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Re: RACIN'
We'll be there. Taking my 4 y.o., and wife to their first race. I've never been to Atlanta so I guess it's a first for all of usak man wrote:Anyboy making it up to ATL for the races this wknd?
As always...I'm pulling for the 8 car
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Rocket, I've been to a bunch of races and to 6 or so different tracks, including the Bristol night race and Darlington, but I still think Atlanta is the best place to watch a race. You can see the cars all the way around, pushing 9500 rpm's, they can race top to bottom on the track, it's awesome. But, make sure you have ear plugs or headphones, IT IS LOUD!!!!!!! 
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Re: RACIN'
Nope! Skipping the race here in Hampton and that's only because I leave for "BRISTOL" next Thursday!!ak man wrote:Anyboy making it up to ATL for the races this wknd? I'm going to the Busch race, but probably gonna watch the cup race from the couch, too much traffic.
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Atlanta Sunday...
1 12 Ryan Newman alltel Dodge 193.124
2 19 Elliott Sadler Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge 191.894
3 48 Jimmie Johnson Lowe's/Kobalt Tools Chevy 191.787
4 01 Mark Martin U.S. Army Chevy 191.774
5 24 Jeff Gordon DuPont Chevy 191.714
6 43 Bobby Labonte Cheerios/Betty Crocker Dodge 191.648
7 40 David Stremme Coors Light Dodge 191.509
8 5 Kyle Busch Kellogg's/Carquest Chevy 191.503
9 49 Mike Bliss ZoneLoans.com Dodge 191.100
10 10 Scott Riggs Stanley Tools/Valvoline Dodge 190.916
11 41 Reed Sorenson Target Dodge 190.837
12 9 Kasey Kahne Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge 190.686
13 20 Tony Stewart The Home Depot Chevy 190.594
14 99 Carl Edwards Office Depot Ford 190.398
15 07 Clint Bowyer DirecTV Hot Pass Chevy 190.372
16 42 Juan Pablo Montoya # Texaco/Havoline Dodge 190.293
17 2 Kurt Busch Miller Lite Dodge 190.189
18 1 Martin Truex Jr. Bass Pro Shops/Tracker Boats Chevy 190.176
19 13 Joe Nemechek Ginn Resorts Chevy 189.954
20 18 J.J. Yeley Interstate Batteries Chevy 189.850
21 17 Matt Kenseth DeWalt Ford 189.837
22 8 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Budweiser Chevy 189.837
23 15 Paul Menard # Menards/Quaker State Chevy 189.818
24 00 David Reutimann # Domino's Toyota 189.701
25 16 Greg Biffle Jackson Hewitt Ford 189.564
26 70 Johnny Sauter Best Buy Chevy 189.467
27 38 David Gilliland M & M's Ford 189.383
28 14 Sterling Marlin Panasonic Plasma HDTV Chevy 189.105
29 21 Ken Schrader Little Debbie Snack Cakes Ford 189.067
30 11 Denny Hamlin FedEx Ground Chevy 188.841
31 83 Brian Vickers Red Bull Toyota 188.828
32 31 Jeff Burton Cingular Wireless Chevy 188.494
33 96 Tony Raines DLP HDTV Chevy 188.411
34 25 Casey Mears National Guard/GMAC Chevy 188.360
35 22 Dave Blaney Caterpillar Toyota 188.302
36 29 Kevin Harvick Shell/Pennzoil Chevy 187.958
37 26 Jamie McMurray IRWIN Industrial Tools Ford 187.133
38-OP 6 David Ragan # AAA Ford 185.754
39-OP 7 Robby Gordon Ford 185.493
40-OP 45 Kyle Petty National Tire & Battery Dodge 184.499
41-OP 66 Jeff Green Yellow Transportation Chevy 184.364
42-OP 88 Ricky Rudd Snickers Ford 183.515
43-PC 44 Dale Jarrett UPS Toyota 186.660
DNQ 33 Scott Wimmer Camping World Chevy 188.751
DNQ 4 Ward Burton State Water Heaters Chevy 188.623
DNQ 37 John Andretti Huddle House Dodge 188.015
DNQ 55 Michael Waltrip NAPA Toyota 187.551
DNQ 78 Kenny Wallace Furniture Row Chevy 187.517
DNQ 34 Kevin Lepage Dodge 186.881
DNQ 36 Jeremy Mayfield 360 OTC Toyota 185.437
DNQ 84 A.J. Allmendinger Red Bull Toyota 0.000
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1 12 Ryan Newman alltel Dodge 193.124
2 19 Elliott Sadler Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge 191.894
3 48 Jimmie Johnson Lowe's/Kobalt Tools Chevy 191.787
4 01 Mark Martin U.S. Army Chevy 191.774
5 24 Jeff Gordon DuPont Chevy 191.714
6 43 Bobby Labonte Cheerios/Betty Crocker Dodge 191.648
7 40 David Stremme Coors Light Dodge 191.509
8 5 Kyle Busch Kellogg's/Carquest Chevy 191.503
9 49 Mike Bliss ZoneLoans.com Dodge 191.100
10 10 Scott Riggs Stanley Tools/Valvoline Dodge 190.916
11 41 Reed Sorenson Target Dodge 190.837
12 9 Kasey Kahne Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge 190.686
13 20 Tony Stewart The Home Depot Chevy 190.594
14 99 Carl Edwards Office Depot Ford 190.398
15 07 Clint Bowyer DirecTV Hot Pass Chevy 190.372
16 42 Juan Pablo Montoya # Texaco/Havoline Dodge 190.293
17 2 Kurt Busch Miller Lite Dodge 190.189
18 1 Martin Truex Jr. Bass Pro Shops/Tracker Boats Chevy 190.176
19 13 Joe Nemechek Ginn Resorts Chevy 189.954
20 18 J.J. Yeley Interstate Batteries Chevy 189.850
21 17 Matt Kenseth DeWalt Ford 189.837
22 8 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Budweiser Chevy 189.837
23 15 Paul Menard # Menards/Quaker State Chevy 189.818
24 00 David Reutimann # Domino's Toyota 189.701
25 16 Greg Biffle Jackson Hewitt Ford 189.564
26 70 Johnny Sauter Best Buy Chevy 189.467
27 38 David Gilliland M & M's Ford 189.383
28 14 Sterling Marlin Panasonic Plasma HDTV Chevy 189.105
29 21 Ken Schrader Little Debbie Snack Cakes Ford 189.067
30 11 Denny Hamlin FedEx Ground Chevy 188.841
31 83 Brian Vickers Red Bull Toyota 188.828
32 31 Jeff Burton Cingular Wireless Chevy 188.494
33 96 Tony Raines DLP HDTV Chevy 188.411
34 25 Casey Mears National Guard/GMAC Chevy 188.360
35 22 Dave Blaney Caterpillar Toyota 188.302
36 29 Kevin Harvick Shell/Pennzoil Chevy 187.958
37 26 Jamie McMurray IRWIN Industrial Tools Ford 187.133
38-OP 6 David Ragan # AAA Ford 185.754
39-OP 7 Robby Gordon Ford 185.493
40-OP 45 Kyle Petty National Tire & Battery Dodge 184.499
41-OP 66 Jeff Green Yellow Transportation Chevy 184.364
42-OP 88 Ricky Rudd Snickers Ford 183.515
43-PC 44 Dale Jarrett UPS Toyota 186.660
DNQ 33 Scott Wimmer Camping World Chevy 188.751
DNQ 4 Ward Burton State Water Heaters Chevy 188.623
DNQ 37 John Andretti Huddle House Dodge 188.015
DNQ 55 Michael Waltrip NAPA Toyota 187.551
DNQ 78 Kenny Wallace Furniture Row Chevy 187.517
DNQ 34 Kevin Lepage Dodge 186.881
DNQ 36 Jeremy Mayfield 360 OTC Toyota 185.437
DNQ 84 A.J. Allmendinger Red Bull Toyota 0.000
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-- AT&T to sue NASCAR to place logos on #31: The cell-phone industry's ruthless fight has spilled over into NASCAR, and landed squarely on the hood of Jeff Burton's #31 Chevy. AT&T's wireless unit, formerly known as Cingular Wireless, planned to file a lawsuit later on Friday in Atlanta's U.S. District Court against NASCAR. The suit will center around AT&T's sponsorship on the #31 Chevrolet driven by Burton. The car has traditionally been sponsored by Cingular, with its familiar orange paint scheme. Though federal regulators approved AT&T's acquisition of BellSouth and its wireless unit Cingular on Dec. 29, NASCAR will not allow AT&T logos to appear on the #31 car because it would violate its current agreement with Sprint Nextel, which owns the naming right to NASCAR's top series. "We're filing a lawsuit to protect the right to transition from Cingular to AT&T on the #31 car," AT&T spokesperson Clay Owen said Friday afternoon. NASCAR officials were not immediately available for comment. Burton's car will continue to sport the Cingular Wireless paint scheme for this weekend's Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.(Atlanta Journal-Constitution)(3-16-2007)
--# Martin says, again, he will NOT race at Bristol next week: For weeks, Mark Martin has been answering the questions. Would he or wouldn't he run Bristol? Friday in the Atlanta Motor Speedway media center, Martin put those rumors to bed, for once and for all. So fans that want to watch him race will have to do so at this weekend's Kobalt Tools 500, or miss him until the April 15 race at Texas. "There are mixed emotions, but the bottom line is that I'm gonna take a break," Martin said. "Right now I'm doing what I love. I want to keep doing it and I want to keep loving it. There have been a few times in the past few years that I didn't love it. I need a break." He said this in spite of the pressure he's been getting from former teammates Matt Kenseth and Jeff Burton, who have bets riding on whether he'll return for next week's Bristol race. Both have said they expect him to race. "Last week I was trying to taxi the plane and my phone rang and it was Kenseth," Martin said. "He called saying, 'I wouldn't have passed you on the last lap, but you aren't running for points, so I did.' We were hanging out the other night and he just kept at me; he's relentless. I finally just had to get up and leave."(AMS Pit Notes)(3-17-2007)
--# Skinner wins the American Commercial Lines 200: Pole-sitter Mike Skinner driving the #5-Toyota Tundra Toyota took the lead away from Clint Bowyer following a late-race caution with seven laps remaining to pick up the win at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Back-to-back wins at California and Atlanta put Skinner in the points lead. This was win #6 from the pole position for Skinner and his 21st series win. Rounding out the top five were; #30-Todd Bodine, Lumber Liquidators Toyota; #88-Matt Crafton, Menards/Quaker State Chevy; #14-Rick Crawford, Power Stroke Diesel by Int'l Ford; and #2-Clint Bowyer, Camping World Chevy. The first rookie (9th) #09-Joey Clanton, Zaxby's Ford; the first Dodge (14th) #18-Ken Schrader, Fastenal Dodge. There were 12 lead changes among 6 drivers with a record 9 cautions for 45 laps.
--# Steve Park searching for a ride: Steve Park, whose last NASCAR race was in a Busch car at O'Reilly Raceway Park last August, was in the garage at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Friday knocking on doors in the hopes of finding a ride for 2007. While driving a Cup car for DEI in 1998, Park was seriously injured in a crash at Atlanta Motor Speedway. He returned to race later that year, but in 2001 he suffered a brain injury in a violent crash during the Busch race at Darlington. In his only full season in the trucks (2004), Park finished ninth in points. The following year he won the second race of the season at California Speedway, but by the end of the season, Park and team owner Steve Gaughan went their separate ways. In 2006, Park started the season driving 10 races for James Harris' CTS team but moved over to the Busch Series to compete in six races for James Marsh. "I'm here looking for a job," Park said. "Atlanta is the first stop on the East Coast for a lot of these teams and I wanted to be here to talk to a few people about a ride in the truck or Busch series." Park says it's been tough for him to sit at home. "I was born to race," he said. "I should be on the race track right now." Park said he had a deal to get back in the Busch Series this season, but it fell apart a month before Daytona. "I spent a lot of time in the Craftsman Truck Series and enjoyed it," Park said. "I'd like to get back into one for the rest of this season." Park joked that during his time away from racing, he cut 10 strokes off his golf game. "Playing golf is great over the winter time when you know you have a job to go racing again in the springtime," Park said. "But when the spring time comes and you're not out there racing, it's a bummer."(Yahoo Sports)(3-17-2007)
-- Robby Gordon is removing a Motorola logo from the hood of his #7 Ford at the request of NASCAR officials, but he says he doesn't understand how Motorola and Cup series sponsor Nextel are competitors. He also can't understand why the company can be an associate sponsor on the car, as it has been the three previous Nextel Cup races, but cannot move into a primary slot. "I'm having a hard time understanding how Nextel and Motorola are competitors because that's the reason we can't use the sponsorship," Gordon said. "They have been an associate sponsor on my car for the first three events, and they can remain as an associate sponsor on my car; they just can't be a primary sponsor on my car." Gordon said NASCAR officials told him that was the reasoning for the changes. NASCAR President Mike Helton said that Motorola is specifically listed among the companies barred from being a primary sponsor in the Nextel agreement, which gives Nextel (now Sprint) exclusivity among wireless providers as well as wireless handset manufacturers. "It's a NASCAR decision, yes," Gordon said. "This is the first time I have ever been involved in something like this. I've never been told no [on] a sponsor because we never felt we've gone after a sponsor that wouldn't be approved. I didn't even imagine that Motorola wouldn't be approved. They're the official radio of everybody in the garage area. It's just mind-boggling, and I'm having a little bit of a hard time on it." Gordon said he planned to use the sponsorship for two events. "We have a relationship with a competitor's cell phone company [Verizon] in the Busch Series, and we felt that with them in the Busch Series and Motorola strictly in the Cup series, there wouldn't be a conflict," he said. Motorola has a relationship with NASCAR as it is the primary vendor of Racing Radios, which provides two-way radio service for NASCAR at the track. Gordon said he was unaware of exactly how Motorola could be considered a competitor. "That's where a person like myself has a hard time because you go to the front page of Nextel.com and you find Motorola logos on there and Motorola phones on there, and it's just a bit confusing why we're having an issue with the race car being on the race track," Gordon said. Helton added that NASCAR - not Nextel - made the decision on the car, a decision that he said seemed fairly black-and-white. "NASCAR is the group that polices the sport, so it's NASCAR's role to approve paint designs, approve sponsors on cars, approve how sponsors utilize the paint designs on the cars to promote and activate their relationships," Helton said. Helton said that most of the times, these issues are handled before the car gets to the track. "There is a process in place where the paint scheme has to be approved ... there wasn't time to fix the car before it got here, but we have plenty of time here to correct things," he said.(SceneDaily.com)(3-16-2007)
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--# Martin says, again, he will NOT race at Bristol next week: For weeks, Mark Martin has been answering the questions. Would he or wouldn't he run Bristol? Friday in the Atlanta Motor Speedway media center, Martin put those rumors to bed, for once and for all. So fans that want to watch him race will have to do so at this weekend's Kobalt Tools 500, or miss him until the April 15 race at Texas. "There are mixed emotions, but the bottom line is that I'm gonna take a break," Martin said. "Right now I'm doing what I love. I want to keep doing it and I want to keep loving it. There have been a few times in the past few years that I didn't love it. I need a break." He said this in spite of the pressure he's been getting from former teammates Matt Kenseth and Jeff Burton, who have bets riding on whether he'll return for next week's Bristol race. Both have said they expect him to race. "Last week I was trying to taxi the plane and my phone rang and it was Kenseth," Martin said. "He called saying, 'I wouldn't have passed you on the last lap, but you aren't running for points, so I did.' We were hanging out the other night and he just kept at me; he's relentless. I finally just had to get up and leave."(AMS Pit Notes)(3-17-2007)
--# Skinner wins the American Commercial Lines 200: Pole-sitter Mike Skinner driving the #5-Toyota Tundra Toyota took the lead away from Clint Bowyer following a late-race caution with seven laps remaining to pick up the win at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Back-to-back wins at California and Atlanta put Skinner in the points lead. This was win #6 from the pole position for Skinner and his 21st series win. Rounding out the top five were; #30-Todd Bodine, Lumber Liquidators Toyota; #88-Matt Crafton, Menards/Quaker State Chevy; #14-Rick Crawford, Power Stroke Diesel by Int'l Ford; and #2-Clint Bowyer, Camping World Chevy. The first rookie (9th) #09-Joey Clanton, Zaxby's Ford; the first Dodge (14th) #18-Ken Schrader, Fastenal Dodge. There were 12 lead changes among 6 drivers with a record 9 cautions for 45 laps.
--# Steve Park searching for a ride: Steve Park, whose last NASCAR race was in a Busch car at O'Reilly Raceway Park last August, was in the garage at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Friday knocking on doors in the hopes of finding a ride for 2007. While driving a Cup car for DEI in 1998, Park was seriously injured in a crash at Atlanta Motor Speedway. He returned to race later that year, but in 2001 he suffered a brain injury in a violent crash during the Busch race at Darlington. In his only full season in the trucks (2004), Park finished ninth in points. The following year he won the second race of the season at California Speedway, but by the end of the season, Park and team owner Steve Gaughan went their separate ways. In 2006, Park started the season driving 10 races for James Harris' CTS team but moved over to the Busch Series to compete in six races for James Marsh. "I'm here looking for a job," Park said. "Atlanta is the first stop on the East Coast for a lot of these teams and I wanted to be here to talk to a few people about a ride in the truck or Busch series." Park says it's been tough for him to sit at home. "I was born to race," he said. "I should be on the race track right now." Park said he had a deal to get back in the Busch Series this season, but it fell apart a month before Daytona. "I spent a lot of time in the Craftsman Truck Series and enjoyed it," Park said. "I'd like to get back into one for the rest of this season." Park joked that during his time away from racing, he cut 10 strokes off his golf game. "Playing golf is great over the winter time when you know you have a job to go racing again in the springtime," Park said. "But when the spring time comes and you're not out there racing, it's a bummer."(Yahoo Sports)(3-17-2007)
-- Robby Gordon is removing a Motorola logo from the hood of his #7 Ford at the request of NASCAR officials, but he says he doesn't understand how Motorola and Cup series sponsor Nextel are competitors. He also can't understand why the company can be an associate sponsor on the car, as it has been the three previous Nextel Cup races, but cannot move into a primary slot. "I'm having a hard time understanding how Nextel and Motorola are competitors because that's the reason we can't use the sponsorship," Gordon said. "They have been an associate sponsor on my car for the first three events, and they can remain as an associate sponsor on my car; they just can't be a primary sponsor on my car." Gordon said NASCAR officials told him that was the reasoning for the changes. NASCAR President Mike Helton said that Motorola is specifically listed among the companies barred from being a primary sponsor in the Nextel agreement, which gives Nextel (now Sprint) exclusivity among wireless providers as well as wireless handset manufacturers. "It's a NASCAR decision, yes," Gordon said. "This is the first time I have ever been involved in something like this. I've never been told no [on] a sponsor because we never felt we've gone after a sponsor that wouldn't be approved. I didn't even imagine that Motorola wouldn't be approved. They're the official radio of everybody in the garage area. It's just mind-boggling, and I'm having a little bit of a hard time on it." Gordon said he planned to use the sponsorship for two events. "We have a relationship with a competitor's cell phone company [Verizon] in the Busch Series, and we felt that with them in the Busch Series and Motorola strictly in the Cup series, there wouldn't be a conflict," he said. Motorola has a relationship with NASCAR as it is the primary vendor of Racing Radios, which provides two-way radio service for NASCAR at the track. Gordon said he was unaware of exactly how Motorola could be considered a competitor. "That's where a person like myself has a hard time because you go to the front page of Nextel.com and you find Motorola logos on there and Motorola phones on there, and it's just a bit confusing why we're having an issue with the race car being on the race track," Gordon said. Helton added that NASCAR - not Nextel - made the decision on the car, a decision that he said seemed fairly black-and-white. "NASCAR is the group that polices the sport, so it's NASCAR's role to approve paint designs, approve sponsors on cars, approve how sponsors utilize the paint designs on the cars to promote and activate their relationships," Helton said. Helton said that most of the times, these issues are handled before the car gets to the track. "There is a process in place where the paint scheme has to be approved ... there wasn't time to fix the car before it got here, but we have plenty of time here to correct things," he said.(SceneDaily.com)(3-16-2007)
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Happy Hour Practice for the Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway is scheduled to run from 1:20 to 2:20pm/et with coverage on SPEED starting at 1:00pm/et today (Saturday).(3-17-2007)
Saturday's first practice for the Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway is over, the results:
#48-Johnson 189.234
#16-Biffle 188.957
#99-Edwards 188.430
#17-Kenseth 188.270
#10-Riggs 187.818
Slowest: #44-Jarrett 182.231 and #70-Sauter 183.007
Most laps run: #88-Rudd 42; #96-Raines 41
Best average speed [all laps averaged]
(from NASCAR.com's leaderboard service)
#48-Johnson 185.836 [1st fastest lap], 18 laps run
#20-Stewart 185.631 [6th], 12 laps
#40-Stremme 185.033 [10th], 16 laps
(3-17-2007)
Saturday's first practice for the Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway is over, the results:
#48-Johnson 189.234
#16-Biffle 188.957
#99-Edwards 188.430
#17-Kenseth 188.270
#10-Riggs 187.818
Slowest: #44-Jarrett 182.231 and #70-Sauter 183.007
Most laps run: #88-Rudd 42; #96-Raines 41
Best average speed [all laps averaged]
(from NASCAR.com's leaderboard service)
#48-Johnson 185.836 [1st fastest lap], 18 laps run
#20-Stewart 185.631 [6th], 12 laps
#40-Stremme 185.033 [10th], 16 laps
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Happy Hour Practice for the Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway is over, the results:
#2-Busch 188.758
#99-Edwards 188.360
#48-Johnson 188.322
#18-Yeley 188.047
#16-Biffle 188.034
Slowest: #70-Sauter 180.675 and #45-Petty 181.259
Most laps run: #31-Burton 49; #12-Newman 48 ; (Martin ran total of 45)
Best average speed [all laps averaged]
(from NASCAR.com's leaderboard service)
#48-Johnson 183.006 [3rd fastest lap], 37 laps run
#20-Stewart 182.406 [15th], 30 laps
#9-Kahne 182.253 [16th], 36 laps
Best 10 lap averages - SPEED's coverage:
#99-Edwards 183.728
#16-Biffle 183.607
#2-Busch 183.479
Newman to the back: #12-Ryan Newman's team changed engines after practice Saturday morning at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Newman won the pole, his 7th at AMS on Friday [tying Buddy Baker for the most all-time at the track]. Newman will start the Kobalt Tools 500 from the rear on Sunday, but is still credited the Budweiser Pole, his 38th of his career. (from SPEED's Busch Series Qualifying coverage)(3-17-2007)
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#2-Busch 188.758
#99-Edwards 188.360
#48-Johnson 188.322
#18-Yeley 188.047
#16-Biffle 188.034
Slowest: #70-Sauter 180.675 and #45-Petty 181.259
Most laps run: #31-Burton 49; #12-Newman 48 ; (Martin ran total of 45)
Best average speed [all laps averaged]
(from NASCAR.com's leaderboard service)
#48-Johnson 183.006 [3rd fastest lap], 37 laps run
#20-Stewart 182.406 [15th], 30 laps
#9-Kahne 182.253 [16th], 36 laps
Best 10 lap averages - SPEED's coverage:
#99-Edwards 183.728
#16-Biffle 183.607
#2-Busch 183.479
Newman to the back: #12-Ryan Newman's team changed engines after practice Saturday morning at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Newman won the pole, his 7th at AMS on Friday [tying Buddy Baker for the most all-time at the track]. Newman will start the Kobalt Tools 500 from the rear on Sunday, but is still credited the Budweiser Pole, his 38th of his career. (from SPEED's Busch Series Qualifying coverage)(3-17-2007)
Sterling Marlin after Vegas: "Motor blowed up. Get 'em next week"
I'm hearin' Jeff Gordon will run the #24 Massengill Disposable Douche car next week at Bristol. Stay tuned.
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