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Earnhardt credits consistency for first season with multiple poles since 2002

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DOVER, Del. — Not since 2002 had Dale Earnhardt Jr. won more than one NASCAR Sprint Cup Series pole in a single season.

Until Friday.

Earnhardt’s track-record run at Dover International Speedway, however, held a significance deeper than merely claiming the top starting position for Sunday’s AAA 400, the third race in the Chase.

To Earnhardt, the Coors Light Pole-winning run was emblematic of the progress he has made with crew chief Steve Letarte and his entire No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet team.

"I would say it’s a reflection of where the program is," Earnhardt told the NASCAR Wire Service. "Just how Steve and I, since we first started working together … we have gotten better each year. One of the things we started focusing on last year was qualifying, and I think that has rolled over into this season.

"We continue to put importance on that and try to improve on that. The racing and the cars and the speed the cars have in the races has also improved. We really focused on qualifying last year and even more so this year." 

It’s also a function of more effective communication between driver and crew chief.

"He and I are working better together," Earnhardt said. "The longer we work together, the better we get at it and the more we understand each other and the more he understands what I need in the car. We have also kept the majority of the team intact from the beginning. That’s so important, to keep that together if you can, because everybody sort of learns what they can about each other. 

"Steve is really good. … He has made me a better race car driver. He makes his engineers better. I mean, he is really good at his job.  So he deserves a lot of credit for us improving and being able to get these poles and just qualifying better."

Earnhardt maintained his pace during Saturday’s practice sessions at the Monster Mile. He was second quickest behind teammate Kasey Kahne in the morning session and fifth fastest in the final practice.

A time to heal

After a tumultuous month on and off the race track, Martin Truex Jr. finally got some welcome news. The wrist he broke during an accident at Bristol in late August is healing.

The wrist was perhaps the least of his worries. A 50-point penalty from NASCAR, levied after Michael Waltrip Racing, the organization that fields cars for Truex, attempted to manipulate the outcome of the final regular-season Sprint Cup race at Richmond, knocked Truex out of the Chase spot he thought he had earned as a Wild Card.

Truex also suffered from the fallout, learning that his primary sponsor, auto parts retailer NAPA, was opting out of its commitment to MWR at the end of the season.

But the wrist, at least, is on the mend.

"Yeah, we started to see this week it looked a little bit better, so that was good news," Truex said after Friday’s time trials at Dover. "The doctor was pretty certain we won’t need surgery now, which is a great, great news after all the bad news I’ve gotten here lately. So, hopefully, we’ll keep a cast on it obviously until it heals completely, and then I’ll probably wear some sort of brace at least in the race car for the remainder of the year just to make sure everything’s good, just because my wrist will be weak when I first get the cast off. 

"Right now, when I get my cast switched out each week, it’s like my wrist is really stiff. It doesn’t have a lot of mobility already, so it will take me a few weeks to get that back to 100 percent. So we’ll probably have some sort of brace for the last few races at least."

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Logano earns third Nationwide win of season, Larson finishes second

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DOVER, Del.—When Joey Logano sets a record, he does it in style.
 
Logano didn’t just win Saturday’s 5-hour Energy 200 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Dover International Speedway. He crushed the rest of the field in taking the checkered flag in a record four straight events at the Monster Mile.
 
No other driver has ever won four straight races at Dover in any of NASCAR’s top three national series, and Logano accomplished the feat decisively, finishing 14.590 seconds ahead of runner-up Kyle Larson.
 
Kevin Harvick ran third, more than 24 seconds back, and Brian Vickers came home fourth. Logano, Larson, Harvick and Vickers were the only drivers on the lead lap at the finish.
 
The victory was Logano’s third this season and the 21st of his career. It was also the series-best 11th victory for the No. 22 Penske Ford, a car shared by Logano, Brad Keselowski, AJ Allmendinger and Ryan Blaney.

"It’s just really cool to get four in a row here at Dover," Logano said. "That’s pretty awesome. It’s been my favorite race track ever since I started here. Yes, even when I barrel-rolled down the back straightaway (in a 2009 wreck in the Sprint Cup Series), it’s still my favorite place, and I think we showed that today."
 
In post-race inspection, NASCAR determined that the ride height of Logano’s race-winning car was too low in front on both sides. The sanctioning body will review the infraction at its weekly competition meeting, and penalties, if any, will be announced next week.
 
Arguably, Kyle Busch had the fastest car—at least during the early portion of the race-but Busch stayed on the track under the first two cautions, both of which fell within the first 35 laps of the race. When a third caution failed to materialize, Busch was forced to pit under green on Lap 87, leaving him unable to complete the race without stopping again.
 
Logano, on the other hand, brought his No. 22 Ford to pit road on Lap 37, under the second caution, and made his second stop, under green, on Lap 116. That left him within the window of finishing the race without another trip to pit road.
 
On the Lap 37 stop, crew chief Jeremy Bullins took the time to make adjustments that corrected a loose handling condition, and from that point on, Logano’s car was unbeatable. The 22-year-old driver led 106 of the 200 laps, including the last 59.
 
When the pit stops cycled out by Lap 124, Busch held a lead of almost 10 seconds, but Logano, on fresher tires, cut into the advantage in large chunks. On Lap 142, Logano caught and passed Busch’s No. 54 Toyota and pulled away to a lead of more than four seconds by Lap 175.
 
"When we came out on new tires (on Lap 117), I radioed to Jeremy, ‘The car’s right on. It’s right where I need it to be,’" Logano said. "When your car’s driving good here, and you have exactly what it needs, when you get to lapped traffic, it doesn’t even slow you down.
 
"But if it’s loose like it was (earlier), you get to a lapped car, and you’re just kind of stuck. He (Bullins) had it right where it needed to be that I was able to pass cars when I got to them and really make up that gap a lot. In these Nationwide races, having a fast car is one thing, but being able to get through the lapped traffic as quick as possible is the key to winning these things."
 
With the race still under green on Lap 176—and six other cars on the lead lap-Busch was forced to pit and dropped to 14th, one lap down. He finished eighth.
 
A pit road speeding penalty incurred on Lap 117 cost Sam Hornish Jr. most of his series lead. Hornish finished 17th and left Dover four points ahead of sixth-place finisher Austin Dillon, who trimmed 11 points from Hornish’s advantage entering the race.
 
With the final 160 laps run under green, team’s had limited opportunities to make strategic calls and adjustments that might have counteracted Logano’s advantage. Harvick said slick, treacherous conditions actually contributed to the long green-flag run to end the race.
 
"When the cars are really hard to drive, you have to slow ’em down, and when you really have to slow ’em down, there’s a lot less chance for things to happen," Harvick explained. "Nothing surprises me. I know in the (Sprint) Cup series we’ve run races from start to finish without a caution.
 
"It’s been a long time, but it has happened."

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Driver of No. 15 finds way to be ‘one with himself’ as focus turns from Richmond to Chase

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DOVER, Del. — Clearly Clint Bowyer was less comfortable stretching his body into the yoga position "Downward-Facing Dog" early Saturday morning than he is driving 200 mph in a tightly-packed group of race cars inches from a concrete wall.

But Bowyer was game and good-natured as he joined 100 fans for a yoga session presented by Bowyer’s sponsor 5-hour Energy as part of a Living Beyond Breast Cancer event in the Dover International Speedway infield shortly after sunrise.

Local yoga instructor Jessica Coyne called for Bowyer and the others to "Take a deep breath. Exhale. And release the tension."

"Calm any mental chatter," Coyne instructed the group. "Extend your energy to the sky."

Holding his hands together in a prayer-like pose above his head and balancing on one leg, Bowyer exclaimed with a laugh, "I see the light."

And perhaps he has.

After a couple of uncomfortable weeks at the center of a NASCAR controversy and the recipient of a 50-point penalty to start the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Bowyer has weathered criticism from fans and hard questions from the racing media.

For the first time in his career, the popular and fun-loving driver has even been booed during pre-race driver introductions.

So if Saturday provided a little good karma and Kumbaya for Clint, then who could begrudge?

"Yoga is probably not the sport for me," Bowyer said. "I clearly had a different opinion on what yoga was. I don’t know how you get ‘one’ with yourself. I couldn’t even do the victory breathing. So that’s a bad sign.

"I appreciate (5-hour Energy) coming up with neat, fun things like this to interact with our fans and share a laugh. And trust me, me doing yoga is a laugh."

On a more serious note, Bowyer did get some good news this week.

He found out Friday sponsor 5-hour Energy would remain with his Michael Waltrip Racing No. 15 Toyota. The company said it was re-evaluating its relationship with the team following the Sept. 7 race at Richmond, where NASCAR determined the team "manipulated" the race outcome.

"I’m happy that 5-hour Energy has always supported me from Day 1," Bowyer said. "They’re the reason I found a new home at MWR and left RCR in the first place. It’s been a great ride with a lot of success for both of us."

The news came just as Bowyer returned from a hunting trip to Wyoming with Ryan Newman, one of the drivers directly affected by the MWR team’s Richmond antics.

The trip — part of Realtree Outdoors "Driven to Hunt" series that will air on ESPN — had been arranged months ago.

Still, Newman joked about the situation, saying, "He (Bowyer) only went to the hospital once. It wasn’t that big of a wound, and I didn’t hit him quite where I wanted to. 

"But nevertheless, we had a lot of fun and I want to thank Bill Jordan and everybody at Realtree for giving us the opportunity to just get away and relax."

Now, however, is go time.

After spending 12 weeks of the regular season ranked no lower than third in the standings, Bowyer is currently in 10th place — 48 points behind leader Matt Kenseth — entering Sunday’s AAA 400 (2 p.m. ET, ESPN).

He is still winless on the season and has finishes of ninth (Chicago) and 17th (New Hampshire) in the first two Chase races.

"We certainly haven’t had the last couple weeks we’re accustomed to having, especially Chase time," Bowyer said. "I’ve definitely been more concerned about that than anything.

"We’re racers and when you go to the track and don’t perform, it’s frustrating. We kind of beat ourselves, made some bad decisions and probably cost us 15 points in the last two races I can pinpoint. We should have zigged instead of zagged. Everybody has fast race cars; you have to make better decisions than the other guy.

"We’ve just got to get back to doing what we’re doing."

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Drivers in the Chase field know this playoff run is far from over

DOVER, Del. — Pundits and super fans may be all too ready to declare the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup a three-man race only two weeks into the 10-race run for the title.

After all, Matt Kenseth and his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch have finished first and second in both Chase races with five-time Cup champ Jimmie Johnson’s pair of top-fives enough to keep him lurking just behind.

But there are 10 other drivers in the Chase field who aren’t so convinced the class of the field has been crowned yet. The suggestion that anything is settled really rankles the rank and file who absolutely know that with eight more weeks of racing — beginning with Sunday’s AAA 400 (2 p.m. ET, ESPN) at Dover International Speedway — anything is still possible.

“To be two races into the Chase and say it’s a three-man race already seems silly,’’ Greg Biffle said almost scoldingly on Friday. “Take, for instance, last week. We finished third and moved up six spots in the points to fifth.’’

So while Kenseth leads Busch and Johnson by 14 and 18 points, respectively, Biffle’s Roush-Fenway Racing teammate Carl Edwards is fourth, a healthy 36 points back. Biffle is 38 behind and Kevin Harvick, 39.

That’s a sizeable gap between third place Johnson and fourth place Edwards. But sizable is not insurmountable. 

“It’s easy to look at it that way, but I’m not putting my guard down,’’ Johnson said.

“We still have Talladega and a lot of these tracks can take out multiple cars. You have that risk here [at Dover] if something happens, you usually take a car or two with you.

“I’m certainly looking forward and there are only two guys that I’m paying attention to right now. So in that mindset, sure you can call it a three-man race. But it’s still way too early to count many out yet.’’

Busch and Harvick have publicly declared their disinterest in the standings. Harvick claimed not to even know who was leading or by how much.

“I think it’s too early,’’ Busch said of anyone declaring it a three-man race. “But also I’m not paying attention to the points. I could guess who’s first, second and third in points, but I really don’t care right now.

“We’re just with the mindset to continue on the path that we have all year long and that’s to continue to run consistently and to get good finishes and if we can win, we try to win.

“I’ve also felt all along that if you finish second every single Chase race then you could have a really good shot at winning a championship that way.’’

When it comes to a winning record, Biffle has multiple wins at four of the remaining eight venues, including Dover, Kansas, Texas and Homestead-Miami. Edwards and Harvick have similarly impressive records at upcoming tracks.

Edwards has wins at Dover, Texas, Phoenix and Homestead-Miami. Harvick has victories at Charlotte, Martinsville, Talladega, and Phoenix.

Even Clint Bowyer, who is 10th in points (48 behind Kenseth) refuses to concede anything yet. He reminded reporters Saturday that he made up nearly 100 points on Johnson in the final four weeks of the regular season.

“It wasn’t like we were running down a start-and-park,’’ Bowyer joked.

Sunday’s polesitter Dale Earnhardt Jr. has seen extreme fortunes in two weeks already. His Chevy had engine troubles in the Chase opener at Chicago, but he rebounded with a sixth place at New Hampshire last week moving him from last in the Chase standings to 11th  — 62 behind Kenseth.

His crew chief Steve Letarte took to Twitter this week insisting that the team wasn’t giving up, but realistically needed some wins to mount any challenge regardless of whether the championship leaders suffer an off-week or two.

“I expect our competition to be tough every week,’’ said Earnhardt, who has wins at four of the upcoming Chase tracks.

“Nothing really surprises me when they perform well.  We are not really going to count points and I’m not going to sit here and figure out how far I’m behind and come up with some equation that I need to be perfect to gain points each week.

“We are just going to show up and try to run hard and be smart.  If we can unload great cars like this it makes that all easier.  We are going to try to win some races before the year is out.  I would be really disappointed if we don’t win a race this season because I think we are a better team than we were last year. 

“I felt we’ve come so close so many times so we would just like to get out there and get some trophies.  The points will take care of themselves when you are doing that.”

Even 12th place Joey Logano refused to concede anything with two months of competition left and 69 points to make up.

“We’re not out of it yet, we can still do it,’’ Logano said.
“The fat lady isn’t singing yet. She may be warming up her voice, but she isn’t singing.’’

 

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Lofton qualifies second, Buescher third

LAS VEGAS — Ty Dillon won his first Keystone Light Pole Award of the 2013 season on Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, driving to the front of the grid with his top speed of 177.078 mph. 

Dillon was second in the first practice session of the day and led final practice, which enabled him to be the final driver on the track in qualifying. In his customary No. 3 Chevrolet, Dillon passed provisional pole-sitter Justin Lofton on his first lap, then bested his time on his second go-round.

Lofton, who came in at 176.355 mph, will start next to Dillon on the front row. Lofton has driven in five Truck Series races this year, with his best finish a fourth-place effort in the season-opening event at Daytona International Speedway. Lofton is driving the No. 6 Chevrolet for Sharp-Gallaher Racing.

Defending Truck Series champion James Buescher will start third in his No. 31 Chevrolet, following his speed of 176.309. Buescher trails series leader Matt Crafton by 41 points with six races remaining. Crafton will start fifth in his No. 88 ThorSport Racing Chevrolet.  

In between those two title contenders is Jeb Burton infourth. Burton’s speed of 176.068 mph came in his backup truck after the driver slapped the wall during the first 75-minute practice session. His crew meticulously took the engine out of his damaged primary car and installed it in the backup.

Filling out the top 10 are Brendan Gaughan (175.735), Miguel Paludo (175.513), Ron Hornaday Jr. (175.433), Max Gresham (175.387) and Chad Hackenbracht (175.177).

The Smith’s 350 takes place later tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET, televised on FOX Sports 1. 

It’s a one-day show for the Camping World Truck Series, which first took to the track at 9 a.m. for the opening practice on a beautiful day in Las Vegas.

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Chase drivers produce 13 of the 17 fastest results

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DOVER, Del. — Brad Keselowski may not be in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup this season, but he’s still making his presence felt at Dover International Speedway.

The reigning series champion was the fastest in Saturday’s final practice for the AAA 400, with a passel of title contenders right at his heels. Chase drivers occupied 13 of the next 16 spots on the speed chart, with five-time champion and seven-time Dover winner Jimmie Johnson in second behind the Penske Racing driver.

Keselowski’s top speed was 156.338 mph. In third was Chase leader Matt Kenseth, who has won the first two playoff races and entered the Monster Mile with a 14-point lead over Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch. Johnson is third in the standings, 18 points off Kenseth’s lead.

Ryan Newman and pole-winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. rounded out the top five. Next came a pair of Michael Waltrip Racing cars not qualified for the playoff, driven by Brian Vickers and Martin Truex Jr. Greg Biffle, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano completed the top 10.

Kurt Busch was 11th, followed by Kasey Kahne, who was fastest in Saturday’s first practice session. Next were Jeff Gordon and Carl Edwards. Kevin Harvick stood 16th, while Clint Bowyer was last among the Chase drivers in 17th position.

Sunday’s race, the third in the 10-event Chase, is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET (ESPN). Keselowski is the defending champion.

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On-track incidents send Quiroga, Burton to backup trucks

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LAS VEGAS — Ty Dillon capped a strong morning on the track by topping the leaderboard in the final practice for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday.
 
Dillon, who was second on the speed chart in the opening session, sped to the top of the leaderboard during final practice with a speed of 176.482 mph. James Buescher was behind Dillon in second place at 176.051 mph, and he finished third in the opening session.

Brennan Newberry joined Dillon and Buescher as drivers to finish in the top five of both practice sessions following his third-place run (175.816 mph) in the final session. Newberry had previously finished fifth in the opening practice.
 
Justin Lofton was fourth in the final practice (175.770 mph) and sixth in the opening session, and Timothy Peters finished fifth (175.251 mph) in the final session before qualifying for tonight’s Smith’s 350 (8:30 p.m. ET, FOX Sports 1). Qualifying is scheduled for 6:15 p.m. ET.
 
Miguel Paludo, who led the opening practice in a session that was halted twice for on-track incidents, finished 13th in the second practice. Currently sixth in the points standings, the driver is gunning for his first top-10 at Vegas on his third attempt.
 
Rounding out the top 10 in the second session were: sixth-place Ross Chastain (175.222 mph), Max Gresham (175.188 mph) and Jeb Burton (175.188 mph), Brendan Gaughan (175.109 mph) and Ron Hornaday Jr. (174.921 mph). Chastain, Gaughan and Hornaday also finished in the top 10 in the first session.
 
Burton’s eighth-place run came in his backup truck. The opening 75-minute practice was halted after nearly 30 minutes when Burton got into the wall early, forcing the No. 4 Turner Scott Motorsports team to roll out the backup truck. During the break between the two practice sessions, the crew successfully took the motor from the first truck and installed it into the backup.
 
The bigger incident in the first session came 15 minutes later, when German Quiroga Jr. blew a right front tire and drilled the wall in Turn 2. Quiroga’s smack brought out the fire and medical crew, but he climbed out of his No. 77 Toyota unharmed and was treated and released from the medical center. His dented truck, however, needed a tow off the track, and his Red Horse Racing team confirmed it would use its backup truck.
 
Quiroga finished the first practice 18th, then 20th in the second session.
 
Series points leader Matt Crafton slow-played his first session, staying in the garage through the opening 30 minutes before finally rolling out onto the track in his No. 88 Chevrolet. Once on the track, he didn’t crack the top 10 until a late lap of 175.018 mph put him fourth. He finished 12th in the second session.

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Joey Logano won his first NASCAR Nationwide Series Coors Light Pole Award of the season, taking the top spot Saturday at Dover International Speedway with a best speed of 155.172 mph and lap time of 23.200 seconds.

It was the 23rd NNS pole win of Logano’s career, and he will start on the front row along with points leader Sam Hornish Jr. for Saturday’s 5-Hour Energy 200 Benefiting Living Beyond Breast Cancer (3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN).

Austin Dillon finished third, followed by rookie Alex Bowman and Kyle Busch to round out the top five. Other notables included Kevin Harvick in eighth place, Brian Vickers in 11th, Elliott Sadler in 12th, Regan Smith in 13th and Kyle Larson in 17th.

Logano has won the last three NNS races at Dover.

 

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DOVER, Del. — In need of a rebound after a rough outing last week in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Kasey Kahne topped the board in the first of Saturday’s two practice sessions at Dover International Speedway.
   
Kahne led a Hendrick Motorsports assault on the scoring tower, posting the session’s fastest lap at 157.288 mph. Teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr., who on Friday won the pole for the race, was second. Hendrick driver Jeff Gordon was third, and stable mate Jimmie Johnson was sixth.

Kahne crashed and finished 37th last weekend at New Hampshire, and came to Dover last in the Chase standings. He is 71 points behind Matt Kenseth, who won the first two Chase events.

Chase drivers occupied the top eight positions, with Kurt Busch in fourth, Matt Kenseth in fifth, Kyle Busch in seventh and Clint Bowyer in eighth. Juan Pablo Montoya and Martin Truex Jr. rounded out the top 10.

The 55-minute session was halted once briefly for debris. Twelve of the 13 Chase drivers held down spots in the top 17, with Joey Logano in 12th, Ryan Newman in 14th, Greg Biffle in 15th and Carl Edwards in 17th. The lone exception was Kevin Harvick, who battled a tight race car and placed 24th.

A 50-minute final practice is scheduled for Saturday at 2 p.m. ET. The AAA 400 is slated to go green at 2 p.m. Sunday (ESPN).

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