Built Ford Tough 225
July 18, 2009
Kentucky Speedway
TV: 6:30p.m. SPEED
Next LROC Series Event
Race #10
June 24-26 2009
Indianapolis/ORP
LEAGUE UPDATES
7/2: Updated the Power Gauge for Daytona. Updated the Cup & Nationwide stats & records pages after New Hampshire.
7/1: Updated the Cup driver stat pages. Updated the team pages after New Hampshire.
6/29: Updated the all-time wins and all-time cup wins pages. Updated the track stats page for New Hampshire. Updated the Cup, Nationwide and Truck winless streak pages.
6/28: Updated the Nationwide & Truck results, standings, top 10 finishes and rookie points after New Hampshire and Memphis.
6/27: Updated the Truck segment driver scores.
6/26: Updated the Power Gauge for New Hampshire. Updated the Truck stats & records page after Milwaukee.
6/25: Added the team page for Outcast Racing. Updated the team pages after Sonoma. Updated the Nationwide stats & records pages after Milwaukee.
6/24: Updated the Cup driver stat pages after Sonoma.
6/23: Updated the all time winners and all-time Cup wins pages. Updated the track stats page for Infineon Raceway.
6/22: Updated the Cup results, standings, rookie points and money points after Sonoma.
6/21: Updated the Nationwide results, standings, rookie points and top 10 finishers after Milwaukee.
6/20: Updated the Truck results, standings, rookie points and top 10 finishers after Milwaukee.
6/19: Updated the Power Gauge for Sonoma. Updated the Nationwide stats & records page after Kentucky.
6/18: Updated the Cup & Truck stats & records pages after Michigan. Updated the Truck segment driver scores after Michigan.
6/17: Updated the Cup driver stat pages after Michigan. Updated the team pages after Michigan.
6/16: Updated the all-time winners list and all-time cup winners list. Updated the Michigan track stats page. Updated the Cup, Nationwide and Truck winless streaks. Updated the Cup teams page.
6/14: Updated the Truck & Nationwide results, standings, rookie points & top 10 finishers after Michigan and Kentucky. Updated the Cup results, standings, rookie points & money points after Michigan.
6/12: Updated the Nationwide stats after Nashville.
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6/8: Updated the all-time winners list & all-time cup wins list. Updated the Pocono track stats page. Updated the Cup, Nationwide and Truck winless streak pages.
6/6: Updated the Truck results, standings, rookie points & top 10 finishers after Texas. Added the Nationwide driver page for Mitch McCown. Updated the Nationwide results, standings, rookie points & top 10 finishers after Nashville.
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6/1: Updated the all-time winners list & all-time cup wins list. Updated the Dover track stats page. Updated the member directory. Updated the Cup, Nationwide and Truck winless streak pages. Added a new Cup series poll.
5/31: Updated the Nationwide & Truck results, standings, rookie points & top 10 finishers after Dover. Updated the Cup results, standings, rookie points and money points after Dover.
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5/24: Updated the Nationwide results, standings, rookie points & top 10 finishers after Lowe's. Updated the Truck stats & records page after Lowe's.
5/23: Updated the Truck standings and rookie points after Lowe's. Updated the Truck segment drivers.
5/18: Updated the results from the All-Star race.
5/15: Updated the Power Gauge for Lowe's.
5/11: Updated the all-time winners page and all-time cup wins page. Updated the Darlington track stats page. Updated the Cup & Nationwide winless streak pages. Updated the Cup driver stat pages after Darlington. Updated the team pages after Darlington. Updated the Cup stats & records page after Darlington.
5/10: Updated the Cup results, standings, rookie points and money points after Darlington. Updated the Bud Shootout Pole count page after Darlington. Updated the Nationwide stats & records page after Darlington.
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5/3: Updated the Cup results, standings, rookie points and money points after Richmond.
5/2: Updated the Nationwide results, standings, rookie points & top 10 finishes after Richmond.
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4/26: Updated the Cup results, standings, rookie points and money points after Talladega.
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4/23: Updated the team pages after Phoenix. Updated the Nationwide stats & records page after Phoenix.
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4/20: Updated the all-time winners page. Updated the all-time cup winners page. Updated the Phoenix track stats page. Updated the Cup & Nationwide winless streak pages.
4/19: Updated the Cup results, standings, rookie points & money points after Phoenix.
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4/13: Updated the all-time winners page.
4/11: Updated the Nationwide results, standings, rookie points & top 10 finishes after Nashville.
4/9: Updated the team pages after Texas. Updated the Cup stats & records page after Texas.
4/8: Updated the Cup driver stat pages after Texas.
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Logano Breaks Through
RacingOne.com
Joey Logano won his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race after officials called Sunday's LENOX Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on lap 273 because of rain.
Logano battled back from a lap down after he cut down a left-rear tire, and then was able to conserve fuel - after staying out during green flag stops - until the rains came for the historic win.
"This was the opportunity we had and we didn't have anything to lose," Logano said. "Zippy (Greg Zipadelli, crew chief) made a great call. This is a dream come true and this is the best race track that we ever could have had it at."
With the victory, Logano becomes the youngest winner in series history at 19 years, one month and four days.
In Lucky Dog Racing's Cup series,Randy Cook went through the entire 2008 season without a win, his last came at November 2007 in Texas. The only victory that his team earned last season was thanks to Jeffery Willet who is no longer with the team. Now finally, Randy gives the multi-car version of his team a first victory as he takes the win in New Hampshire. Randy wins the LENOX Industrial Tools 301 after scoring 283 points this week. It was a much needed win for him because it moves back inside the Chase for the first time since Bristol back in March.
Top 5 LENOX Industrial Tools 301 Finishers
1. Randy Cook
2. Gwen Demian
3. Shawnda Moore
4. John Wilson
5. Jeffery Willett
Kyle Busch became the 23rd different driver to win in 23 NASCAR Nationwide Series races held at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday, taking the checkered flag in the Camping World RV Sales 200.
Busch, who started ninth, passed teammate Joey Logano 36 laps to go and went on to win his 26th career race and first at New Hampshire.
“Today we didn’t have the winning car, we made the winning car,” Busch said. “Sometimes when we’re out front we’re content with what we’ve got and we end up getting beat in the end. The show is stolen from us. But this is great. (Jason) Ratcliff (crew chief) and myself talked this past week about what we needed to do in order to get better, in order to take this team to victory lane instead of finishing second week in and week out. This is a good step in the right direction. I’m really proud of Jason and all of these guys here.
In Lucky Dog Racing's Nationwide series, After only a few races into his Nationwide series career, Mitch McCown has had quite a nice start. He already had two top 10's in 4 starts, now he gets his first career win. Mitch dominated the Camping World RV Sales 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway to record 335 points and take the victory by a margin of 67 points. It's the largest win margin of the year.
Mitch was the only member to have the top 2 finishing drivers of Kyle Busch and Joey Logano on his team. He was also running Mike Bliss, Scott Speed, Kenny Wallace and Scott Wimmer.
Top 5 Camping World RV Sales 200 Finishers
1. Mitch McCown
2. Wendal Ebach
3. Jeffery Ouderkirk
4. Austin E.
5. Terry Howell
On a hot day Memphis, Ron Hornaday Jr. won his second consecutive race at Memphis Motorsports Park after a dominating performance in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series MemphisTravel.com 200.
After winning the pole earlier in the day with temperatures hovering around 100 degrees, Hornaday went on to lead three times for 175 laps en route to his third win of the season and second consecutive.
"The last Elvis trophy at Memphis, that's pretty cool," Hornaday said. "It was pretty awesome to come here and win the last Elvis trophy. That means a lot."
It was the 42nd win of Hornaday's career and it helped extend his points lead to 76 over Matt Crafton.
In Lucky Dog Racing's Truck Series, We have another first time race winner this week at Memphis Motorsports Park. Last week it was Lou Demian getting his first victory now it's Johnnie Tarter bringing his truck into victory lane for the first time. Johnnie won the MemphisTravel.com 200 after scoring 420 points with his picks.
It was the start of a new segment and Johhnie took Matt Crafton as his segment driver. He was also running race winner Ron Hornaday, Colin Braun, David Starr and Brian Scott.
It's been a struggle this year for Johnnie, he was mired down in 47th place with just one top on the season. Now with his first first he moves up 7 spots to 40th place.
Top 5 MemphisTravel.com 200 Finishers
1. Johnnie Tarter
2. Nathan Helton
3. Leon Baker
4. Matt Sealey
5. Dave Davis
Wendal Ebach makes it three LROC wins in a row for FASCAR
Race #3 was the longest race in LROC history. It was necessary to stretch the race across two weeks to allow for a race in March, but the delay of the Truck race in Martinsville resulted in everyone having to wait an extra two days for the final results.
A FASCAR driver won the first two races with Philip Hamm sweeping both of them, but it was Wendal Ebach who kept the streak alive to win race #3. Wendal won the race for his 2nd career victory in the series with his teammates Robert Batz and Austin E. finishing in 2nd and 3rd.
FASCAR finished with the most points for the event and closed within 13 points of P10 Select for the lead. Unfortunately it was not a good race for Lucky Dog Racing. They only managed to get two drivers in the top 10, Stephen DiCaprio in 6th and Dean Higley in 8th place. Stephen is the highest LDR driver in the standings after moving up 4 spots to 5th place.
Troy Wiggins finished in 13th, Joe Hicks 14th, Lou Demian 16th and Gary Wheat in 17th. The team finished with a total of 4,948 points... 497 points fewer than FASCAR. They are now third in the overall standings.
The good thing is that its still very early in the season, there's still 15 races to go! The team will try to regroup in race #4 and start making some noise.
We are at that point in the season where we begin switching over to the current year's owner points which will affect the salaries in the Cup series and the groups in the Nationwide and Truck series. We still have one more race left in the Nationwide series before we switch over and 2 more in the Truck series, but the Cup series has just switched over
The salaries have been updated, you will some big changes which will alter everyone's pick strategies for sure. A number of drivers have salaries that aren't used to seeing. Should be very interesting!
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Well rookie Joey Logano took a chance and held out for the rain to win his first NASCAR Sprint Cup race. Congratulations Joey! In the Yahoo world of fantasy racing it’s THE Game taking the lead with 332 points. THE GAME was racing Jeff Gordon, Kurt Busch, Tony Stewart, and Marcos Ambrose.
In 2nd we have Doobster with 328 points. Doobster raced Jimmie Johnson, Juan Pablo Montoya, Kurt Busch, and Bobby Labonte. Coming in 3rd it’s Sullivan Smashers with 318 points. Sullivan Smashers was racing Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart, Denny Hamlin, and Bobby Labonte. In the 4th spot it’s TCB Racing. TCB Racing went with Greg Biffle, Tony Stewart, Kurt Busch, and Bobby Labonte. Taking the 5th spot it’s TDOG. TDOG raced Kyle Busch, Kurt Busch, Denny Hamlin and Bobby Labonte.
Rounding out the rest of the top 10 we have a 3 way tie for the 6th spot between Sunday Money, ICE, and newman’s crew all scoring 302 points. And finishing out the last 2 spots we have a 2 way tie between 3beez, and feiltheneedforspeed. Next week it’s the Coke Zero 400 Saturday night in Daytona. It should be a great race. Good luck everyone!
We still have some room in our 2nd group
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