NASCAR’s Stewart-Haas Racing Team Takes Pole Position…

Driver of the #39 U.S. Army Chevrolet Impala, Ryan Newman took the pole position for the Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race. Given that it is Memorial Weekend and Ryan Newman is driving the U.S. Army Chevrolet Impala, it seems that they fit together for this weekend. Making his 309th career Sprint Cup start at the Coca-Cola 600, Newman turned a lap of 28.793 seconds at 187.546 mph on the 1.5-mile oval to take the pole position.
Inaugural NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee Junior Johnson is the only driver with as many pole positions as Ryan Newman, but only his first for 2010.

Newman stated “It was a great run for the U.S. Army Chevrolet,” with nine poles in his 19 career Sprint Cup races at Charlotte. It was a good run for us and we’ll see what we can do in the Coca-Cola 600.
“It was a great effort for everybody at Stewart-Haas Racing. It’s Memorial Day weekend and there is no better place for the U.S. Army Chevy to start.”

Co-owner Tony Stewart, driver of the #14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing, will start 26th after turning a lap of 29.296 seconds at 184.326 mph. Stewart was a little loose he held pole position five races ago at Texar Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. Stewart stated “We have all day Saturday to work on it some more, but you still have to build in a lot of adjustability since you start in the heat of the afternoon and then end at night. 600 miles is a long race.”

Of the forty-seven drivers who attempted to qualify for the Coca-Cola 600. Those not making the cut in the 43-car field were Reed Sorenson, Max Papis, David Stremme and Mike Bliss.

With Ryan Newman taking the pole-winning mark, it gave Chevrolet the top spot of all other manufacturers, which was the fourth pole for Stewart-Haas Racing team. Dodge came in second at the hands of Busch, while Toyota was the third-fastest with Truex. Kahne carried the flag for Ford.

The Coca-Cola 600 start at 6 p.m. with some sunlight and will finish under the lights, so track conditions will play a factor for the drivers and crew cheifs and the cars tires and tire presures.

A 9th Finish For Tony Stewart, Stewart-Haas Racing…

With another top 10 finish, 15th in his 23 career starts at Dover and only his 4th for this season. Tony Stewart driver of the #14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala has not made a top 10 finish since finishing second on March at Bristol (Tenn). At one point Tony Stewart came into the pits in third position, after a four tire change and raised the track bar an eighth of an inch, came back out onto the track in last place of the lead lap. On lap 224 Tony Stewart fell back to 16th place after his #14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala started to act erratically and in fear of being put a lap down. The #14 Office Depot/Old Spice was running was good on entry and exit and only slightly tight in the center of the corner. Crew chief Darian Grubb worked on the car throughout the next three pits stops by making small tire pressure and chassis adjustments. Just before the final 120 laps, a yellow flag (Caution) saved Tony Stewart from going a lap down. Crew chief Grubb brought the #14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet in to pit row to put the car’s setup back to how it had been at the start of the race. With that set-up, Tony Stewart was able to come up the ranks/positions from 15th to 9th. Stewart’s effort at Dover, he gained four spots in the Sprint Cup championship standings, to 14th place.

Teammate Ryan Newman, driver of the #39 U.S. Army Chevrolet Impala, finished 13th. Newman gained one position in the point standings. He’s now one spot ahead of Tony Stewart in 13th place.

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My Review Of Tony Stewart’s Calhoun 400 Race

Another great night race. First of all, Kyle Busch driver of the #18 Toyota Camary M&M was unstoppable. Kyle Busch’s car was set up just right, whether it be running the high line or low line, his car was just running everyone down and passing them. Tony Stewart driver of the #14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala had different symptoms. Tony Stewart’s #14 just kept dropping back lap after lap, his set up was just no where near of what the track requires. Tony came in with a different set up hoping it would work out for this track, but didn’t. As for team mate Ryan Newman driver of the #39 Army Medicine Chevrolet Impala, his set up was good enough to get him up to the 9th spot just before the half-way mark of the 400 lap race. There wasn’t to much mention of the #14 Office Depot/Old Spice Cheverolet Impala of Tony Stewart, who fell back a lap down by lap 85. When you have a bad set up or ride, there is no mention of how you are doing except for when they start falling back, a caution comes out or when the announcers do the “Driver by Driver” review. A caution flag on lap 155 allowed Tony Stewart to get on of his two down laps back. But constant problems with the #14 Office Depot Chevrolet put him down another lap, crew chief Darian Grubb made a strategy call to bring Stewart to pit road early under green flag conditions. A four-tire stop with a right-rear wedge adjustment on lap 350 put Stewart on the front end of the pit cycle, and if the race stayed green for the final 50 laps, he would gain considerable ground on those who had been running ahead of him.

Tony Stewart stated “We’re just not where we need to be right now,” who is now 15th in the championship standings with 1,160 points, a loss of one position. That puts him 307 markers behind new series leader Kevin Harvick. Teammate Ryan Newman, driver of the #39 Army Medicine Chevrolet, carried the Stewart/Haas Racing team by finishing eighth. With three top-10 finishes for the 2010 season, it allowed Newman to gain two positions in the point standings. He’s now 16th.

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NASCAR’s Tony Stewart Survives Another Talladega Superspeedway…

After a busy Talladega Superspeedway, with 8 cautions for 32 laps, 13 drivers out of the race and a garage full of damaged/wrecked cars. Tony Stewart’s No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot “Mattahorn” Cheverolet came out strong in the begining laps, leading for just one lap of the 200 laps and was a part of a handful of charges to the front, with some help from Dale Earnhardt Jr pushing, helped put Tony Stewart to second place by lap 180. There were a lot of drafting and pushing from several opponents joining up together to push to the front and get some points for leading a lap.

With the Triple over time and Tony Stewart’s No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Cheverolet loosing momentum after every restart, those three restarts just kept putting him further back and having to fight his way back to the front, or at least close as possible. With Ryan Newman, teammate of Stewart-Haas Racing, driver of the No. 39 Haas Automation/Office Depot Chevrolet, getting involved in the second to last multi car accident, putting him to finished a disappointing 35th.

The finish was nothing to blink at or to get up and get a drink. While Kevin Harvick was pushing Jamie McMaurry for a couple of laps, then on turn-4 comes inside of McMaurry and finishes first with just .011 of a margin from McMaurry. Timing was everything for that to work out for Harvick.

Talladega Superspeedway saw 29 leaders and 88 lead changes, for an all-time NASCAR record. It was also the longest Talladega Superspeedway with 532 miles completed, which was extended 12 laps past the scheduled distance due to three attempts at a green-white-checker finish.

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NASCAR’s Stewart-Haas Racing Wins At Phoenix…

Tony Stewart finally won another race this past weekend at Phoenix International Raceway, not as the driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet. But as the owner of Stewart/Haas Racing (SHR). Teammate Ryan Newman, the driver of the No. 39 Tornados Chevrolet Impala won his first race at the 1 mile oval, as part of Stewar/Haas Racing.

Tony Stewart finshed 23rd, falling even further back on the Sprint Cup Series points. The season started good for Stewart/Haas Racing, but it has deminished since then, Until now with the win at Phoenix International Raceway.

Taking a chance on a two tires pit stop, after a late caution, which extended the race to three more laps. Even after Jimmy Johnson and Kyle Busch leading the most laps. Newman took the lead from four-time Sprint Cup champion Jeff Gordon after Gordon spun his tires at the restart, and that’s all she wrote.

This was Newman’s 14th career Sprint Cup victory and his first win since the 50th running of the Daytona 500 in 2008, which Newman won. That is a span of 77 races.

Tony Stewart drove his #14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet from 11th place to the lead by lap 23, but only held it for 15 laps around the desert mile. Track conditions changed and that took the air out of Stewart’s sail. As night fell, the handling went away on Tony Stewarts’ #14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet and left him with a 23rd place finish.

Newman held off the four-time Sprint Cup Champion Jeff Gordon for a .130 seconds to take the win, followed by Jimmi Johnson, Mark Martin and Juan Pablo Montoya. Matt Kenseth, Carl Edwards, Kyle Busch, Clint Bowyer and Joey Logano completed the 10.

With just 7 or 36 races completed, Stewart is ninth in the standings, down one spot. Newman moved up six position to 16th.

Next on schedule is the Samsung Mobile 500 to be held at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. Let’s go Smoke ‘em Tony.

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NASCAR Going Wingless… Welcomes Back The Spoiler

We all knew that it was not going to take long for the NASCAR Association, are what ever title they give themselves, to change back to the rear spoiler. It was not just the wing that made the cars go airborne, look at the rear of the cars, high ends lets air get in there as well. The only good thing that NASCAR has came up with was the Roof Flaps and of course all the safety devices, especially the Haans device for the neck support.

We all are eager to see the new spoiler on the cars and how they will run on each track. But we all also await a good accident with no injuries of course. The bump and draft is back as well so when it comes to wide open racing the action will begin and the test of the new spoiler will be revealed as to how good it is. Every season, NASCAR officials and CEO’s come up with some different rule for that season to see how it works on the tracks and how the drivers like them and will adhear to them. When they took the Bump and Draft away, no one could run up on anyone without making some kind of contact. Now is real racing, time put tighten up those straps, get your last drink before going out on the track and HOLD ON, because you are going for a ride.

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The Fueds In NASCAR, When Will It End…

Where did it all start between Kyle Edwards driver of the #99 Aflac Ford Fusion and Brad Keselowski driver of #12 Mopar FLOTV Dodge Charger. Some say it started back at the Aarons 499 Talladega Super speedway when Brad Keselowski moved to the inside when Edwards went high to block him in the final 400 yards of the 188-lap race. Edwards slid back down the track in another attempt to block, but Keselowski already was inside his left-rear quarter panel. Contact between the cars turned Edwards and lifted his rear tires off the pavement. Edwards flew into the path of third-place finisher Ryan Newman’s Chevrolet, and that collision launched Edwards into the fence, Ryan Newman’s wrecked car crossed the finish line 3rd.
It appears that Edwards has crossed the line, and even seemed to realize it after the crash went wrong, during Edwards interview, he was brief in the comments he made to the media, he told NASCAR officials that he got into Keselowski on purpose, but he did not intend to send him flying on the frontstretch into the safety barrier wall on his roof, coming back on all four tires to the inside lane crossing back across traffic coming to rest against the safety barrier wall.
Even after Edwards being 150 laps down at the time of the incident and Keselowski was running a top-five finish.

The retaliation from the Talladega with Keselowski having turned Edwards and sent his car airborne and into the catchfence at Talladega Superspeedway last spring as they both raced for a win. The two drivers started to get together earlier during Sundays Atlanta race when they bumped each other on Lap 41 shoving Edwards into the #20 Home Depot Toyota of Joey Logano, sending both cars to the garage.
But Robin Pemberton, vice president of competition for NASCAR, said the governing body would take its time in examining all the facts before deciding what to do with Edwards, whose No. 99 Roush Fenway Ford was ordered to the garage after wrecking the No. 12 of Keselowski

Another NASCAR Top-Ten Finish For Stewart…

Now that Tony Stewart had gotten his second top-10 finish with completing the Shelby American NASCAR Sprint Cup Series with a strong seventh place at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Tony Stewart’s No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot racing for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) led twice for a total of 7 laps out of the 267 lap race, and that was the only time we heard about Tony Stewart at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Expecting for Tony to come out and take charge of a speedway. Tony stated “We ended up seventh, which is alright, but we always want more”. Considering a ninth finish last Sunday at Fontana, California. Tony Stewart struggled on the restarts and it took a couple of laps to get in with the lead pack.
Tony felt that the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet Impala was tight in the center of the track’s corners and loose on exit, at times Stewart was at pace with the leader, if not faster. But was not able to catch the leader.

During the quick work of the Old Spice/Office Depot pit crew, with adjusting the chassis, a series of wedge, track bar and tire pressure adjustments, Tony was able to crack a top-five after 90 laps at the 1.5 mile oval. But Stewart was not able to hold a top-five, by lap 108 he fell back to seventh, a spot he would hold for much of the race. Stewart stayed out on two green flags when other teams had to make scheduled pit stops. Tony lead on laps 164-165 and laps 215-219 before he was called in to make his requisite pit stops.

Stewart was holding the fifth-place when a final caution came out on lap 230. Only 11 other drivers were on the lead lap and the call was made to come in for four tires and a splash of gas. Stewart came in on fifth place and came out of pit row, yep you guessed it, seventh for the final 33 laps of the race. But since Stewart having problems with restarts, at the final green flag to the finish, he struggled to get the Old Spice/Office Depot dropped back to ninth in just one lap. Stewart tried using the remainder of the laps to get back what he lost, to get back to at least seventh or a top-10 finish.

Stewart’s SHR teammate, Ryan Newman, finished 18th in his No. 39 Tornados Chevrolet.

The Continuation of Tony In NASCAR

Here we go again. Tony starting with a great start to come up on the next couple of races, no lower then a top 10 (9th was his best) Not much was said about Tony Stewart while watching the race on TV. With a record of four top-five and six top-ten finishes while leading a total of 185 laps in his 11 career Sprint Cup starts at Las Vegas, with a best finish of 3rd in 2007 driving for Kevin Harvick Inc. In 2008 while running the Nationwide Series he did concur the 1.5 oval, now if he can do it in the Sprint Cup Series, he came close while driving the #20 Old Spice Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing, Tony led twice for 61 laps, no other driver came close to keep up with Tony’s pace. But on lap 137 of 202, Tony connected with a lapped car and Tony went hard into the SAFER Barrier along the outside retaining wall in turn three, diminishing his visit to victory lane at Las Vegas. You can’t say that Tony has not won at Las Vegas, back in 2002 at the Las Vegas Bullring, just outside of turns one and two, Tony swept the USAC (United States Auto Club) Sprint/Midget doubleheader.

With the only Sprint Cup Series visit to Las Vegas, it’s Tony’s only chance this season to put a checkmark on his book for Las Vegas.

Tony’s outlook for Las Vegas this weekend, Las Vegas is no different than anywhere else. The car has to be able to rotate through the corners, but still stay tight enough on the entry and exit. The track is really smooth and that lets you work on the attitude of your car. Every track is different with its unique set of bumps.

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Bad Start On NASCAR’s First Race For Tony…

After completing the 52nd running of the Daytona 500, Tony finished 22nd. During the whole race Tony was fighting with a tight car, the #14 Office Depot/Old Spice team could not figure out what else they can do to make the car run better, but ran out of time, even with the extended 8 laps due to the yellow flags.
Having ran so good on the Nationwide Series with a win, finishing second at the Gatorade Duel and a 9th place at the Budweiser Shoot out. With all that going for Tony, he and his team just could not tune the #14 Office Depot/Old Spice car to run for a better position.

“It wasn’t very good for us,” said Stewart of his Daytona 500 outing. “We just missed. I’m not sure what we missed, but we’ll figure it out.”

The track did not cooperate any with a chunk of the asphalt came out on turn two, not once, but twice. Bringing out two red flags for a total about of 145 minutes. With all that time, Tony’s crew still could not come up with the right decission to make the car handle better. Once the Daytona crews finished with making the patches at turn two, it was a sprint to the finish line. Everyone was runing wide open, sliding, bumping, and not getting loose.

Ryan Newam, Stewarts teammate, got caught up in a accident in lap 194. Newman’s car was immobile after the accident, finishing in 34th place.
With 1 of 36 races completed,Tony leaves Daytona 23rd in the championship standings, just 93 points behind McMurray. Newman is 34th in points.

Race 2 of 36 will be held at Fontana Speedway, let’s see if Tony has gotten his #14 Office Depot/Old Spice car tuned up for that race.

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