On Thursday night, the starting lineup for Saturday’s Budweiser Shootout was selected by random draw, and here are the results.

1 99 Carl Edwards
2 29 Kevin Harvick
3 83 Brian Vickers
4 39 Ryan Newman
5 16 Greg Biffle
6 5 Mark Martin
7 31 Jeff Burton
8 17 Matt Kenseth
9 1 Jamie McMurray
10 34 John Andretti
11 88 Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
12 71 Bobby Labonte
13 14 Tony Stewart
14 82 Ken Schrader
15 51 Michael Waltrip
16 48 Jimmie Johnson
17 18 Kyle Busch
18 75 Derrike Cope
19 9 Kasey Kahne
20 42 Juan Pablo Montoya
21 20 Joey Logano
22 2 Kurt Busch
23 24 Jeff Gordon
24 11 Denny Hamlin

DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. (February 4, 2010) – Richard Childress Racing’s Kevin Harvick is battling flu-like symptoms at his home in North Carolina so teammate Clint Bowyer will drive the No. 29 Shell-Pennzoil Chevrolet in today’s two practice sessions for the 2010 Budweiser Shootout. Harvick has received medical attention for the illness and hopes to make it to Daytona later this evening. Bowyer, the driver of RCR’s No. 33 Cheerios/Hamburger Helper Chevrolet, did not qualify for this year’s non-points event.

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series: Hornaday To Win 5th Championship

Ron Hornaday Jr. made history in 2009 as NASCAR’s oldest national champion at age 51. Members of the media voting in this year’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series pre-season poll expect him to make even more history in 2010.

Hornaday, who captured a record fourth series championship a year ago, is the overwhelming pick to join Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt as NASCAR national series competitors with five titles.
And in doing so, Hornaday would become the first driver in the 16 years of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series to win back-to-back championships. He finished first, second and first in his past three seasons driving the No. 33 Longhorn/Georgia Boot Chevrolet for Kevin Harvick Inc.

Hornaday also was chosen to win the title in last year’s poll – the first conducted.
Following Hornaday in the poll was 2009 runner-up Matt Crafton, former champions Mike Skinner and Todd Bodine, and 2009 Raybestos Rookie of the Year Johnny Sauter.

“I’m very honored they (the media) chose me to repeat as champion but there (will be) 35 other trucks out there for us to compete against,” said Hornaday, a 45-time winner in the series. “We are not going to go out there and race for second, that’s for sure, but I’m honored that they’ve chose me out of the other competitive teams in the series. We are going to do what we have to do to keep their prediction true.”

Voters said that 19-year-old Austin Dillon is slated to become the series’ second-youngest Raybestos Rookie of the Year. Dillon, a North Carolina college student, will drive the historic No. 3 Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet for his grandfather, Richard Childress. The team, with Skinner behind the wheel, won the series’ first championship in 1995, and returns to full-time NASCAR Camping World Truck competition after a decade-long absence.

Runner-up in the rookie balloting was 2009 Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) champion Justin Lofton, followed by Jennifer Jo Cobb and Dillon Oliver.

Hey fans, Ingrid and I wanted to be the first to tell you (ok maybe not the first, but not far from it) the exciting news that Ingrid is 12 weeks pregnant and expecting our second child. We’re very excited and can’t wait to expand our family to four. Ella is also very excited and can’t stop talking about how much she’s looking forward to being a big sister.

JG

Source: http://jeffgordon.com

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 4, 2010) – Telecast times for the 2010 NASCAR season have been released, and as previously announced, the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule features earlier, consistent start times throughout the year.
Points races in the Eastern and Central regions of the country will begin at 1 p.m. ET, West Coast events will begin at 3 p.m. ET, and night races will begin at 7:30 p.m. ET. (Note: NASCAR’s longest race, the Coca-Cola 600, will start at 6 p.m. ET on May 30.)

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points races will be seen on either FOX, TNT, ESPN or ABC.
The preseason non-points Budweiser Shootout at Daytona will be on FOX (8:10 p.m. ET on Feb. 6). In addition, two other non-points events – the Gatorade Duel at Daytona (2 p.m. ET on Feb. 11) and the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race (7:30 p.m. ET on May 22 at Charlotte Motor Speedway), will be on SPEED.

FOX will have the first 13 NASCAR Sprint Cup points races, beginning with the 52nd running of the Daytona 500 (Feb. 14, 1 p.m. ET) and ending with the May 30 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

TNT will have the next six events, beginning with the Pocono 500 at 1 p.m. ET on June 6 at Pocono Raceway and ending with Chicagoland Speedway’s LifeLock.com 400, July 10 at 7:30 p.m. ET.

ESPN and ABC will carry the final 17 NASCAR Sprint Cup events. ABC will telecast three races, including the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup “cutoff” race – the Richmond 400 on Sept. 11 at 7:30 p.m. ET.

ESPN will telecast 14 races, including the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Nov. 21 at 1 p.m. ET.

The 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series season will be telecast on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2. ABC will have four events, ESPN will have nine and ESPN2 will have 22. ESPN2 opens the season with the DRIVE4COPD 300 at 1:15 p.m. ET on Feb. 13 at Daytona. ESPN2 also will telecast the season-finale Ford 300 on Nov. 20 at Homestead-Miami (4:30 p.m. ET).

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series returns to SPEED for an eighth consecutive season. This year, SPEED will show the entire 25-race schedule, opening with the NextEra Energy Resources 250 on Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. ET at Daytona. The series returns to Darlington Raceway this season, Aug. 14 at 7:30 p.m. ET.
The full telecast schedules for all three national series – the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series – follow.