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Great racing last night, I have to say I really think the
Gen 6 car has leveled the playing field at some tracks.
It’s a shame some good non damaged cars ended up damaged by
frustration.
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RICHMOND, Va. - (April 27, 2013) – Rocketing ahead of
the field on a green-white-checkered finish, Kevin Harvick powered his No. 29
Bell Helicopter Chevrolet SS to victory in ...
Toyota Racing 2013 NSCS Toyota Owners 400 Post- Race Recaps
Clint Bowyer was the first Camry driver to the finish line
in the Toyota Owners 400 tonight at Richmond International Raceway with a
second-place result. Bowyer led the field ...
Ford Racing 2013 NSCS Toyota Owners 400 Post-Race Recaps
MARCOS AMBROSE, No. 9 DeWalt Ford Fusion (Incident Quote) -
“This is so disappointing for us. It appears we've blown an engine. We've had
fantastic power from Ford ...
Team Chevy 2013 NSCS Toyota Owners 400 Post-Race Recaps
KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 29 BELL HELICOPTER CHEVROLET SS – RACE
WINNER WALK US THROUGH THOSE FINAL LAPS AND THE PASSES YOU MADE TO GO FROM
SEVENTH TO FIRST: "That was
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NASCAR
Sprint Cup: Team Chevy – Drivers' Post-Race Quotes at Richmond
Auto Racing Daily
Just nice and steady, waiting for the race to come to us. We didn't make many adjustments on the Furniture Row car. We were hoping to be on the right sequence at the end. Some guys had older tires. Some guys had newer tires. We were in the mixed
Auto Racing Daily
Just nice and steady, waiting for the race to come to us. We didn't make many adjustments on the Furniture Row car. We were hoping to be on the right sequence at the end. Some guys had older tires. Some guys had newer tires. We were in the mixed
Drivers
angry with Kurt Busch after Richmond result - USA Today
USA TODAY
Busch "probably had one of his Kurt moments," Kenseth said after the Furniture Row Racing driver rammed him several times after the race. Kenseth, who finished seventh after starting from the pole, was upset at Busch initially because of an incident on .
USA TODAY
Busch "probably had one of his Kurt moments," Kenseth said after the Furniture Row Racing driver rammed him several times after the race. Kenseth, who finished seventh after starting from the pole, was upset at Busch initially because of an incident on .
Kevin
Harvick wins NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event | Auto racing
The Seattle Times
Kevin Harvick plowed through traffic on the final restart, driving from seventh place to victory lane in a two-lap overtime sprint to the finish in a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway in Virginia. By The Associated Press ...
The Seattle Times
Kevin Harvick plowed through traffic on the final restart, driving from seventh place to victory lane in a two-lap overtime sprint to the finish in a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway in Virginia. By The Associated Press ...
NASCAR:
What did the "biggest cheater of all time" have to say about
cheating?
Beyond the Flag (blog)
For whatever reason, there seems to be an uptick in penalties this season in NASCAR when it comes to car specs. Cup has had Martin Truex's low car, the Penske boys having questionable rear ends at Texas, Johnny Sauter's bad fuel cell, and finally the ...
Beyond the Flag (blog)
For whatever reason, there seems to be an uptick in penalties this season in NASCAR when it comes to car specs. Cup has had Martin Truex's low car, the Penske boys having questionable rear ends at Texas, Johnny Sauter's bad fuel cell, and finally the ...
Vintage
Kevin Harvick strikes again
ESPN
Harvick Wins Wild Finish At Richmond. Kevin Harvick wins at Richmond International Raceway to capture his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Race of the season. Harvick Wins Wild Finish At Richmond
ESPN
Harvick Wins Wild Finish At Richmond. Kevin Harvick wins at Richmond International Raceway to capture his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Race of the season. Harvick Wins Wild Finish At Richmond
NASCAR
fight! Piquet Jr. Kicks 'Below the Belt' - Richmond 2013
Fox Sports
Sign in. Statistics Report. Published on Apr 27, 2013. NASCAR Nationwide: Bryan Scott and Nelson Piquet Jr. get into an altercation on pit road, ending when Piquet takes a shot below the belt on Scott. http://www.foxsports.com. On Twitter @NASCARONFOX .
Fox Sports
Sign in. Statistics Report. Published on Apr 27, 2013. NASCAR Nationwide: Bryan Scott and Nelson Piquet Jr. get into an altercation on pit road, ending when Piquet takes a shot below the belt on Scott. http://www.foxsports.com. On Twitter @NASCARONFOX .
Caution
extended for ... well, not rain
FOXSports.com
In a weekend in which NASCAR says a driver kicked another in a rather personal area, and two crew members were arrested in connection with a late-night altercation following the incident, one should have expected something unusual in Saturday night's
FOXSports.com
In a weekend in which NASCAR says a driver kicked another in a rather personal area, and two crew members were arrested in connection with a late-night altercation following the incident, one should have expected something unusual in Saturday night's
Kurt
Busch creates drama at Richmond, mixes it up with Tony Stewart, Matt ...
SportingNews.com
Busch's ninth-place finish was a big deal for his Furniture Row Racing team and even an angry Tony Stewart, Matt Kenseth and Martin Truex Jr. didn't seem to bother Busch following the Toyota Dealers 400. Kurt Busch mixed it up with Tony Stewart, Matt .
SportingNews.com
Busch's ninth-place finish was a big deal for his Furniture Row Racing team and even an angry Tony Stewart, Matt Kenseth and Martin Truex Jr. didn't seem to bother Busch following the Toyota Dealers 400. Kurt Busch mixed it up with Tony Stewart, Matt .
Busch,
Stewart show their displeasure
FOXSports.com
After the last three NASCAR Sprint Cup races, Kurt Busch simply wanted to finish a race. With mechanical issues at Martinsville Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway and then the crew forgetting to torque the wheel last week at Kansas Speedway, Busch's
FOXSports.com
After the last three NASCAR Sprint Cup races, Kurt Busch simply wanted to finish a race. With mechanical issues at Martinsville Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway and then the crew forgetting to torque the wheel last week at Kansas Speedway, Busch's
Two
arrested in pit road scuffle
FOXSports.com
During the NASCAR Nationwide race the Nos. 2 and 30 Chevys made contact on the track. Following the race, Piquet slammed his car into Scott's car on pit road. A scuffle ensued between the two teams and escalated with Piquet kicking Scott below the belt
FOXSports.com
During the NASCAR Nationwide race the Nos. 2 and 30 Chevys made contact on the track. Following the race, Piquet slammed his car into Scott's car on pit road. A scuffle ensued between the two teams and escalated with Piquet kicking Scott below the belt
Billy Currington dumped: NASCAR fires singer due to arrest
Examiner.com
Billy Currington has been dumped by NASCAR. The country
singer was slated to be the pre-race entertainment at the Charlotte Motor
Speedway before the May 18 All-Star race, but the management has replaced him.
Josh Turner now has the gig, reported ..
NASCAR:
Kevin Harvick wins Richmond after 2-lap overtime sprint
al.com
NASCAR Richmond Auto _LaMo.jpg. Kevin Harvick (29) takes the checkered flag to win the Toyota Owner's 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Va., Saturday April 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Jason Hirschfeld) .
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NASCAR Richmond Auto _LaMo.jpg. Kevin Harvick (29) takes the checkered flag to win the Toyota Owner's 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Va., Saturday April 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Jason Hirschfeld) .
91st
Pikes Peak Hill Climb to be available on live stream - fyiDriving
The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado Springs, CO, celebrates its 91st running this year. It's America's second oldest auto race, and one of the most
The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado Springs, CO, celebrates its 91st running this year. It's America's second oldest auto race, and one of the most
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Kevin Harvick
Wins Thrilling Richmond Race In Overtime
Kevin Harvick sped away on fresh tires to win Sunday night’s
Toyota Owners 400 in a green-white-checkered-flag finish at Richmond
International Raceway, leaving a grup of drivers with widely divergent emotions
in his wake. Harvick beat Clint Bowyer to the finish line by .343 seconds to
win his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race of the season, his second at
Richmond and the 20th of his career. Joey Logano ran third, Juan Pablo Montoya
came home fourth after leading until the final caution, and Jeff Burton
finished fifth after staying out on old tires for the final two-lap run that
took the event six laps beyond its posted distance.
Harvick came to pit road for tires on Lap 396, after Brian
Vickers’ slapped the Turn 3 wall to cause the 11th caution of the race.
Harvick’s No. 29 Richard Childress racing Chevrolet made short work of three
drivers who had stayed out after the race restarted on lap 405. Though he lost
the chance to break a 94-race drought since his Cup victory at Watkins Glen in
August 2010, Montoya was elated just to get a top-five finish after struggling
mightily for more than a year. Not so elated were Kurt Busch and Tony Stewart,
who repeatedly swapped shots with their Chevys on the cool-down lap. Stewart
was fifth on the final restart but dropped to 18th at the finish after Busch
rubbed him out of the racing groove during a two-lap free-for-all that saw
prolific contact throughout the field.
Harvick, however was all smiles when he climbed out of his
car in Victory Lane. “My car launched, and I was able to drive it in the first
corner and hope for the best down there,” said Harvick, who surged into the
lead through Turns 3 and 4 after establishing his position in the first corner
on the final restart. “I figured four, eight, 12...how many ever tires that
were on the outside of me would be better than none. It all worked out, and
here we are." --/-- The decision to come to pit road for tires under the
final caution was a no-brainer, as Harvick and crew chief Gil Martin saw it.
“When the tires fall off almost two seconds, you've got to come in and get
tires,” he said. “There's not very many guys that stayed out. It all worked out
tonight. We've been on the other side of it this year, so to be in Victory Lane
is great."
Bowyer led 113 laps but didn’t have a car that could stay
with Harvick at the end. “We had a good car—we just didn’t have a great car,”
Bowyer said. “It seemed like we were just too tight on the throttle. It would
quite turn and come up off (the corner). It really got wild there at the end. I
was just lucky enough to be on the bottom (for the final restart). They started
making holes up there in front of me, and the seas parted, and I just followed
suit behind Harvick. It was a good run.” What remained a two-man battle for
more than half the race evolved into an unpredictable nexus of varying strategy
and unexpected attrition.
When Kyle Busch passed Matt Kenseth for the top spot on Lap
254, that was the first time all evening that a driver other than Kenseth or
Bowyer had led a lap. Busch made it stick, leading 39 straight laps under green
until Travis Kvapil smacked the wall on Lap 292 to cause the sixth caution of
the night. But brother Kurt Busch won the race off pit road under the yellow and
led the field to a restart on Lap 299. Busch held the point during an intense
battle against Carl Edwards until NASCAR called the seventh caution on Lap 308
when Kvapil’s car dropped fluid on the track.
Kurt Busch, Carl Edwards, Kenseth and Ryan Newman stayed out
under the yellow on 16-lap-old tires. Jimmie Johnson paced the rest of the
lead-lap cars to pit road and took two tires. Six laps after a restart on Lap
321, the entire tenor of the race changed dramatically. After contact with
Martin Truex Jr.’s Toyota on the restart, Johnson faded on the restart. Running
to the inside of Johnson on entering Turn 1 on Lap 327, Tony Stewart slid
sideways into Johnson’s Chevrolet. As Johnson slid to the inside of the track
in Turn 2, Kyle Busch’s Toyota nosed into him.
That was just the start of frenetic action at the .75-mile
high-speed short track. Montoya led a pack of six cars who stayed out under the
caution to a restart on Lap 334, but on Lap 338, a brutal wreck off Turn 2
involving Mark Martin, Kasey Kahne and Brian Vickers slowed the field again.
One lap after a restart on Lap 344, Truex spun in Turn 3 while battling Kurt
Busch in close quarters for the second position. Montoya retained the lead
until Brian Vickers’ wreck on Lap 395 set up the overtime.
Notes: Despite Johnson’s troubles, the five-time champion
gained ground on his closest pursuers in the standings with a 12th-place finish
at RIR. He now leads second-place Carl Edwards (sixth Saturday) by 43 points
and Kahne and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (10th at Richmond) by 46… Reigning Cup
champion Brad Keselowski finished 33rd on the bottom end of a roller-coaster
day that saw him recover from a scrape with the turn 2 wall only to drop a
cylinder in the late going. (NASCAR Wire Service)
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- Toyota recalls three Bowyer engines: A parts review by Toyota after #20-Matt Kenseth's penalty led the manufacturer to pull three engines from Michael Waltrip Racing's inventory as a precautionary move. All three engines recalled were earmarked for #15-Clint Bowyer. One was his engine for Saturday night's race at Richmond; the other two were his primary and backup engines for Talladega. "We took every connecting rod in our inventory and removed anything that was too close for comfort," Toyota Racing Development vice president David Wilson told The Associated Press. The review found that there was at least one connecting rod in each of the three Bowyer engines that left TRD uncomfortable in the wake of Kenseth's issue. The issue began when the manufacturer shipped the connecting rod to TRD even though it was outside the tolerance the manufacturer allows on weight. It came with paperwork that clearly stated its weight, and that was missed by TRD employees. Now the manufacturer is backtracking to double-check everything in inventory while also reviewing its own quality control practices.(Associated Press)(4-28-2013)
- Ten years since Nadeau's injury UPDATE: NASCAR's
annual spring visit to Richmond International Raceway marks the 10-year
anniversary of Jerry Nadeau's near fatal accident at the track. Nadeau
crashed driver's-side first into the outside wall between Turns 1 and 2
during a May 2, 2003, practice at Richmond. He was airlifted to Virginia
Commonwealth University Medical Center in critical condition with a
moderate to severe head injury, partially collapsed left lung, fractured
shoulder blade and left-side rib-cage injuries. It took 20 days for Nadeau
to regain full consciousness and begin to speak again, and four more
before he was transferred to Charlotte Institute of Rehabilitation to
begin physical, occupational and speech therapy. Nadeau was in inpatient
care until June 6, and in therapy until July 25. When NASCAR returned to
Richmond in September that year, Nadeau made an emotional visit to VCU
Medical Center to thank the medical staff. He went on to form World
Karting Endurance at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and has done some driver coaching,
but never raced again in NASCAR.(Associated
Press)(4-27-2013)
UPDATE: Jerry Nadeau still draws an imaginary line down the middle of his body to describe the accident that changed his life 10 years ago this week. On one side of the line his body feels normal, on the other side it's still numb. That's the result of a brain injury sustained in practice for a NASCAR Cup race at Richmond International Raceway. His Chevy spun and hit the Turn 1 wall at 135 times the force of gravity. The line is also a kind of metaphor for a life that is a mixture of frustration and joy, courageous acceptance and occasional regret. Jerry Nadeau does not live in the past. He go-karts often with daughter Natalie, 10, born months before the crash. And he's a proud father in the stands at her gymnastics meets. His marriage to Natalie's mom ended the year after the accident, but he remarried last year to Maryana, a Ukrainian he met online. But if Nadeau doesn't live in his glory days of racing, he remembers them. And though he's accepted that his physical limitations ended his career at 33, it still frustrates him. "Things were going so well and to have it taken away, yeah, I have a lot of bad feelings over that," Nadeau said. "It's amazing how time flies. The toughest part, Nadeau says, is that a brain injury makes you feel like a different person. He adds that he'd rather have broken every bone in his body at once than have his mind altered. Unless things change, he not sure when or if he'll be able work again. But he's not sad. "I still love racing, everything about it, and would still be doing it if I could," Nadeau said. "I had a great life in racing and met a lot of good people. But I'm a different person. I've moved forward and I'm trying to make the best of everything."(Newport News Daily Press) (4-28-2013) - Race
and Commercial Breakdown of the 2013 Toyota Owners 400 / Richmond: For
those of you NASCAR fans that like stats and love to hate commercials,
here is the breakdown for Saturday's race. Began recording the times at
the Invocation of the race at 7:30 PM, and stopped at the waving of the
checkered flag at 11:05 PM (all times are EST). Fox was the broadcast team
for this event.
Total number of commercials: 116
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 67
Number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 106
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 64
Number of 'Side-by-Side' commercials during race broadcast (split-screen): 10
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 8
Number of times Fox utilized 'Side-by-Side' commercials during this broadcast: 3
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 40
Total amount of time these brief promos take during broadcast: app. 5 min. 50 sec.
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:30 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 11:05 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 215
Minutes of race broadcast: 170
Minutes of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 45
Minutes of 'Side-by-Side' commercials (split-screen): 6
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of 'mystery cautions' (debris not shown): 0
Total race brdcst time 170 Total comm. brdcst time 45
See links, other news and past races on the TV Commercials page.(4-28-2013) - Harvick wins at Richmond: #29-Kevin
Harvick won the Toyota Owners 400 Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond
International Raceway for his 1st win of 2013, 3rd win at Richmond and 20th career win. He
easily took the lead after starting 7th on green white checker restart,
behind several drivers on older tires. #15-Bowyer finished 2nd, followed
by #22-Logano, #42-Montoya (who was leading the race until the final
caution), #31-Burton, #99-Edwards, #20-Kenseth (who started from the pole
and led the most laps on the night), #43-Almirola, #78-Busch, and
#88-Earnhardt, Jr.
There were 10 lead changes among 7 drivers and 11 cautions for 75 yellow flag laps. The average speed was 92.141mph.
Starting this season, NASCAR doesn't release the track attendance.
See race results, awards, money won, laps led, cautions and more on the Richmond Race Results page (pdf) and check out the Richmond Penalty Report (pdf) - Race
Fast Facts - Richmond:
Kevin Harvick won the 59th Annual Toyota Owners 400, his 20th victory in 439 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and second top-10 finish in 2013.
This is his third victory and 16th top-10 finish in 25 races at Richmond International Raceway.
This is his fifth career victory at short tracks in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
Clint Bowyer (second) posted his ninth top-10 finish in 15 races at Richmond International Raceway. It is his fifth top-10 finish in 2013.
Joey Logano (third) posted his second top-10 finish in nine races at Richmond International Raceway.
Jimmie Johnson leads the point standings by 43 points over Carl Edwards.
(NASCAR Integrated Sports Marketing)(4-27-2013) - 2013
Sprint Cup Driver Championship Points Standings:
[after Richmond, race 9 of 36]
1) #48-Jimmie Johnson [2 wins], 343
2) #99-Carl Edwards [1 win], 300, -42
3) #5-Kasey Kahne [1 win], 297, -46
4) #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr., 297, -46
5) #15-Clint Bowyer, 290, -53
6) #2-Brad Keselowski, 284, -598
7) #18-Kyle Busch [2 wins], 278, -65
8) #16-Greg Biffle, 272, -71
9) #29-Kevin Harvick [1 win], 271, -72
10) #27-Paul Menard, 271, -72
11) #43-Aric Almirola, 258, -85
12) #1-Jamie McMurray, 245, -98
2012 Chase drivers out of top 12
#20-Matt Kenseth [2 wins], 13th in points
#24-Jeff Gordon, 14th
#56-Martin Truex Jr., 15th
#14-Tony Stewart, 22nd
#11-Denny Hamlin, 28th [missed 4 races with injury]
(ties broken by 1sts, 2nds, 3rd, etc)
See drivers championship points standings on the Drivers Points Standings (pdf) and the owner points standings on the Owners Points Standings page (pdf). - NASCAR and Gibbs talk about #20 team penalties: NASCAR
Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton discussed NASCAR's penalties
to the #20 team Friday afternoon:
PEMBERTON: As everyone knows there are a few things that are understood in the garage area that are big. When you talk about engines, you talk about tires, and you talk about fuel. That's a common thread that's been understood, and it's stood the test of time for the last 65 years. Don't mess with those areas, and the penalties are severe. But when you look in the case of an engine, the only time we really get a chance to look internally at an engine is post-race. Some of our most severe penalties over time have surrounded engine infractions.
Q. Why was the team penalized rather than the manufacturer?
PEMBERTON: That's tough too. Because when you look at, in their particular situation, we probably don't know all the details, but we do know they come from an outside vendor for the most part, and I don't know how you would go -- it's very difficult to go to an outside vendor and penalize them whether it's springs or shocks or parts that are bought and bolted on race cars. That's why in today's world we all know and relate to the fact that it stops at the crew chief and stops at the owner and stops at the organization that is here to compete.
PEMBERTON: It's a part that didn't meet spec. It's not a gray area. There are numbers in the books. If you look at numbers in the books and what's going on in the garage area and across our national series those numbers for a connecting rod have been in the book since around the time we went to a single-engine rule, which is probably 12 years ago. So you take that and the amount of engines and engine components in the garage area, and then every given weekend it's done right the vast majority of the time.(NASCAR)
AND #20 team owner Joe Gibbs also addressed the media Friday at Richmond:
Joe Gibbs: I want to say that we value our NASCAR partnership very much. We've been together, working together for 22 years and we value our relationship with them. Certainly, we do not want to be on the wrong side of any rules. That's our goal. I wanted to emphasize that. I want to make a point [that] we have a great partner in TRD (Toyota Racing Development). Over the six years we've been together at different times -- this is a big deal, a lot of things come up -- NASCAR's a big deal for us and a big deal for TRD. It's what we live. Through the process over these six years at different times we've stood behind them as we go through something -- in support and be there with them. At different times, they have been behind us. That's what good partners do. We think we have a great partnership with them and we're going to stand together and work our way through this and again try to handle it the right way. We believe that we are going to be together for a long time. I think everyone at this point has probably heard that in tearing down our motor after last week's win, one of the connecting rods was found to be light. That goes against the rules and we understand that. We know that there's going to be a penalty for that. What we're going to appeal is the severity of the penalties. In looking at that motor and where all the connecting rods were placed and the weight of all the connecting rods, when you have motor experts look at it basically what they would say is there is no advantage to having that one light rod in that motor. That's one thing that is very important to me is the intent here was not to get an unfair advantage in any way. That's very important to me. The other point that I would like to make is since we started out this year there has been 10 TRD motors torn down -- eight of them have been Joe Gibbs Racing motors. Nothing with those other motors has found to be wrong in those motors in anyway. Those motors were found to be legal there. I think basically that's what our appeal is going to be. We want to go forward and go through that process and what we'll be appealing will be the severe nature of the penalties."(Toyota Motorsports)(4-27-2013)
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Turner Scott Motorsports Statement Regarding Richmond
International Raceway Incident
Turner Scott Motorsports can confirm that an incident
occurred near the Driver/Owner parking lot of Richmond International Raceway
following the NASCAR Nationwide Series race on Friday, April 26th. Several
members of another race team confronted a group that included Nelson
Piquet Jr., resulting in the arrest of two individuals from the other race
team. TSM will have no further comment on the incident as the matter is an
active case with the Henrico Police Department.
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- Keselowski wins at Richmond: #22-Brad Keselowski won the Toyota Care 250 at Richmond International Raceway for his 1st win of the season and the 21st of his Nationwide career. #33-Kevin Harvick finished second followed by #54-Kyle Busch, #20-Brian Vickers, #7-Regan Smith, #11-Elliott Sadler, #12-Sam Hornish, Jr., #32-Kyle Larson, #60-Travis Pastrana, and #43-Reed Sorenson. The average speed was 83.768mph. There were 8 cautions for 57 laps and 11 lead changes among 5 leaders. Complete results are on the Richmond race results page (pdf).(4-26-2013)
- Richmond
Race Fast Facts:
Brad Keselowski(i) won the 26th Annual ToyotaCare 250, his 21st victory in 196 NASCAR Nationwide Series races.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 2013.
This is his second victory and sixth top-10 finish in 13 races at Richmond International Raceway.
This is the 12th time a driver has driven to victory from the pole position in a NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Richmond International Raceway.
Kevin Harvick(i) (second) posted his 19th top-10 finish in 24 races at Richmond International Raceway. It is his third top-10 finish in 2013.
Kyle Busch(i) (third) posted his 13th top-10 finish in 16 races at Richmond International Raceway.
Kyle Larson (eighth) was the highest finishing rookie.
Sam Hornish Jr. leads the point standings by 1 points over Regan Smith.
(NASCAR Integrated Marketing)(4-26-2013) - Driver
standings following Richmond:
1) #12-Sam Hornish, Jr. 259
2) #7-Regan Smith 258, -1
3) #2-Brian Scott 236, -23
4) #31-Justin Allgaier 225, -34
5) #11-Elliott Sadler 224, -35
6) #20-Brian Vickers 222, -37
7) #3-Austin Dillon 222, -37
8) #77-Parker Kligerman 219, -40
9) #6-Trevor Bayne 213, -46 -6
10) #32-Kyle Larson # 204, -55
Scott, Piquet tangle after race; crew members arrested
UPDATES: Henrico County Police had two adult males in custody Friday night
after a fight in the driver/owner lot of Richmond International Raceway
following a Nationwide Series race where Richard Childress Racing and Turner
Scott Racing crews and drivers nearly brawled. The police department did not
reveal details of who was involved in the altercation but Richard Childress
Racing confirmed its involvement and multiple sources said Turner Scott
Motorsports personnel and driver Nelson Piquet Jr. were talking to police in
the motorhome lot. A statement from Richard Childress Racing Director of
Communications Tim Packman confirmed the team's involvement. "We are aware
an incident took place outside of the track's infield following Friday night's
NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Richmond International Raceway involving
members of our team and others from another team," the statement said.
"We are cooperating with the local authorities in this matter." The
incident occurred a little more than an hour after the race.
Two separate incidents following the Nationwide Series race
involved RCR and Turner Scott Motorsports, sparked by an on-track incident
between Piquet and RCR driver Brian Scott. Following the race, both crews
nearly came to blows and Scott went up to Piquet, who shoved Scott away and
then kicked him in the groin. Piquet later apologized for kicking Scott, saying
it was in self-defense.(Sporting News)(4-27-2013) UPDATE: Police have released
the names of two Richard Childress Racing crew members arrested for alleged
assault at Richmond International Raceway late Friday night. Michael A.
Scearce, 50, and Thomas F. Costello, 35, were taken into custody after a
postrace incident spilled over to the driver/owner motorhome lot. The assault
injured one of the two adult male victims, whose names were not released.
Scearce and Costello are both members of RCR's #2 team, which fields cars for
Brian Scott. Both men were charged with misdemeanors and released early
Saturday morning, according to Henrico County police Lt. Linda Toney. A court
date for both will be determined at a later time.(USA Today)(4-27-2013)
UPDATE 2: Statement from Richard Childress: "I didn't
witness what took place last night outside of the race track. Our team members
were walking to their cars and words were exchanged with members from another
team, which led to an altercation. I am still learning all the exact details
and, because it did happen outside of the track, local authorities became
involved. We are working with them to resolve this matter. We are now
concentrating on winning the Sprint Cup race tonight."(RCR)(4-27-2013)
UPDATE 3: Statement from Turner Scott Motorsports:
"Turner Scott Motorsports can confirm that an incident occurred near the
Driver/Owner parking lot of Richmond International Raceway following the NASCAR
Nationwide Series race on Friday, April 26th. Several members of another race
team confronted a group that included Nelson Piquet Jr., resulting in the
arrest of two individuals from the other race team. TSM will have no further
comment on the incident as the matter is an active case with the Henrico Police
Department."(TSM)(4-27-2013)
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Courtesy of ARCA
Arrangements set for ARCA official Cissell
(BELLEVILLE, Ill. – April 28, 2013) -- Funeral services have
been set for former ARCA Racing Series official John H. Cissell, who died
Thursday in Belleville, Ill.
Venturini gives Boston a lift, Salem pole
(SALEM, Ind. - April 27, 2013) -- When Justin Boston took
the checkered flag to win the pole for Sunday's Kentuckiana Ford Dealers 200
presented by Crosley Radio, crew chief Billy Venturini immediately started
passing out high five's and handshakes from his seat above the pit box for the
25 team.
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