California-Born Leffler Fancies His Adopted Indiana Home
Busch’s year is overshadowing some great seasons for other series drivers; case in point is Jason Leffler. A California native who feels right at home at ORP due to his outstanding USAC days, he’s quietly putting together his best season. And coming “home” to ORP, he should be considered a darkhorse favorite to win.

He’s fourth in the standings and has accumulated five top fives and 14 top 10s this season; his career highs are eight and 17 in 27 races in 2004. Leffler won the first NASCAR Nationwide Series race for Toyota in 2007 at ORP. He has three top fives in six races there plus a pole. He made his series debut at the track in 1999 for Busch’s current team, Joe Gibbs Racing.

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Gordon Going For 5th IMS Victory
Jeff Gordon has won four times at Indianapolis, including NASCAR’s inaugural event there in 1994. Only Formula One star Michael Schumacher has more Indy victories – five.

Gordon is tied for second on IMS’ all-time victory list with a trio of four-time Indianapolis 500 winners – A.J. Foyt, Al Unser and Rick Mears.

Stewart Returns To ‘Home’ Track Driving No. 14
Years ago, it was never any secret that Indiana native Tony Stewart cherished a victory at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Now he has two, winning the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard in 2005 and 2007 in front of his family, friends and thousands of fans, many who cheered him during him days of racing in the Indianapolis 500.

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The Final Lap is searching for writers, bloggers, and up-and-coming journalists that are looking to get noticed.  While we cannot provide pay for these services, we can provide a huge audience and forum to increase your exposure and credibility.

Having just been chosen in the first round of picks for “NASCAR’s Citizen Journalists Media Corps” program, our audience is certain to grow even further.

Whether you already have a blog, write for others, or are looking for your first opportunity to bolster your resume, we’d love to see your stuff.  We are looking for NASCAR auto racing coverage, opinions, rumors, outside the box stories, lifestyle and more.

If chosen, you’d have the freedom to be as creative as you’d like, keeping in mind to represent The Final Lap accordingly.  At the top of each article, you can have a creative title and photo for all of your works on our site, at the bottom you may promote yourself via a bio, links, email, Twitter etc.

Please contact us from the link below, and be sure to include some links to your sample works. Include what angle, specialty or topics you’d like to write about.  If you have ideas for articles not listed here, include those as well.

The Final Lap is looking to create a site for writers to get noticed, and at the same time providing our visitors a unique NASCAR Racing Experience.

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The Final Lap website and podcasts are proud to be recognized and included in the first round by NASCAR into their “NASCAR Citizen Journalists Media Corps” program.  Our website features reporting and coverage from independent writers and citizen journalists from around the country, as well as features direct from NASCAR, plus podcasts from traditional media member Kerry Murphey.

While our national radio show The Final Lap is considered traditional media, our website, podcasts, and use of social media is what makes this a great mix of both traditional and citizen journalism.  We are truly excited to mesh all of these things together on a daily basis to cover and promote the great sport of NASCAR Racing.

It is an amazing honor to be chosen by NASCAR in their first round of picks for this exciting program and hope this affiliation will benefit both The Final Lap and NASCAR, as well as the 27 other members of this program so far.

Check out the official announcement and press release regarding this program from NASCAR, as well as the links to all of the others chosen to participate.

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Nearly 30 Web Sites Given Access, Tools To Cover NASCAR
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 17, 2009) – The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) today announced the members of the newly-formed “NASCAR Citizen Journalists Media Corps.” This group of new media consists of a range of professional and amateur experience covering NASCAR. One common theme is that each site is dedicated to providing information about NASCAR to a growing readership.

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By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

MADISON, Ill.—Capitalizing on Kevin Harvick’s attempt to stretch his gas mileage beyond the capacity of his fuel cell, Kyle Busch won his sixth NASCAR Nationwide Series race of the season Saturday night and his first at Gateway International Raceway.

In a 19-lap green-flag run to the finish, Busch held off Reed Sorenson to win the Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 at the 1.25-mile racetrack. The victory was Busch’s 27th in the series, tying him with Jeff Burton for fourth place on the career win list.

Busch extended his lead in the series standings to 212 points over third-place finisher Carl Edwards. Mike Bliss finished fourth, followed by Brad Coleman. Stephen Leicht, rookie Michael Annett, polesitter Brad Keselowski, Jason Keller and rookie Erik Darnell completed the top 10.

Continue reading “Kyle Busch wins Nationwide Race at Gateway”