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The Final Lap Weekly #255 NASCAR Podcast – Sam Hornish Jr. / Coca-Cola 600 From Charlotte

May 23, 2013 by 1 Comment

SHOW #255 - Guest: Sam Hornish Jr. – We recap and compare the All Star Race and the Coca-Cola 600 from Charlotte, Hall of Fame announcement, News Of The Week (queue the music!) Preview of the Coca-Cola 600, and Fantasy Racing. Hosted by Kerry Murphey and Toby Christie.

(47:55 mins)

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Hosts: Kerry Murphey & Toby Christie

Executive Producer: Kerry Murphey

Music: Russell Nash Radium Sound

Voice Over: Thomas Moog

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NNS Results: Kyle Busch Leads 186 Laps En Route To Record Win At Charlotte

May 25, 2013 by Leave a comment

kyle-busch-victory-lane-nascar-history-300-2013-practiceMay 25, 2013

By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service

CONCORD, N.C.–Another race. Another record.

Kyle Busch held off Kasey Kahne during a closing, 13-lap green-flag run to win Saturday’s History 300 Nationwide Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway and continue his wholesale revision of NASCAR’s record books.

Busch beat Kahne to the finish line by .939 seconds to claim a record seventh NNS victory at Charlotte, breaking a tie with Mark Martin for supremacy at the speedway. In winning for the sixth time in nine starts this season, Busch extended his record for all-time NNS wins to 57.

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2013 NASCAR Cup Series Charlotte Coca-Cola 600 Starting Lineup – Denny Hamlin On Pole

May 23, 2013 by Leave a comment

denny-hamlin-coors-light-pole-memorial-day-car-coca-cola-coke-600-nascar-charlotte-1-2013-sprint-cup-series1 11 Denny Hamlin FedEx Office Toyota 27.604 195.624
2 78 Kurt Busch Furniture Row Racing / Sealy Chevrolet 27.661 195.221
3 20 Matt Kenseth Home Depot / Husky Toyota 27.679 195.094
4 55 Mark Martin Aaron’s Dream Machine Toyota 27.750 194.595
5 15 Clint Bowyer 5-hour Energy Toyota 27.763 194.503
6 5 Kasey Kahne Time Warner Cable Chevrolet 27.785 194.349

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7 16 Greg Biffle Fastenal Ford 27.801 194.238
8 18 Kyle Busch M&M’sRed-White-BlueM-ProveAmer. Toyota 27.842 193.952
9 1 Jamie McMurray Bad Boy Buggies Chevrolet 27.879 193.694
10 39 Ryan Newman Quicken Loans Chevrolet 27.887 193.639
11 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. National Guard Chevrolet 27.915 193.444
12 48 Jimmie Johnson Lowe’s Patriotic Chevrolet 27.937 193.292

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So You Want To Win The Coca-Cola 600 At Charlotte, Don’t Take The Pole

May 23, 2013 by 1 Comment

2012 Charlotte May NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Qualifying Aric Almirola PolePole Winners Most Have Struck Out In Recent 600s
A Coors Light Pole will get a driver attention – and a spot in next year’s Sprint Unlimited at Daytona – but it’s hardly a ticket to the Coca-Cola 600’s Victory Lane. Beginning in 1998 just two pole winners – Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson (2004) have won the 600. Other winners have come from throughout the starting field including Johnson’s all-time deepest-in-the-field start of 37th in 2003.

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First Time NASCAR Sprint Cup Winner At The 600, It Could Happen

May 23, 2013 by 1 Comment

Matt KensethSeveral Past Coca-Cola 600 Winners Nabbed First Sprint Cup Victory
Gordon isn’t the only Coca-Cola 600 starter to win for the first time in Charlotte’s spring race. The list of current drivers includes Sprint Cup champions Matt Kenseth (2000) Jeff Gordon (1994) and Bobby Labonte (1995); and Casey Mears (2007) and David Reutimann (2009). NASCAR Hall of Fame member David Pearson scored the first of his 105 Sprint Cup victories in the second running of the Coca-Cola 600 in 1961. Jamie McMurray’s first Sprint Cup victory came in Charlotte’s 2002 fall race.

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2014 NASCAR Hall Of Fame Class Announced Flock, Ingram, Jarrett, Petty and Roberts

May 22, 2013 by Leave a comment

Hall of Fame Logo2014 NASCAR Hall Of Fame Class Announced
Flock, Ingram, Jarrett, Petty and Roberts Comprise List Of New Inductees

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (May 22, 2013) – NASCAR announced today the inductees who will comprise the 2014 class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The five-person group – the fifth in NASCAR Hall of Fame history – consists of Tim Flock, Jack Ingram, Dale Jarrett, Maurice Petty and Fireball Roberts. Next year’s Induction Day is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, broadcast on Fox Sports 1 from Charlotte, N.C.

The 54-member NASCAR Hall of Fame Voting Panel met today in a closed session in Charlotte, N.C., to vote on the induction class of 2014. NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France made the announcement this evening in the NASCAR Hall of Fame’s “Great Hall.”

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Coca-Cola 600 Favors Sprint Cup Champions, Except…

May 22, 2013 by Leave a comment

Daytona Friday Tony Stewart In GarageCharlotte’s Coca-Cola 600 is a race for champions. All but three NASCAR Sprint Cup titleholders from 1993 through the present have a least one victory in the season’s longest race. Among the missing – surprisingly – is three-time champion Tony Stewart, whose only Charlotte victory came in the track’s 2003 fall race. Stewart has just one Coca-Cola 600 top-10 finish – sixth in 2007 – in his most recent eight races. His best finish, third, came in 2001. Reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski also searches for his first Coca-Cola 600 victory. Keselowski finished fifth a year ago in his third 600 start. Terry Labonte, the 1996 series champion, is the third. He won the fall 1996 race at Charlotte, but never the 600-miler.

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