Nascar Rules

[the H team]

Clint coasts to the finish line after running out of gas.

[the H team]

The Top 10

Matt Kenseth
Kasey Kahne
Juan Pablo Montoya
Brian Vickers
Joey Logano
Paul Menard
Jeff Gordon
Marcus Ambrose
Greg Biffle
Dale Jr

[the H team]

11 cautions, 74 caution laps.
Next week

Sunday, September 01 07:30 PM ET AdvoCare 500 - Sep 1

Atlanta Motor Speedway Hampton, GA

[rockit]

Caught the race at a bar last night, sorry I missed it with you H!!!

Tough luck for Happy & JJ - Kasey needs to get a little more aggressive, he's settled for second quite a few times now.

Looking forward to Atlanta Psunday night!!!

[the H team]

With Montoya leaving EGR after this season, speculation for the replacement has swirled
Juan Pablo Montoya’s future in NASCAR may be in limbo, but the status of the team he’s departing will be known soon enough.

Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates has scheduled a news conference Friday afternoon at Atlanta Motor Speedway to announce the driver of the No. 42 Target Chevrolet in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 2014. Online users can watch the news conference live starting at 2:35 p.m. ET at NASCAR.com/presspass.

EGR announced Aug. 13 that Montoya, a former Indianapolis 500 winner and Formula One driver, would be leaving the No. 42 team at year’s end. The 37-year-old Colombian driver is currently in his seventh full season with team owner Chip Ganassi, netting two Sprint Cup victories -- both on road courses -- over that span.

Montoya currently ranks 21st in the Sprint Cup standings with four top-five finishes. Twice this season, Montoya has been leading with 10 laps remaining only to come up short. He pitted out of the lead in April at Richmond during a late caution with four laps left in regulation, and was passed by Tony Stewart at Dover in June with three laps remaining. Speculation has swirled around possible replacement drivers for the Earnhardt Ganassi seat. Candidates include Ryan Newman, out at the end of the season at Stewart-Haas Racing, and 21-year-old prodigy Kyle Larson, currently under contract to EGR as a developmental driver full time for Turner Scott Motorsports in the NASCAR Nationwide Series.

• It's official: Kurt Busch to Stewart-Haas in 2014 IT'S OFFICIAL: KURT BUSCH TO STEWART-HAAS IN 2014
  
  
  
  
  

[the H team]

Martin Truex Jr. will pursue a berth in NASCAR’s postseason wearing a cast for the indefinite future after suffering a fractured and sprained wrist in last Saturday night’s race at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Doctors confirmed the broken scaphoid bone in his right wrist Monday and fitted Truex with a cast Tuesday, Michael Waltrip Racing said in a team release. The team said Truex, who will be better able to grab the steering wheel with his specially made cast, worked closely with NASCAR officials and has been cleared to compete in Sunday night’s AdvoCare 500 (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN) at Atlanta Motor Speedway

[the H team]

Team hires former Sprint Cup champ, will expand to four cars

Related: Move brings Busch full circle | SHR's passionate team
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. -- To hear Gene Haas tell it, the idea to hire Kurt Busch for a fourth team at Stewart-Haas Racing took flight after a chance meeting at the Chevrolet dinner during the Brickyard 400 week at Indianapolis.

True, Haas had talked to Busch over lunch a year earlier, when Ryan Newman's status with the team was still up in the air. But after Haas learned at the Chevy dinner in late July that Busch's contract with his current team, Furniture Row Racing, was up at the end of the 2013 season, he decided to act -- and act quickly.

Not only did Haas push hard to add Busch to the Stewart-Haas roster -- necessitating the creation of a fourth team with all the attendant complexities -- he opted to bankroll Busch's car through sponsorship from Haas Automation, the company he founded.

"I'm in this business to win races," Haas said Tuesday during the announcement of Busch's hiring at the Stewart-Haas Racing shop. "I've talked to Kurt Busch over the years, and he's been kind of a favorite of mine. I've seen his on-track performance, and I thought this was a great opportunity to pair him up with Haas Automation and for him to be the driver of my choice.

"It was an opportunity that I felt was just too great to pass up. I bent a few rules and pushed and had some conversations with Kurt, and everything started to line up, and we just needed to figure out how we were going to do this."




For Busch, the 2004 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion, the ride with Stewart-Haas marks a return to an elite team commensurate with his talent behind the wheel.

[the H team]

Labonte breaks ribs, out for Atlanta
Mike Bliss will ride in the No. 51 entry from Phoenix Racing

Bobby Labonte will miss Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway after suffering three broken ribs in a bicycle accident Wednesday morning near his home in Trinity, N.C.

Labonte, the 2000 series champion in his 21st season of racing at NASCAR’s highest level, suffered no other injuries in the accident, according to a release from his marketing agency. He was held in a local hospital overnight for observation but was released from the hospital on Thursday morning.






Labonte will be replaced by Mike Bliss in the No. 51 Phoenix Racing Chevrolet this weekend at what has historically been the Texas native’s best track. Of Labonte’s 21 Sprint Cup wins, six have come on the 1.54-mile Georgia speedway.

[the H team]

here we are at Atlanta Motor Speedway, where the top 10 starters are;

Ricky Stenhouse Jr
Carl Edwards
Juan Pablo Montoya
Denny Hamlin
Jeff Gordon
Matt Kenseth
Martin Truex Jr
Dale Jr
Kyle Busch
Jimmie Johnson

[the H team]

Cars are rolling off of pit road and we are minutes away from NASCAR Sprint Cup Series racing, the second-to-last race before the Chase.

[the H team]

Nascar has added another lap or 2 due to the smoke from the fireworks they let off. spotters can't see the track.

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325 laps on the 1.54 mile track.

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Montoya makes it 3 wide to take the lead from Ricky.

[the H team]

Jeff takes 3rd away from Ricky.

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Jimmy has moved up to 7th.