45 on preliminary Daytona NASCAR Sprint Cup entry list
By SceneDaily Staff
Monday, June 29, 2009
Forty-five NASCAR Sprint Cup teams are on the preliminary entry list for Saturday night's Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
Drivers who are sharing rides or running part time include Brad Keselowski (No. 09 Phoenix Racing Chevrolet), Max Papis (No. 13 Germain Racing Toyota), Patrick Carpentier (No. 36 Tommy Baldwin Racing Toyota), Tony Raines (No. 37 Front Row Motorsports Dodge), Mike Wallace (No. 64 Gunselman Motorsports Toyota) and Regan Smith (No. 78 Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet).
The top 35 in owner points are locked into the field. Those vying for the other eight available positions and needing to make the race based on qualifying speed are Keselowski, Papis, Carpentier, Raines, Wallace, Prism Motorsports' Dave Blaney, TRG Motorsports' David Gilliland, Smith, Red Bull Racing's Scott Speed and Nemco Motorsports' Joe Nemechek.
Practices for the Coke Zero 400 begin at 4 p.m. EDT Thursday. Qualifying is at 4:10 p.m. Friday with the race slated for 8 p.m. Saturday.
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amalycke said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 1:18 PMCongrats to Gunselman Motorsports making enough money on the NHMS/ Furniture Row Transaction that they landed a good Superspeedway motor and will be attempting Daytona with Geoffrey Bodine overseeing the operation! Only two cars go home.
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Jun 29, 2009 at 1:20 PMIn case of a rainout, the rains would benefit the 64 and 37 again. The 78 and 13 would go home.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportamalycke said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 1:31 PMHave no idea if Larry Gunselman would again sell off his Daytona starting spot to Furniture Row Sofa Company if it rained again like with the deal at NHMS last weekend. Although, Team Red Bull's #82 team did in fact buy NEMCO Racing's #87 car twice this year, once at Darlington and the other at Infineon. Maybe, just maybe ...
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» Confirm Abuse Reportlten11 said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 2:29 PMWhy do the go or go homers do so badly week after week ???.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportamalycke said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 4:08 PMThey don't. It's that simple. You must WANT them to do that badly every week. The GOGH #09 of Phoenix Racing actually won Talladega at the start of the season and then finished a cool 6th yesterday at NHMS. Another GOGHer, the #34 of John Andretti finished a great 16th after Qualifying a Top 10 at Michigan last month. So it's still pretty hard to follow your train of thought here, but aisle keep trying. Front Row Motorsports finished 19th in this year's Daytona 500 thereby earning a whopping $272,008.00/00 for that race. Underdog Joe Nemechek even has a couple Poles at Talladega. PRISM Motorsports' 66 of Dave Blaney has lead laps at Martinsville and was running 2nd behind Jimmie Johnson at Bristol for quite a while this year. Furthermore, GOGH pilot of the #82 machine, Scott Speed, lead Martinsville for 20 laps, Talladega, and Infineon with 34 laps to go before getting overtaken by Jeff Gordon and Kasey Kahne, respectively, both of whom conveniently drive for multi-million dollar, longstanding, corporate backed teams that are supposed to be up front.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportlten11 said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 4:22 PMOk, some of them do run good but not for the whole race, 90% of the time barring accidents the top 15 drivers do ok every week, Joe Nemechek qualifies great as does David Gilliland but every week they are taking their cars to the garage after 50 laps....Jimmie Johnson isn,t...Jeff Gordon isn,t and so on, granted they are not funded like the big teams but surely you can once in a while get your car to race a whole race and finish in the top 10.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportlten11 said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 4:31 PMOh and by the way i do want them to do well, i am all for the underdog, do you know how sick i am of all the star drivers leading every week, i would love to see Bill Elliot, Joe Nemechek, Dave Blaney or even David Gilliland win a race.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportamalycke said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 4:38 PMNo problem. Dave Blaney ran the longest race of the year this year, the 5 hour long Coke 600. He ran the race solely to counter your point on why GOGH'ers never race. I mean, look at Talladega, Phoenix Racing and James Finch win the race and picked up a half million dollars because Finch was tired of Sterling Marlin, and Mike Bliss just 'riding around collecting a check' as he put it. Finch hired a young driver that's needed to make a name for himself so the kid flipped over Carl Edwards and put the 99 into the stands. That same race, GOGH driver Scott Speed finished 5th and Joe Nemechek got a cool 14th. Scott Speed must've known that he needed to really pickup at Talladega a high paying finish for his GOGH team, so he faught hard for the Top 5 thereby bringing home a whopping $144,000.00/00. Kirk Shelmerdine raced his way into the 2005 Daytona 500 and caught a Top 20 thereby bringing home a cool $272,008.00/00 payday. John Andretti's GOGH underdog raced their way into the 2008 Daytona 500 and look where that team is now, in the Top 35 in points and just signed Gander Mountain for full races throughout the summer. C'mon man!
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» Confirm Abuse Reportlten11 said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 4:42 PMYes great but lets see it more often , by the way did i hear somewhere that Nascar was going to start inspecting cars that some figure " only show up for the paycheck " as they seem to drop out early a lot of the times.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportKyle Newton said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 4:48 PMWhen will Scenedaily post the nationwide entry list?
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» Confirm Abuse ReportPhoenix987 said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 5:31 PMActually #8, Blaney only runs the full race when they have a sponsor, which they had at the Coke 600. The only 3 races that the #66 has competed in all the laps in were the Daytona 500, Coke 600 and a race a couple weeks ago- also the only races where they have had a sponsor. All of the GOGH teams only run the full race when they have the sponsor money to do so.
Report as AbuseOh, and Andretti's team didn't really race their way into the Top 35. They got the points that Paul Menard's DEI team had last year before they closed down, which put them in the Top 35. If I remember correctly, the #34 was about 45th in owner's points last year before they signed that deal, which kept the old DEI team's points from just disappearing. The deal made a lot of sense, really as I think Front Row Motorsports and the #34 already used the Earnhardt-Childress engines and either DEI or RCR chassis. They just got locked into the races through their deal with EGR, they didn't race in like the #71 had after Bristol.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportamalycke said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 5:39 PMTo #9/ L-1011 Lockheed Tri-Star Delta jet,
Report as AbuseNice name, cool attitude. NASCAR said they would start inspecting the S&P's in April but then quikly retracted their comment when they learned that nearly all of the S&P's that are satellite teams for bigger operations, actually are in-race test teams for their respective manufactuer's top team. Example, Todd Bodine's 64 Toyota car runs majority of Las Vegas race doing in-race testing and test setups so that the notes can be passed to Kyle Busch's team so they can dial in the perfect setup on the last pitstop of the day. Kyle Busch won Vegas that afternoon.
Dave Blaney's Toyota Camry got impounded for two weeks during Michigan because apparently Blaney was testing something for Toyota's Team Red Bull's Brian Vickers. Vickers was on the Pole during Michigan and somehow got his 4th Pole of the season. That white 66 is still out at the R&D Center in Concord.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportamalycke said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 5:42 PMGunselman's 64 car apparently did some in-race testing during the All-Star race and thereby passed those notes onto MWR's 00 team as Toyota's David Reutimann suddenly came to life the next weekend thereby winning the Coke 600 at Lowe's and absorbing the Pole for Dover 2 weeks later.
Report as AbuseThat's why these mysterious GOGH teams never finish high, because they are ordered to help out other Manufacturer teams and could simply careless where they finish after all the loss of laps and in-race testing is complete anyway.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportWerner said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 6:10 PMwell there was a team in the NW series that didn't have a crew chief,got black flagged......some teams don't have money to buy tires...it's $$$$$....
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» Confirm Abuse Reportamalycke said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 6:22 PMBlaney was beside himself that they did'nt have their fast white 66 back in time for Infineon, so they were forced to run their crappy dark blue car, that's why he immediately dropped to the rear before the green flag and only completed a season-low 2 laps at Infineon. Todd Bodine's 64 ran a Toyota test motor at Martinsville that admittedly could only run 7-9 total laps when put together, nowhere near the scheduled 500 laps, that's why they did a season-low 2 laps in Martinsville and then one more lap inside of the pits.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportPhoenix987 said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 6:49 PMAmalycke, you've got some very odd theories that make absolutely no sense. The small teams get no manufacturer support whatsoever (and yes, that includes the GOGH teams with Toyotas). Why would they care what other Toyota teams want? Their cars all come from Bill Davis or Red Bull. Sure, Nemechek will step out of the car if asked by Red Bull, but that's because all of his equipment is old stuff of theirs.
Report as AbuseAlso, Blaney would have quit after about 5 laps at Infineon anyway. Remember Bristol when he was running about 5th and spun, only to go to the garage? He didn't even have a scratch on the car, and yet went to the garage for repairs. The small teams just don't have the money to compete. Ask Nemechek about that; he can't eve buy tires for the whole race unless he has a sponsor. He doesn't care if the other teams 'want' him to test things for them, unless they pony up the money he won't do anything. Plus, your theory about Gunselman's team is completely unfounded. They actually attempt the whole race when they make it, unlike most of the other teams.
Besides, what kind of 'notes' can an underfunded team who's got no money able to give a team with literally millions of dollars to use on that are actually beneficial?
When we start making up all these theories, let's make sure that they actually make some sense.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportamalycke said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 7:09 PMExcuse yourself. You apparently don't pay attention to SMALL details, therefore I might be wasting my time in responding here. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, these Toyota Test Teams admittedly get a small, but adequate percentage of the Toyota Black Budget money concerning involvement of a small team in the Toyota Black Projects. It doesn't matter if a team can test 3 weeks ahead of time, the Top team needs exact information that day. This includes but is NOT limited to, setups on the day's specific Goodyear tire combo, setups in relation to how the track changes from hour to hour on raceday, setups in relation to that day's specific given weather. That's why in these specific Manufacturer battles, the overall manufacturer is asking each time to provide as much information on their setups and then immediately report that back into the Info Truck and then into the engineer's logbook somewhere in the raceday infield somewhere. That is exactly how they can get a precise setup to dial in on the Manufacturer's Top 1 or 2 teams that race, thereby Kyle Busch winning Las Vegas per Todd Bodine's 64 car.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportamalycke said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 7:13 PMAND FOR THE RECORD (TO BLOGGER #16), DAVE BLANEY WAS RUNNING EXACTLY 2ND BEHIND JIMMIE JOHNSON BEFORE ANDRETTI TOOK HIM OUT. NOT ONLY DID THE 66 GET SCRATCHED, IT WAS DENTED UP LIKE WHEN BLANEY DID A SOLO 'SPIN IN THE SUN' AT RICHMOND AND THEN PARKED, AND THERE THEY GOT PLENTY OF DAMAGE AS WELL, IT'S ON YOUTUBE.
Report as AbuseAlso for the record, Gunselman Motorsports' GM Chad Norton told me that they pulled out of Dover because Toyota's budget for the week wasn't big enough for them to be granted a Superspeedway motor. No theory there.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportamalycke said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 7:26 PMPhoenix987 wrote, "Also, Blaney would have quit after about 5 laps at Infineon anyway". Under what circumstance? The fact of the matter was that they thought they would get their fast white 66 back from NASCAR in time for Infineon, thereby guarenteeing the $71,000.00/00 payday, but they didn't get it back in time, so they had to throw together the crappy dark blue one, that evidently can't race. NASCAR knew that and that's why they kept the fast white one in Concord long enough. Blaney's lucky he even got two laps out of that piece, so trying to get it to go the scheduled 110 laps was not on the agenda. That fast white Bristol/ Sprint Showdown car that chased down Stremme could've contended for the win at Sears Pointe but it was impounded without the media knowing. The fans at Michigan could clearly watch it being loaded backwards onto a small, white, unmarked, box-type trailor where no one could go near it. Infineon is quite a drive to take a chance of missing that race and would literally kill the PRISM budget if narrowly missed.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportmrodell329 said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 9:02 PMPrism Motorsports is a joke as a whole! They start and park in the Cup Seris as well as Nationwide Seris. They have never even had a sponser in the Nationwide Seris to my knowledge and seldom have a sponser have any kind of sponser in the cup seris. Phil Parsons and whatever the other guys name is are just taking money grabs every week. Maybe if they raced more than 3 laps they might just possibly find a sponser. One thing is for sure and that is there not gonna get any sponser sitin' is the garage!!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportPhoenix987 said:
Jun 29, 2009 at 11:01 PMPrism Motorsports has a budget? That's news to me, for a team that has a record streak going of mysterious parts failures in the Nationwide (and now apparently Cup too) that stops them from competing beyond about 2% of the scheduled distance. For a team that's actually got some decent speed (in both NW and Cup), they really don't try. They run about 10 laps and quit to collect the check. They aren't doing testing for anyone by running that few laps.
Report as AbuseAnd I still don't buy the whole 64 team testing for KB. It's not like they are running JGR cars or anything (look at the 64's cars.. they're oddly the same exact colors as either the old Bill Davis cars or Red Bull cars from last year... absolutely shocking, isn't it?).
And Blaney would have quit at Infineon in about 5 laps because that's what his team does. Actually, I probably would have been surprised had they lasted that long... 5 laps at Infineon is about 10 miles, which is about 5 miles too many towards their engine's allowance each week.
You can say Blaney was mad that they didn't have their good car, but it's not like it would have mattered. Phil would have told him to park it after 5 laps anyway. Until they stop being a start and park team, you can't really say that having a specific car matters to them.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportamalycke said:
Jun 30, 2009 at 7:02 AMMichigan theatrics: Lap 17 Tony Raines goes to the garage. 3 laps later, Sterling Marlin cuts off the motor in Turn 4 and coasts ALL the way around the track as almost simultaneously, Joe Nemechek calls it a day on the backstretch as Joe and Sterling are drafting/coasting partners as they are headed to the garage area. Dave Blaney stays out one more lap either to pick up the extra $600 for his crew, or to simply dodge the awaiting NASCAR officials for when he officially parks it. In any event, the first 3 S&P's pull into the garage and get no attention from the officials as the 3 cars eventually made their way up into the haulers. But when Blaney pulled in, a fleet of about 25 NASCAR officials ran over to the white PRISM 66 as it disappeared into one of the garage stalls and a 12x12 foot war wagon was also placed in front of the stall so no fans or camera crew could peer in. About 80 laps later, after the halfway mark and Lap 100, all the fans could easily see that the white 66 appeared again from the north side of the garage and was being pushed backwards onto an awaiting small, unmarked, white, box-shaped, lawn-mower type trailor. The spoiler was off of the car. The only people that could go near it were the alotted driver and an official. That car went straight to the NASCAR R&D in Concord and had been impounded for further research. Unlike the FRM 37 hauler, the 66 PRISM hauler went home empty.
Report as AbuseAll I can say is this, that car might have thrown a red flag to Brian France because it seemed as though Blaney launched up off of Turn 2 and flew down the backstretch beating a lot of other cars every time, but it seemed to have just died after Lap 15 just like it did when Blaney chased down Stremme in the Nextel Open for 1st place as the car strangely died again all of a sudden late in that 40 lap race.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportamalycke said:
Jun 30, 2009 at 7:20 AMAnd there at the Sprint Showdown, Blaney somehow dropped to 11th real late in that white car after running 2nd all race long to Stremme. Carl-Long and Kirk Shelmerdine were the front row starters. Interesting note: In the Martinsville 500, Bodine pulled off 2-3 laps into the race, but could not pack up until Lap 450 or so. As the infield is so small, the haulers actually block the fans view of what goes on behind the scenes in the garage stalls ... so who knows what went on there.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportPhoenix987 said:
Jun 30, 2009 at 11:38 PMNewsflash for you: NASCAR randomly chooses what cars to take back to the R&D center. Sometimes it isn't so random (like McDowell's wreck last year) but sometimes even the start and park teams get a turn. It's the chance you take by entering the race. If NASCAR wanted to look over the car at the R&D center, who cares? It's not going to see the end of the race too many times anyway.
Report as AbuseAnd at Martinsville, there isn't really an infield. The reason that the Nationwide cars don't run there when Cup and Trucks do is because of a lack of room. You can't leave the track anyway at Martinsville like you can at say Daytona, because the only way out is across the track (not under it like at Daytona). You might as well not pack up anyway until near the end of the race, you never know what could happen.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportamalycke said:
Jul 1, 2009 at 9:49 AMAgain you missed it, ALL of the other S&P Teams packed up right away so they could get out right after the checkers. Bodine's 64 did NOT. The Nationwide Series only runs at Martinsville when Darrel Waltrip agrees to be in the field so that people will come and buy a lot of tickets and hotdogs. What do you mean there's NO room in that 1/2 mile parking lot, the Trucks and Cup teams run together there ALL the time, plenty of room for Bodine to pack his stuff up during the wait, but he wasn't allowed. No theory there.
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