April 20, 2015
- Entry List for the Toyota Owners 400 Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway is posted, 45 teams/drivers [for 43 spots] are listed, including: #25-Elliott, #30-Hornaday, #32-Gase, #33-Kennedy, #34-Sorenson, #83-DeBenedetto.
Drivers who need to be in the top-36 in speed and have no provisional available to them (lowest in owners points): #30-Hornaday (49th in owner pts), #25-Elliott (48th)
Drivers who would miss the race if qualifying is canceled (least race attempts): #30-Hornaday (4 attempts), #25-Elliott (1)
See the full entry list on Jayski.com’s Richmond Entry List - Jones fills in for Hamlin at Bristol: #11-Denny Hamlin suffered a neck spasm Sunday and was replaced by Joe Gibbs Racing development driver Erik Jones for the remainder of the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Hamlin said he pulled something in his neck during the 22 laps that were run prior to a rain delay of nearly four hours. He was running fifth when the race was halted. The 18-year-old Jones, who has never competed in a Cup car, got in the JGR #11 car when the race resumed Sunday night. “I just pulled something in my neck to upper back about lap 12,” Hamlin said during the race telecast. “I started going backwards at that point. … I stretched it out and we’ve been working on it the last few hours. I’m not 100 percent. With this format, it’s all about winning, and there was no way I would have been able to go out there and compete for a win. It’s just doing my team a complete injustice for me to go out there and run a bunch of laps. Instead, I think it’s just better to have Erik come here and run some laps, get used to these Cup cars. We know where he is going to be in a few years.”(ESPN.com)(4-20-2015)
- Tony Gibson suffering from kidney stones: Driver Denny Hamlin was not the only one who needed a replacement when Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race went back to green after a lengthy rain delay at Bristol Motor Speedway. Stewart-Haas Racing crew chief Tony Gibson was forced to watch the remainder of the Food City 500 in Support of Steve Byrnes and Stand Up To Cancer from his motor coach after kidney stones sent him to the local hospital emergency room. SHR vice president of competition Greg Zipadelli and team engineer John Klausmeyer took over crew chief duties for Kurt Busch’s #41 team when the race went back to green.(FoxSports)(4-20-2015)
- Keselowski explains early race crash: #2-Brad Keselowski wrecked on lap 21 of the Food City 500, bringing out the first caution of the race and collecting his teammate, #22-Logano.
What did you feel? Did the rain drops have anything to do with it?
Keselowski: “It’s been raining since we started the race. It was just a really light sprinkle and the track was just barely dry. I don’t know. The rain was coming in and out and the car just took off on me. I would like to blame the rain, but I honestly don’t know. Usually when a car gets that far sideways and it’s kind of out of nowhere there’s a reason behind it. I just really hate that I tore up my teammate in the process. That’s really a bummer. I felt like I had a pretty normal line and it just flew crazy sideways on me. It’s a bummer for everybody at Team Penske to tear up both cars that way. I hate racing in the rain, but I understand the position that NASCAR is in. They want to get the race going and this is one of those days where it’s gonna just keep raining off and on and we’re trying to get as many laps in at a time as we can to give the fans the best race possible, but we’re racing in the rain to do it and that’s what happens.”
(Ford Racing)(4-20-2015) - Gene Haas Foundation grants $1 million: The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) and Danville Community College (DCC) are the recipients of a $1 million grant from the Gene Haas Foundation, which has granted more than $11 million to entities that champion advanced manufacturing education. The $1 million grant will be used to build the new Gene Haas Center for Integrated Machining on the IALR campus in Danville, Virginia, and support a third-year level of learning for students completing DCC’s Precision Machining Technology two-year degree program. The experience will provide students the opportunity to train in an authentic manufacturing workflow cell as part of the Capstone Integrated Machining Technology project being implemented for the first time in America through the IALR/DCC partnership. In conjunction with the grant, a commemorative decal will adorn the decklid of Stewart-Haas Racing’s #41 Haas Automation Chevy SS that Kurt Busch will drive in the April 25 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway.(Stewart Haas Racing)(4-20-2015)
- Gdovic returning to the #55 at Richmond: Brandon Gdovic is going home. Following his successful debut at Texas Motor Speedway, Yorktown, Virginia based driver Brandon Gdovic has been signed by Viva Motorsports to drive the #55 WindStax Wind Power Systems Chevy Camaro in the NASCAR Xfinity Series ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond. Gdovic has a high comfort level at his home track, having a number of strong finishes in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, including a 2nd in 2013. With a race in the Xfinity series under his belt with Viva Motorsports, Brandon has a better understanding of what to expect from the team and the car, but this time on a track he’s familiar with.(Gdovic PR)(4-20-2015)
- Almirola returns to the #98 at Richmond: Aric Almirola and Smithfield Foods will team up with Biagi DenBeste Racing for the NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Richmond International Raceway April 24. Almirola will pilot the #98 Smithfield Ford in his third NXS race this season at Smithfield’s home track. He is slotted to race five more XFINITY races in the #98 Biagi DenBeste Racing Ford. Almirola raced the #98 Ford at Daytona International Speedway and Las Vegas Motor Speedway earlier this year, where he scored two Top-11 finishes.(RPM)(4-20-2015)
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