March 31, 2010
- Hamlin to have knee surgery on Wed UPDATE 2 surgery done: Surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in #11-Denny Hamlin’s left knee will not limit the Sprint Cup driver behind the wheel for the next race, according to one of the doctors that will perform the operation on Wednesday. “I anticipate by the time he gets to Phoenix [April 8-10] he’ll have a pretty normal knee for all intents and purposes,” said Dr. Bill Heisel, who will assist Dr. Patrick Connor of OrthoCarolina in Charlotte, N.C. Heisel said the winner of Monday’s race at Martinsville Speedway may be in some pain or discomfort for a few weeks after the surgery, but added that range of motion to use the brake or clutch won’t be impacted. “He’s going to feel something, even at Phoenix,” Heisel said. “The big thing is to control the swelling to get the motion going. Straight ahead he should be pretty good. Obviously, what you don’t want him to do is wreck the car. But I anticipate he’s going to be able to clutch and brake pretty quickly.” Heisel said the procedure will involve making tunnels through Hamlin’s shin bone and thigh bone to pass the tendons from a cadaver into place and lock each end with a screw. He said physical therapy will begin immediately to improve mobility and strengthen the quadriceps, and that Hamlin will have to wear a brace for a while when not in the car. “He’ll be back running in three months,” Heisel said. Surgery was delayed until Wednesday after Sunday’s race was rained out.(ESPN)(3-30-2010)
UPDATE: Hamlin will only need clearance from his doctor to resume competing in NASCAR, according to officials with the sanctioning body. “He only needs to be cleared by his doctor, he needs for him to say it’s OK for him to return … that he’s good [to go],” NASCAR’s Ramsey Poston, managing director, corporate communications, said Tuesday. While Poston said there’s no formal paperwork that must be submitted, such as copies of Hamlin’s medical records, the sanctioning body could request such records if there was a concern. That typically isn’t the case, Poston said. As far as the use of painkillers or other medicine following surgery, Poston said “that’s part of the conversation we have with any driver. Any misuse is a violation … it’s pretty standard.” Poston said it is unlikely officials would be concerned about Hamlin’s ability to compete when he does return to the track. “We’ve had drivers [compete with] a whole lot worse than ACL [injuries],” he said. Dr. Patrick Connor with OrthoCarolina will perform the surgery [today].(SceneDaily)(3-31-2010)
UPDATE 2: Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) announced Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 FedEx Toyota in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, had successful surgery to repair the ACL in his left knee this morning. The surgery was performed by Dr. Patrick Connor with OrthoCarolina. Hamlin injured the knee in January prior to the start of the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. He is expected to make a full recovery and will be in Phoenix as scheduled for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on April 10. JGR will have driver Casey Mears on standby should Hamlin experience any complications while driving in the race and need to be replaced in the car. “Denny had his surgery this morning and everything went well,” said J.D. Gibbs, president of Joe Gibbs Racing. “He will start rehab immediately and now we can concentrate on getting his knee back to the full strength. The doctors tell us it will improve with each passing week and that he cannot damage it by driving. We expect him to be in the car in Phoenix, but we’re fortunate to have Casey Mears standing by in case he would need to come out of the car for any reason.”(JGR)(3-31-2010)
- Race and Commercial Breakdown of Martinsville: For those of you NASCAR fans that like stats and love to hate commercials, or wonder how often your driver was focused on, here is the breakdown for the Martinsville race. Fox was the broadcast team for this event.
Total number of commercials: 136
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 75
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 53
Total amount of time these brief promos take during broadcast: app. 7 min. 35 sec.
Recorded race/commercial time periods on Sunday: 1:00 PM – 2:24 PM
Recorded race/commercial time periods on Monday: 12:01 PM – 3:55 PM
Total minutes: 318
Minutes of race broadcast: 261
Minutes of commercials: 57
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of ‘mystery cautions’ (debris not shown): 0
Number of rain-delay interviews: 8
Number of rain-delay interviews of a singing fish plaque: 1
Number of male enhancement ads: 0 Thanks Fox!
Digger the Gopher Cam sightings: 9 all animated
Total race brdcst time 261 Total comm. brdcst time 57
See number of times drivers were focused on and more on my 2010 Commercials page.(3-31-2010)
- Bowyer’s Crew Wins Tissot Pit Road Award in Martinsville: Clint Bowyer’s over-the-wall crew won the Tissot Pit Road Precision Award in Monday’s rain-delayed (March 29) Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at the historic Martinsville Speedway. The #33 crew helped Bowyer reach a seventh-place finish at the .526 mile paper clip-shaped oval, the shortest racetrack on the Sprint Cup schedule. Bowyer’s BB&T Chevrolet Impala spent the least amount of time on pit road – 329.414 seconds – during the 508-lap overtime race. Carl Edwards’ #99 Aflac Ford Fusion was second (331.563) and Jeff Gordon’s #24 DuPont Chevrolet was third (332.340). Bowyer’s over-the-wall crew consists of: Jason Pulver (front-tire changer), Austin Craven (front-tire carrier), Dustin Necaise (rear-tire changer), Matt Kreuter (rear-tire carrier), Nick Terry (jackman), Bryan Smith (gasman) and Chad Haney (catch can). The team’s pit crew coach is Matt Clark. The winning pit crew in each Sprint Cup race will earn $5,000 and a Tissot V8 Quartz Chronograph watch. The team with the most Tissot Pit Road Precision Award wins at the completion of the 36-race schedule will receive a $105,000 bonus plus Tissot watches for the over-the-wall crew members and driver. After six races Martin Truex Jr.’s #56 crew leads the Tissot standings with two wins. Four teams are tied for second with one win.(Tissot)(3-31-2010)
- Ponstein gets Nashville sponsor: Innovative Beverage Group Holdings, Inc. announced their proprietary product drank Extreme Relaxation will adorn the hood of the Corrie Stott Racing #02 Chevy for the upcoming Nashville 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Nashville Superspeedway on April 3, 2010. Piloting the car for Corrie Stott Racing will be NASCAR sophomore Andy Ponstein who is looking to build off of his career-best top-25 finish two weeks ago at the Scotts Turfbuilder 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, TN.(Corrie Stott PR)(3-31-2010)
- Allen / Day Enterprises headed to home track: Coming off his best career Nationwide finish at Bristol, Willie Allen looks to ride the momentum wave into his hometown of Nashville. Allen will once again pilot the #05 31-W Insulation/Fox Ridge Homes Chevy for Day Enterprise Racing, his 4th start this year for the Nashville area based team. (Allen PR)(3-31-2010)
- Special Talladega scheme for Bayne: #99-Trevor Bayne will drive a special “Color Your World” scheme in the Aaron’s 312 at Talladega Speedway. The car was designed by 7-year-old Alexander from Sims, NC. Ssee an image of the car on the #99 Nationwide team paint schemes page.(3-31-2010)
- Ideal Door onboard with Crafton for eight: Matt Crafton is one of three drivers entered who has competed in all nine previous NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races at Nashville Superspeedway [Rick Crawford & Dennis Setzer are the other two]. Ideal Door will make its first of eight 2010 season appearances on the hood of the ThorSport Racing #88 Menards Chevrolet. Since 1963, Ideal Door has been an industry leader in sectional garage doors and the preferred choice of home owners, architects and builders for their current and future door needs.(ThorSport Racing PR)(3-31-2010)
- Martinsville images added: #2-Kevin Harvick, Kroger/Tide Chevy; #33-Ron Hornaday Jr., Longhorn Chevy; #60-Narain Karthikeyan, Safe Auto Insurance/Wyler.com Toyota; #52-Ken Schrader, Federated Auto Parts Chevy; #48-Hermie Sadler, Hermie & Elliott Sadler Foundation Chevy; #21-Chris Eggleston, H20 Fire Protection Chevy; #07-Tony Jackson Jr. ASI Chevy; #6-DJ Kennington, Northern Provincial Pipelines Chevy. Check them out on the 2010 Truck Series Paint Scheme Pages.(3-31-2010)
- In Country Television on board with Sauter: UPDATE image added: Johnny Sauter will carry new colors this weekend as In Country Television is sponsoring the No. 13 Chevrolet this weekend. ICTV specializes in hunting, fishing, motorsports, equine, and other outdoor programming and is available to 33 million Dish Network (Channel 230) and DirecTV (Channel 344) subscribers. ICTV content is available via live streaming on InCountryTelevision.com. Curb Records’ recording artists Bomshel and their newest album “Fight Like a Girl” will also be on the bed cover. Try13.com is also back in the associate sponsor position on the lower rear quarter panels. Sauter has one previous NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start resulted in a sixth-place finish in August, 2009. (ThorSport Racing PR)(3-31-2010)
UPDATE: Rendering of the #13-In Country Television Chevy is posted on the #13 Paint Schemes Page.(3-31-2010)
- White to sport Sam Bass designed scheme at Nashville: A dark cloud loomed over Jason White last week at the Martinsville Speedway so to lighten things up, White and the SS Green Light Racing team have a bright new paint scheme to celebrate racing under the lights at the Nashville Superspeedway on Friday, April 2nd. Motorsports artist Sam Bass has a longstanding relationship with the Nashville Superspeedway and Bass designs and hand-paints the Gibson Guitars given to the winners at the track. So this week, White turned to Bass to design a special paint scheme to run at the mile and a third concrete racetrack just south of the Music City. “The truck looks fantastic, it looks like it’s going 160 miles an hour sitting in the shop,” an exuberant White explained. “We wanted to do something special for GunBroker.com this weekend under the lights. It’s just cool!”(SS Green Light Racing PR)(3-31-2010)
- Lia back with SS Green Light this weekend: Donny Lia returns to the SS Green Light Racing #07 this Friday night at the Nashville Superspeedway. The Nashville 200 will be the third start of the NCWTS season for the 2007 and 2009 Whelen Modified Series Champion. Lia has one previous NCWTS start at the concrete 1.33-mile speedway, finishing on the lead lap in sixteenth place back in 2008. The Nashville 200 will be Donny’s 27th career NCWTS start.(SS Green Light Racing PR)(3-31-2010)
- Bainey returns to Fast Track Racing: Tim Bainey Jr. returns with the #48 La Famiglia DelGrosso Chevy for Nashville Speedway this weekend. Bainey Jr. will make his 2nd start for Andy Hillenburg’s Fast Track Racing Team in the “NASHVILLE 200” Friday Night at 8pm/et- televised live on SPEED Channel.(Tim Bainey PR)(3-31-2010)
- Eggleston returns at Nashville: Chris Eggleston turned a few heads at the Martinsville Speedway last week in his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut narrowly missing a top-ten coming home in eleventh place. This week the young driver hopes to make some more noise for the SS Green Light team as he makes his second truck series start at the Nashville Superspeedway on Friday night. Veteran Butch Miller will again call the shots for Eggleston this weekend at Nashville. H2O Fire Protection will back Eggleston’s efforts in the NCWTS at Nashville and Kansas Speedway next month. Chris’ 2010 schedule could be expanded if additional sponsorship can be secured. “I think we proved last week at Martinsville that we can run in the truck series,” Eggleston said. “If we can find some additional partners we can expand our program with SS Green Light Racing in 2010.” . The race will be shown live on SPEED TV at 7:00 pm and will also be broadcast live on MRN Radio.(SS Green Light Racing PR)(3-31-2010)
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