Next Nationwide Race
Subway Jalapeno 250
Daytona Intl. Speedway
July 3, 2009
Time: 7:30p.m. EST
TV: ESPN
Defending Champs
NASCAR: Denny Hamlin
LDR: Dean Higley
New Hampshire
Movers & Snoozers
Terry Howell +6
Gary Wheat +4
Jeffrey Ouderkirk +4
Tony Hogan -4
Lincoln Griffin -4
Merline Glenn -4
Nationwide Series News
Busch Takes The Fifth At New Hampshire
After two straight runner-up finishes, Kyle Busch returned to victory lane at New Hampshire for his fifth win of the season.
Mitch McCown dominates in his first career victory
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.
Finishing in second place is Wendal Ebach who gets his best career finish in the Nationwide series. This is Wendal's 2nd top 5 of the year. It's been a bit of a struggle to Wendal's rookie season but he does move up 3 spots this week to 32nd place. He's picked it up recently against the other rookie contenders, he now leads the second segment of the rookie of the year race.
Jeffery Ouderkirk comes home in third place for his fourth top 5 of the year. This is the 2nd top 3 finish for Jeffery who is looking to move up in the standings. He climbs up 4 spots to 17th place this week.
For the first time ever in the Nationwide series, we have a father and son finishing in the top 5. Wendal Ebach took 2nd and his son Austin finishes fourth this week. This is the first career top 5 for Austin who holds in 40th place.
Rounding out the top 5 is the winner of the last two races. Terry Howell doesn't get a third victory in a row, but he does get a fourth top 5 in a row which is one shy of the record. Terry's been on fire lately and has now moved into the top 10. He moves up 6 spots to 10th place this week.
Next week the Nationwide series will begin using double file restarts as they head to Daytona. It should be a fun 4th of July weekend!
7/2 10:00pm Update: The deadline for the Subway Jalapeno 200 has now passed and all picks have been uploaded to the site. Missing picks this week are Johnnie Tarter and Jeff Ping who has now been replaced with James Miller, Jr.
Kyle Busch's teammate Joey Logano earned his third consecutive pole and finished in the runner-up spot.
2009 Lucky Dog Racing: Nationwide Series Top 10 Drivers
