From our friends at Eurosport:

"I saw Mark made a mistake and got caught up with a backmarker so I was in a position to slipstream him … going into turn seven," said Hamilton, who won in Singapore last year.

"I thought I was enough past him, I couldn’t see him and turned in and tried to leave enough room on the inside and the next thing I know I got hit.

"I think it’s a racing incident. I came out a bit unfortunate but that’s racing."

In the last race, the Italian Grand Prix, Hamilton had to retire after an incident in turn 1.

Webber, the points leader, finished third and by virtue of the incident, extended his points lead over Hamilton to 20. Race winner Fernando Alonso leapfrogged Hamilton in the points standings and is now second, 11 points behind Webber.

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King Nationwide Kyle Busch led an amazing 192 laps to set a single season record for wins.

There were only 200 laps in the race!

The Dover 200 will go down in history as the record setting 11th win for King Kyle.  Busch broke out the NOS Toyota to quickly take the lead from teammate Joey Logano, and he would not let it go.  Ryan Newman was the only other guy who sat P1 all day. 

King Kyle now has the top two spots in most wins in a season.  Busch was tied with Sam Ard with 10 in a record that no one thought would be broken.  What makes this record all that more impressive is the fact that Busch isn’t running the full season.

Also, Ard won 10 races in 1983 and Busch didn’t break it until now.  That’s how long it took for someone to even come close to the record.  Imagine if Busch would have run the entire year?

Not only would he probably be the point leader, but he could be going for his 15th win of the season. 

Only 3 cautions slowed the event, and the biggest one was Elliot Sadler getting loose and spinning out.  Drew Herring then had no chance of avoiding the #88 as it slid down the track.  Both were okay. 

Results and more after the JUMP!

Even with Keselowski having a poor outing and Carl gaining some ground on him, Keso still has a 320 point lead.  It would take a New York Met style choke for Keso to lose the championship at this point.  With Brad moving to the Blue Deuce next year, we don’t know what his Nationwide plans are for next season but he could return to defend his championship, or we could see Parker Kligerman take over the #22.  Nothing has been rumored as of yet and I’ll keep you posted if anything is announced.

Here’s the battle for the top 30:

At this point it would take a really good run by either McDriver or Willie Allen and a rough outing by Keller, Richardson, or Howard to make any changes to the top 30.  The fight may be for 32nd and 33rd, as many rumors of teams in the top 30 shutting down after the season, many outside the top 30 will be trying to put themselves into the 2011 top 30.

As it gets closer to the end of the year, I hope to bring you a silly season list for 2011.  So far we have Trevor Bayne, Brian Scott, Justin Allgaier and many others rumored to be moving to different teams.

Next Saturday we head to Kansas for the 29th race of the 2010 season. 

Join us later in the week for a Preview of the Kansas Lottery 300!  Enjoy!

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Here is a quick look at how the 12 Chase drivers fared in Race No. 2 of the Chase at Dover International Speedway:

1. Denny Hamlin — Finished 9th: Pegged Dover as the track he just needed to get through, and he did. Now the pressure is really on. If he expects to be good at Kansas, he must prove it. (-)

2. Jimmie Johnson — Finished 1st: Have we not learned anything over the last four years? Whenever it looks like Johnson is down, expect him to end the day in victory lane. (-35 points)

3. Kyle Busch — Finished 6th: He hasn’t been spectacular, but he’s been solid. If he can get on one of his hot streaks, he’ll be dangerous. (-45 points)

4. Kurt Busch — Finished 4th: Lost his cool for a moment when he got caught speeding on pit road. That cost him points, but give him credit for rebounding in a big way. (-59 points)

5. Kevin Harvick — Finished 15th: He’s still in the hunt, but if he’s not going to win a race in the Chase, he’ll need to be in the top five, not top 15. (-65 points)

6. Carl Edwards — Finished 5th: Like Harvick, he’s just sort of hanging around right now. Kansas will be a litmus test for his title hopes. (-73 points)

7. Jeff Burton — Finished 2nd: Lost about 50 points when he ran out of gas at New Hampshire. If he’d been able to make it to the end there, he’d be second in the standings. (-80 points)

8. Jeff Gordon — Finished 11th: More of the same for Gordon, who made a run to the front midway through the race only to fade at the end. (-83 points)

9. Greg Biffle — Finished 19th: Dover was supposed to be a good track for Biffle, so consider this an opportunity lost. He’s in a must-win situation heading to Kansas. (-140 points)

10. Tony Stewart — Finished 21st: Minimized some of the damage of a speeding penalty on pit road. Still, that’s two mistakes in two races, and that’s not going to cut it. (-162 points)

11. Matt Kenseth — Finished 18th: Just playing out the string at this point. Just getting an invitation to the champion’s banquet – only 10 are invited – is the goal now. (-165 points)

12. Clint Bowyer — Finished 25th: It’s all in the hands of the appeal board now. If he gets his 150 points back, he’ll be 85 points down. Not great, but better than where he is now. (-235 points)

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Hey everyone, sorry I didn’t get any open race threads up yesterday I was called away suddenly and wasn’t near a computer all day and wouldn’t you know it there was some good action at the track yesterday:

• Kyle Busch wins his 11th Nationwide race this year, that is is some feat for sure. 
• Austin Dillion wins another in somewhat dominating fashion proving, at least to me, that this cat isn’t in the seat of the #3 truck just because he is the grandson of the truck owner but because he can drive.
• Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick get into it on the track and in the garage area during practice.  Was it payback on Harvick’s part for ‘cheating’ comments made Friday by Hamlin essentially labeling RCR as a bunch of cheaters after the #33 was found to be outside of NASCAR mandated measurements last week?  Don’t know for sure but it certainly wasn’t denied by anyone at RCR and also prompted Hamlin to Tweet an apology to RCR fans – see prvious post.

All this sure makes good publicity for NASCAR and today’s race - speaking of which you’ll find the line-up after the jump, see you there.

 

POS	CAR	DRIVER	MAKE	SPONSOR	SPEED	TIME	BEHIND
1	48	Jimmie Johnson	Chevrolet	Lowe’s / Kobalt Tools	155.736	23.116	Leader
2	43	A.J. Allmendinger	Ford	Insignia HDTV / Best Buy	155.642	23.130	-0.014
3	56	Martin Truex Jr.	Toyota	NAPA Auto Parts	155.353	23.173	-0.057
4	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	FedEx Express	155.320	23.178	-0.062
5	42	Juan Montoya	Chevrolet	Target	155.052	23.218	-0.102
6	16	Greg Biffle	Ford	3M	155.032	23.221	-0.105
7	1	Jamie McMurray	Chevrolet	McDonald’s	155.032	23.221	-0.105
8	2	Kurt Busch	Dodge	Miller Lite	154.825	23.252	-0.136
9	98	Paul Menard	Ford	Sylvania / Menards	154.766	23.261	-0.145
10	99	Carl Edwards	Ford	Aflac	154.699	23.271	-0.155
11	18	Kyle Busch	Toyota	Interstate Batteries	154.619	23.283	-0.167
12	83	Reed Sorenson	Toyota	Red Bull	154.619	23.283	-0.167
13	39	Ryan Newman	Chevrolet	Haas Automation	154.593	23.287	-0.171
14	17	Matt Kenseth	Ford	Crown Royal	154.533	23.296	-0.180
15	24	Jeff Gordon	Chevrolet	DuPont / Law Enforcement Museum	154.520	23.298	-0.182
16	9	Kasey Kahne	Ford	Budweiser / Stanley	154.414	23.314	-0.198
17	00	David Reutimann	Toyota	Aaron’s Dream Machine	154.367	23.321	-0.205
18	78	Regan Smith	Chevrolet	Furniture Row Companies	154.348	23.324	-0.208
19	20	Joey Logano	Toyota	The Home Depot	154.228	23.342	-0.226
20	82	Scott Speed	Toyota	Red Bull	154.123	23.358	-0.242
21	77	Sam Hornish Jr.	Dodge	Mobil 1	154.083	23.364	-0.248
22	19	Elliott Sadler	Ford	U.S. Air Force	154.037	23.371	-0.255
23	47	Marcos Ambrose	Toyota	Bush’s Baked Beans / Scott Branded Products	154.017	23.374	-0.258
24	33	Clint Bowyer	Chevrolet	BB&T	153.997	23.377	-0.261
25	14	Tony Stewart	Chevrolet	Office Depot / Old Spice	153.741	23.416	-0.300
26	13	Casey Mears	Toyota	GEICO	153.721	23.419	-0.303
27	31	Jeff Burton	Chevrolet	Caterpillar	153.682	23.425	-0.309
28	87	Joe Nemechek	Toyota	FrontRowJoe.com	153.662	23.428	-0.312
29	6	David Ragan	Ford	UPS	153.656	23.429	-0.313
30	34	Travis Kvapil	Ford	Long John Silver’s	153.322	23.480	-0.364
31	12	Brad Keselowski	Dodge	Penske Racing	153.302	23.483	-0.367
32	88	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Chevrolet	National Guard / Amp Energy	153.211	23.497	-0.381
33	29	Kevin Harvick	Chevrolet	Shell / Pennzoil	153.048	23.522	-0.406
34	09	Bobby Labonte	Chevrolet	Phoenix Construction	152.990	23.531	-0.415
35	38	David Gilliland	Ford	Taco Bell	152.957	23.536	-0.420
36	81	J.J. Yeley	Dodge	Whitney Motorsports	152.944	23.538	-0.422
37	36	Dave Blaney	Chevrolet	Tommy Baldwin Racing	152.562	23.597	-0.481
38	55	Mike Bliss	Toyota	Prism Motorsports	152.433	23.617	-0.501
39	71	Landon Cassill	Chevrolet	TRG Mtrsprts / TaxSlayer.com	152.355	23.629	-0.513
40	7	Kevin Conway+*	Toyota	Extenze	150.301	23.952	-0.836
41	37	Tony Raines+	Ford	A&W All American Food	149.701	24.048	-0.932
42	5	Mark Martin+	Chevrolet	Delphi / Go D addy.com	155.561	23.142	-0.026
43	46	Michael McDowell	Dodge	Whitney Motorsports	151.796	23.716	-0.600
Did Not Qualify
44	26	Jeff Green	Ford	Air National Guard	151.675	23.735	-0.619
45	164	Josh Wise	Toyota	Gunselman Motorsports	150.546	23.913	-0.797
46	66	Ted Musgrave	Toyota	Prism Motorsports	149.483	24.083	-0.967

+ Set by Owner Points
* Denotes Rookie

via nascar.com

 

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  It’s the 2nd race of the Chase this weekend at the Monster Mile in Dover. After his less then stellar performance last Sunday, Jimmie Johnson will start on the pole with AJ Allmendinger starting P2.

jpmontoya had a pretty good day today, weather is supposed to cool down for tomorrow!!!!

scottspeed So decided to walk instead of drive to dinner tonight.. Was about 2 miles, longer than @Amanda_Speed thought it would be lol lil sweaty

KevinHarvick Good day all around cup car is good…all for 1 and 1 for all!

dennyhamlin sorry all RCR fans.. im not bashing clint, richard or anyone else.. just defending Nascar on this one.. all these teams work damn hard

Regan_Smith_ I’m sorry but watching games on boisies blue field makes me sick to my stomach…. I still hope they win though

Mc_Driver  Broke a sway bar heim in the #NNS race made for a long day. My fun meter is almost pegged. @drivereply sorry about the race. #81#Dover

skiprec this one will be debated for weeks RC has some good points but NASCAR has the right tools in place to know the differnce either way big news

Hoping for a great race Sunday.

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Kyle Busch dominated Saturday’s Nationwide race at Dover to break the single-season record for wins in the Nationwide Series.

Busch tied Sam Ard’s record of 10 races in a season with his win at Bristol and led 192 of the Dover race’s 200 laps. Busch took the lead on lap four from his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Joey Logano and only lost it when Ryan Newman stayed out while the rest of the field pitted.

Despite running only 22 of the 27 races on the Nationwide schedule, the 11 victories have put Busch in third place in the Nationwide standings, 500 points behind Brad Keselowski. Given Busch’s success, had he run the full schedule, it’s all but certain that he would be the points leader.

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Kevin Harvick clearly heard the criticism Denny Hamlin leveled Friday at Clint Bowyer and Richard Childress Racing in general, because just a few minutes into Sprint Cup practice Saturday afternoon Harvick gave Hamlin several love taps on the track at Dover International Speedway. The confrontation carried into the garage, where Hamlin and Harvick, Bowyer’s teammate, are parked right next to each other.

The two exchanged words, Harvick getting into Hamlin’s face and things got serious enough for Cup Series director John Darby to get in the middle.

The situation has its roots in the Friday morning media sessions. Bowyer, speaking for the first time since NASCAR slammed him with a 150-point penalty after his race-winning car at New Hampshire failed inspection, claimed his innocence, saying NASCAR was out to get him. An hour or so later, Hamlin said that’s bull, but didn’t stop there.

"You can talk about how small the thing was off and you can really try to say that 60-thousandths didn’t help him perform any better — that is a crock," Hamlin said.

"NASCAR has been very, very lenient I feel like on this car and they’ve given those guys chances," he continued. "It’s not Richmond. I think that they should just be happy that they’re in the Chase at this point. They were warned and they were warned before Richmond. Everyone in the garage knows that. They’re the ones who wanted to press the issue and get all they could to make sure they got in the Chase. They got in it and then they were busted. They kept going with it."

And Hamlin kept going.

"In the garage, everyone has known it for months. It’s not two weeks old. This is something that’s been going on for months. [Bowyer's team has] been warned for a long time, way before Richmond. This is not something that, ‘Oh man, they just told us halfway after Richmond and going into Loudon that our car’s wrong.’ They knew it was wrong way before that, and I felt like they just &mndash; they wanted to get everything they could. What did they have to lose really? You almost can’t fault them for that."

When asked to respond to Hamlin’s accusations, team owner Richard Childress declined.

"I would be bad to say what I really want to say," he said. "Bite your lip."

Hamlin clearly got the worst of Saturday’s exchange with Harvick. The right-rear of Hamlin’s No. 11 car was damaged, costing him about 30 minutes of practice time while his team made repairs.

We’ll see how this plays out going forward, but it’s clear that Hamlin, the points leader, has created an unnecessary distraction en route to trying to win his first Cup title.

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And now it gets a bit more interesting in the Clint Bowyer saga. After a performance in which Bowyer appeared to make a rather effective case for being wronged by NASCAR, Denny Hamlin took the stage in the media center to offer a somewhat different opinion:

Some highlights of Hamlin’s diatribe:

"In the garage, everyone has known it for months — it’s not two weeks
old. This is something that’s been going on for months. They’ve [the
No. 33 team] been warned for a long time, way before Richmond. They
knew it was wrong way before [New Hampshire] and I felt like they
wanted to get everything they could. What did they have to lose,
really? You almost can’t fault them for that."

"The car that I had in Atlanta [was] towed all the way in and the tow
truck destroyed the trunk. We never replaced one thing
on the tail of this car and it just went through inspection fine. My
car went through way more destruction than [Bowyer's] did just getting
a simple push and my car is fine."

"I’m not too discouraged with what we ended up with [at Loudon]. But I
know we were the fastest legal car."

Wow. So, yeah — it looks like all this took another step upward. So, how does your opinion change of BowyerGate with Hamlin’s words?

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