NASCAR Podcast
SHOW #170 – Our guest this week is Chris Myers from Showtime’s Inside NASCAR and NASCAR on FOX. Plus Paul and I chat about all of the Watkins Glen stories, Boris Vs. Biffle, Johnson Vs. Kurt, Ambrose finally wins, and much more. This is a packed show. Hosted by Kerry Murphey and Paul Northrop
(About 51 mins)
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Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards, Kurt and Kyle Busch
will be first to run on PIR’s new surface as part of Goodyear tire test on August 29-30
(PHOENIX, Ariz.) – Goodyear, the exclusive tire for NASCAR, will test Phoenix International Raceway’s new surface August 29-30, with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards, Kurt Busch and Kyle Busch participating. The testing sessions will be closed to the general public. All testing activities are subject to weather.
Star Power Personified
The Montreal entry list reads like a motorsports’ who’s who.
There are the top series regulars, led by points leader Ricky Stenhouse Jr. He’s the lone driver among the top three in the standings – second-place Reed Sorenson (-10) and third-place Elliott Sadler (-24) – who has run at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, finishing 24th last year.
Danica Patrick returns to series competition, making her stock-car debut on a road course. This will be her first series race since July at Daytona, where she finished 10th. Another former open-wheel racer, Scott Speed, will make his first series start since 2009, driving the No. 33 Chevrolet for Kevin Harvick Inc.
Earnhardt Pads Top-10 Cushion, Returns To Scene Of Last Win
Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished outside the top 10 (15th) at Watkins Glen, but it was enough to pad his cushion over 11th place.
Earnhardt now sits ninth, 36 points ahead of 11th-place Clint Bowyer. That might grow once again after this weekend. Earnhardt’s last win came at Michigan, 115 races ago.
CORNELIUS, N.C. — No. 99 NAPA AUTO PARTS Toyota driver Patrick Carpentier returns to the NASCAR Nationwide Series for the final time this weekend at his home track of Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. The 39-year-old driver plans to retire after this weekend’s race. The Joliette (Quebec) native enjoyed a 27-year racing career where he won five IndyCar races and grabbed a Sprint Cup Series pole at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in 2008.
Carpentier has had great success at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. In 2007 he won the pole then led 14 laps in his series debut. In just four races on the road course, he has back-to-back runner up finishes and ran at the front of the field the last two years before mechanical issues ended his day.
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