Sunday, July 30, 2006

Edwards Wins STL Busch Race/ Team Penske on the Front Row Again/ Sea Bass on the Pole

Edwards Wins STL Busch Race

Carl Edwards won the NASCAR Busch Series race tonight at Gateway International Raceway, just across the river from his home state of Missouri.

Edwards took the lead away from Denny Hamlin with nine laps to go and never looked back.

The Silver Crown car owner treated the home crowd to a back flip and a big smile. The win was Edward’s 4th of the season.

The race was delayed by rain for about an hour. To find out what happened in Victory Lane, please visit our sister website http://tvvictorylane.blogspot.com.

Busch Series Results Gateway
1. 60 Carl Edwards
12. 77 Burney Lamar
19. 9 Erin Crocker
26. 10 John Andretti
33. 38 Jason Leffler
35. 11 Paul Menard
36. 30 Mike Bliss
37. 18 J.J. Yeley

Team Penske on the Front Row Again
Like a broken record, Team Penske is on the front row again. Helio Castroneves took the pole today for Sundays IRL IndyCar Series race at Michigan turning a time of 33.2138 at a speed of 216.777mph. His teammate will start outside the pole. The race airs Sunday at 2:30pm central on ABC. Our friends over at www.TracksideOnline.com have given their prediction ofr the 2007 IRL schedule which includes stops at Iowa Speedway as well as possibaly more Saturday night races. Visit their website for more on this story.

Michigan Qualifying
1 Helio Castroneves
2 Sam Hornish Jr
3 Tony Kanaan
4 Ed Carpenter
5 Scott Dixon
6 Vitor Meira
7 Dario Franchitti
8 Tomas Scheckter
9 Dan Wheldon
10 Buddy Rice
11 Danica Patrick
12 Bryan Herta
13 Scott Sharp
14 Kosuke Matsuura
15 Buddy Lazier
16 Jeff Simmons
17 Marty Roth
18 Jeff Bucknum
19 Marco Andretti

Sea Bass on the Pole
Sebastien Bourdais is on the pole for Sunday’s Champ Car World Series race at San Jose. The Frenchman grabbed his 23rd career pole setting a new track record of 48.989 at 106.040 mph. Paul Tracy will start outside the pole. A.J. Allmendinger will start third. The race will go head to head with the IRL race Sunday again. The CCWS race will air at 2:30pm on NBC. (This head to head stuff has got to stop.)

Images appearing in this blog courtesy of TNT and NASCAR Images.
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