Auto Club Speedway a better barometer of success than Daytona
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Auto Club Speedway a better barometer of success than Daytona
ESPN – Feb 23, 2008
comFONTANA Calif. — The newly named Auto Club Speedway deserves a break. Rain is predicted again for Sunday. And is it too much to ask for a race weekend where the temperature falls somewhere between 60 and 110 degrees?It was cold cloudy and wet in the Inland Empire when the track activities started Friday a giant contrast to the race here on Labor Day weekend last year when it was a scorching 115 degrees. In either case it’s not exactly what NASCAR teams expect for a race in Southern California. But you make do with what you’ve got.
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SportingNews.com – Feb 23, 2008
– For the second straight day rain played havoc with the racing schedule at Auto Club Speedway forcing postponement of Saturday’s Stater Bros. 300 Nationwide Series race and shortening Sprint Cup practice to 34 minutes. The Nationwide race has been rescheduled for Sunday to be run after the conclusion of the Sprint Cup Auto Club 500 which has a scheduled start time of 4 p.
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ESPN – Feb 23, 2008
But it’s not what Earnhardt’s fans expect from their hero whosedecision to leave Dale Earnhardt Inc. and sign with the powerhouseHendrick outfit was one of the biggest stories of 2007. Heading into Sunday’s Auto Club 500 at the newly renamed AutoClub Speedway — formerly California Speedway — Little E is winless63 races since May 2006 at Richmond. For Earnhardt to get back into the win column on Sunday he isgoing to have to improve on past performances at the track 60 mileseast of Los Angeles. In 12 races here Junior has five top-10 finishes topped by afifth-place run last February. Heading into the race Earnhardt is mostly satisfied with whathe and his No. 88 Chevrolet team have accomplished so far.
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SportingNews.com – Feb 23, 2008
– Jeff Gordon believes NASCAR made the right call in canceling Friday’s on-track activity at Auto Club Speedway. Intermittent rain along with “weepers” or seepage through the racing surface made conditions unsafe. The weepers frustrated speedway officials’ efforts to dry the track forcing cancellation of qualifying sessions for all three of NASCAR’s top touring series. “It just was wet” said Gordon who according to NASCAR’s rainout rules will start second in Sunday’s Auto Club 500 as the second-place finisher in 2007 owner points.
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SportingNews.com – Feb 23, 2008
com FONTANA Calif. — Jim Beam sponsor for Robby Gordon Motorsports has written a letter to NASCAR asking that the sanctioning body consider the team’s appeal of a recent penalty. The infraction was caught before practice. The team which switched to Dodge just before the season-opening Daytona 500 activities said that it was sent the wrong Dodge nose and did not intentionally try to skirt the rules. The part did fit the template but was one that NASCAR has not approved for usage in races.
Wood Brothers No. 21 back on track after missing Daytona – Auto
ESPN – Feb 23, 2008
– After failing to qualify for the Daytona500 for only the third time in 50 years the Wood Brothers famedNo. 21 is back on track for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race. “I came out of Daytona pretty down” said Len Wood co-ownerof the pioneer stock car team. “But we found a couple of issuesconcerning qualifying and the 150-miler about why we didn’t makeit so that we feel better about coming here. “If we had missed two in a row like (brother and teamco-owner) Eddie (Wood) said you can’t quit and you can’t panicbut you certainly would’ve been questioning yourself.
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CNN International – Feb 23, 2008
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