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Blog Post Saturday, March 2, 2008 at 3:00 pm ET
WEATHER OR NOT The good news is, there isn’t a cloud in the sky in Las Vegas today, which means the UAW-Dodge 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race is good to go. The bad news is that the winds coming from the north, which are ranging from 19 to 28 miles per hour. Temperatures are way down as well, off at least 25 degrees from Friday. Add it altogether and the weather will give the drivers another element to contend with, and there could be a spate of crashes this afternoon at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Nearly a dozen cars already have crashed in practice and qualifying.
FIRST TIME Today’s UAW-Dodge 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will be the first race for NASCAR’s new-generation car at a 1.5-mile track. And Toyota will be looking for its first-ever Sprint Cup victory today as well. Toyotas won the first two NASCAR Nationwide Series races this season, but in Saturday’s race at LVMS, no less than six Camrys wound up crashed. The Toyota contingent will be hoping for better luck today.
Looking for its first victory of 2008 will be Chevrolet, which won 26 of 36 Sprint Cup points races last season, but is 0-2 this year.
HAULER HOME Featherlite Trailers unveiled a new NASCAR transporter, a 53-foot trailer known as “Featherlite One,” which the company says “will serve as a key service and communications outlet in the garage area at each race in NASCAR’s top three premier national series.” The trailer will provide timing and scoring updates and weather reports, with external television monitors on the rear of the trailer. It will also serve as office space for staff of the networks broadcasting
Blog Post Friday, March 1, 2008 at 11:00 am ET
HOMEY MAKES GOOD Although he is correctly referred to as a Montreal native, Patrick Carpentier has lived in Las Vegas for the last eight years. And that made qualifying for his first NASCAR Sprint Cup race of 2008, the UAW-Dodge 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, doubly sweet, as he’ll have a large contingent of friends and neighbors on hand for Sunday’s race. “I’ll finally be able to sleep tonight so that’s good,” Carpentier said after qualifying Friday. “This is great, fantastic. I had to buy so many tickets now at least it’s worth it. I’ll be able to shake hands on Sunday to people I bought tickets to so it’s pretty good. We’re really happy.”
WHEELMAN Kyle Busch’s red-hot start to the 2008 season has not gone unnoticed by his peers in the NASCAR Sprint Cup garage. Mark Martin, an astute judge of talent and a fine driver in his own right, said The Shrub has got it going on in a big way at the moment.
“I’ve seen this coming for quite some time. Right now, he is the wheel man of the series,” Martin said of Busch. “He’s getting her done this year. He’s doing it. When you watch Jeff Gordon drive, Jeff Gordon goes really fast. But you don’t see a whole lot there other than going fast. You watch Kyle Busch drive and not only is he going fast, but you see he’s taking your breath, too. He’s got car control and he’s smart enough to be able to make it. He’s not wrecking them and bringing them back on a rollback. He’s putting it all together.”
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