Race car hauler catches fire at JD Motorsports on Sunday night, total loss

GAFFNEY, S.C. (April 30, 2012) – JD Motorsports, the No. 01 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, suffered a total loss to their hauler on Sunday evening when it caught fire at their race shop.

There were no injuries and the tractor was detached and pulled away before suffering any damages. However, their hauler loaded with equipment, some uniforms, back-up parts, engines, shocks and springs for their operation was a total loss.

The only good part was the primary and backup No. 01 Restaurant.com Chevrolets for this weekend’s NASCAR race at Talladega Superspeedway were not on the hauler. The race shop itself didn’t suffer any damage, as well.

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RACE RECAP – RICHMOND
10 Carl Edwards led the most laps, jumped a restart
9 Brad Keselowski
8 Mark Martin was the pole sitter
7 Clint Bowyer
6 Jimmie Johnson
5 Kasey Kahne
4 Denny Hamlin
3 Tony Stewart gave it away on pit road, and spun the tires on the restart
2 Dale Earnhardt Jr. battled hard, lost brakes in the closing laps

VICTORY LANE

1 Kyle Busch, ends a 20 race winless streak grabbing his 24th career victory, and 4th consecutive spring Richmond win

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16 9 22 Brad Keselowski(i) Discount Tire / SKF Dodge
17 20 44 Mike Bliss BanditChippers.com Toyota
18 14 20 Joey Logano(i) Dollar General Toyota
19 4 88 Cole Whitt # TaxSlayer Chevrolet
20 24 70 Johanna Long # Foretravel Motorcoach / Grand Springs Chevrolet
21 16 7 Danica Patrick GoDaddy.com Chevrolet
22 25 99 Travis Pastrana boostmobile Toyota
23 18 08 Casey Roderick # West Virginia Miners Ford
24 26 01 Mike Wallace JD Motorsports Chevrolet
25 27 19 Tayler Malsam G-Oil / NOYS Toyota

Celebrating Monster Energy’s 10th anniversary in style, Kurt Busch drifted his No. 54 Monster Energy Toyota to his first victory under the newly formed Kyle Busch Motorsports, owned by his brother, Kyle. Kurt Busch robbed Denny Hamlin of the checkered flag by 0.062 seconds, sliding sideways through the finish in one of the most exciting final laps in NASCAR history at Richmond International Raceway. An emotional win for the Busch brother, as well at the Monster Energy family, Kurt beat a stacked field of veteran cup racers and newcomers.

PHOTO CREDIT: KBM PR