RACE RECAP | BRISTOL
10 Marcos Ambrose ran top 5 most of the day until a dropped cylinder
9 Juan Pablo Montoya
8 Jeff Burton
7 Ryan Newman safe for next weeks qualifying
6 Mark Martin also safe for next weeks qualifying
5 Kasey Kahne in the top 10 in points
4 Jeff Gordon keeps the points lead
3 Jimmie Johnson back in the top 10 in points, figured out Bristol
2 Denny Hamlin a JGR 1-2 finish

VICTORY LANE

1 For the 3rd week in a row a Busch has won, Kyle Busch goes to victory lane for the first time in his career he has multiple wins at a track. It’s Kyle’s second win of the season.

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OTHER STORIES ON THE DAY

-John Andretti wrecks for caution number 1

-Todd Bodine wrecked by Waltrip, 8, 2, 29, 12, 20 involved

-McMurray spins a couple times

Greg Biffle cylinder down in his engine (DNF)

-Vickers cuts down a tire

Hendrick had 3 cars in top 6. Only one not is Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 14th.
(Jr. sped on pit road saying jr: yall som b***** are fatiguing on me, yall aint got the same spunk. 3 lucky dogs)

-Harvick blows a tire, hits the wall

Ambrose running top 5 all day, dropped a cylinder salvages a 10th place

Joey Logano pounded the wall, and a few laps later, blows a motor with under 10 races to go

Scott Speed will need to qualify in on time next week in Martinsville

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NNS Recap: Harvick Wins at Bristol in His Own Car

Kevin Harvick celebrates winning the Scotts Turf Builder 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway, his first NASCAR Nationwide Series victory for Kevin Harvick Inc. (Photo credit: CIA Stock Photo)
By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

BRISTOL, Tenn. — At age 33, Kevin Harvick won his 33rd Nationwide Series race in the No. 33 Kevin Harvick Inc. Chevrolet — but the number that really mattered to Harvick at Bristol Motor Speedway was “one.”

A former series champion, Harvick won for the first time in a Nationwide car he owns when he took the checkered flag in Saturday’s Scott’s Turf Builder 300 at the .533-mile high-banked short track, beating Carl Edwards to the finish line by .798 seconds.

“Finally, we got this out of the way,” Harvick said. “The alternator went out today — it was kind of hot in there — but everybody did a great job…

“There’s been a tremendous amount of pressure that I’ve put on myself — probably more pressure than any of the guys want to see at the shop over the last year, but it’s been well worth the reward today. And I guess it’s kind of fitting that it comes on what’s been my most successful track in the Nationwide Series here at Bristol, and I’m just glad it all finally came together.”

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Mark Martin puts his #5 Hendrick Motorsports machine on the pole for the second race in a row.

1 5 Mark Martin
2 39 Ryan Newman
3 48 Jimmie Johnson
4 16 Greg Biffle
5 9 Kasey Kahne
6 00 David Reutimann
7 43 Reed Sorenson
8 66 Dave Blaney
9 26 Jamie McMurray
10 24 Jeff Gordon
11 82 Scott Speed #
12 42 Juan Pablo Montoya
13 47 Marcos Ambrose
14 71 David Gilliland
15 14 Tony Stewart

Photo: CIA Stock Photo

16 64 Todd Bodine
17 28 Travis Kvapil
18 8 Aric Almirola
19 18 Kyle Busch
20 1 Martin Truex Jr.

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KERNERSVILLE, N.C. (March 17, 2009) – Ricky Carmichael has been entered in the No. 4 Oakley / KHI All-Stars team Chevrolet Silverado for the Kroger 250 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway Saturday, March 28. Carmichael was not originally scheduled to compete at this event, but Oakley has signed a sponsorship agreement with Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI) to back the rookie driver and the KHI All-Stars team at Martinsville for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) race.

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In the history of the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA), no other rider has won as many championships (15) and races (150) as Carmichael, earning him the nickname the GOAT (Greatest of All-Time). Carmichael was a record five-time AMA “Rider of the Year.”

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GREG BIFFLE – No. 16 3M Ford Fusion – WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR RIBS? “I wish I had a better story, I really do. Me and a couple buddies went out fishing on Tuesday night and we were just messing around in our cove right there and we came back to the dock. I jumped over to the dock and the boat was kind of drifting out a little bit. One guy had the front corner and I said, ‘I’m gonna jump back over and grab a rope and then jump back again.’ It was about 11:30, so there was a little bit of dew in the air and the platform must have been wet, and when I jumped over it just shot my foot out from underneath me. It turned me around backwards and put me right on my side and on my back on the edge of the boat. It’s not a normal boat. It’s got a sharp edge on it because it has a platform on the front, so it’s just one of those freak, stupid accidents where you take a fall and you have no way to stop it or brace it or grab because I was over top of water. You’re gonna land on your ribs with all your weight, plus you jumped on top of it, so it was a stupid deal. If I had to do it over, I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary. Everybody’s jumped onto a boat before, but I just lost my footing.”

IT’S 500 LAPS HERE ON SUNDAY. “It’s 500 laps and it’s my right side. I went down yesterday as a precaution and got in my Martinsville car because the Bristol car had already left, and I feel better in that seat than I do sitting in anything. I drove over there in my truck and I actually feel better sitting in that seat (race car seat) because it’s hard foam and it’s molded. It doesn’t create any pressure points. When you sit in a seat that has a lumbar support cushion, it’s pushing in on you when you’re naturally sitting in it like an easy chair or something, whereas this is hard and rigid and it fits your body. It doesn’t have the ability to push in on you anywhere. Remarkably, I cannot believe how much better I feel in three days. I did it Tuesday night and I was really hurting Tuesday night. I felt a fair amount better by the end of the day Wednesday and yesterday I was up and doing all kinds of stuff, stretching and getting ready to go, so I feel pretty good now. I got in the car, just bruised, and the reason why I’m just focusing on the Cup race is you’re bruised and if you get in a wreck in the Nationwide car, you blow a tire, you know how easy it is to get in a chain-reaction crash here. I’m thinking, ‘Why be even more sore for Sunday if something happened?’ Matt and I were fighting over this race to see who was gonna get to run it, so we’re just gonna swap Daytona or something like that so we keep the same amount of races. But I’m disappointed, trust me, that I’m not running the Nationwide race.”

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