Need further proof of Danica Patrick's name recognition? Look no further than the White House Easter Egg Roll.
Patrick was in attendance on Monday, GoDaddy leather jacket and all, and tweeted the above picture after she said she met President Obama and family, including their dog Bo. Patrick attended the event along with Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, Washington Wizards point guard John Wall and Olympic gymnast John Orozco. Not bad company.
Source: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2013/04/20/hamilton-gearbox-change-penalty/
The CFMoto CF500-2/2A is a tough ATV developed for off road use. It features a single cylinder, liquid-cooled, four valve, four-stroke, 500cc engine that puts out 38.8 kw at 5500 rpm. The engine is brought to life by an electric starter and is mated on an automatic CVT transmission.
The single cylinder unit is fed by a 19 liter fuel tank and the ATV?s maximum payload capacity is rated at 149.4 kg.
You also get 4 wheel drive and 4 wheel independent suspension, which helps you tackle even the toughest tracks with poise.
Like most of the ATVs in this class, the CFMoto CF500 offers the possibility to electronically switch between 2WD and 4WD modes.
The CFMoto CF500-2/2A?s speed is kept in check by a hydraulic braking system that includes double discs up front and a rear single disc.
Hit the jump for more information on the 2013 CFMoto CF500-2/2A.
CFMoto CF500-2/2A originally appeared on topspeed.com on Saturday, 20 April 2013 03:36 EST.
Source: http://www.topspeed.com/motorcycles/motorcycle-reviews/2013-cfmoto-cf500-2-2a-ar151640.html
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2013/04/19/mark-webber-for-sure-i-wont-be-starting-on-pole/
A week after finishing outside the top 10 for the first time all year, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was working his way towards the front of the field during Saturday night's NRA 500 when his race went awry.
Junior was running third when the main battery on his car started to fail. Without power, Junior elected to take his car to his pit thinking that something else was amiss. But when he got to his stall, he and his team deduced that it was a battery issue and Junior could have switched his car's power supply to the backup battery from the driver's seat.
"We just had a battery go dead and didn't diagnosis it correctly to just switch it," Junior said. "We have two batteries in there we have a switch in the driver?s seat that goes from one to two. I didn't know it was a battery until we got down on pit road and I got to looking at the gauges and really understanding."
Then things got worse from there. Because he was without power coming down pit road, Junior didn't have a working tachometer and was clocked for speeding. Then, while serving his pass-through penalty for the speeding penalty, crew chief Steve Letarte wanted to go ahead and change tires on Junior's car. That's against NASCAR rules, so that drew another penalty.
"At that point we had lost a couple of laps. I couldn't control my speed on pit road because the motor was not running coming on. So we sped there and we came down pit road to serve the penalty but Steve wanted to get tires. You can't get tires serving a penalty so we had to come back and then serve the penalty," Junior said.
When that sequence was mercifully over, Earnhardt Jr. was five laps down and his chances for a good finish were as kaput as his main battery.
"All the gauges just went haywire and so I couldn't read the gauges to really diagnose what was happening, but once you start to think about it you are like, 'Well if all the gauges are going bad we have electrical issues'," Junior said.
"Then you go right to the battery. The thing quit running going into three and I couldn't stay on the track if it wasn't the battery we would have stopped on the track and lost all those laps. I came down pit road, sped, no motor, no tach,� figured out by the time I got to the pit stall it was the battery. We changed the switch over to battery two, get fired up, take off, come down pit road change tires, came down pit road serve the penalty and that was the night."
Last week at Martinsville, Junior was spun after contact from Danica Patrick and Brian Vickers and ended up 24th, losing the points lead to teammate Jimmie Johnson. After Texas, he's now fourth in the standings, 35 points behind Johnson.
"It has been rough, but we had a really good car tonight," Junior said. "If we were running bad and having these kinds of nights we would have a hard time making that Chase, but running good eventually things will turn back around for us. We will get going. We have a lot of confidence. We've got a lot of positive attitude and feel like we will have no problem rebounding."
Vittorio Brambilla Toni Branca Gianfranco Brancatelli Eric Brandon
A week after finishing outside the top 10 for the first time all year, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was working his way towards the front of the field during Saturday night's NRA 500 when his race went awry.
Junior was running third when the main battery on his car started to fail. Without power, Junior elected to take his car to his pit thinking that something else was amiss. But when he got to his stall, he and his team deduced that it was a battery issue and Junior could have switched his car's power supply to the backup battery from the driver's seat.
"We just had a battery go dead and didn't diagnosis it correctly to just switch it," Junior said. "We have two batteries in there we have a switch in the driver?s seat that goes from one to two. I didn't know it was a battery until we got down on pit road and I got to looking at the gauges and really understanding."
Then things got worse from there. Because he was without power coming down pit road, Junior didn't have a working tachometer and was clocked for speeding. Then, while serving his pass-through penalty for the speeding penalty, crew chief Steve Letarte wanted to go ahead and change tires on Junior's car. That's against NASCAR rules, so that drew another penalty.
"At that point we had lost a couple of laps. I couldn't control my speed on pit road because the motor was not running coming on. So we sped there and we came down pit road to serve the penalty but Steve wanted to get tires. You can't get tires serving a penalty so we had to come back and then serve the penalty," Junior said.
When that sequence was mercifully over, Earnhardt Jr. was five laps down and his chances for a good finish were as kaput as his main battery.
"All the gauges just went haywire and so I couldn't read the gauges to really diagnose what was happening, but once you start to think about it you are like, 'Well if all the gauges are going bad we have electrical issues'," Junior said.
"Then you go right to the battery. The thing quit running going into three and I couldn't stay on the track if it wasn't the battery we would have stopped on the track and lost all those laps. I came down pit road, sped, no motor, no tach,� figured out by the time I got to the pit stall it was the battery. We changed the switch over to battery two, get fired up, take off, come down pit road change tires, came down pit road serve the penalty and that was the night."
Last week at Martinsville, Junior was spun after contact from Danica Patrick and Brian Vickers and ended up 24th, losing the points lead to teammate Jimmie Johnson. After Texas, he's now fourth in the standings, 35 points behind Johnson.
"It has been rough, but we had a really good car tonight," Junior said. "If we were running bad and having these kinds of nights we would have a hard time making that Chase, but running good eventually things will turn back around for us. We will get going. We have a lot of confidence. We've got a lot of positive attitude and feel like we will have no problem rebounding."
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Reacting to the penalties that NASCAR levied against the Penske teams on Wednesday, sources exclusive to Yahoo! Sports' Warped Wednesday have learned that all teams in the Sprint Cup Series garage are returning to stock car racing's roots.
Both Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano were docked 25 points and crew chiefs Paul Wolfe and Todd Gordon were, among others suspended for six races. The crew chiefs were fined $100,000 as well, all for the setups that the cars had in their rear end housings.
When NASCAR Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton discussed the confiscation of parts from the Penske teams on Saturday, he said that what they had done to the backs of the cars was "not in the spirit" of NASCAR rules. There's no word if that spirit was holy or haunting the garage area, but one thing's for certain: no one wants to mess with these spirits again.
Frightened by the specter of losing crew chiefs and other key members, all 45 teams attempting Sunday's Cup race are preparing to show up at Kansas Speedway with factory made and driven-off-the-showroom-floor versions of the Chevrolet SS, Ford Fusion and Toyota Camry. One team even inquired about a Volkswagen Passat, but after being unsure of NASCAR's potential reaction, it decided against making the switch.
Because of this garage mutiny, NASCAR will not be in a position to hand out penalties, and the teams are prepared to tell NASCAR that this is, after all, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, so if they can't race stock cars, what does NASCAR actually stand for?
Teams will have the option to purchase cars equipped with leather seats and satellite radios, and there is no restriction on engines. Some are opting for the V8 options for increased acceleration, but others are looking at the smallest engines possible for the best fuel economy possible given Kansas' history of fuel mileage races.
Yes fans, that means speeds will be down, but many in and around NASCAR have said that fans won't notice if the cars were slowed down 40 MPH or so. The pole record will certainly not be threatened this weekend, but in the name of rules abidance and fiscal responsibility, one team member told Warped Wednesday that this was a determination made in the best interests of the sport moving forward.
It's unclear how long this movement will last, though one prominent team owner said that it could be this way for the rest of 2013, and was already calling his fleet of cars that he purchased Wednesday morning the "Gen-7 car."
Lewis Hamilton showed that old habits can be hard to break for some of the best drivers in the world.
Hamilton is in his first season (and second race of the year) driving for his new team Mercedes after spending his entire career with McLaren Mercedes. So when he entered the pits for his first stop of the day in Sunday's race at Malaysia, Hamilton saw the McLaren crew at the ready and pulled right on in. Oops. (Video at the 33 second mark above.)
Sebastian Vettel won the race in a fun display of F1 team orders. He passed teammate Mark Webber for second after he was told not to push the pace as the two were going 1-2. Hamilton finished third after Mercedes boss Ross Brawn told his teammate Nico Rosberg to keep a gap back to fourth.
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A new year means a new set of Power Rankings! After every race, we'll opine about who we think is at the top of the Sprint Cup heap and how and why they got there. Remember, this isn't scientific, as our formula is the perfect blend of analytics and bias against your favorite driver. So let's get on with it, shall we?
2. Jimmie Johnson (LW: 1): Vader can't get no respect. The guy finishes sixth and is atop the points standings and falls out of the top spot in power rankings. Come on, you're so biased against Jimmie Johnson. 1. I was actually accused of being the opposite during Sunday's race chat and 2. I'm just going with what my proprietary formula says.
3. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (LW: 2): To be in the top three of Power Rankings, you need to either be having the best start of your career or be Jimmie Johnson. I don't think Dale Earnhardt Jr. is Jimmie Johnson, so congratulations, Junior! Though what if Dale Earnhardt Jr. was Jimmie Johnson? If you thought the NASCAR fanbase was warped already, the potential cluster that would bring would be incredible.
4. Matt Kenseth (LW: 8): To the victor goes the spoils, the birthday cake, the AARP registration card from Jeff Gordon's car, a discount at Dollar General and probably free shipping on M&Ms or something. Kenseth's win did poke holes in the "driver driving the race sponsor's car wins" theory, as he's sponsored by Husky Tools. And yeah, it's a circumstance unique to racing, but it is kind of funny that a week after the race sponsor's car wins, the race sponsor's rival brand wins.
5. Carl Edwards (LW: 5): Fifth goes to the fifth place driver from Las Vegas who also happened to be in fifth last week. Daytona sure seems longer than two weeks ago, doesn't it?
6. Kasey Kahne (LW: NR): Congratulations on your first Power Rankings appearance of the season, Mr. Kahne. I have a feeling you'll be here a while. We know how good Kahne has been throughout his career at intermediate tracks. He led a race-high 114 laps on Sunday. You want to draw conclusions? Well, start putting him at the top of the Chase standings at the end of the year.
7. Denny Hamlin (LW: 4): This is where it really starts to get messy. You can make a case for about 15 different drivers over the next six spots, and Hamlin gets to be fifth simply because he was in the top four last week and led some laps on Sunday. Yeah, yeah, that was because of pit strategy and he got a speeding penalty that killed his chances for a win. But that pit strategy did contribute significantly to the 2,400 green flag passes during Sunday's race.
8. Mark Martin (LW: 7): At one point in the second half of Sunday's race, there was a reference to Martin moving towards the front. What? Martin moving towards the front in the second half of a Cup race in his MWR tenure? *Checks box score* Oh, he finished 14th. Carry on.
9. Aric Almirola (LW: 9): Once again, we say that if the season ended today, Almirola would make the Chase. Seriously though, this is a nice start for the 43. He hasn't finished in the top 10 (yet) but his finish of 16th on Sunday was the lowest of the season. If he keeps those mid-teens finishes going, he's going to be on of the guys on the periphery of the top 12 through the summer.
10. Clint Bowyer: (LW: 6): I don't think they're going to put Clint's freefall through the field as something you can do with the help of 5 Hour Energy in one of those commercials. Though while Bowyer won't agree with us, that freefall was infinitely more tolerable than than debut album guy.
11. Kyle Busch (LW: NR): Busch would be considerably higher if he didn't have the pre-race engine change (and two subsequent wall-slaps) at Phoenix that forced him to the back of the field. But JGR engines will be JGR engines and bygones will be bygones so here we are.
12. Greg Biffle (LW: 10): Was Biffle in Sunday's race? Yes. Was his car gray? I think so. Was it a very nondescript day? Definitely.
Dropped Out: AJ Allmendinger, Casey Mears
Lucky Dog: Tony Stewart, who got the Lucky Dog en route to salvaging an 11th place finish.
The Ryan Newman DNF: Front Row made it through the entire race without a crash! So until further notice, our DNF is named for Ryan Newman who blew a motor a week after blowing two right front tires.
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Back in 2011, the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 posted a 7:14.27 lap time at the N�rburgring. The ZL1 is powered by a 6.2-liter supercharged V-8 engine that delivers a total of 550 horsepower and 550 pound-feet of torque. Since then, Chevrolet has unveiled the Camaro Z/28, which is not as powerful as the ZL1, but it is significantly lighter and three seconds faster around Chevy?s testing track.
The question coming to our minds is whether the new Z/28 is also faster around N�rburgring? In the above video you can see that Chevy obviously had the same question, as the Z/28 was caught lapping the famed track. What we do not understand is why Chevrolet had the Z/28 so heavily camouflaged while testing it, considering we have already seen it.
Luckily for us, Youtube user "Nurburgdale" was also at the ring and managed to shot a very nice video of the new Z/28 lapping the ’Ring.
Video: 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 testing at the Nürburgring originally appeared on topspeed.com on Tuesday, 16 April 2013 16:00 EST.
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2013/04/14/fernando-alonso-its-not-so-easy-to-understand-the-race-sometimes/
If you want to buy a German mid-sized sedan, you have three choices: Audi A4, BMW 3 Series or Mercedes C-Class. Still, the C-Class has lost lots of ground in the past few years and it was about time for Mercedes to do something about it.
The next-generation Mercedes C-Class has been caught testing in many times, but until now we had no details on the engines to be featured in the new model. However, in a recent interview Mercedes-Benz USA CEO Steve Cannon revealed that the next C-Class will be offered with a series of firsts: the first diesel and hybrid powertrains, first time with an all-wheel-drive system will and the first time the next C-Class will have an engine built in the United States: a 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder developed in cooperation with Nissan.
Also, next to the current sedan and coupe variants, the next C-Class will also add a convertible and station wagon versions. All these changes were required to make the C-Class more competitive with the BMW 3 Series.
Mercedes will unveil the next-generation C-Class at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show; the coupe and convertible will arrive in 2015. The hybrid version will also arrive in 2015.
Next Mercedes C-Class to get Diesel and Hybrid Powertrains originally appeared on topspeed.com on Tuesday, 16 April 2013 19:00 EST.
Did you know Danica finished 12th?
Just another short track podcast. Join the one and only Geoffrey Miller and the one and only yours truly for the one and only Chrome Horn Podcast. In our Martinsville I edition we talk JJ, Brian Vickers, the ACM awards and Fox.
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New season, new Happy Hour! You know the drill. Throughout the week you can send us your best questions, jokes, rants and just plain miscellaneous thoughts to happyhourmailbag@yahoo.com or @NickBromberg. We'll post them here, have a good time and everyone's happy. Right? Oh who are we kidding, this is NASCAR. No one is ever happy.
Let's get to it.
I am losing my noodle dealing with FOX! They have a commercial every 9-10 laps @ Bristol...that's 3 minutes under green and 6 minutes of commercials! Every time we go to commercial something happens! FOX HAS TO GO! I mean they could go side by side...but they don't even do that! Between the supreme downforce Gen6 car and the commercial deal along with NAZICAR telling the drivers they cant speak without"Pappas Please"... Because of the all the downforce a week car with NO TIRES can hold off a strong car with 4???? IS THAT RIGHT? No longer does the fastest car win!?! I AM DONE WITH THIS bull excrement!
- Kaiya
Kaiya bringing the heat right off the bat.
Fox had a terrible race last Sunday from a caution standpoint. They could not time the cautions right at all. I really, really don't think that they want to be in commercial every time a caution happens. They did come out of commercial, I believe, for the Jeff Gordon and Matt Kenseth incident -- I distinctly remember coming out of commercial straight into a shot of Gordon's damaged racecar.
From CawsNJaws, the race broadcast time was the same as it was last year at 138, while commercial time increased *WELCOME BACK TO THE AT&T HAPPY HOUR PIT REPORT* from 50 minutes in 2012 to 53 minutes on Sunday. So that's just three minutes.
I love that Fox is trying side-by-side in the first commercial break of the race every time, but it seems completely unnecessary if it's also during a caution flag. I wish we could restructure that contract to have side-by-side be the first green flag commercial break of the race. It'd be a nice start.
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Four races into the 2013 season, I am seeing a trend. Passing has been no easy task at Daytona, Phoenix, Las Vegas, or Bristol. Nascar way over-hyped this new car. (Am I going to be fined for this comment?) That being said, I am not disappointed with any of the racing I've seen, with the exception of the parade at Daytona, or with the Gen-6.
Bristol was my favorite race so far. I was fascinated watching the leaders struggle to drive around the slower cars of David Stremme, Danica Patrick, David Ragan, etc. But for some reason, I can't find anyone who agrees with me.
ps. How about the performances of Kurt Busch, Brian Vickers, and Jamie Mcmurray? Each of these guys was a lap or more down at one point, but bounced back for a top-ten finish. And How about AJ's 13th place finish in the #51?
- John
I thought Bristol was the most compelling race of the Sprint Cup Series season so far, just edging out Daytona. And I'm also not sure how much the new car had to do with it. If you recall, the summer race at Bristol was pretty damn fun last year. Though I've thought that about all of the Bristol races since the repave. The grinding of the top groove has made the bottom a little more effective so far, however, and I'd be totally cool with races like we saw Sunday every time we go to Bristol.
*WELCOME TO THE AT&T HAPPY HOUR MID RACE BREAK*
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I did some research after watching the great race that was put on at Bristol Sunday.
In 1983 10 out of the 31 races were run on tracks that were under 1 mile. That number shrank to 8 out of 29 by 1993. That number shrank even further to 6 of 36 by 2003 and we still sit at that number in 2013. In the last 30 years the percentage of short tracks on the NASCAR schedule have been cut in half.
My first thought was that seating capacity would have to be an issue as these tracks are smaller. Then I looked up tracks by overall capacity. With 160,000 seats Bristol sits 4th on the list with just 7,000 less seats than Daytona. Richmond at 112,000 seats sits 11th. That's more seats than Kentucky, Kansas, Chicago, and Homestead tracks that have been built and added to the schedule since 1993.
The racing is better and they can get just as many people in the stands as the "big" tracks. I just can't understand how ISC/SMI in their expansion of the sport in the 90's and 2000's didn't build 1 short track to replace the dozens they shut down in that same time period.
Darrell "Furiousd" Watts
Stocking up on "No Doz" for Sunday's race at Auto Club
It's hard to argue against more short track racing, especially in this current car and tire combination. The new car is designed with intermediate tracks in mind, but no matter what the racing at intermediate tracks looks like, NASCAR should always have a nice balance of short tracks on the schedule.
What about a 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 approach? With the four plate races and two road course races, that gives you six races for the Dovers and New Hampshires of the world. Then you get 12 intermediate track races and 12 races at tracks under a mile. Sound good?
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NASCAR regained control of its digital rights from Turner Sports beginning this season. However, it should be embarrassed about the problems on its digital platforms. Among the problems are technical issues with the comment sections on its Website for several weeks and many RaceView users not able to access the application. Fans are frustrated and NASCAR officials have yet to publically address the problems. Maybe NASCAR should be less time fining drivers for benign comments about the Gen6 cars and more time making sure its digital platforms are functioning. Thoughts?
-- Brian Sargent, Oklahoma City
First off, I love the relationship that we at Yahoo! Sports have had with Turner and now NASCAR in my tenure. The ability to have licensed video of most everything during a race broadcast is an awesome thing and I feel enhances the reader experience.
However, I do feel the fans' pain with the transition to the NASCAR-controlled NASCAR.com. Heck, I've experienced it along with you when trying to find information myself or follow along with the race via the scanner or other features.
I think there is great potential with NASCAR's digital offerings, and with a new website, there's always going to be some growing pains. However, it's unfortunate that the many new features of the site have basically been inoperable at times and I hope that those of you who paid for the features are compensated fairly one way or another.
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Welcome to Warped Wednesday, our new feature at From the Marbles. On it, we'll put out the rush to judgment map, go a little too far and have a little fun. Will it be funny? Sometimes. Will it be crazy and largely unbelievable? Probably. Will not everyone get it? Definitely. So let's get started with a little back to the future fun, shall we?
@CaleY @DAllison You blocked me
@DAllison @CaleY I didn't block you. I see your tweet right now. You got a problem with me?
@CaleY @DAllison I got a problem with both you and that brother of yours @BobbyAllison
@BobbyAllison @CaleY @DAllison what did I do Cale? Other than question your ancestry? And beat you up
@CaleY @BobbyAllison I beat you up. And @DAllison cost me a shot at the Daytona 500.
@DAllison @CaleY You could have made a pass in the grass. But that book ain't written yet @BobbyAllison Next time, come after me.
@DAllison @CaleY You have my address and my DM. And your chance in the grass.
@CaleY @DAllison @BobbyAllison Y'all still got one comin' to you boys. Just watch your timelines.
@RPetty43 ............................................................................................................................................
@CaleY @RPetty43 @DAllison @BobbyAllison what the hell you doing, Petty?
@RPetty43 ..............................................
@DAllison @CaleY @BobbyAllison @RPetty43 Petty! You butt-twitterin'?
@RPetty43 @DAllison @CaleY @BobbyAllison Oh, hey y'all. Great race today. Heard you got in a fight. I didn't see it.
@RPetty43 @DAllison @CaleY @BobbyAllison I was just counting my victories on Twitter. More victories than Twitter gives me characters.
@AJFoyt14 What the hell is this thing? What the hell are these boys yammering about?
@DAllison @AJFoyt14 @CaleY @BobbyAllison @RPetty43 you gotta use the @ to mention us in your tweets, Foyt.
@AJFoyt14 how the hell do I use that damn symbol? Screw this.
@Pearsonfan4life @RPetty43 I am your greatest fan ever please RT!!!!!!
@RPetty43 @AJFoyt14 your car looked good in my rearview today. @DAllison @CaleY @BobbyAllison
@Earnhardtismydriver can I have your victory lane hat @RPetty43? Please RT!!!!!
@AllWaltrip Boy I'll tell you what ain't Twitter great, I finished second. Boogity Boogity Boogity!
@BobbyAllison @AllWaltrip Shut up, Waltrip
@CaleY @AllWaltrip Shut up, Waltrip
@RPetty43 @AllWaltrip Shut up, Waltrip
@DAllison @AllWaltrip Shut up, Waltrip
@AllWaltrip @DAllison @RPetty43 @CaleY @BobbyAllison who won at Riverside boys?
@CaleY I don't give a rat's ass who won at Riverside @AllWaltrip. I'm still mad @DAllison cost me the Daytona 500.
@Labonte4Life @RPetty43 @CaleY @DAllison @BobbyAllison It's my birthday can I get a RT????
@DAllison I didn't cost you crap @CaleY. Hush little child. (That goes for you too, Waltrip) I told you that you had my address and DM.
@BobbyAllison @CaleY, I wasn't even involved and still kicked your butt. And ancestry. LOL.
@CaleY @BobbyAllison @DAllison You've got one comin'. And I tell you what,I can take both you fair and square on Twitter.
@AJFoyt14 Ha. RT @RPetty43 Shut up, Waltrip.
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If you ever wondered if you'll ever see the day when Dale Earnhardt Jr. taking the points lead would be an afterthought, Sunday was it.
Lost amidst the contact between Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin and the scuffle between Logano and Stewart, Junior drove past the crash to finish second, and thanks to the relative struggles of Jimmie Johnson and Brad Keselowski, takes a 12 point lead atop the standings into the Easter off weekend.
After working his way up into the top 10 in the second half of Sunday's race, Junior's march towards the front stalled out. But when Clint Bowyer's engine expired with 16 laps to go, Junior and crew chief Steve Letarte made the decision to pit. But the entire field didn't make that same move. The top six stayed out. Those closest to the cars with fresh tires were easy targets, and over those last 11 laps, Junior was able to dice his way through the field.
"I'm not sure exactly?? when we would take two tires, our car drove really bad. It just didn't like that old left rear on there, and it would?? we'd just get really, really loose," Earnhardt Jr. said. "So that was giving me some problems. And we were fading there at the end of the race, but we got an opportunity to fix it when we got that late caution.
"But yeah, we just stick together. We got, we were pretty good at closing races, something I never really was good at for years, and now we're doing it as good as anybody. Just riding the wave; just real happy with how things are going for our team."
It's the most consistent start of Junior's career. In 2004, he won two of the first five races, but thanks to a 35th place finish at Las Vegas, was second in the standings after the fifth race. This year, Junior's only led 47 laps (all at Phoenix), but he's netted 77 positions from where he started in five races and has finished 2nd, 5th, 7th, 6th and 2nd. Not bad at all.
Keselowski started at the back of the pack because of an engine change during practice. He quickly made his way through the field, but hit the wall when he and others got in the oil from Timmy Hill's car. That blunted the speed that he had shown and thanks to a late race issue, finished 23rd.
Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus struggled to find the right balance on the No. 48 all day and were mainstays in the back half of the top 20. But like Junior, Johnson also came down pit road on that final caution flag and took advantage of fresh tires to finish 12th. He's in third place, 16 points back.
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World Superbike race two was reduced to a nineteen lap affair after Jules Cluzel gesticulated on the grid after the warm up lap, bringing out the yellow flags. The start was delayed and Loris Baz also ended up in the pit lane. With the restart, Cluzel was sent to the pits while Baz started from the last spot on the grid.
Kurt Ahrens Jr Christijan Albers Michele Alboreto Jean Alesi
