Road Racing Brings Out The “Ringers”
The most challenging aspect of Saturday’s Johnsonville Sausage 200 Presented by Menards at Road America for the NASCAR Nationwide Series regulars might not be the facility’s 14 challenging turns, but rather the road-course specialists that are racing alongside them.
These specialists are adept at turning left … and right, and are often challenging for the win at the few road courses that dot the national series’ schedules. For instance, all 24 of Ron Fellows’ starts in the NNS have come at road courses, including Road America where he has three top-three finishes in three starts.
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NASCAR Announces New Group Qualifying For Sonoma and Watkins Glen
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New NASCAR Sprint Cup Road-Course Qualifying Procedure Announced
New Group-Based Format To Bolster Excitement For Sonoma, Watkins Glen
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Apr. 22, 2013) – NASCAR announced today that the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will implement the group-based road course qualifying procedure used in NASCAR Nationwide and NASCAR Touring Series competition during its road-course events at Sonoma Raceway and Watkins Glen International. Under the new procedure, cars will qualify in groups instead of the traditional single-car qualifying runs held on oval race tracks.
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The Final Lap Weekly #208 – Clint Bowyer, Jeff Burton – NASCAR Kentucky Preview
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SHOW #208 – GUESTS: Clint Bowyer and Jeff Burton. We break down the road course weekend at Sonoma, Discuss the Matt Kenseth announcement, Kentucky version of ‘Drivers Say What’ and a full preview of Kentucky. Hosted by Kerry Murphey and Toby Christie.
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Cool-Down Lap: Kurt Busch Could Find Redemption In Sonoma Performance
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Cool-Down Lap: Kurt Busch could find redemption in Sonoma performance
June 25, 2012: Commentary
By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service
SONOMA, Calif. — After doing all the right things on a sunny Sunday at Sonoma, Kurt Busch can take an object lesson from the driver who finished right behind him in the Toyota/Save Mart 350.
That driver is Brian Vickers, who six months ago was radioactive, unemployable, a laughingstock to a prospective sponsor.
Within an extremely small window of opportunity, Vickers has achieved a remarkable transformation. The driver who sullied his own reputation by waging war on championship contender Matt Kenseth last fall at Martinsville now has an opportunity to regain a firm foothold in NASCAR Sprint Cup racing.
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Clint Bowyer Fends Off Tony Stewart, Kurt Busch For Sonoma Victory
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June 24, 2012
By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service
SONOMA, Calif. — Clint Bowyer’s victory in Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma was a surprise to the driver who chased him for more than 20 laps — Kurt Busch — but in retrospect, history may have been on Bowyer’s side.
“I just kept thinking, ‘He’s a dirt Late Model racer from the Midwest — there’s no way he can be able to run the road course,’ but he did,” said Busch, who finished third despite hitting a tire barrier in Turn 11 at the 1.99-mile track and breaking the panhard bar on his No. 51 Chevrolet.
With Busch’s car damaged and vulnerable to a pass during a green-white-checkered-flag finish that took the event two laps beyond its scheduled 110 laps, Bowyer held off charging Tony Stewart to claim his first victory of the season and the sixth of his career.
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