RACE QUICK-CAP | LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY
10 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
9 Jamie McMurray
8 Brian Vickers
7 Greg Biffle
6 Jeff Gordon missed pit road, blew a tire
5 Bobby Labonte
4 David Reutimann
3 Jeff Burton
2 Clint Bowyer

VICTORY LANE

1 Kyle Busch grabbed the pole, started in the back after an engine change, and battled back to the front for his first hometown Las Vegas win.

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OTHER STORIES ON THE DAY

-Wrecks, Engines, Spins, Drifting, Mistakes and more

-Matt Kenseth went from winning two races in a row, to finishing 43rd with a blown engine to start the race

-Jamie McMurray showed off his drifting skills with an amazing sideways save

-Roush Fenway car of David Ragan blew an engine, and possibly Carl Edwards on the Final Lap of the race

-The #43 of Reed Sorenson spun on his own and ate the wall

-Tons of pit road mistakes included Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards, Tony Stewart, Kevin Harvick, and others

-In the closing laps, Jimmie Johnson caught some of the “Speedy Dry” and spun his 48 machine into the wall, he finished 24th

-Jeff Gordon now leads the points by 18

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The hometown Busch brothers have taken the front row for Sunday’s Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

1 18 Kyle Busch
2 2 Kurt Busch
3 48 Jimmie Johnson
4 00 David Reutimann
5 47 Marcos Ambrose
6 39 Ryan Newman
7 9 Kasey Kahne
8 5 Mark Martin
9 29 Kevin Harvick
10 14 Tony Stewart
11 12 David Stremme
12 77 Sam Hornish Jr.
13 25 Brad Keselowski
14 31 Jeff Burton
15 55 Michael Waltrip
16 99 Carl Edwards
17 96 Bobby Labonte
18 78 Regan Smith
19 44 A J Allmendinger
20 20 Joey Logano #

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Wreck-Filled doesn’t begin to describe the Nationwide Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday. Here’s how the “Survivors” stacked up.

1 3 16 Greg Biffle
2 7 60 Carl Edwards
3 10 32 Brian Vickers
4 23 38 Jason Leffler
5 15 5 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
6 16 47 Michael McDowell #
7 13 62 Brendan Gaughan #
8 11 12 Justin Allgaier #
9 42 11 Scott Lagasse Jr. #
10 14 29 Jeff Burton
11 28 40 Scott Wimmer
12 35 42 Kenny Hendrick
13 24 89 Morgan Shepherd
14 20 28 Kenny Wallace
15 39 34 Tony Raines
16 33 24 Eric McClure
17 37 23 Ken Butler #
18 31 01 Danny O’Quinn Jr.
19 32 26 Brian Keselowski
20 29 87 Joe Nemechek

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In a display of virtual perfection on and off pit road this past Sunday at Auto Club Speedway, Matt Kenseth (No. 17 USG Ford) and crew became the fourth team in NASCAR history to win the Daytona 500 and the following event.

What is even more impressive is the No. 17 team has the opportunity to become the first to win the first three races of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, and just might do it.

Kenseth joined some elite company by starting off 2-0. Ironically, the last driver to pull off such a feat was four-time series champion, Jeff Gordon (No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet) in 1997, winning Daytona and Rockingham. Gordon, incidentally, battled Kenseth last weekend in the closing laps at ACS, finishing second.

The other two drivers to open with two wins are three-time series champion Cale Yarborough (1977, Daytona/Richmond); and seven-time champion, Richard Petty (1973, Daytona/Richmond).

After going all of 2008 without a win, the No. 17 team has turned it around by adding crew chief Drew Blickensderfer.

“I just feel great about the group we have assembled,” said Kenseth. “Everybody’s having fun. Everybody’s loose. Everybody’s performing at the same time. I think that, Drew has given the leadership and the spark they (the team) kind of needs.”

Continue reading “Matt Kenseth Going for Three in a row”