April 21, 2012
- Allmendinger wins pole at Kansas: #22-A.J. Allmendinger won the pole for the STP 400 Sprint Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway with a speed of 175.747mph for his 1st pole of 2012 and 2nd career pole. The pole put Allemdinger into the 2013 Shootout at Daytona. #29-Harvick will start 2nd the #20-Logano [but due to an engine change on Friday, he will fall to the rear of the field before the green flag on Sunday], #11-Hamlin, #55-Martin, #56-Truex Jr., #88-Earnhardt Jr., #15-Bowyer, #5-Kahne and #12-Hornish Jr.[top go-or-go homer.
The go-or-go homers who made the race (8): #12-Hornish Jr., #30-Stremme, #49-Yeley, #23-Riggs, #98-McDowell, #26-Wise, #87-Nemechek and #19-Bliss.
The go-or-go homers who failed to qualify for the race (3): #79-Andrews, #33-Jeff Green and #74-Raines.
See qualifying results, order, pole progression, go-or-go homers & starting lineup on the Kansas Lineup / Qualifying Page.(4-21-2012) - Qualifying Fast Facts – Kansas Speedway:
#22- AJ Allmendinger won the Coors Light Pole Award for the 2nd Annual STP 400 with a lap of 30.683 seconds, 175.993 mph.
This is his second pole in 160 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races.
This is his first pole and second top-10 start in 2012.
This is his first pole in six races at Kansas Speedway.
#29-Kevin Harvick (second) posted his fifth top-10 start of 2012 and his second in 13 races at Kansas Speedway.
#20-Joey Logano (third) posted his third top-10 start at Kansas Speedway. It is his sixth in eight races this season.
#26-Josh Wise (38th) was the fastest qualifying rookie.
(NASCAR Statistics)(4-21-2012) - Truex Jr., MWR talk new deal: Team owner Michael Waltrip said on Saturday at Kansas Speedway the organization is negotiating with #56-Martin Truex Jr. and primary sponsor NAPA on an extension. Truex Jr.’s contract expires at the end of the 2012 season. “NAPA is very happy right now,” Waltrip said. “Everybody would be very happy to go into 2013 just like this.” Truex said he never felt like he was on the hot seat coming into this season, and he’s confident he will be with MWR long-term. “I know where I stand with my race team, Michael and (co-owner) Rob (Kaufman),” Truex said. “There was never a part of me that said I need to step it up, I need to do better. I know I’ve always gotten everything I possibly can get out of my equipment. I feel like they know that, too.”(ESPN)(4-21-2012)
- TMone to be primary sponsor of #32 at Kansas: FAS Lane Racing announced that TMone has increased their sponsorship involvement once again with the team’s #32 Ford in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and will serve as Primary Sponsor for this weekend’s race at Kansas Speedway. The leading Inside Sales Company, headquartered in Iowa City, IA will feature their “We Drive Sales” program on the #32 TMone Ford driven by Reed Sorenson in the running of the STP 400 this Sunday. It will also feature the State outlines of South Dakota and Iowa, which represent the locations of the customer contact centers TMone uses to support its Fortune 500 clients. FAS Lane Racing is coming off a tough run last week in Texas that was ruined by an overheating problem. Reed Sorenson will be behind the wheel of the #32 Ford for the second week in a row and will be making his seventh career Sprint Cup Series start at the Kansas Speedway where he has a career best finish of seventh back in the 2007 season.(FAS Lane Racing/Integrity Sports Marketing)(4-21-2012)
- Farmland to sponsor #43 for four races UPDATE: On Saturday, April 21st, Farmland will unveil the details around its partnership with the legendary Richard Petty Motorsports NASCAR team for select Sprint Cup Series events in 2012. As part of the partnership, Farmland will feature Harvesters on the famous #43 Ford during their hometown NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the Speedway this October and will make a significant donation to fight hunger in Kansas City. During the launch event, Farmland and Harvesters will join forces with “The King” and his team to unveil a new paint scheme.(RPM)(4-17-2012)
UPDATE: Farmland Foods announced a partnership with the legendary Richard Petty Motorsports NASCAR team. Farmland will appear on the iconic #43 Ford Fusion as the primary sponsor in four NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events in Chicago, Kansas, Texas and Phoenix. “Farmland is proud to partner with ‘The King’ and NASCAR’s first family,” said George Richter, President and Chief Operating Officer of Smithfield Foods Pork Group. “Richard Petty Motorsports is an ideal team to help raise awareness of the good work our company is doing.” Through the partnership, Farmland will bring greater awareness to hunger relief efforts in its hometown of Kansas City. As part of Farmland’s “Bacon a Difference” initiative, Farmland will feature Harvesters – The Community Food Network on the famous #43 Ford for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the Kansas Speedway in October. During the “Bacon A Difference” promotion, which runs from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend (May 26 – September 3), Farmland will donate 4.3 cents to Harvesters for each bacon product sold at participating grocery stores in Kansas City. When the #43 Ford featuring Farmland and Harvesters returns to the Kansas Speedway for the Sprint Cup Series event in October, Farmland will present Harvesters with a check for no less than $43,000. “Farmland is just the kind of company we like to call our partner,” indicated Richard Petty, NASCAR legend and co-owner of Richard Petty Motorsports. “We’re excited to have Farmland and Harvesters on the #43 Ford at the Kansas Speedway this fall. That’s a victory in itself.” Farmland Foods, which reached over $4 billion in sales in 2011, is a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods.(RPM PR)(4-21-2012) - Petty not ruling out return to Dodge: Richard Petty Motorsports is trying to negotiate a deal to stay with Ford and retain its relationship with Roush Fenway Racing. But team namesake Richard Petty isn’t totally ruling out a return to Dodge, the manufacturer with which he became a racing icon as a driver. “Right now, we’ve got our sponsors pretty much lined up for next year,” Petty said Friday at Kansas Speedway. “Where we go with the cars and engines and things like that … we’ve got a plan, but I don’t know if anybody is going to go along with it.” Roush Fenway president Steve Newmark is optimistic his organization can continue supplying Ford engines and chassis for RPM. “We have thoroughly enjoyed working with Richard Petty and his entire team, as it is a first-class organization,” Newmark said. “We believe it has been a mutually beneficial relationship and sincerely hope to be able to continue the partnership into the future.”
Dodge has been looking for an anchor organization since Penske Racing announced it would move to Ford in 2013. Because of Petty’s past association with Dodge, RPM is among several organizations speculated to be a target for Dodge. “Right now, they are pretty confused,” Petty said of Dodge. “They got a plug pulled out of them and wasn’t really expecting it. … We’ll consider going anywhere to make a living out of this. Right now, we’re still up with the Ford deal and we’re going everything we can to win races with them.”(ESPN)(4-21-2012) - Toyota to unveil 2013 Camry: On May 22 at TRD (Toyota Racing Development) U.S.A. in Salisbury, N.C., reporters will get their first look at the new Camry to be raced by Toyota teams in 2013. Ford and Dodge already have revealed their 2013 Fusion and Charger, respectively. Chevrolet has yet to schedule the unveiling of its 2013 race car.(NASCAR Wire Service)(4-21-2012)
- Kansas looking for a night race: Kansas Speedway track president Pat Warren said Friday that he has asked for a Saturday night race next season. The fall race is not an option because ESPN wants Sunday races that do not to conflict with college football. That leaves the spring race, which was moved from early June last year to mid-April this year so there could be more time between events to accommodate the repaving. The track’s fall date was moved back two weeks as well – to October 20-21. “I’m cautiously optimistic we’re going to get something that is going to work,” Warren said. “Hopefully we won’t be in this particular spot in the schedule next year and ideally we will be at night when it’s warmer.” Most track operators want dates where cold weather won’t be an issue. Dover moved its spring race from May to the June date that Kansas had last year. “Ideally we’d have a night race in late spring, early summer,” Warren said. “I would hope later May, June or maybe even in July.”(Sporting News)(4-21-2012)
- Kansas Speedway repave starts Sunday: Kansas Speedway will have a different feel when the Sprint Cup series returns this fall. Immediately after Sunday’s race, an M1A1 Abrams tank and armored combat earthmover from the Kansas Army National Guard will rumble over its asphalt surface, the ceremonial start to a massive renovation project that will include the construction of an infield road course. The biggest change will be to the surface itself. The old, worn-out pavement will be stripped away and the underlying material sculpted to transform the uniform 15-degree banking of the original layout to variable banking of 17 to 20 degrees. Pit road will also be reconstructed along with both straightaways.(Associated Press)(4-21-2012)
- Atlanta Motor Speedway to Host Free Open House Saturday, May 12: Fans and members of the local community are invited to enjoy a free open house at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Saturday, May 12 from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. The day’s activities will include a full program of Legends racing on the “Thunder Ring” oval, free giveaways and the opportunity for attendees to drive their car on the speedway’s famed 1.54-mile racing surface. Admission is free to the off-season Legends race on the �-mile “Thunder Ring,” where fans can roam the grandstand seating area and personally select their seats for the speedway’s Labor Day NASCAR night racing weekend, Aug. 31-Sept. 2. With any ticket purchase to the Sept. 2 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series AdvoCare 500, fans can drive their own vehicle on the track following the conclusion of the Legends racing action at 2:00 p.m. Customers who have already purchased tickets to the AdvoCare 500 can visit the AMS ticket office to receive a voucher to drive the track. A payment of $30 will also be accepted for track drives without a ticket purchase. More info at atlantamotorspeedway.com.(AMS)(4-21-2012)
- Russian, Mokshantsev plans to run trucks with NTS: Sergey Mokshantsev, an experienced open-wheel racing driver from Moscow with European Formula 3 and Indy Lights experience to his resume, plans to enter NASCAR competition this season becoming the first Russian driver in NASCAR competition. Mokshantsev has been undergoing an aggressive NASCAR driver development program which started March 13-14 and April 2-3 in North Carolina driving a K&N Pro Series car prepared by NTS Motorsports. For 2012 NTS Motorsports continues as a K&N Pro East and West Series team but has boosted it’s program to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series with rookie Brennan Newberry (#14) and is preparing to run a second truck by end of the 2012 season. “We are excited to have Sergey as part of NTS Motorsports. Sergey has impressed us not only with his ability behind the wheel of a stock car, but also with his professional approach, he will become a great stock car driver”, states NTS Owner, Bob Newberry. “Sergey has done a great job in his NASCAR development program and is way ahead of schedule, we expect to enter him in a NASCAR sanctioned event very soon and to run a full 2013 season”, stated Mike Schriefer of Speedway Group, marketing and management representatives for Mokshantsev and NTS Motorsports.[Been told that they are planning to start at the K&N races at Iowa and will enter 6-10 CWT races this year in a second NTS Truck.](NTS Motorsports PR)(4-21-2012)
- Buescher powers to first Truck Series victory: Simply put, it was James Buescher’s day. Buescher pulled away in the closing laps for a convincing 5.320-second victory over Timothy Peters, who passed Brad Keselowski for the runner-up spot with three laps left in Saturday’s SFP 250 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Kansas Speedway. Buescher earned his first win in the series, to go with his maiden Nationwide Series victory at Daytona in February. It was the second straight victory for Turner Motorsports, which sent Kasey Kahne to Victory Lane last Saturday at Rockingham, with Buescher running second. Keselowski ran third, followed by Nelson Piquet Jr. and Todd Bodine. With the victory, Buescher narrowed Peters’ lead in the series standings to four points. Ron Hornaday Jr., Justin Lofton, Kligerman, rookie Ty Dillon and Miguel Paludo completed the top 10. Dillon is fourth in the standings, 14 points behind Peters and three behind third-place Lofton. Driving his own truck for the second time this season, Keselowski surged past Buescher and into the lead shortly after a restart on Lap 105 of 167. Buescher pursued patiently until Lap 122, when he cleared Keselowski through Turn 4 to regain the top spot. The longer the run, the more Buescher’s #31 Chevrolet flaunted its superiority. By Lap 140, with green-flag pit stops imminent, Buescher had opened an advantage of 5.4 seconds, with Peters closing in on Keselowski for the second position. As the green-flag cycle began, Peters grabbed the #2 spot from Keselowski before heading to the pits on Lap 146. Buescher followed on Lap 150 and matched Peters with a four-tire stop. That left Keselowski, who took right-side tires only, in the lead, but Buescher quickly tracked down the #19 RAM and made the pass for the top spot on Lap 157. The final 10 laps were a smooth cruise for the first-time Truck series winner.(NASCAR PR) [Complete race info is posted on the Kansas Race Page.](4-21-2012)
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