By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

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DOVER, Del. — Opting to stay on the track and forego fresh tires before a 10-lap run to the finish, Brian Scott won his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race in his 39th start Saturday at Dover International Speedway.

Though blown right-front tires plagued almost the entire field in the AAA Insurance 200 — and deprived Kyle Busch of a chance to win — Scott, Dennis Setzer, Stacy Compton and Jason White stayed out after Busch and Colin Braun each blew right fronts and hit the outside wall in the same corner on Lap 184 of 200.

Continue reading “Busch blows it again, Scott Capitalizes”

NNS Race Recap: Keselowski Capitalizes On Busch’s Misfortune To Win At Dover

Brad Keselowski celebrates winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series Heluva Good! 200 Saturday at Dover International Speedway’s Victory Lane, his first Nationwide Series win of the season. (Photo Credit: CIA STOCK)
By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

DOVER, Del. — Brad Keselowski finally caught a break.

Keselowski’s good fortune came at the expense of continued bad luck to Kyle Busch, who failed to win Saturday’s Heluva Good! 200 despite leading a race-high 108 of 200 laps at Dover International Speedway.

Continue reading “Busch Blows it, Keselowski Capitalizes”

With 12 laps to go it looked like Kyle Busch was a shoo in for the Nationwide  race win today at Dover. He was a rocket on the restarts, no one could catch him. That is until the final restart with 3 laps to go.

Busch was leading and knowing what a great car he had on those restarts, everyone was pretty confident that he would run away with the win. However, Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski were not prepared to let that happen. Logano was right up on his rear bumper, practically underneath him which gave Keselowski the room he needed to take the lead on the bottom. Logano went high and they left Busch in the dust.

It seems Busch had a tire issue that caused him to loose quite a few spots on the last couple of laps. Similar issues plagued many of the drivers throughout the races.

Busch finished a disappointing 17th after leading the most laps. Logano came in second followed by Clint Bowyer, Brian Vickers, and Carl Edwards. This was the first win of the year for Brad Keselowski.

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1 00 David Reutimann
2 9 Kasey Kahne
3 42 Juan Pablo Montoya
4 43 Reed Sorenson
5 16 Greg Biffle
6 18 Kyle Busch
7 44 A J Allmendinger
8 48 Jimmie Johnson
9 83 Brian Vickers
10 19 Elliott Sadler
11 39 Ryan Newman
12 77 Sam Hornish Jr.
13 99 Carl Edwards
14 17 Matt Kenseth
15 1 Martin Truex Jr.
16 11 Denny Hamlin
17 07 Casey Mears
18 26 Jamie McMurray
19 2 Kurt Busch
20 47 Marcos Ambrose

Continue reading “Dover Cup Series Lineup: Reutimann on pole”

This week’s race at Dover International Speedway marks the 13th stop – halfway – in qualifying for one of the 12 positions in the 2009 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.

Statistics covering the five previous years in which the championship has been contested under The Chase format suggest at least 10 drivers among the current top 12 will be in the mix when the Chase begins in September at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

In the past three seasons, only one driver  outside the top 12 after the spring Dover race was able to race his way into the Chase. Two drivers in 2004 and 2005 managed to become Chase eligible over the season’s second half.

That, however, was then and this is now.

Continue reading “Halfway until the Chase – Time to worry?”