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NASCAR Sprint-Cup Series
CUP: What Off Weekend?
Four NASCAR Sprint Cup regulars will compete in Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 at Gateway International Raceway...
Tom Jensen  |  Posted July 16, 2009   Charlotte NC
Four NASCAR Sprint Cup regulars will compete in Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 at Gateway International Raceway. (Photo: Getty Images)
While most of the NASCAR Sprint Cup regulars will be taking the weekend off, four of them will be running in the NASCAR Nationwide Series race on Saturday. But those not racing have some interesting plans of their own.

Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick and Reed Sorenson all will head to the St. Louis area to race in Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 at Gateway International Raceway.

Busch, who leads the NNS points standings by 192 over Edwards, has been on an amazing hot streak of late in NASCAR’s AAA division. In his last six Nationwide starts, the Shrub has posted two victories and four runner-up finishes in his all-conquering Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota Camrys.

To go six consecutive races and not finish worse than second is truly a remarkable accomplishment. For the season, Busch has five victories, 12 top-five and 15 top-10 finishes in just 18 races.

Edwards, the defending series champion, hasn’t been too shabby either, posting one victory, 11 top fives and 14 top 10s in his No. 60 Roush Fenway Racing Ford Fusion.

Also joining the Gateway fray will be Kevin Harvick, who has actually run better in his own NNS Chevrolets than in his Richard Childress Racing Sprint Cup cars. Harvick has finished in the top 10 in his last three NNS races — but has 15 consecutive finishes outside the top 10 in NASCAR Sprint Cup competition.

And Sorenson, who drives a Richard Petty Motorsports Dodge Charger in the Cup Series, will pilot the No. 32 Braun Racing Toyota at Gateway.

Even the drivers not going to Gateway have got some fun things going on.

Brian Vickers, driver of the No. 83 Red Bull Racing Toyota in the Cup Series, is headed north of the border. “I’m going fly fishing up in Canada out in the middle of nowhere,” said Vickers. “You’ll never find me, there are no roads there. It’s in British Columbia. There are no roads, no cars, no train — no nothing. I’ve been fly fishing before, but never in this particular area. I hear it’s the best and I’m really looking forward to going.”


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