Post by HDT05 on Jun 29, 2012 22:21:20 GMT 10
Quaker State 400
NASCAR Sprint Cup Race #17 of 36 for the 2012 season
Race Analysis
Track Length: 1.5-mile Oval - Speedway
Race Length: 400 Miles/267 laps
Pit Road Speed: 45 mph
Estimated Pit Window: Every 48-52 laps Laps
Defending Winner: Kyle Busch - Started 1st
Weekend Schedule
Times in AEST
Practice: Saturday, June 30, 1:30 - 2:30 am
Final Practice: Saturday, June 30, 3:30 - 5:00 am
Qualifying: Saturday, June 30, 7:00 - 8:30 am
Race: Sunday, July 1, 8:30 am - 1:00 pm
TV Guide:
Saturday June 30th
7:00AM - Kentucky - Final Practice, SPEED + SPEED HD
1:00PM - Kentucky - Qualifying, SPEED + SPEED HD
6:00PM - Kentucky - Final Practice, SPEED + SPEED HD
Sunday July 1st
1:00AM - Kentucky - Final Practice, SPEED + SPEED HD
2:00AM - Kentucky - NASCAR NOW Live, ESPN + ESPN HD
7:30AM - Kentucky - Qualifying, ONE HD + SPEED + SPEED HD
8:30AM - Kentucky - Kentucky, Live, ONE HD + SPEED + SPEED HD
2012 Sprint Cup Driver Championship Points Standings:
[after Sonoma, race 16 of 36]
1) #17-Matt Kenseth [1 win], 596
2) #16-Greg Biffle [1 win], 585, -11
3) #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr. [1 win], 582, -14
4) #48-Jimmie Johnson [2 wins], 571, -25
5) #14-Tony Stewart [2 wins], 533, -63
6) #29-Kevin Harvick [0 wins], 532, -64
7) #15-Clint Bowyer [1 wins], 529, -67
8) #11-Denny Hamlin [2 wins], 523, -73
9) #56-Martin Truex Jr. [0 wins], 520, -76
10) #2-Brad Keselowski [2 wins], 490, -106
Chase wild card drivers:
WC1) #18-Kyle Busch [1 win, 12th in points], 459, -137
WC2) #39-Ryan Newman [1 win, 13th in points], 453, -143
#20-Joey Logano [1 win, 15th in points], 441, -155
#5-Kasey Kahne [1 win, 17th in points], 421, -175
(ties broken by 1sts, 2nds, 3rd, etc)
See drivers championship points standings on the Drivers Points Standings (pdf).(6-24-2012)
Full championship points
jayski.com/stats/2012/pdfs/16son2012points.pdf
The Entry List for the Quaker State 400 Sprint Cup Series race at Kentucky Speedway is posted, 46 teams/drivers [for 43 spots] are listed, including:
Michael Waltrip is in the #55 this week.
Ken Schrader returns to the #32 Ford.
Not in top 35 of owners points:
#19-Mike Bliss (44th in owners points / 11 attempts)
#23-Scott Riggs (43/15)
#26-Josh Wise (41/16)
#30-David Stremme (39/16)
#33-Stephen Leicht (36/16)
#49-J.J. Yeley (38/16)
#52-Mike Skinner (51/2)
#74-Stacy Compton (48/11)
#87-Joe Nemechek (42/16)
#95-Scott Speed (45/4)
#98-Michael McDowell (40/16)
In the event that qualifying is cancelled:
the eight who would make it [8]: #'s 33,49,30,98,26,87,23,19
missing the race would be [3]: # 74,95,52
See the full entry list at my Jayski's Kentucky Entry List.(6-25-2012)
Full list: jayski.com/news/stats/2012/story/_/page/17-Kentucky-Entry-List
Facts and Stats Kentucky Speedway:
· In 1998, the track broke ground in Sparta, Kentucky, and opened as a 1.5-mile speedway in 2000.
· The original owners, Jerry Carroll and four other investors owned the track until 2008, when current owners, Speedway Motorsports Inc. purchased the facility.
· Since 2000, the track has hosted 11 NASCAR Nationwide Series (2001-2011) and 13 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races (2000-2011).
· The first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race was held in 2011.
· There has been one NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kentucky Speedway (2011).
· The first NASCAR Sprint Cup qualifying at Kentucky was cancelled due to weather. The starting line-up was set per the NASCAR Rule Book.
· Kyle Busch won the first NASCAR Sprint Cup race; he started from the first position.
· The 2011 event had 20 lead changes among 20 leaders.
· Of the scheduled 267 laps, Kyle Busch led the most with 125, followed by Brad Keselowski with 79 laps led.
· 23 cars of the 43-car field finished on the lead lap, with 34 cars running at the finish.
· The margin of victory for the first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kentucky was 0.179 seconds.
· Jimmie Johnson leads all drivers in wins at 1.5-mile race tracks (16 wins).(NASCAR)(6-26-2012)
Chassis selections for this weeks race: see the list of many teams [that report or post these] and what chassis were selected by the team to run at Kentucky Speedway on the Kentucky Race Info page - Chassis selection area. See below.
Chassis selections for the Quaker State 400: see the list of many teams and what chassis were selected by the team to run at Kentucky Speedway:
MISSING? why are some teams missing? like the #11, #24 or others? those teams do not report what chassis in the race previews or prs.
#1-Jamie McMurray: Bono Manion and the No. 1 McDonald's team will bring Chassis #1208 to Kentucky this weekend. This chassis has raced this season at Las Vegas, Kansas and Charlotte finishing eighth, 14th and 21st respectively. Most recently, this chassis raced at Michigan International Speedway, finishing 14th.
#2-Brad Keselowski: The No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger team will race chassis PRS-822 during Saturday's Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway. Keselowski last drove this chassis to an 11th-place finish at Kansas Speedway in April.
#5-Kasey Kahne: Crew chief Kenny Francis has selected Hendrick Motorsports Chassis No. 5-717 for Saturday's race at Kentucky. Kahne has recorded a pair of top-10 finishes in this car, crossing the line eighth at Kansas Speedway in April and ninth at Dover (Del.) International Speedway in June.
#9-Marcos Ambrose: The No. 9 RPM team has prepared chassis No. 693 for this weekend's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Race at Kentucky Speedway. This Mac Tools Ford was run previously this season in the All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
#10-David Reutimann: CHASSIS NO. 356 - Reutimann will pilot chassis No. 356, purchased from Richard Childress Racing in the off-season. Teammate Blaney drove the chassis last at Pocono Raceway. Reutimann drove the chassis at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Texas Motor Speedway, Kansas Speedway and Dover International Speedway this season. He had his best showing in the chassis at Texas Motor Speedway when he drove from the 31st starting spot to finish in 26th place. His best qualifying effort was at Kansas Speedway where he qualified in the 16th spot.
#16-Greg Biffle: Primary: RK-803, Last ran All-Star - finished 22nd; Backup: RK-786, Last ran Homestead - finished 35th
#17-Matt Kenseth: Primary: RK-741 (Last run at Charlotte)
#22-A.J. Allmendinger: and his Todd Gordon-led Penske Racing No. 22 Team will be racing their "PRS-823" Shell-Pennzoil Dodge Charger this weekend at Kentucky. This car made its debut for the team in Kansas back in April. Dinger won the Coors Light Pole Award and led 44 laps before secondary linkage woes put him 10 laps down and relegated him to a 32nd-place finish. The "PRS-819" chassis will serve as the backup Shell-Pennzoil Dodge for this weekend. This was the car Dinger drove to a second-place finish in the April Martinsville race.
#27-Paul Menard: will pilot Chassis No. 328 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable. This No. 27 Chevrolet was last utilized in competition at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May where Menard started ninth and finished 15th. This chassis was also used at Phoenix International Raceway in March.
#29-Kevin Harvick: will pilot Chassis No. 381 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable in this weekend's Quaker State 400. Harvick drove this Chevrolet to a 13th-place finish at Texas Motor Speedway in June of 2011. It was also driven earlier this season by Brendan Gaughan at Las Vegas Motor Speedway as a No. 33 RCR Sprint Cup Series entry.
#31-Jeff Burton: will race Chassis No. 367 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable. This No. 31 Chevrolet, originally built in 2011, has been utilized twice during the 2012 Sprint Cup Series season at Kansas Speedway in April (started-12th, finished-22nd) and in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May (started-22nd, finished-19th). This chassis has seen significant track time in 2011 including visits to Indianapolis Motor Speedway (started-13th, finished-35th), Atlanta Motor Speedway (started-27th, finished-13th) and Kansas (started-31st, finished-21st). Burton also tallied a top-10 finish at Homestead-Miami Speedway, finishing 10th after starting 31st with this Chevrolet.
#36-Dave Blaney: CHASSIS NO. 293 - Blaney will drive the No. 293 chassis, which he drove four times this season and five times during the 2011 season. The Harford, Ohio native's best start with the No. 293 chassis was 17th at Richmond and best finish was 23rd at Phoenix this season. TBR purchased the chassis from Richard Childress Racing, where Jeff Burton drove the chassis prior to its debut with TBR.
#39-Ryan Newman: Chassis No. 39-686: In six previous starts, Chassis No. 39-686 has one-top five and three top-10 finishes. The chassis already has five starts this season, including most recently in the Pocono 400 at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway. At Pocono, Newman had a strong car and looked to be a lock for at least the top-10. But a wild restart just 30 laps from the end of the race saw Newman drop from sixth to 11th place, which hampered his efforts in the closing laps. He finished 12th. In the non-points-paying All-Star Race at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway, Newman finished 10th after battling with a loose-handling car throughout the 90-lap event. Prior to the non-points race, Newman used Chassis No. 39-686 at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City and at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. At Kansas, Newman ran in the top-15 for most of the race but, with less than 70 laps to go, he was forced to the pits for an unscheduled stop with what he thought was a deflating tire. He exited the pits one lap down to the leaders, ending his shot at a top-10 finish and relegating him to 20th place. At Las Vegas, Newman qualified a disappointing 18th but made a strong drive into the top-10, where he ran for most of the race. He drove from eighth to a solid fourth-place finish in the final four laps at the 1.5-mile oval. Last season, chassis 39-686 made two starts at intermediate racetracks during the 2011 Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship, which resulted in one top-10 finish. The chassis made its debut in the Bank of America 500 at Charlotte in October, where Newman started sixth, led six laps and finished a solid 10th. In the second start for the chassis, at the AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Newman recovered from a loose wheel and came back from two laps down to finish a respectable 16th.
#42-Juan Pablo Montoya: Crew Chief Chris "Shine" Heroy and the No. 42 Target team will bring Chassis #1205 to Kentucky this weekend. This chassis raced to a 12th-place finish at Kansas this season and a 20th-place finish in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
#43-Aric Almirola:: The team has prepared chassis No. 783 for the Kentucky race. Almirola earned the pole position in this car at Charlotte in May, and also ran the chassis at Texas and Las Vegas earlier this season.
#48-Jimmie Johnson:: Chassis No. 714 serves as the primary for Johnson at Kentucky. Chassis No. 669 serves as the backup.
#51-Kurt Busch: Chassis No. 557: Saturday night's Quaker State 400 will be the second race of the 2012 season for Chassis No. 557. The team last used this chassis in May at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway, where it competed in the top-10 for the majority of the event before a late-race issue relegated it to a 21st-place finish. The team also used this chassis during the mid-April tire test at Dover (Del.) International Speedway. Prior to the 2012 season, the car was used as a road-course car. Hendrick Motorsports built this chassis with a universal clip, which allows for greater adjustments with the geometric points on the chassis. As such, the team converted the car from a road-course car to an intermediatetrack car for this season.
#55-MIchael Waltrip: Chassis 722 - Brian Vickers finished fifth at Bristol in this chassis while Mark Martin finished 21st in the All-Star race in Charlotte. Backup - 708 - has not raced in 2012.
#88-Dale Earnhardt, Jr.: Crew chief Steve Letarte will unload Hendrick Motorsports Chassis No. 88-668 for this weekend's Cup event at Kentucky. Earnhardt last raced this chassis to a sixth-place finish in the 600-mile event at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway. Earnhardt also won the Sprint Showdown in this car during the Sprint All-Star race weekend in May.
#99-Carl Edwards: RK-811 - Last outing: Charlotte in May - finished ninth; Texas in April - finished eighth
(from team PR's/sites if reported)(6-29-2012)
Goodyear Tires Notes / Fast Facts
Tire: Goodyear Eagle Speedway Radials
Number of Tires:
Sprint Cup: Left-side -- 1,550, Right-side -- 1,550;
Nationwide: Left-side -- 500, Right-side -- 500
Set limits:
Sprint Cup: 5 sets for practice/qualifying and 10 sets for race;
Nationwide: 6 sets for weekend
Tire Codes:
Left-side -- D-4396; Right-side -- D-4440
Tire Circumference:
Left-side -- 87.4 in. (2,220 mm);
Right-side -- 88.4 in. (2,246 mm)
Technical Inspection Inflation:
Left Front -- 30 psi; Left Rear -- 30 psi;
Right Front -- 48 psi; Right Rear -- 45 psi
Minimum Recommended Inflation:
Left Front -- 22 psi; Left Rear -- 20 psi;
Right Front -- 46 psi; Right Rear -- 42 psi
Notes: While teams in all three NASCAR series in action at Kentucky this week will run the same right-side tire code (D-4440), teams in both the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series will run a slightly different left-side code (D-4396) than those in the Camping World Truck Series . . . this is the same combination of left- and right-side tires that Sprint Cup and Nationwide teams ran at Kentucky last season . . . teams in these two series also ran this right-side tire at Dover earlier this month . . . as on all NASCAR ovals greater than one mile in length, teams are required to run inner liners in all four tire positions at Kentucky . . . air pressure in those inner liners should be 12-25 psi greater than that of the outer tire.
Race news
Special 'white' scheme for Johnson at Kentucky: Continuing this season's series of paint schemes honoring classic Chevrolets, Team Lowe's Racing and Jimmie Johnson will be sporting a white paint scheme with blue racing stripes this weekend. The #48 Lowe's "Ermine White" Chevrolet will run this Saturday in Kentucky for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Quaker State 400. Records indicate that "Ermine White" was used by General Motors on its Chevrolet vehicles from 1960 to 1968. It was available on every model of passenger car Chevrolets (Full-Size, Chevelle, Chevy II, Camaro, Corvette, and Corvair) built during those model years. In addition to Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, Oldsmobile and Pontiac also used this same color (PPG 8259) for various models during certain years in this era, only under different marketing names.(Lowe's Racing), see an image of the car on the #48 Team Schemes page.(6-26-2012)
Office Depot Copy & Print Depot on the #14: Tony Stewart will feature an Office Depot Copy & Print Depot logo along with the phrase "We Do Printing Same Day" on the rear panel of his #14 Office Depot/Mobil 1 Chevy during this weekend's race at Kentucky. NASCAR fans can rely on the fast service of Office Depot's Copy & Print Depot to help them save time seven days a week - including race day.(Edelman PR), see an image of the car on the #14 team paint schemes page.(6-27-2012)
www.jayski.com/cupnews.htm
