SHOW #113 – We recap the Pocono/Nashville/Texas race weekend, discuss the Logano’s Vs. Harvick’s feud, Jimmie Johnson’s birth plans, bigger holes at Daytona, and preview Michigan. Hosted by Kerry Murphey and Paul Northrop
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See the images from Tony Stewart’s Prelude to the Dream, the HBO Pay-Per-View charity event featured some of NASCAR’s biggest stars, racing in the dirt! Here’s just some of the drivers slinging mud: Obviously Tony Stewart, his teammate Ryan Newman, Clint Bowyer, Kasey Kahne, Kyle Busch, Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin and more.
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Photo Credit: ROSSBURG, OH – JUNE 09: Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream at Eldora Speedway on June 9, 2010 in Rossburg, Ohio. (Photo by Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images for True Speed Communication)
Johnson Wins Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream
Levine Children’s Hospital Captures Team Competition at Eldora Speedway
ROSSBURG, OH - JUNE 09: Jimmie Johnson, driver of the #48 Lowes late model Chevrolet, celebrates after winning the Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream at Eldora Speedway on June 9, 2010 in Rossburg, Ohio. (Photo by Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images for True Speed Communication)
ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 9, 2010) – Four-time and reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson added to his already impressive racing resume by winning the Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream charity dirt Late Model race at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio.
Johnson led all 30 laps at the half-mile dirt oval, but endured a serious challenge from Kyle Busch and Clint Bowyer throughout much of the event.
“It’s been a steep learning curve, for sure, but it’s been a lot of fun to do,” said Johnson, who made his Prelude and dirt Late Model debut in 2008. “We tested a couple of times last year, and I think it screwed me up. I just came here cold turkey and tried to go off of my memory, and it worked. The team knew what they wanted to do with the car through the course of the night with the setup, and Clint (Bowyer) was working with us and it just got better and better.”
Bowyer, who owns the car Johnson used to win the Prelude to the Dream, finished .683 of a second behind Johnson in the runner-up spot. Carl Edwards, Busch and Denny Hamlin rounded out the top-five.
“You know, it’s cool to come home one-two,” Bowyer said. “A lot of hard work goes into this. This is a lot of fun, but let me tell you, my guys at the shop work their butts off. So, I’m very proud they were able to come and enjoy this night, to see Jimmie win. Me and Kyle, we were battling it out. He doored me down there, and I wasn’t going to let him get away with it. I was going to pass him one way or another.
“It’s really cool to be able to have Jimmie in the car. He’s a four-time champion for a reason, and that proves it right there.”
“This race has gotten competitive enough where I don’t want to own a car,” Johnson added. “I want to keep driving other people’s stuff. People are testing and working really hard to come up here and run well.”
Eldora Speedway owner and two-time Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart, who won the past two Prelude to the Dreams, was impressed with Johnson’s maturation as a dirt Late Model driver.
“Well, I’m convinced he can drive anything,” Stewart said. “I think if we got him a ride in the space shuttle, he could do it, no worries. I mean, we saw it last year. When I followed him in the heat races, I was like this guy has picked this up really, really fast. So it doesn’t surprise me at all. But it’s cool to have a guy who hasn’t won here before. He had to do it the hard way. He had some good guys behind him. It’s hard to fight them off. It’s hard when you’re leading because you never know where to go on a dirt track because the conditions change. He got rolling around the top pretty good tonight, like a veteran.”
The Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream was presented live to the entire nation on HBO Pay-Per-View® with net proceeds from the telecast supporting four of the nation’s top children’s hospitals:
Eldora Speedway
Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream
ROSSBURG, Ohio – Results Wednesday of the Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream Dirt Late Model event June 9 at the half-mile Eldora Speedway, with order of finish, starting position in parentheses, driver, laps completed and reason out (if any):
Beyond the charity element, this year’s Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream is a team event. There will still be an individual race winner, but there will now be a race within the race, with the field broken up into four teams, each representing a children’s hospital.
NOTE: Team Levine and St. Jude should be reversed above
Each hospital will receive a donation, with the payout breakdown as follows: Winning team receives 45 percent of net money raised, second- place team receives 25 percent of net money raised, third- and fourth-place teams each re- ceive 15 percent of net money raised. The lowest team score wins, and only the top-five drivers from each team will be scored.
A pre-race show will air on SPEED Channel June 9, at 6 p.m. prior to the race.
“We’re excited about it (Prelude to the Dream),” Stewart said. “It’s obviously something we’ve enjoyed doing every year. It really is an atmosphere and I think it’s something these guys really look forward to as well.”
SHOW #113 – We recap the Pocono/Nashville/Texas race weekend, discuss the Logano’s Vs. Harvick’s feud, Jimmie Johnson’s birth plans, bigger holes at Daytona, and preview Michigan. Hosted by Kerry Murphey and Paul Northrop
The Final Lap Weekly 