April 13, 2012
- Truex Jr. wins pole at Texas: #56-Martin Truex Jr. won the pole for the Samsung Mobile 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway with speed of 190.633mph for his 1st pole of 2012 and 7th career pole. #17-Kenseth was 2nd fastest followed by #16-Biffle, #55-Martin, #5-Kahne, #39-Newman, #9-Ambrose, #2-Keselowski, #1-McMurray and #48-Johnson.
The go-or-go homers who made the race (8): #21-Bayne, #10-Reutimann, #26-Wise, #98-McDowell, #49-Yeley, #95-Speed, #23-Riggs & #19-Bliss.
The go-or-go homers who failed to qualify for the race (3): #30-Stremme, #87-Nemechek and #74-Compton.
See qualifying results, pole preogression, go-or-go homers, starting lineup and links on the Qualifying / Starting Lineup page(4-13-2012) - Qualifying Fast Facts – Texas Motor Speedway:
#56- Martin Truex, Jr. won the Coors Light Pole Award for the 16th Annual Samsung Mobile 500 with a lap of 28.366 seconds, 190.369 mph.
This is his seventh pole in 232 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races.
This is his first pole and second top-10 start in 2012.
This is his second pole in 14 races at Texas Motor Speedway. His first came in November of 2007.
With the pole, Truex is locked into next year’s Shootout at Daytona International Speedway.
#17-Matt Kenseth (second) posted his second top-10 start of 2012 and his ninth in 20 races at Texas Motor Speedway.
#16-Greg Biffle (third) posted his 10th top-10 start at Texas Motor Speedway. It is his sixth in seven races this season.(NASCAR Statistics)(4-13-2012) - Happy Hour practice for the Samsung Mobile 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway is over, after 90 scheduled minutes, the top five fastest, slowest and notes:
#21-Bayne 184.641
#16-Biffle 184.370
#17-Kenseth 184.351
#15-Bowyer 184.269
#22-Allmendinger 184.005
slowest: #33-Raines 177.480 & #36-Blaney 177.871
notes: With 40 minutes left in practice, #14-Stewart got back on the track in the backup car. #14-Stewart smacked the wall a few minutes in thto practice, drove the car to the garage, and will go to a backup car (see image of the car at MikeMulhern.net).
Qualifying is scheduled for Friday, April 13th at 6:40pm/et on SPEED.
See fastest speeds, best ten-lap averages, laps run and more on the Texas Happy Hour Practice Speeds (pdf), no average speeds all laps and NOT changing back to the old way, just posting the pdf’s.(4-13-2012) - Free PRN NASCAR Race Broadcasts now online: Now, you can tune in to the PRN broadcasts of the NASCAR Nationwide Series and Sprint Cup Series from almost anywhere in the world that has internet or cell service – and listen to the races on any iPhone, iPod, iPad, Android or Smartphone platform or online. Fans just need to visit www.GoPRN.com and click on the “listen here” live streaming icon. This weekend’s broadcast of the O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 and the Samsung Mobile 500 at Texas Motor Speedway represents the third weekend of races that will be available free via the PRN network. The response has been incredible, with fans tuning in online from all 50 states and 63 countries. In addition, millions of fans listen on more than 415 PRN affiliate stations and SiriusXM Radio. A complete list of PRN stations with their links can be found on www.GoPRN.com.
The online and radio station broadcast schedule includes (all times are ET):
Friday, April 13th:
6 pm: Qualifying for the Samsung Mobile 500 at TMS (exclusively online)
8 pm: O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 Nationwide Series race at TMS
Saturday, April 14th
6:30 pm Samsung Mobile 500 Sprint Cup Series race from TMS.
“We are excited about the response we’ve received from fans around the world to our new broadcast platform,” said Doug Rice, president of the Performance Racing Network. “It allows us to bring NASCAR fans closer to the racing experience and the stars that they love. This is a great way for PRN to expand our race coverage for race fans. We’re proud to be able to offer this new addition to our race lineup.”(PRN)(4-13-2012) - Chassis selections for this weeks race: see the list of many teams [that report or post these] and what chassis were selected by the team to run at Texas Motor Speedway on the Texas Race Info page – Chassis selection area.
- Atwood back racing: Nashville’s Casey Atwood, once billed as NASCAR’s next Jeff Gordon, is back where he started over a decade ago: running Saturday night fender-benders at Fairgrounds Speedway. “I haven’t been in a race car for about three years now, and I’ve missed it,” says Atwood, 31, who will buckle in for Saturday night’s season opener at the 54-year-old track. “I’ve always loved racing, and especially enjoyed it at the Fairgrounds. I’ve had a lot of success there, and it’ll be good to get back.” Atwood will drive a car provided by two-time Daytona 500 champion Sterling Marlin, who will also be in the lineup. Atwood is married and the father of two daughters, six and four. He spends his time “piddling around” and occasionally helping his father Terry with his electronics company. The last time he was in a race car was in 2009 when he helped set up Nationwide cars for some Cup double-dippers at now-closed Nashville Superspeedway.(RacinToday)(4-13-2012)
- Jani-King Joins Richard Petty Motorsports: Jani-King, the world’s largest commercial cleaning franchise company with more than 12,000 franchise owners, is the newest partner to join Richard Petty Motorsports and driver Aric Almirola on the famed #43 Ford. The company and its crowned logo will be on Almirola’s Ford Fusion as an associate sponsor for the rest of the 2012 Sprint Cup Series season and serve as a Co-Primary sponsor on the #43 for the June 3 race at Dover International Speedway. Launched by an entrepreneurial college student in 1969, the Texas-based Jani-King now services tens of thousands of business clients in 15 countries and has consistently been ranked at the top of the commercial cleaning industry. “I admire Jani-King for the way it began – just one guy working hard while in college – and growing it into a worldwide business,” said team owner Richard Petty. “We’re proud to have another ‘King’ working with us and looking forward to them joining our family. I think I’ll wear the cowboy hat and let them wear the crown.” The partnership, that was initiated by Medallion Sports Media, in cooperation with Richard Petty Motorsports, begins this weekend at Texas with branding on the #43 Ford.(Breaking Limits for Richard Petty Motorsports)(4-13-2012)
- Patrick has no backup plan for Darlington qualifying: How concerned is #10-Danica Patrick about the possibility of having to qualify on speed at Darlington? Not enough to have considered a backup plan if the #10 Chevy she shares with David Reutimann remains outside the top 35 in owner points. Patrick is scheduled to run 10 Cup races this season. Her first was the Daytona 500, where she fell victim to a crash on Lap 2. Her second scheduled race is the May 12 Southern 500 at Darlington. When Patrick drives the Cup car, Stewart-Haas Racing prepares it. When Reutimann drives the #10 Chevy, the car is fielded by Tommy Baldwin Racing, the idea being that Reutimann will keep the car in the top 35 in owner points and thereby exempt from qualifying on speed. On April 1 at Martinsville, however, the car fell one position outside the top 35 despite Reutimann’s controversial efforts to nurse a wounded car to the finish — controversial because the car lost power, stopped on the frontstretch and caused a caution that changed the complexion of the race. Because the #10 is currently only one point behind the #83 BK Racing Toyota driven by Landon Cassill, Patrick isn’t particularly concerned about her car’s owner points position — for now. “I feel pretty confident in the car and Tommy Baldwin to get it in the top 35,” Patrick said Thursday before practice for Friday’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 at Texas Motor Speedway. “They’re a great group, and they’re working really hard. We haven’t talked about a backup plan, but there’s always that backup plan that, if you have to qualify, that’s what you do.”(NASCAR Wire Service)(4-13-2012)
- Fans can have name on the #38 Ford at Kansas: Front Row Motorsports and the Belmont Abbey College NASCAR Kinetics Team are giving fans the unique opportunity to have their names displayed on David Gilliland’s #38 Ford Fusion. All fans who attend the school’s NASCAR Race Viewing Party on Saturday, April 14 at NASCAR Speedpark in Concord, NC, will be able to have their name placed on the decklid of the #38 car the following weekend at Kansas. The decklid will also feature the respective logos of Belmont Abbey College and the NASCAR Kinetics: Marketing in Motion Program. See more at Front Row Motorsports.(FRM)(4-13-2012)
- New C-Post template to debut at ‘Dega: NASCAR will add a new template to its inspection process when teams go through tech May 4 at Talladega Superspeedway. It’s a template inspired by Hendrick Motorsports and five-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson’s team. Starting May 4-6 at Talladega, NASCAR will begin using an additional template for the C-post, the area of the car from the roof to the top of the rear quarter panel.(Sporting News)(4-13-2012)
- Sprint Pit Crew Challenge returns in May: The eighth annual NASCAR Sprint Pit Crew Challenge returns to Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday, May 17, 2012. Tickets to the pit-crew skills competition are on sale at www.pitcrewchallenge.com or by calling Time Warner Cable Arena box office at (800) 745-3000. Similar to other leagues’ all-star skills competitions like the slam dunk contest or home run derby, the NASCAR Sprint Pit Crew Challenge features the top-24 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series pit crews and settles who the best on pit road is with individual and team trials. The #11 FedEx Toyota team is the defending back-to-back team champion. As one of several events during NASCAR Sprint All-Star Week, the NASCAR Sprint Pit Crew Challenge will take place at 7:00pm/et and will air on SPEED at 8:00pm/et that evening. Tickets prices start at $15 while children ages two through 12 are half price ($7.50 each).
To qualify for the NASCAR Sprint Pit Crew Challenge, teams must be eligible for the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race on May 19 or be the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Pit Crew Challenge Champion. NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race eligibility includes all NASCAR Sprint Cup race winners from 2011 and 2012, NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race winners from the past 10 years and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champions from the past 10 years who are active drivers and have competed in at least one series event during the 2011 or 2012 season. Remaining unfilled positions will become available to the car owners ranked highest in the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series owner point standings as of May 15.
The following teams are currently eligible: #2 Miller Lite Dodge, #5 Farmers Insurance Chevy, #9 Mac Tools Ford, #11 FedEx Toyota, #14 Office Depot Chevy, #15 5-Hour Energy Toyota, #17 Best Buy Ford, #18 M&M;’s Toyota, #21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford, #24 Drive to End Hunger Chevy, #27 Moen/Menards Chevy, #29 Budweiser Chevy, #34 Front Row Motorsports Ford, #39 US Army Chevy, #48 Lowe’s Chevy, #51 Phoenix Construction Services Chevy, #55 Aaron’s Dream Machine Toyota, #78 Furniture Row Chevy, and #99 Cheez-It Ford.(Sprint PR)(4-13-2012) - Johnson To Crown ‘Speeding To Read’ Champions: #48-Jimmie Johnson will make a special trip to Clara Love Elementary School in Justin on Friday, April 13, to crown the 2011-2012 champions for Texas Motor Speedway’s Speeding To Read pilot educational program. Speeding To Read LogoClara Love Elementary’s 630 K-5 student body have been racing to the finish line with more than 57,000 books read school wide. The school’s classrooms, split into two divisions with kindergarten through second grade and third through fifth grade, have been competing against each other to read the most books and earn the title of Speeding To Read champions.(TMS)(4-13-2012)
- Tia Rosa on the #23 at Texas: Tia Rosa Tortillas is back on board the #23 Chevy in the Nationwide Series race at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend. Robert Richardson, Jr., a Texas native, will be piloting the #23 Tia Rosa Chevrolet with a new paint scheme, and crew chief, Greg Conner, will be making the calls from the pit box.(R3 Motorsports)(4-13-2012)
- Pure Michigan on the #6 at Texas: One lucky fan will be driving home from the Pure Michigan 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday, August 19 in a custom-made Roush Mustang as part of a partnership between Pure Michigan, Roush Fenway Racing and MIS. The sweepstakes was announced with help from 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who will be driving the #6 Pure Michigan Ford Mustang in the Nationwide Series Race this Friday, April 13 at the Texas Motor Speedway in Ft. Worth. (Roush Fenway Racing)(4-13-2012)
- Fitzpatrick looking for Charlotte return: UPDATE more info: From JR Fitzpatrick Facebook entry: “I will not be racing at the Rock or Kansas, working with #TurnOneRacing to fill the gaps in the season, should, be back behind the wheel of the #60 machine for Charlotte, we will keep diggin.”(Facebook-JR Fitzpatrick”>)(4-13-2012)
UPDATE: Grant Enfinger will be in the truck at Rockingham. Driver at Kansas is “TBD” at this time. JR is scheduled to be back in the truck at Charlotte. Team Owner Stacy Compton and JR’s management team are both fully committed to having JR be in the #60 truck as much as possible this season, but there were some holes to fill with sponsorship to make that happen. Unfortunately, we were unable to sell sponsorship for Rockingham and Kansas, which have resulted in JR being sidelined until Charlotte, most likely.(Turn One Racing PR)(4-13-2012) - Greenfield picks up two new sponsors for Rockingham: Clay Greenfield Motorsports picks up two new sponsors for the Good Sam Roadside Assistance 200 as the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series marks its return to the legendary Rockingham Speedway. Joining @claygreenfield on the red #68 RAM is Performance Automotive, a state of the art body shop serving central Tennessee. Based in Murfreesboro, TN, Performance Automotive has built a reputation for honest, quality work at affordable prices. Also joining CGM is majorbanner.com, an e-tailer specializing in banners and banner displays for retailers, race teams and organizations. In addition, the team will be supporting Greenfield’s alma mater, Austin Peay State University, where Greenfield graduated with a degree in business. reenfield will make his 16th series start as he wheels his red #68 RAM around the 1.017 mile speedway. Greenfield and Crew Chief Gene Patient are looking to regain the momentum the team built at Daytona, where they started the season with a career best 10th place finish.(Clay Greenfield Motorsports PR)(4-13-2012)
- Rockingham Tire Notes: This is the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series’ inaugural race at Rockingham Speedway . . . while Camping World Truck teams have run this right-side tire code (D-4444) in the past, this is the first time they have run this left side code (D-4522) . . . truck teams ran this right-side at both Dover and Michigan in 2011 . . . NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide teams did run this left-side at Fontana earlier this season . . . this tire set-up came out of a Goodyear test at Rockingham in early March . . . drivers participating in that test were James Buescher, Jason Leffler and Timothy Peters . . . teams are required to run inner liners in all four tire positions at Rockingham . . . air pressure in those inner liners should be 12-25 psi greater than that of the outer tire.(Goodyear PR) [Complete tire specs are posted on the Rockingham Race Page](4-13-2012)
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