Sunday, June 11, 2006

Tony Stewart Third, Jeff Gordon Survives Hard Hit/ Casey Mears Gone to Hendrick/ A.J. Allmendinger not Bitter/ Miller Updates CCWS vs NASCAR

Tony Stewart Third, Jeff Gordon Survives Hard Hit
Tony Stewart is on the mend and feeling better. Feeling good enough to finish on the podium today at Pocono. Stewart finished third

while teammate Denny Hamlin came back from a spin and flat tire to win the race. Kasey Kahne bounced back from a bad pitstop and then a flat tire to finish seventh.

Carl Edward’s team had a rare mistake when the No. 99 fell off of the jack. The pitstop lasted over a minute. Edwards would finish twenty-fifth.

Casey Mears wrecked early to finish last.

The biggest hit of the day came when Jeff Gordon had a mechanical failure and hit the turn one wall hard.

Gordon credited the safer barriers, his seat and the builders of his car for surviving the accident.
The former Silver Crown driver was able to climb out of the car on his own power,

Then, he took time to investigate for himself what happened to his car. Gordon finished thirty-fourth. See what Denny Hamlin did after the checkered flag fell by visiting our sister website http://tvvictorylane.blogspot.com/.

Cup Results Pocono
1. (11 Denny Hamlin)
3. 20 Tony Stewart
7. 9 Kasey Kahne
11. 12 Ryan Newman
15. 18 J.J. Yeley
25. 99 Carl Edwards
27. 22 Dave Blaney
30. 21 Ken Schrader
34. 24 Jeff Gordon
35. 7 Robby Gordon
43. 42 Casey Mears

Casey Mears Gone to Hendrick

Open Wheeler Casey Mears has yet to win a Cup race but will reportedly be the next driver of the No. 25 for Hendrick Motorsports.

A.J. Allmendinger not Bitter
The lone American driver in Champ Car World Series, A.J. Allmendinger told Dave Despain Sunday night on Wind Tunnel that he does not have any hard feeling about parting ways with car owner Carl Russo.

Allmendinger added that he is excited about future opportunities. Robin Miller reported that A.J. will stay in Champ Car and not go to NASCAR.

Miller Updates CCWS vs NASCAR
Robin Miller in his latest column at http://www.speedtv.com/commentary/26325/ updates us on the fight over a bill to prohibit all temporary race courses over 90db in Arizona.

Wind Tunnel a Fan of Open Wheelers
Probably no other high profile broadcast media outlet gives more time to Open Wheelers than Wind Tunnel.

Tonight they featured IRL diecasts on the top of the desk and WoO Sprints, including Donny Schatz’s car in the middle, on the second level.

Images appearing in this blog courtesy of FOX, NASCAR Digital Entertainment and SPEED.
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