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Insider Racing News * September 14, 2007
No. 49 Fails Inspection That moved the No. 98 Gillett Evernham Motorsports Dodge driven by Boris Said from the 44th-fastest position and out of the race into 43rd in Sunday's lineup for the Sylvania 300. Ironically, Said had been bumped out of the lineup by GEM teammate Scott Riggs, who was the final "go or go home" car to attempt. Even more strangely, Riggs' car was too low the first time it passed through the same height inspection station. But after what crew chief Rodney Childers said was a standard re-check, the car passed by three-eighths of an inch. "We went out 47th [of 49 cars] and most of the 'go or go home' cars they just parked 'em on pit road and waited a long time [before taking them through inspection]," Childers said. "This is one of the tracks where you run a lot of rebound in the front shocks and soft springs in the front and it just takes a few minutes to come up after you come off the track. "Basically, when we came off the track they just pulled us straight in there at the height sticks and it was a little bit low on the left-front. So they just let us go around the building and give it a little bit of time to come up, like everybody else had time. We came back around and it was plenty good enough and in the green [a legal measurement]. It's just one of those deals with the shocks that you run here."(nascar.com)
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Kurt Busch will lead the second row in third place and points leader Jimmie Johnson rolls off in fourth. Ryan Newman starts fifth followed by Tony Stewart, Elliott Sadler, Kevin Harvick, Greg Biffle and Dave Blaney to round out the top ten. Six drivers failed to qualify, Dale Jarrett, Sam Hornish Jr. (first Nextel Cup attempt), Jeremy Mayfield, Michael Waltrip, Kevin Lepage and John Andretti.
Earnhardt Puts Stop To Rumors Earnhardt Jr., who failed to finish a race due to an engine failure for the fifth time (last) Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway, says he's not worried that the motor problems will continue. "The motors are really good, power-wise, and hopefully we'll have no more failures the rest of the year," he said. "We threw a belt last week and we've thrown a belt before and we just need to figure out how that's happening and I think those guys are trying to do that." As to whether or not he is getting the "bad" motors while teammate and championship contender Martin Truex Jr. is getting a better one, Earnhardt Jr. said that his postrace comments concerning that issue have been slightly overblown. To have motors set up to blow late in the race would take a high level of expertise and an attitude Earnhardt Jr. doesn't see at DEI or any team. "After the Richmond race, I said that the motors always seem to fall apart when they put them in my car and that sort of sparked all the conspiracy of someone or somehow I was being put in that situation where my motor was going to blow on that exact lap or whatever," he said. "It's just an off-the-cuff comment, just trying to make light of the situation, which was very disappointing at the time." Earnhardt Jr. laughed slightly as he talked about how he didn't understand when people started taking everything he said to heart. "That's the unfortunate part about where we are now is that, yeah, those comments sort of get taken too seriously and I don't know when everybody started taking me so seriously, but it's not a very comfortable situation to be in, I'll tell you that," he said.(scenedaily.com)
Sirius Radio Expands Coverage On Sunday, September 16, SIRIUS will broadcast the first event of the Chase, the Sylvania 300 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race (1:15 pm ET) live from New Hampshire International Speedway in Loudon, NH on SIRIUS NASCAR Radio, channel 128. For all ten Chase races, SIRIUS will provide the live race call on channel 128, plus ten additional Driver2Crew Chatter(TM) channels that will combine the race broadcast with the in-car audio of ten different race teams. For every race, SIRIUS will provide in-car audio for the top nine drivers in the championship points standings. The tenth Driver2Crew channel will be the "Fan's Choice" and will carry the in-car audio of a driver chosen by fans who cast their vote by logging on to (www.sirius.com/driver2crew). For Sunday's Sylvania 300, SIRIUS subscribers can hear the following:
SIRIUS NASCAR Radio's roster of expert hosts also includes: David Poole, Marty Snider, John Kernan, Buddy Baker, Johnny Benson, Randy LaJoie, Ron Hornaday, Ricky Craven, Phil Parsons, John Andretti, Dave Moody, Pat Patterson, Steve Post, Jenna Fryer, Jerry Bonkowski, Mark Garrow and Mojo Nixon.(money.cnn.com)
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More Apologies From ESPN Unlike some sports, where television timeouts slow the action and leave clean breaks for commercials, racing is one that leaves producers trying to do quick math in an effort to figure out when to squeeze in a commercial without missing any key action on the track. ESPN's Rich Feinberg, vice president, Motorsports production, says that the network works to make sure that fans see the restarts live, but points out the difference in NASCAR and other sports. "Stopping a race car in the middle of the race is a tough deal and even extending caution laps when we're in a commercial, because we try to do our breaks after pits stops around yellow flags, could ultimately affect the game or affect the race because so many fuel-mile stories are involved at any given time," he said during a national teleconference Tuesday. "We sit in that truck and we have to make an instant decision on when to go to commercial. We have to get our commercials in because it is a business. We want to make sure that we're in good shape for the last part of the race, and when we actually make the decision to go to commercial, there are many times when we don't know how many pace laps are left until they go green again." Feinberg says estimates are done based on the timing of pace laps and length of commercials. "Most of the time we get it right. Sometimes we don't, but we're gambling a lot based upon experience on how we actually do it," he said.(scenedaily.com)
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