Kyle Busch Sets The Single Season Record

September 25 2010

Kyle Busch sets the single season record for most wins in a season by winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Dover International Speedway


DOVER, Del. – Kyle Busch may soon be known as “Concrete Kyle” after winning in the NASCAR Nationwide Series at Dover International Speedway on Saturday afternoon. Busch completed the season sweep of Dover’s NASCAR Nationwide Series events in 2010, and in doing so, also set the record for most wins in a season with his 11th victory of the year.
“To win 11 this year is very special to me,” Busch said, “It should be special to all the guys on this team because they’re all part of it.”
Busch won his third race of the calendar year at Dover, dominating nearly from start to finish to take the 200-mile NASCAR Nationwide Series race. Busch led 192 of 200 laps. The victory comes after Busch won both the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR Nationwide Series races at the Monster Mile in May 2010.
Busch also became the all-time leader in laps led by a NASCAR Nationwide Series driver at the Monster Mile, eclipsing Harry Gant. He is also now tied with Todd Bodine for most wins by a NASCAR Nationwide Series driver at Dover with three. He only missed eclipsing the most laps led record by just one lap. Ryan Newman owns the Dover record with 193 laps led in September 2005.
Busch knew he had a good car in qualifying, when he jumped to the pole with a lap of 154.143 mph. Shortly thereafter, Logano eclipsed him by less than two hundredths of a second, causing Busch to quip that Logano must have been “super fast.”
But it was Busch who was super fast during the race. He needed just four laps to run down Logano, and never let his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate get back within striking distance, even in the final laps, when Busch felt something strange in his car and didn’t know if he’d make it to the end.
“We had to have our car perfect to keep up,” Logano said. “We did a good job, got it to a second place car. We just gave up way too much on restarts in the first 20 laps to make it up at the end.”
Carl Edwards finished third, and was able to chip away at the points lead of Brad Keselowski, who finished 17th. Edwards trimmed 53 points from his deficit and now trails Keselowski by 320 points in the series standings.
“We ran very strong, and the car was good,” Edwards said. “It had a lot of speed in it, and that’s what we were lacking last time we were here. We just didn’t have a fast car. So a good job by everybody in the shop.”
The race was a smooth one by Dover standards. The 117.379 mph average speed made it the second-fastest NASCAR Nationwide Series race in the last six years. The race required just four cautions for 19 laps, all cause from accidents. The race was red-flagged for nearly 11 minutes when Elliott Sadler hit the wall in Turn 4, rolled back down the banking and got hit by a hard-charging Drew Herring. Debris littered the track and the cars parked on the backstretch while crews cleaned the track. Both drivers walked away uninjured.
The much-anticipated debut of Danica Patrick didn’t go as well as she or her fans had hoped. Patrick blew a right front tire on lap 72 and hit the wall in Turn 4. She eventually made it back out on the track, but missed 94 laps.
“I know now from experience that when you have a vibration or the car doesn’t want to turn, you’re probably losing [tire] pressure,” Patrick said. “Lesson learned. It’s not a lesson you want to learn while everybody’s watching.”

Kyle Busch gets season-record 11th Nationwide win

Kyle Busch gets season-record 11th Nationwide win



DOVER, Del.—The inevitable—Kyle Busch’s single-season record 11th Nationwide Series win—finally happened Saturday at Dover International Speedway.
Busch led 192 of 200 laps at the Monster Mile to win the Dover 200 and claim his 11th win of the season, breaking a record he shared with Sam Ard. The victory was Busch’s 41st in the series, his 30th in a Toyota since moving to Joe Gibbs Racing to start the 2008 season and his 81st in NASCAR’s top three series combined.
“It’s very special,” Busch said of the record. “Sam is a great individual and was a great driver in his time (early 1980s). For myself to be able to come out and compete at that level and get as many wins in a season is hard enough to do, but then to go out there and beat a record …
“From where Sam Ard was in his day and where we are today, I feel like a lot has changed in this sport, and, of course, it’s always challenging to go out and get a win on a given weekend. But for us to win 11 this year is very, very special to me, and that’s why I say it’s so special to (crew chief) Jason (Ratcliff) and to all these guys on the team, because they’re all part of it.”
Despite a vibration that gave him some nervous moments in the closing laps, Busch beat polesitter and JGR teammate Joey Logano to the finish line by .400 seconds, marking the 11th time JGR cars have finished 1-2 in the series.
Carl Edwards finished third and trimmed the championship lead of 17th-place finisher Brad Keselowski from 373 to 320 points. Reed Sorenson ran fourth, followed by Kevin Harvick. Trevor Bayne, Paul Menard, Jason Leffler, Justin Allgaier and Ryan Newman completed the top 10.
Logano came home second for the sixth time this season and felt he couldn’t compete with Busch on restarts.
“It took us awhile, as usual, to take off on the restart,” Logano said. “I don’t know why. The last few races we just don’t take off on restarts good. We give them a big lead and we try to make that up and that makes it impossible. I think everyone saw in the last few laps there, we were coming. We had a shot at it, just a little too late, again.”
Note: Danica Patrick blew a tire and crashed into the Turn 4 wall to cause the first caution of the race on Lap 70. She finished 35th in her seventh Nationwide start.


By Reid Spencer

Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service
(September 25, 2010)

Revised Qualifying Procedure For Camping World Truck Series Season

Revised Qualifying Procedure Planned For Remainder Of 2010 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Season
September 23, 2010


DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Sept. 23, 2010) – The National Association of Stock Car Racing (NASCAR) announced today that it will revise the qualifying procedure for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for the remainder of the 2010 season.
The order in which trucks will qualify for the remaining six races of the season for the 36 available positions will be based on the fastest time recorded during practice sessions. Times will be inverted, allowing the slowest truck in practice to be the first out in qualifying, with the fastest truck going out last.
The series first unveiled the slowest to fastest qualifying procedure at Pocono Raceway in July and then again at Chicagoland Speedway, Kentucky Speedway and New Hampshire Motor Speedway.


The remainder of the 2010 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series schedule follows:
· Saturday, Sept. 25 – Las Vegas Motor Speedway
· Saturday, Oct. 23 – Martinsville Speedway
· Saturday, Oct. 30 – Talladega Superspeedway
· Friday, Nov. 5 – Texas Motor Speedway
· Friday, Nov. 12 – Phoenix International Speedway
· Friday, Nov. 19 – Homestead-Miami Speedway


A drawing for qualifying order will be held in the event inclement weather cancels the session. The field would then be set according to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Rule Book.

NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Championship

Connecticut’s Rocco Finally Earns NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Championship

Nebraska’s Preble finishes second; Howard of Penn., is third

Official Release

September 22, 2010
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – He clinched the championship with a month remaining in the season, but that didn’t make the news Wednesday any less sweet.
For Keith Rocco, the 2010 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series national champion, it’s been a culmination of a lot of long nights in the shop and a number of near-misses over the previous seasons.
“It’s just been a dream season,” Rocco said. “It’s something you don’t think is possible. It has set in, but at the same time, I haven’t even had a chance to sit down and think about everything.”

Pos Driver Track Starts Wins Points
1 Keith Rocco Waterford Speedbowl 53 21 810
2 Craig Preble I-80 Speedway 38 22 784
3 Duane Howard Grandview Speedway 21 8 730
4 Justin T Johnson South Boston Speedway 25 12 724
5 C E Falk, Iii Langley Speedway 30 10 720
6 Ted Christopher Thompson Intl Speedway 36 11 717
7 Philip Morris South Boston Speedway 22 7 683
8 Bill Leighton, Jr I-80 Speedway 40 4 673
9 Greg Edwards Langley Speedway 22 7 671
10 Matt Buller I-80 Speedway 39 6 667
The 25-year-old from Wallingford, Conn., won 21 times and had 39 top fives and 50 top 10s in 53 starts in the Modified division at three asphalt ovals in Connecticut: Thompson International Speedway, Stafford Motor Speedway and Waterford Speedbowl.
He become the second Connecticut driver and the third asphalt Modified driver to claim NASCAR’s top short-track racing honor.
“After coming so close, it’s such a relief,” said Rocco, who finished fourth, fourth and second, respectively, in each of the last three years. “There are some huge names on that list of national champions. And to be put on that list and be one of those guys, that’s something that can only happen once in a lifetime.”
Nineteen of Rocco’s wins have come with a maximum 20-car field, which gave him the maximum number of points a driver can accumulate at 810.
The last drivers to record a similar season under the NASCAR championship format were the Phillips and current NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Biffle in 1995. Phillips and Biffle achieved the maximum points under the system at the time; Phillips won the crown by virtue of more overall wins (32-27).
Even more impressive, because of the handicapping system at the tracks he races, Rocco routinely starts back in the pack and must sprint to the front. He has already clinched the Stafford track title and can wrap up the Waterford championship in the coming weeks.

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