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>> TNT SPORTS IN ASSOCIATION
WITH NASCAR WELCOMES YOU TO
CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA, THE
NASCAR BUSCH SERIES RACING AT
THE LOWE'S MOTOR SPEEDWAY
PRESENTED BY OUTBACK
STEAKHOUSE.
33RD RACE OF THE SEASON FOR THE
NASCAR BUSCH SERIES.
TONIGHT KEVIN HARVICK WITH A
729-POINT LEAD IN THE
CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS CAN WRAP
UP HIS SECOND BUSCH SERIES
TITLE.
WE'LL SEE HOW IT UNFOLDS AND
LET'S TAKE YOU TRACKSIDE AND
JOIN TONIGHT'S PRERACE
CEREMONIES.
>> AND NOW, LADIES AND
GENTLEMEN, PLEASE RISE AND
REMOVE YOUR HATS AS THE
UNCC-ROTC HONOR GUARD PRESENTS
OUR NATION'S COLORS.
AND PLEASE REMAIN STANDING AS
FATHER DALE GRUBA FROM ST.
JOHN'S PARISH IN PRINCETON,
WISCONSIN, OFFERS TONIGHT'S
INVOCATION.
>> LET US PRAY.
PROMOTER WHEELER CLAIMS HIS JOB
IS NOT TO CURE CANCER BUT TO
PUT TECHNICOLOR IN LIVES LIVED
IN A BLACK-AND-WHITE WORLD, TO
LIFT PEOPLE FROM THE DRUDGERY
OF EVERYDAY LIFE.
OH, LORD, WE ASK YOU TO BE WITH
US THIS EVENING AS THE
TECHNICOLOR OF LIFE UNFOLDS
BEFORE OUR EYES.
AMEN.
>> NOW, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
PLEASE WELCOME NASHVILLE
RECORDING ARTIST DARRYL
SINGLETARY AS HE PERFORMS
TONIGHT'S NATIONAL ANTHEM.
>> ♪ OW SAY CAN YOU SEE
BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT.
WHAT SO PROUDLY
WE HAIL
AT THE TWILIGHT'S
LAST GLEAMING
WHOSE BROAD STRIPES
AND BRIGHT STARS
THROUGH THE PERILOUS FIGHT
OER THE RAMPARTS
WE WATCHED
WERE SO GALLANTLY STREAMING
AND THE ROCKETS
RED GLARE
THE BOMB'S BURSTING
IN AIR
GAVE PROOF
THROUGH THE NIGHT
THAT OUR FLAG
WAS STILL THERE
O, SAY DOES THAT
STAR SPANGLED
BANNER YET WAVE
O'ER THE LAND
OF THE FREE
AND THE HOME
OF THE BRAVE ♪♪
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
WALLY: FANS ARE BUNDLED UP AND
IT'S A COOL EVENING IN
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA AND
WE'RE READY TO GO BUSCH SERIES.
BILL WEBER ALONG WITH WALLY
DAHLEN BECK AND BILL BETTY.
43 DRIVERS GETTING READY TO GO.
20 OF THEM RACE TOMORROW NIGHT
AND SEVEN OF THOSE GUYS ARE THE
GUYS IN THE CHASE.
BIG ADVANTAGE?
>> I THINK IT IS.
>> THE GUYS IN THE BUSCH CARS
GOT TO PRACTICE AND WILL RUN
TONIGHT.
IT'S A BIT OF AN ADVANTAGE WHEN
YOU RACE AT A RACETRACK WHERE
THE TEMPERATURE MEANS SO MUCH.
>> SINCE THE RACING SURFACE WAS
CHANGED THERE'S BEEN QUESTION
MARKS AND CONCERNS AND A LITTLE
DIFFERENT TRACK AND HOW IS IT?
WALLY: IT HAS SIX OR SEVEN
MONTHS.
GOOD YEAR HAS COME WITH A
DIFFERENT LEFT-SIDE TIRE AND
THOSE IN THE RACE WILL HAVE THE
ADVANTAGE OF RUNNING THE TIRE
AND WHERE THE BEST IT DOES ARE
AND WILL BE BETTER WHEN THE
RACE STARTS.
THIS IS CHARLOTTE AND WILL RUN
AT THE WALL AND THE BOTTOM AND
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN
AND WILL BE CHARLOTTE NO MATTER
WHAT.
BILL: EVERYBODY CHASING KEVIN
HARVICK AND CAN CLINCH HIS
SECOND BUSCH SERIES
CHAMPIONSHIP TONIGHT.
WE'LL SEE HOW IT PLAYS OUT.
THE GREEN FLAG IS SCHEDULED FOR
8:17 EASTERN TIME, ABOUT 13
MINUTES FROM RIGHT NOW.
WE'LL COME BACK TO CHARLOTTE.
BILL: NASCAR RACING PRESENTED
BY OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE.
LET GO OF THE DAY AN SEE WHAT'S
ON THE GRILL AT OUTBACK
TONIGHT.
BILL: KEVIN HARVICK WON THE
BUSCH SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP IN
2001 DRIVING FOR CAR OWNER
RICHARD CHILDRESS AND WAS THE
SAME YEAR HE MADE HIS DEBUT
WITH THE NEXTEL CUP SERIES.
THIS YEAR HARVICK IS RACING FOR
TWO TITLES, IN THE NEXTEL CUP
SERIES HE'S CHASING HIS FIRST
CUP BUT IN THE BUSCH SERIES
HE'S AFTER HIS SECOND TITLE.
HE HAS DOMINATED THE SEASON
WITH SEVEN WINS AND CAN CLINCH
THE BUSCH CHAMPIONSHIP TONIGHT.
THE BUSCH SERIES IS HOME AT
CHARLOTTE AND KEVIN HARVICK
WANTS HIS CROWN NOW!
>> ♪ I WANT IT NOW ♪
BILL: KEVIN HARVICK WITH A
729-POINT LEAD OVER CARL
EDWARDS IF HE GAINS 32 POINTS
TONIGHT HE WILL CLINCH THE 2006
CHAMPIONSHIP.
LET'S GO TRACKSIDE AND GET THE
COMMAND.
>> AND NOW, LADIES AND
GENTLEMEN, PLEASE WELCOME YOUR
GRAND MARSHALL, HENRY FORESTER,
DISTRICT MANAGER FROM TRION,
GEORGIA, FOR THOSE MOST FAMOUS
WORDS IN MOTOR SPORTS.
>> GENTLEMEN, START YOUR
ENGINES!
BILL: 43 CARS ROARING TO LIFE
ON PIT ROAD AT LOWE'S MOTOR
SPEEDWAY, ONE OF THE MOST
POPULAR WEEKENDS OF 9 RACING
SEASON ABOUT TO GET UNDERWAY.
300 MILES FOR THE BUSCH SERIES
TONIGHT AND THE BANK OF AMERICA
500 TOMORROW NIGHT.
WE'LL HAVE THE STARGIN GRID
BILL: A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN NORTH
CAROLINA AND A COOL, CRISP
EVENING AND THE FANS READY FOR
THE EXCITEMENT OF THE NASCAR
BUSCH SERIES AS THEY HEAT UP
THE NIGHT.
TAKE A LOOK AT THE CHAMPIONSHIP
STANDINGS.
WE TALKED ABOUT THEM A FEW
MINUTES AGO.
THERE YOU SEE THE COMMANDING
LEAD.
KEVIN HARVICK HAS BEEN
DOMINATING THROUGHOUT THE
SEASON AND CAN CLINCH THE
CHAMPIONSHIP TONIGHT EVEN
THOUGH FOUR RACES REMAIN IN
2006.
WE'LL SEE HOW IT ALL PLAYS OUT.
HERE'S THE STARTING LINEUP
TONIGHT.
FOR THE NASCAR BUSCH SERIES.
CARL EDWARDS ON THE POLE NEXT
TO MATT KENSETH, ONE OF THE
GUYS IN THE NEXTEL CUP CHASE
FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP, J.J.
YELEY AND MIKE SKINNER AND
CASEY MEARS AND PAUL MYNARD.
WALLY: JIMMIE JOHNSON AND KEVIN
HARVICK.
BILL: LOOKING AT THE REST OF
THE STARTING LINEUP, THE CARS
SITTING ON PIT ROAD AND SEE IF
WALLY CAN'T GO TO WORK ON THE
RADIO.
WALLY: KEVIN HARVICK, THIS IS
WALLY IN THE STUDIO.
YOU MUST BE NERVOUS WITH THE
GUYS BREATHING DOWN YOUR NECK
FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.
WHAT'S YOUR PLAN TONIGHT?
>> THE BIGGEST THING IS DOING
WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING ALL YEAR
AND RUN IN THE TOP AND PUT
YOURSELF IN A POSITION AND RUN
THE CAR THROUGH THE RACE.
BUT THE PEOPLE HERE TONIGHT, I
THINK THERE'S A LITTLE ADDED
PRESSURE BUT IT SHOULD BE A LOT
OF FUN.
WALLY: THIS HAS TO HELP YOU
TONIGHT ON THE BUSCH RACE
TONIGHT.
>> I DEFINITELY DON'T THINK IT
HURTS ANYTHING.
YOU GET USED TO THE LIGHT BUT
WHAT KIND OF CHANGES THE TRACK
GOES THROUGH.
SO IT DEFINITELY DOESN'T HURT
ANYTHING AND WHY WE LIKE DOING
IT.
WALLY: GOOD LUCK.
HAVE FUN TONIGHT.
>> THANK YOU, WALLY.
BILL: KEVIN HARVICK ON THE
VERGE OF CLINCHING HIS SECOND
BUSCH SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP AND
DEFINITELY WILL GET IT.
IT'S JUST A MATTER OF WHEN BUT
IT COULD HAPPEN TONIGHT.
THE CARS JUST NOW MOVING ON TO
THE RACETRACK AND A LITTLE
EXTRA TIME TO WARM-UP HERE IN
CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA
TONIGHT, A LOT OF STORIES TO BE
FOLLOWING THROUGHOUT THIS
300-MILE RACE AND GO TO PIT
ROAD AND GET SOME OF THEM
STARTING WITH DAVE BURNS.
DAVE: YOU HEARD KEVIN USE THE
WORD "PRESSURE" AND HE SPOKE
ABOUT NERVES.
WAS HE SERIOUS?
HE DOES HAVE A SPONSOR AT THE
TRACK THIS WEEKEND AND HIS CREW
DOESN'T ALWAYS HAVE THE BOSS
DRIVING THE CAR SO THERE'S
NERVES WITH THEM AND THE
PRESSURE OF CLINCHING THE
CHAMPIONSHIP.
TOGETHER THEY HOPE THEY CAN DO
THAT BECAUSE IT WOULD BE A
RELIEF.
KEVIN IS TRYING TO WIN TWO
CHAMPIONSHIPS AND IT'S NEVER
BEEN DONE IN THE SAME YEAR SO
TONIGHT IF THEY CAN CLINCH THE
CHAMPIONSHIP, RELIEVED, THEY
MOVE ON TO WORRY ABOUT THE
NEXTEL CUP.
MARTY SNIDER?
MARTY: CLINT BOWYER HOPES TO
KEEP THE MOMENTUM GOING.
HE ADMITTED TO ME CHARLOTTE IS
NOT MY BEST RACETRACK AND I
KNOW TOMORROW I HAVE A CAR THAT
CAN WIN THE RACE IN THE NEXTEL
CUP SERIES.
SO TONIGHT I MUST LEARN SOME
LESSONS ABOUT THIS RACETRACK
BECAUSE I HAVEN'T YET BEEN ABLE
TO FIGURE THIS PLACE OUT.
IF I CAN LEARN SOMETHING
TONIGHT IT WILL HELP ME
TOMORROW NIGHT AND HELP THE
PROGRAM OVER THERE.
MATT YOCUM?
MATT: MATT KENSETH IS ONE OF
SEVEN DRIVERS ALSO RACING FOR
REDEMPTION.
REMEMBER IN THE SPRING HE
DOMINATED AND LED THE MOST LAPS
BUT A MECHANICAL FAILURE ENDED
HIS CHANCE FOR A THIRD LOWE'S
MOTOR SPEEDWAY VICTORY.
HE'S ALSO TRYING TO DWAYNE
INFORMATION TONIGHT ABOUT --
GAIN INFORMATION ABOUT TOMORROW
NIGHT'S RACE AND THE TRACK
CONDITIONS WILL MIRROR WHAT
WE'LL SEE TOMORROW NIGHT AND
HOPING WITH THE NEW TIRE ON THE
LEFT SIDE TO SEE WHAT IT WILL
DO AND ALSO HOW THE PACE WILL
BE AFFECTED BY THE COLDER
TEMPERATURES.
HE STARTS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE
FRONT ROW.
ALLEN BESTWICK?
ALLEN: THE LAST TIME THE NASCAR
BUSCH SERIES RACED IN
CHARLOTTE, CARL EDWARDS DROVE
TO VICTORY LANE AND TONIGHT
WILL BE THE FIRST DRIVER SINCE
1996 TO SWEEP A SERIES BUSCH
RACE AND MARK MARTIN WAS THE
DRIVER THAT DID THAT 10 YEARS
AGO.
THE KEY TO WINNING, CARL TOLD
ME A MINUTE AGO, BEAT THE 17.
I THINKS HIS ROUSH RACING
TEAMMATE MATT KENSETH HAS THE
BEST CAR TONIGHT.
CARL SAID I'LL HAVE TO OUTRUN
MATT IF I'M TAKING THAT
CHECKERED FLAG TONIGHT.
BILL: THANKS, ALLEN.
YOU HAVE A GREAT RACE DOWN
THERE TONIGHT.
ONE THING TO POINT OUT, THE
NEXTEL CUP SERIES HERE AT
CHARLOTTE, THEY RUN A SMALLER
FUEL CELL BUT THAT'S NOT THE
CASE FOR THE BUSCH SERIES
TONIGHT.
THEY USE THE NORMAL FUEL CELL
SO YOU DEFINITELY WANT TO BE
GOOD ON THE LONG RUN IF IT'S
NOT BROKEN UP BY CAUTIONS.
TOMORROW NIGHT THERE WILL BE A
LOT OF STOPS.
WITH THAT SMALLER FUEL CELL.
TAKE A LOOK AT THE RACE
ANALYSIS HERE AT THE LOWE'S
MOTOR SPEEDWAY.
200 LAPS,.
BILL: SEE THE SECOND HALF OF
THE FIELD CATCHING UP TO THE
PACE CAR.
SOME OF THE GUYS GETTING READY
TO GO.
50 DEGREES RIGHT NOW.
TRACK TEMPERATURE IS 66
DEGREES.
IT WAS IN THE 30'S HERE IN THE
CHARLOTTE AREA THIS MORNING.
SEEN THE FORECAST FOR TOMORROW,
AND IT'S JUST FANTASTIC.
AND THIS PLACE WILL HAVE A LOT
OF PEOPLE, ABOUT 150,000 FANS
WILL BE HERE.
TOMORROW NIGHT.
EXPECT THE FIELD TO GET THE GO
SIGNAL HERE.
LIGHTS ON THE PACE CAR GO OUT
AND WE'LL GO GREEN NEXT TIME
BY.
IT COULD BE A BIG NIGHT TO
KEVIN HARVICK AND HE'D LIKE TO
PUT THAT BEHIND HIM.
IT'S BIZARRE, AS DAVE WAS
TALKING ABOUT, HE'S NOT IN THE
21 CAR AND ACTUALLY DRIVING FOR
HIS OWN TEAM TONIGHT.
WALLY: YES, HOW IT HAPPENED TO
WORK OUT BUT YEAH, WHENEVER --
YOU KNOW, EVEN IF YOU HAVE A
700-POINT LEAD STILL IN THE
BACK OF YOUR MIND YOU THINK, I
STILL CAN LOSE THIS THING.
AS A DRIVER, THERE'S NEVER
ENOUGH POINT LEAD.
YOU WANT TO GET THIS THING DONE
AND ONCE IT'S DONE, IT WILL AN
LOT MORE FUN.
KYLE: DRIVERS ARE NOT THE MOST
OPTIMISTIC PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
AND YOU'RE PESSIMISTIC AND IF
ANYTHING WILL HAPPEN IT WILL
HAPPEN TO ME AND ON THE NEXT
LAP.
THAT'S THE WAY IT IS.
PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY IT'S THE LAST
LAP AND YOU'RE HEARING EVERY
NOISE THAT CAR IS MAKING ON THE
LAST LAP.
BUT IT WOULD BE NICE FOR KEVIN
TO CLINCH IT IN HIS CAR WITH
HIS TEAM TONIGHT, ALTHOUGH TO
CELEBRATE THE CHAMPIONSHIP
THERE WILL BE 800 PEOPLE IN
VICTORY LANE THIS YEAR.
BILL: THE BUSCH SERIES IS A
DEVELOPMENTAL SERIES SO THERE
IS SOME INEXPERIENCE IN THE
FIELD TONIGHT COMING TO GET THE
GREEN, YOU HAVE TO BE A LITTLE
EXTRA CAUTIOUS HEADING INTO
ONE?
KYLE: YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO,
CAUTIOUS HEADING INTO ONE BUT
THE ONE GOOD THING ABOUT
TONIGHT, THESE GUYS HAVE
ALREADY PRACTICED UNDER THESE
CONDITIONS AT NIGHT, 9:30 AND
10:00.
THEY KNOW WHAT THE RACETRACK
AND GRIP IS AND IT'S NOT
SOMETHING UNKNOWN TO THEM.
TOMORROW WE'LL JUST BARREL OFF
IN THE FIRST CORNER AT 8:30
WITH A TON OF GRIP BUT AT THE
SAME TIME THESE GUYS ALREADY
KNOW IT.
TO GET TO THIS LEVEL AND THIS
TYPE OF RACING, THESE GUYS HAVE
GOOD HEADS ON THEIR SHOULDERS
AND THEY'LL BE CALM THE FIRST
LAP OR TWO, NOW WATCH SOMETHING
HAPPEN.
WALLY: YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID
THAT.
BILL: CARL EDWARDS ON THE POLE
AND NEXT TO HIS TEAMMATE MATT
KENSETH, 200 LAPS, 300 MILES
FOR THE NASCAR BUSCH SERIES.
GLAD YOU'RE ALONG FOR THE RIDE
ON TNT.
WALLY: MATT KENSETH HAD HIS
HANDS FULL AND YOU CAN SEE THE
CAR WIGGLE BIGTIME.
HE SAVED IT AND HAD GUYS SPLIT
HIM ON BOTH SIDES BUT GATHERED
IT BACK UP AND GOT SOMEBODY IN
THE WALL ALREADY.
KASEY KAHNE, GREG BIFFLE.
SO IT TOOK LESS THAN A LAP FOR
THEM TO GET THREE-WIDE.
AND NOW OUR FIRST CAUTION JUST
AFTER THE FIRST LAP.
BILL: WATCH THEM HEAD INTO ONE.
WALLY: LOOKS LIKE KASEY KAHNE
MAY HAVE GOTTEN HELP GOING INTO
TURN ONE THERE.
HE HAD RUDEMAN ALL OVER THE
BACK OF THE CAR.
YOU SEE BIFFLE RIGHT THERE IS
SLOWING DOWN AND DOESN'T KNOW
WHICH WAY TO GO.
KYLE: YOU HATE IT WHEN THAT
HAPPENS.
AND AT FIRST GLANCE IT LOOKED
LIKE IT WAS BODY DAMAGE TO
BIFFLE'S CAR BUT I THINK IT GOT
IN THE REAR END AND KNOCKED IT
A LITTLE TO THE LEFT.
WALLY: I'M NOT SURE IF RUDEMAN
GOT INTO HIM AFTER ALL IN THAT
SHOT.
BILL: THIS IS ONBOARD WITH TONY
STEWART.
C1MING UP AHEAD OF HIM.
COMING UP AHEAD OF HIM.
WALLY: HE GOT INTO IT A LITTLE
BIT.
KYLE: YOU CAN TELL BY THE
TIRES.
AS HE TURNED INTO HIM IT OKAYED
THE CAR TO THE RIGHT AND IT
BLEW SMOKE AND THE CAR WHIPPED
AROUND.
HE BARELY TOUCHED HIM AND IF
ANYTHING KASEY MIGHT HAVE COME
UP ON HIM.
BILL: FIRST CAUTION ON LAP 2
HERE AT THE LOWE'S MOTOR
SPEEDWAY.
BILL: STILL UNDER CAUTION HERE
AT THE LOWE'S MOTOR SPEEDWAY
WITH ONE LAP OF GREEN IN AT THE
START.
THEN OUR FIRST CAUTION, GREG
BIFFLE WAS IN IT, KASEY KAHNE
WAS ALSO A VICTIM.
GO BACK AND TAKE ANOTHER LOOK.
ONBOARD WITH STEWART AGAIN.
WALLY: YOU TAKE A LOOK AND YOU
SEE KASEY KAHNE UP THERE AND
HE'LL GO UP THE TRACK A LITTLE
BIT AND RUDEMAN JUST CATCHES
HIM RIGHT IN THE BUMPER AND
HOOKS HIM TO THE RIGHT A LITTLE
BIT.
KYLE: YOU'RE RUNNING SO CLOSE
HERE, SO FAST, IT JUST TAKES A
LITTLE BIT OF A TOUCH AND
YOU'RE WRECKING.
MARTY?
MARTY: A LOT OF DAMAGE TO GREG
BIFFLE WHERE THERE'S NO MORE A
16 ON THE RIGHT SIDE.
HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT THE
QUARTER PANEL AND HE SAID WE
CAN'T RUN AROUND HERE WITHOUT
THAT AND ARE TRYING TO PREPARE
THREE PIECES OF SHEET METAL ON
THE RIGHT SIDE.
GREG HAS SHUT THE CAR DOWN AND
OBVIOUSLY GONE DOWN A LAP.
MATT?
MATT: THE DODGE CARS ARE
WORKING ON THE NINE CAR.
KASEY, YOU SAW THE REPLAY, YOUR
THOUGHTS?
>> IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.
I WAS JUST GETTING GOING, JUST
GETTING GOING.
I WAS DRIVING INTO THE CORNER
AND WAS HIT FROM THE BACK.
I FEEL BAD FOR WHISK AND THEY
PUT TOGETHER A NICE CAR AND I
THINK WE HAD A SHOT AT HAVING A
GREAT RACE AND DAVID RUDEMAN
FINISHED THAT FOR US.
I CAN'T BELIEVE HE'S GOING TO
THE CUP NEXT YEAR TO BE HONEST
WITH YOU.
MATT: THEY HAVE A LOT TO DO TO
GET THE NINE CAR BACK ON THE
RACETRACK AND A LOT OF DAMAGE
ON ALL FOUR CORNERS.
BILL: 29TH CAREER START FOR
DAVID RUDEMAN, WAS ANNOUNCED
THIS WEEK HE WILL GO TO NASCAR
NEXTEL CUP RACING NEXT SEASON
AND KASEY KAHNE IS IN THE CHASE
FOR THE NEXTEL CUP BUT WON'T
LEARN ANYTHING TONIGHT EXCEPT
HE DOESN'T WANT TO BE IN FRONT
OF RUDEMAN.
>>
WALLY: HE NEVER GOT ANY HEAT IN
THE TIRES.
KYLE: HE'S RIGHT.
KASEY AND HIS TEAM WAS LOOKING
FORWARD TO A GREAT NIGHT
BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN WICKED FAST
IN PRACTICE ON NUMEROUS
OCCASIONS DOING WHAT HE ALWAYS
DOES, RIDING ON THE TOP OF THE
RACETRACK.
BILL: WE'LL TRY IT AGAIN.
CARL EDWARDS WILL BRING THE
FIELD TO THE GREEN FLAG.
WALLY: IN A SITUATION LIKE
THAT, KYLE, REALLY, IF YOU'VE
GOT A GUY COMING UP, EVEN IF
HE'S COMING IN FRONT OF YOU,
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CRACK THE
THROTTLE A LITTLE BIT TO AVOID
THAT.
KYLE: YOU KNOW HOW IT IS, LIVE
AND LEARN.
AT ONE POINT IN TIME WE'VE ALL
PUT OURSELFS IN THAT POSITION.
I'M NOT SURE I WANT TO BE IN
THE POSITION OF THE OUTSIDE OF
THE 42.
THAT WAS A GOOD RESTART.
BILL: IT WAS A GOOD RESTART.
KEVIN HARVICK IN THE 33 CAR.
GOT RUN OFF OF TWO AND TAKE
THAT SPOT.
KYLE: KEVIN HARVICK HAD A
RESTART LIKE HE WAS 670 POINTS
BEHIND.
WALLY: YOU KNOW, KYLE, WATCHING
IN PRACTICE AND FINAL PRACTICE
FOR YOU GUYS AND STUFF, THESE
CARS LOOK LIKE THEY'RE IN THE
RACETRACK AND YET THEY'RE SO
RIGID THAT IT JUST TAKES A
LITTLE BUMP OR JUST TAKES --
DOESN'T TAKE ANYTHING FOR THAT
CAR TO GET SIDEWAYS.
SAW A LOT OF GUYS CATCHING IT.
KYLE: THE RACETRACK HAD SO MUCH
GRIP AND THE CARS ARE RIGID
JUST LIKE YOU SAY AND WHEN YOU
GO IN THE TIRE IS ABSORBING
EVERYTHING AND IF THE TIRE
GRIPS MORE THAN YOU ANTICIPATE
OR A LITTLE LESS, IF THE CAR
TAKES OFF, IT'S JUST A RIGID
PLATFORM THAT SLIDES UP THE
RACETRACK.
WALLY: IT USED TO BE THE CORNER
OF THE CAR WOULD SLIDE UP THE
RACETRACK AND YOU'D HAVE A LANE
OR TWO TO CATCH IT AND DOESN'T
HAVE THAT MUCH IT SEEMS.
ONCE IT GOES, IT'S THERE.
KYLE: YOU DON'T HAVE THE LANE
TO CATCH IT AND YOU DON'T HAVE
THE BODY ROLL, AND USED TO HAVE
WHAT EVERYBODY REFERRED TO AS
SIDE BITE.
JUST GIVE ME A LITTLE MORE SIDE
BITE AND I CAN GET IT OFF THE
CORNER AND WE DON'T HAVE SIDE
BITE ANYMORE AND IT'S A
STRAIGHT PLATFORM.
BILL: KEVIN HARVICK IS ON THE
MOVE TRYING TO ROPE IN MYNARD,
MARTY?
MARTY: THIS IS A CAR THEY
COMPLETELY REBUILT WITH A NEW
BODY ON IT.
THE BEST WIND TUNNEL NUMBERS
THEY'VE SEEN FOR A BUSH SEARS
CAR OUT OF D.E.I.
I THINK TONIGHT IT WILL BE
BETTER THAN IN PRACTICE
YESTERDAY.
DAVE?
DAVE: KEVIN HARVICK TRYING TO
KEEP HIS CREW LOOSE DURING THE
CAUTION FLAG AND ALL HE HAD TO
SAY WAS, I'M COLD.
OF COURSE THE SPONGS FROM THE
PIT BOX WAS -- OF COURSE THE
RESPONSE FROM THE PIT BOX WAS,
NO SYMPATHY HERE, BOSS.
BILL: CERTAINLY A CHILLY NIGHT
IN NORTH CAROLINA.
HARVICK ON THE MOVE, UP TO
THIRD.
YOU HAVE MENARD IN FRONT AND
THEN CARL EDWARDS, THE RACE
LEADER.
J.J. YELEY RUNS FOURTH AND THE
18 CAR, CASEY MEARS BEHIND HIM
AND MATT KENSETH AND JIMMIE
JOHNSON, MIKE SKINNER, JEFF
BURTON AND KYLE BUSCH YOUR TOP
10.
WALLY: GOT A PRETTY GOOD PACK
RIGHT HERE, THESE GUYS RACING
PRETTY HARD, BACK AROUND THE
18, 19 SPOT BUT THESE GUYS ARE
GOING AT IT PRETTY HARD.
>> BOYER IS IN THERE AND DAVE
BLANEY, THE 32 CAR.
KYLE: THIS IS THAT TIME IN THE
RACE SOME OF THESE CARS ARE
PROBABLY REALLY GOOD RACE CARS
BUT EVERYBODY HAS GRIP,
EVERYBODY IS ABLE TO GO TO THE
GAS HARD NOW AND CAN'T GET
AROUND EACH OTHER AND HAVE TO
WAIT 15, MAYBE 20 LAPS FOR THE
GUYS THAT ARE REALLY HANDLING A
LITTLE BIT OFF TO BE ABLE TO
WORK IT AROUND.
YOU HAVE BOBBY LABONTE AND DAVE
BLANEY AND EXPERIENCED GUYS WHO
CAN WORK THEIR WAY THROUGH THIS
AND EVENTUALLY WILL BUT IT'S A
HEADACHE TO TRY TO COME FROM
25TH ON THE FIRST 10 OR 15
PASSES.
BILL: THERE'S TROUBLE THERE
W-88 INTO THE WALL, CAUTION
NUMBER TWO.
>> SPINNING OUT THERE.
YOU'RE ALL CLEAR.
>> THE DEBRIS ON MY REPORT.
BILL: OUR SECOND CAUTION OF THE
RACE.
SHANE HUFFMAN.
WALLY: GOT TO GIVE THE NOD TO
WALLY DALLENBACH.
GREAT CAMERA WORK ON THAT ONE.
BILL: LOOKS LIKE HE GOT A
LITTLE HIGH AND THE CAR GOT
AWAY FROM HIM.
IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH FOR THE
CARS TO JUMP SIDEWAYS.
KYLE: IN CUP PRACTICE WE HAD
THREE OR FOUR GUYS WHERE IT
GETS AWAY FROM YOU ON THE
NEXTEL SIGN, SAME PLACE IT'S
BEEN.
IT'S STILL THE SAME OLD
CHARLOTTE NO MATTER HOW YOU
LOOK AT IT.
3W0 --
BILL: SECOND CAUTION OF THE
RACE.
CARL EDWARDS IS THE RACE
LEADER.
YOU'RE WATCHING THE NASCAR
BUSCH SERIES ON TNT.
BILL: IF YOU'RE NOT WATCHING
THE RACE ON A SONY HIGH
DEFINITION TV, WHAT ARE YOU
WATCHING?
STILL UNDER CAUTION HERE AT THE
LOWE'S MOTOR SPEEDWAY AFTER
SHANE HOFFMAN SPUN AND HIT THE
WALL.
LET'S GET A REPORT FROM PIT
ROAD WITH ALLEN BESTWICK.
ALLEN: THE RACE LEADER IS
HAPPY, BUT IT'S STILL EARLY IN
THE RACE.
CARL EDWARDS TALKING WITH HIS
CREW BEFORE THE RACE STARTED
ABOUT MAKING SURE HE DIDN'T RUN
THE CAR TOO HSTARTED
ABOUT MAKING SURE HE DIDN'T RUN
THE CAR TOO HARD, NOT WANTING
TO USE IT UP.
HE CAME UNDER THE RADIO UNDER
THIS CAUTION REPORTING TO HIS
CREW CHIEF AND HE DESCRIBED THE
CAR'S HANDLING AND SAID, BUT I
CAN GO FAST IF I HAVE TO.
I GUESS HE'S HOLDING SOMETHING
A LITTLE BIT BACK.
DAVE?
DAVE: YOU SEE THE IRONY IN
KEVIN HARVICK CLINCHING THE
CHAMPIONSHIP IN HIS OWN RACE
CAR TONIGHT?
AFTER RUNNING RICHARD CHILDRESS
ALL YEAR LONG, THAT'S WHAT TOOK
HIM TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP IN THE
21 CAR AND HE ADMITTED WITH A
LITTLE MIXED EMOTIONS, THIS IS
KEVIN'S CAR AND HE DID THE HARD
WORK AND THE RICHARD CHILDRESS
GUYS DID THE HARD WORK TO GET
THE CHAMPIONSHIP IN THE 21 CAR
AND HE SAID I HOPE WE CLINCH IT
TONIGHT ESPECIALLY BECAUSE
DOLLAR GENERAL IS ON THE CAR
BUT AT THE SAME TIME I KIND OF
WISH I WAS IN THE 21 SO HE'S
BACK AND FORTH ON THAT.
WALLY: AND THIS WAS SCHEDULED
LONG IN ADVANCE FOR DOLLAR
GENERAL TO GET THEM THIS RACE
AS A SPONSORSHIP AND WAS THE
BEST MOVE THEY THOUGHT
MARKETINGWISE SO THIS WAS
ALWAYS IN THE PLAN AND THEY
COULDN'T CHANGE IT AND WAS
ALWAYS IN THE PLAN AND THEY
COULDN'T CHANGE IT AND WAS
CONTRACTUAL.
BILL: SOME MARKETING GUY WILL
LOOK LIKE A GENIUS.
DAVE: ABSOLUTELY.
BILL: CAR 33, KEVIN HARVICK
NEEDS TO FINISH 32 POINTS IN
FRONT OF CARL EDWARDS.
WATCH THIS LAST RESTART, WATCH
THE 33 CAR, INSIDE CASEY MEARS.
WALLY: YOU LOVE TO SEE THAT
WHEN YOU'RE IN THAT 33
POSITION.
I MEAN, IT'S LIKE, YOU CATCH A
GUY SLEEPING JUST A LITTLE BIT
AND HE'LL LEAVE THAT ROOM.
KYLE: NORMALLY YOU DON'T SEE
THAT TOO MUCH.
IN THE NEXTEL CUP RACE EVERYONE
HAS THE RIGHT DOOR SCRAPING THE
WALL COMING TO GET THE GREEN.
NORMALLY YOU DON'T SEE THE MOVE
HARVICK JUST MADE BUT IF YOU'RE
700 OR 800 POINTS AHEAD, WHAT
THE HEY, GO AHEAD AND MAKE THE
MOVE.
LET'S TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
IT MAY WORK FOR ME TOMORROW
NIGHT.
BILL: MATT?
MATT: WHILE KEVIN HARVICK IS
TRYING TO CLINCH THE
CHAMPIONSHIP, THE 21 TEAM
TRYING TO CLINCH THE CAR
OWNER'S PORTION OF THE
CHAMPIONSHIP.
THEY'RE ON THEIR THIRD NASCAR
BUSCH SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP AND
BURTON SAYS THE CAR IS VERY
GOOD, A LITTLE FREEON EXIT BUT
THE CAR IS TIGHT AT THE EARLY
PORTION OF THE CORNER BUT HE
SAYS OVERALL, THE CAR IS VERY
GOOD AND EXACTLY WHAT THEY
EXPECTED FROM PRACTICE LAST
NIGHT.
BILL: THANKS, MATT.
SEE IF THE 42 GETS UP ON THE
WALL ON THE RESTART.
LOOK AT THEM.
WALLY: THE QUESTION IS, IS
MENARD GOING TO BLOCK UP HIGH
THERE AS WELL?
KYLE: YOU BETTER BE CAREFUL,
THAT 33 IS LOOKING.
TAKING THEM DOWN ON THE LOW
SIDE.
BILL: HARVICK TO SECOND.
UNDER MENARD.
BILL: PRETTY MUCH SINGLE FILE
RIGHT NOW.
GIVE THEM A COUPLE LAPS, GET
THE HEAT IN THE TIRES.
THE 33 IS ON A MISSION.
BILL: YEAH.
KYLE: I'D LIKE TO SEE KARL GO
FAST.
WALLY: YOU HAVE TO NOW.
KYLE: THERE'S EGOS PLAYING HERE
RIGHT NOW.
HE'S GOING TO GO AS HARD AS HE
CAN GO.
BILL: SEVEN WINS FOR KEVIN
HARVICK THIS SEASON.
WIN NUMBER EIGHT TONIGHT.
WALLY: TROUBLE, 48.
BILL: JIMMIE JOHNSON HAS BEEN
IN THE WALL.
WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF VETERANS
HAVE PROBLEMS.
>> OK, BUDDY.
WALLY: THAT'S 3/4 OF THE FIELD,
ISN'T IT?
BILL: YES, SIR, IT IS.
WALLY: YOU HAVE TO BRING UP THE
POINT THAT TONY STEWART HAD A
WICKED CRASH IN THE BUSCH RACE
IN MAY.
BILL: HE HIT A TON HERE IN THE
SPRINGTIME.
KYLE: THAT'S A HARD HIT RIGHT
THERE.
IT DOESN'T LOOK AS BAD ON THE
SIDE OF THE CAR.
I'M NOT SURE THAT CAR DIDN'T
TAKE OFF LIKE IT DID EARLIER.
IT TOOK OFF AND HE RAN UP THE
RACETRACK AND RAN OUT OF
ASPHALT.
BILL: THIS IS ONBOARD WITH
CLINT BOWYER.
>> YOU'RE SMOKING IN THE FRONT.
KEEP COMING, TRACK IS CLEAR,
STAY HIGH.
BILL: TONY STEWART.
>> WATCH HIM, HE'S IN THE
GRASS.
COME BACK ACROSS.
WALLY: THAT'S A GOOD EXAMPLE OF
HOW MUCH TRASH REALLY GETS
THROWN UP ON THE RACETRACK.
SOMETIMES I KNOW SITTING THERE
WATCHING A RACE AND EVEN AS A
DRIVER THEY SAY THEY THROW A
DEBRIS CAUTION AND YOU LOOK
AROUND ON THE RACETRACK AND YOU
DON'T SEE ANYTHING BUT THAT'S A
LOT OF TRACK.
BILL: AND ALL THAT IS ON
SOMEBODY'S GRILL, SOMEBODY HAS
LL HAVE OF GRASS AND DIRT ON
OVERHEATING PROBLEMS.
WALLY: GOOD POINT.
BILL: JIMMIE JOHNSON DOWN PIT
ROAD.
WALLY: HE'LL TRY TO MAKE A LEFT
HAND TURN TO THE NASCAR BUSCH
SERIES GARAGE.
YOU KNOW JIMMIE WANTED TO RUN
WELL.
HE WON FIVE OF THE LAST SEVEN
NEXTEL CUP RACES AT THIS TRACK.
WE HAVE 14 CAUTIONS IN THIS
RACE A YEAR AGO AND WE'VE HAD
THREE ALREADY, 21 LAPS ARE
COMPLETE.
AND HARVICK HAS REALLY MADE HIS
MOVES ON THE RESTART.
SO WHEN WE GO BACK TO GREEN
WE'LL SEE IF HE CAN WRESTLE THE
LEAD AWAY FROM CARL EDWARDS.
BILL: UNDER CAUTION HERE AT THE
LOWE'S MOTOR SPEEDWAY, CARL
EDWARDS, ONE OF THE BRIGHT
YOUNG STARS OF NASCAR.
BILL: ENTER THE B.K. RACE TO
THE GLORY FANTASY GAME AND WIN
A TRIP FOR TWO TO THE ATLANTA
RACE NEXT SPRING.
THE GAME IS FREE TO PLAY, GO TO
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WALLY: STILL UNDER CAUTION HERE
AT THE LOWE'S MOTOR SPEEDWAY,
23 LAPS COMPLETE.
THIS IS WHY WE'RE UNDER
CAUTION.
KYLE: LIKE WALLY SAID, YOU SEE
THE CAR, IT WILLFULED AND HE
CHASES IT UP -- WIFFLED AND HE
CHASES IT UP THE TRACK.
IT'S A SOLID HIT BECAUSE IT
HITS EXACTLY SCARE ON THE SIDE.
BILL: WALLY, THIS IS WHAT YOU
WERE TALKING ABOUT.
WALLY: THAT IS JUST AMAZING.
CAN'T BELIEVE HE FOUND HIS PIT.
AND THEY'LL CLEAN THAT GRILLE
OFF.
BILL: THIS IS ONBOARD WITH TONY
STEWART.
WALLY: TONY DOESN'T MIND.
IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE.
MATT'S WITH JIMMIE JOHNSON.
MATT: WHAT HAPPENED?
>> WHEN I WAS COMING THROUGH
TURN FOUR I GOT A LITTLE LOOSE
AND BY THE TIME I GOT CONTROL
OF THE CAR I WAS GOING TO THE
OUTSIDE WALL AND POUNDED IT.
TOO BAD.
I FEEL BAD FOR THESE GUYS WHO
WORKED HARD TO GIVE ME A GREAT
RACE CAR AND FELT LIKE WE'D
HAVE SOMETHING TO RUN UP FRONT
TONIGHT AND GOT AWAY FROM ME
AND BY THE TIME I GATHERED IT
AND HAD IT UNDER CONTROL I RAN
OUT OF REAL ESTATE.
MATT: THE WHOLE RIGHT SIDE OF
THE CAR IS PANCAKED AND HE'S
DONE.
BILL: THANKS, MATT.
STILL UNDER CAUTION.
A LOT OF CLEANUP HERE AFTER
JIMMIE JOHNSON MOWED SOME OF
THE GRASS AT THE LOWE'S MOTOR
SPEEDWAY.
GREG BIFFLE DO IT?
CONGRATULATIONS TO GREG BIFFLE ON A TERRIFIC 2005 SEASON.
HERE'S TO AN EVEN BETTER 2006.
SUBWAY. DRIVE HARD. EAT FRESH.
>> WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP HEAT
DEFEND THEIR TITLE AGAINST THE
BULLS.
WATCH NBA ON TNT.
BULLS-HEAT.
THE TRUTH CAN BE TOLD ONLY ON
TNT.
BILL: FIELD, HALF A LAP FROM
GETTING THE GREEN FLAG AFTER
THIS LENGTHY CAUTION PERIOD.
JIMMIE JOHNSON HITTING THE
WALL.
CARL EDWARDS IS THE RACE
LEADER, THEN KEVIN HARVICK,
PAUL MENARD, J.J. YELEY AND
CASEY MEARS.
THE TOP FIVE.
SO WE SHOULD LOOK FOR THOSE
CARS TO HAVE THIS ALMOST SNAP
OUT FROM UNDERNEATH.
KYLE: ABSOLUTELY.
YOU'RE GOING SO FAST HERE, LIKE
I SAID, THESE CARS ARE SO STIFF
THAT WHEN THEY GO, IT'S HARD TO
CATCH THEM BECAUSE THEY JUST
SKATE UP THE RACETRACK SO FAST
AND HIT THE WALL.
USED TO BE YOU HAD A LANE OR
TWO TO CATCH IT, YOU HAD SOME
TIME BUT IT'S NOT LIKE THAT
ANYMORE.
BILL: HARVICK RUNNING SECOND
AND IS MAKING SOME NICE MOVES
ON THE RESTART.
SEE IF HE CAN GET EDWARDS HERE.
WALLY: THOUGHT ABOUT IT.
BILL: KYLE BUSCH IN THE FIVE
CAR ABOUT FIVE OR SIX CARS
BEHIND THE LEADER.
WALLY: JEFF BURTON DOWN TAKING
A LOOK.
BILL: KENSETH IN THE 17, BURTON
IN THE 21.
THAT'S FOR SIXTH.
WALLY: TAKE THAT SPOT.
BILL: KYLE BUSCH HAS GOTTEN
AROUND BOTH THOSE GUYS.
KYLE BUSCH IN THE FIVE, CASEY
MEARS IN THE 42.
HARVICK CONTINUES TO TRY AND
HUNT DOWN CARL EDWARDS FOR THE
RACE LEAD.
SINGLE FILE BACK TO THE FIRST
10.
KYLE: THERE HE GOES, 42 SLIDES
JUST A LITTLE BIT.
THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR
WHEN YOU'RE FOLLOWING THE GUYS
DOWN IN THE CORNERS, YOU'RE
JUST LOOKING FOR HIM TO BOBBLE
OR SLIP A LITTLE BIT AND HE'LL
MOVE UP A LANE.
WHEN HE MOVES UP THE LANE, YOU
TAKE IT.
KYLE: HE TOOK IT.
THAT ENTIRE PATH WAS MADE IN
THE CENTER OF THE CORNER, WHEN
THE 42 SLIPPED IN THE CENTER,
IT LOOKED LIKE THE FIVE DROVE
PAST HIM COMING OFF THE CORNER
BUT THE FIVE WENT TO THE BACK
AND HUGGED THE LINE AND JUST
TOOK IT AWAY FROM HIM.
BILL: KENSETH EASILY AROUND
JEFF BURTON THERE.
KYLE: THAT'S STRANGE BECAUSE ON
THE LAST RESTART BURTON HAD A
REALLY GOOD START AND FORCED
THE FIVE TO THE HIGH SIDE AND
THE FIVE WENT AROUND THOSE GUYS
AND BURTON GOT CAUGHT BEHIND
HIM AND FINALLY GOT AROUND THE
17.
MATT'S FOUND A LITTLE BIT OF A
GROOVE HERE ALL OF A SUDDEN AND
DRIVEN AROUND THE 21 CAR.
BILL: EDWARDS LEADS.
LET'S TAKE YOU THROUGH THE
FIELD.
MATT: CARL CAME ON THE RADIO
AND TOLD HIS TEAM, I HAD THE
SPEED TO KEEP THINGS COVERED.
DAVE: KEVIN HARVICK HAS TURNED
OFF THE AIR CONDITIONER AND
SAYS HE'S WARMING UP A BIT IN
THE CAR.
HIS CHIEF WALLY ROGERS TOLD ME
BEFORE THE RACE HE LIKES IT
WHEN KEVIN DRIVES THE CAR HE
BREAKS IT DOWN MORE BECAUSE
HE'S LOOKING AT THE LONG RUN
FOR HIS TEAMMATE.
WALLY: COMING UP WITH THE 21,
DAVE, WHICH IS WAY OFF THE
RACE.
>> SOMETHING BROKE ON THE
CARBURETOR.
BILL: MATT?
MATT: SOMETHING AMISS IN THE
MOTOR DEPARTMENT.
HE SAYS, SOMETHING HAS BROKEN
WITH THE CARBURETOR.
YOU SEE THE 21 CAR DOWN TRYING
TO NURSE HIS WAY BACK TO PIT
ROAD.
SOLID TOP 10 RUN GHOGE.
-- GOING.
THIS TEAM COULD HAVE CLINCHED
THE CAR OWNERSHIP WIN TONIGHT.
THE TEAM WAITING FOR THE CAR TO
RACE TO PIT ROAD TO LOOK UNDER
THE HOOD.
>> I'M NOT MAKING IT BACK.
BILL: HE'S ONLY MIDWAY THROUGH
THE BACKSTRETCH NOW.
>> I'M ON THE TURN ON THE BACK
SIDE HERE.
>> WHERE?
KYLE: EASIER SAID THAN DONE.
TURN IN RIGHT HERE OR TURN IN
RIGHT THERE.
YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO GET BACK
TO PIT ROAD.
>> WHERE DO YOU WANT ME TO TURN
IN?
BILL: NORMALLY HARVICK WOULD BE
IN THAT CAR.
KYLE: IT'S YOUR YEAR, MAN.
BILL: THIS CAR OWNED BY RICHARD
CHILDRESS AND COULD HAVE
CLINCHED THE OWNER'S
CHAMPIONSHIP TONIGHT.
WALLY: WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A
CAUTION HERE IN A FEW SECONDS.
>> GOING YELLOW.
BILL: PIT ROAD WILL GET BUSY.
KYLE: A HANDFUL OF GUYS HAVE
BEEN ON AND OFF UNDER THE FIRST
THREE CAUTIONS BUT I IMAGINE
THE LEADERS WILL COME DOWN NOW.
35 LAPS IN.
14-35 LAPS HAVE BEEN RUN UNDER
THE YELLOW FLAG.
THERE'S THE CAR DRIVEN BY JEFF
BURTON.
SO HE'LL GET A PUSH BACK TO THE
PITS.
WALLY: SOME GUYS COMING IN TOO
EARLY TO PIT.
THE LANE IS NOT OPEN.
THAT WAS DAVE BLANEY IN THE ONE
CAR AND LOOKS LIKE JAY SAUTER
IN THE 01 AND HE MUST HAVE SOME
OTHER PROBLEMS.
BILL: BLANEY'S GUYS ARE MAKING
WHAT LOOKS LIKE A REGULAR PIT
STOP.
WALLY: THAT'S UNUSUAL.
BILL: HEARING THE 32 HAD A FLAT
AND THAT'S WHY BLANEY CAME DOWN
PIT ROAD.
THERE IS NO LUCKY DOG UNDER
THIS CAUTION FLAG AND IT WOULD
HAVE BEEN JEFF BURTON BUT SINCE
HE BROUGHT OUT THE CAUTION,
HE'S NOT ELIGIBLE.
AND PIT ROAD IS STILL CLOSED.
THE FLAG AND THE LIGHT.
CARL EDWARDS LEADS KEVIN
HARVICK.
BILL: CARL EDWARDS WILL BE
HAPPY TO HEAR THAT.
THESE CARS QUALIFY HERE THIS
AFTERNOON, WAS AN IMPOUND RACE.
QUALIFYING BEGAN A LITTLE AFTER
5:00.
THE FIELD WAS SET.
RACING ABOUT 8:17 TONIGHT.
REALLY HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET
UP TO SPEED, WORKING OUR FOURTH
CAUTION PERIOD OF THE DAY.
CAN THE CHAMPIONSHIP BE WON
TONIGHT?
WALLY: PIT LANE IS NOW OPEN SO
I'M SURE WE'LL SEE A BUNCH OF
THESE GUYS COMING IN.
SOME WILL TAKE TWO, SOME WILL
TAKE FOUR.
DAVE: KEVIN HARVICK WILL GIVE
UP ALL THAT TRACK POSITION FOR
AN ADJUSTMENT ON HIS RACE CAR.
A LITTLE TIGHT.
WON'T TURN THE WAY HE WANTS IT
TO.
AIR OUT OF THE RIGHT FRONT
TIRE.
MARTY?
MARTY: SOME TEAMS MAY TAKE TWO
BUT PAUL MENARD WILL TAKE ON
FOUR, HALF A POUND IN THE RIGHT
REAR TIRE AND A LITTLE TOO
LOOSE AT THE START OF THE RUN
FOR PAUL.
MATT?
MATT: FUEL ONLY FOR THE 17 OF
MATT KENSETH AND THEY'RE TRYING
TO POP IT UP OUT OF THE PIT BOX
AND HE'S AWAY?
ALLEN: IT WILL AN FOUR-TIRE
CHANGE FOR CARL EDWARDS WITH AN
AIR ADJUSTMENT OF THE TIRES ON
THE CAR.
MATT KENSETH HAS GONE FROM PIT
ROAD AND MAY BE BEHIND A COUPLE
OTHER CARS AS WELL.
BILL: A LOT OF TRAFFIC GETTING
OFF OF PIT ROAD.
AND SOME GUYS PITTED EARLIER IN
THE RACE STAYED OUT.
WE'LL SORT OUT THE RUNNING
ORDER WHEN WE COME
BILL: THE FIELD HAS JUST GOTTEN
THE GREEN.
BACK TO RACING.
MATT KENSETH DID NOT TAKE TIRES
IN THE 17.
WALLY: JOHN ANDRETTI, THE
ROOKIE, LOOKED LIKE HE HAD
TROUBLE IN ONE.
HE SLOWED WAY UP.
BILL: JASON LEFFLER IN THE 38,
REAGAN SMITH IN THE 35.
THOSE TWO CARS PITTED ON LAP
22.
WALLY: WOW, LOOK AT THIS BACK.
THEY'RE THREE WIDE COMING OFF
FOUR THERE.
MADE A LITTLE CONTACT.
I THINK KYLE BUSCH MADE CONTACT
WITH SOMEBODY IN THE FIVE CAR.
BILL: JEFF BURTON WHO BROUGHT
OUT THE CAUTION HAS RETURNED TO
THE TRACK.
J.J. YELEY IN THE 18 WAS HAVING
A FUEL STARVATION PROBLEM.
BOWYER IN THE TWO CAR, ONE OF
THE TEAMS THAT TOOK JUST TWO
CARS.
-- THAT TOOK JUST TWO TIRES.
AN UPDATE ON THE CHAMPIONSHIP
LEADER FROM DAVE.
DAVE: WHERE DID HE GO, BILL?
THAT WAS NOT A GOOD PIT STOP,
KEVIN HARVICK TOLD HIS TEAM.
THEY DID ADMIT THE LEFT REAR,
THEY HAD TROUBLE WITH A LUG NUT
POPPING OFF.
KEVIN SAID NO EXCUSES BUT THEY
DID HAVE TROUBLE ON THE LEFT
REAR.
MARTY?
MARTY: HELLO, I'M HERE,
LISTENING TO J.J. YELEY TALKING
TO HIS TEAM ABOUT WHAT IS GOING
ON.
NO FUEL PRESSURE WHEN THEY CAME
TO PIT ROAD.
THEY WERE RUNNING IN FOURTH
POSITION AND THEY'VE DIAGNOSED
IT.
IT'S A FUEL PUMP ISSUE AND WILL
HAVE TO REPLACE THE FUEL PUMP
ON THE 18 CAR.
WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF FUEL PUMP
PROBLEMS.
THEY WERE RUNNING IN THE TOP
FIVE WHEN THE PROBLEM HAPPENED.
BILL: I BET JEFF GORDON WHICH
HAPPENED IN THE NEXTEL CUP
SERIES A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.
WALLY: I'M JUST AMAZED KENSETH
DIDN'T TAKE TIRES.
KYLE: I'M AMAZED HE DIDN'T TAKE
TIRES AND HE'S RUNNING AS WELL
AS HE'S RUNNING BECAUSE HE'S
OUTRUN THESE GUYS THAT TOOK TWO
OR FOUR.
IF YOU REMEMBER RIGHT BEFORE
THE CAUTION CAME OUT HE BEGUN
TO FIND A LITTLE BIT OF A
GROOVE AND BEGUN TO PASS A FEW
PEOPLE.
4.
EARLIER IN THE RACE HE
STRUGGLED TO FIND GRIP.
BILL: HE GETS AROUND SAUTER FOR
POSITION.
THERE'S CARL EDWARDS WHO WAS
THE RACE LEADER WHEN THE
CAUTION CAME OUT.
MATT YOCUM?
MATT: THE 21 CAR, THE TEAM
CHANGED THE CARBURETOR AND
SOMETHING WAS BROKEN AND THEY
SWAPPED IT OUT.
HE'S LOST FIVE LAPS AND K.P.
YOU WERE INQUIRING ABOUT THE 17
OF KENSETH AND HE SAID HE GOT
OUT OF SHAPE FROM THE GIT-GO
BUT HIS ISSUES CENTER AROUND
THE ENTRY INTO TURN THREE BUT
DIDN'T TAKE TIRES BECAUSE HE
FELT LIKE THE CAR WOULD BE MUCH
BETTER ON A LONGER RUN AND JUST
TOPPED IT OFF WITH FUEL.
BILL: THANKS, MATT.
CARL EDWARDS TRYING TO WORK HIS
WAY BACK TO THE FRONT.
ALLEN?
ALLEN: WATCHING THE LEADER AND
CARL EDWARDS FELL BACK BECAUSE
THEY TOOK FOUR TIRES ON THEIR
STOP AS WE HAVE A CHALLENGE UP
FRONT FOR THE LEAD, A GUY WHO
DIDN'T TAKE ANY TIRES IS
RUNNING WELL.
BILL: FINISH UP YOUR STARE ON
KARL.
ALLEN: GAVE UP TRACK POSITION
AND TOLD HIS TEAM IT'S OK,
WE'VE GOT A GOOD ENOUGH CAR AND
WE'LL GET TO THE FRONT AND I'LL
JUST TAKE CARE OF IT.
WALLY: HE CAN BE FAST WHEN HE
WANTS TO.
KYLE: CARL CAN BE FAST WHEN HE
WANTS TO BUT THAT 17 CUT
THROUGH TRAFFIC RIGHT THERE AND
CARL IS STRUGGLING TO GET
THROUGH TRAFFIC.
MATT AND THOSE GUYS MADE A
GREAT CALL BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY HE
KNEW WHAT HIS CAR WAS CAPABLE
OF AND KNEW WHAT THE RACETRACK
WAS AND HE FELT LIKE HEY, 25 O
30 LAPS, PART OF THEM UNDER
CAUTION, NO BIG DEAL.
BILL: KEVIN HARVICK HAS WORKED
HIS WAY UP TO 16.
AFTER THAT LENGTHY PIT STOP.
LOOKING BACK AT CARL EDWARDS.
THIS IS FOR THIRD.
A SIGHTING OF REGAN SMITH.
WALLY: SOME OF THESE GUYS WILL
SEE A LOT OF CARS COMING IN
THEIR MIRROR, THE GUYS THAT
TOOK TWO TIRES OR FOUR.
KYLE: THE THING LIKE YOU SEE IN
A LOT OF PLACES, TRACK POSITION
IS SO CRITICAL.
YOU SEE THESE GUYS THAT STARTED
UP, THEY'RE ABLE TO CUT THROUGH
TRAFFIC PRETTY QUICK ON GOOD
TIRES OR WHETHER THEY TOOK
TIRES OR NOT BUT IF YOU GET
BACK IN THE PACK, IT'S KIND OF
LIKE THE 33 CAR IS RIGHT NOW,
HE'LL STRUGGLE TO GET BACK UP
THERE.
BILL: DAVE, ARE THERE MORE
ISSUES FOR THE 33?
DAVE: HE'LL STRUGGLE.
HE REPORTED IT TWO LAPS AGO AND
BEEN DIAGNOSING IT FROM THE
SCENE AND BELIEVES IT'S THE
RIGHT FRONT TIRE AND IS STAYING
OUT FOR THE MOMENT BUT DREW IS
UP ON THE WALL READY FOR HIM.
BILL: KEVIN HARVICK THE LEADER.
KYLE: IF KEVIN HAS A FLAT TIRE
HE NEEDS TO COME IN AND GET IT
CHANGED BECAUSE THE ONE THING,
EVERYBODY ELSE IS FOUR OR FIVE
LAPS IN LINE AND HE'S IN LINE
FOR THE LUCKY DOG.
WE'LL HAVE CAUTIONS.
IF HE GOES ONE OR TWO LAPS DOWN
HE'LL STILL BE THE LUCKY DOG
THE NEXT COUPLE OF CAUTIONS SO
HE'S NOT PUTTING HIMSELF IN A
BAD POSITION THIS EARLY TO GO A
LAP DOWN.
WALLY: GOOD POINT.
THAT'S EASY FOR YOU TO SAY WHEN
YOU'RE UP HERE.
WOULD YOU SAY THE SAME THING
WHEN YOU'RE DOWN THERE?
KYLE: NO.
BILL: I'M NOT SURE HE KNOW WHAT
IS DIAL JUST SAID.
YOU DON'T KNOW IF THE GUYS OUT
THERE NOW ARE THREE OR FOUR
LAPS DOWN AND SOMEBODY LIKE THE
CREW CHIEF HAS TO MAKE THAT
CALL AND LOOK AT THE BOARD AND
SAY HEY, LET'S GO AHEAD AND
CHANGE IT.
KYLE: YOU KNOW, AT A PLACE LIKE
THIS, ESPECIALLY WITH THESE
BUSCH CARS, THEY CARRY SO MUCH
SPEED THROUGH THE ENTRY OF THE
CORNER, THROUGH THE CENTER OF
THE CORNER.
WHEN YOU THINK YOU'VE GOT
SOMETHING GOING DOWN, IT'S
ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN
SORRY BECAUSE WE SAW WHAT
HAPPENED TO TONY LAST YEAR AND
YOU'VE SEEP WHAT HAPPENED TO
THE 48 CAR HERE.
REMEMBER, HE'S CHASING THIS
CHAMPIONSHIP BUT HE'S ALSO
CHASING THE NEXTEL CUP
CHAMPIONSHIP.
BILL: HOW ABOUT IT, DAVE?
DAVE: KEVIN HAS GONE QUIET ON
THE RADIO AND THE REPORT FROM
THE SPOTTER'S STAND ISES IT
LOOKS LIKE IT'S ALL THE WAY UP.
THE SPOTTERS CAN SEE WITH THE
BINOCULARS IF YOU GOT THE WAG.
KYLE: I TRUST MY BUTT.
IF I THINK I HAVE A FLAT, I'M
GOING TO SCREAM.
I KNOW IT'S HARD TO SEE BUT
WHEN YOU SEE THE 33 COME DOWN
THE BACKSTRETCH AND RUN IN A
STRAIGHT LINE, A COUPLE OF
CAMERA ANGLES WE HAVE YOU CAN
SEE THE TIRE IS UP BECAUSE IT'S
GOT EXAM A IN IT AND THE TIRE
IS UP OFF THE RACETRACK WHICH
MEANS THE TIRE IS INFLATED.
MAYBE IT'S A PRESSURE DEAL, NOT
ENOUGH PRESSURE AT THE GIT-GO
AND MAYBE WILL ADJUST TO GO UP
A POUND OR SO TO GIVE KEVIN A
BETTER FEEL ON NEW TIRES NEXT
TIME.
BILL: HOW ABOUT IT, DAVE?
DAVE: THEY DID TAKE DOWN THE
AIR PRESSURE ON THE RIGHT FRONT
AND IS THE AT JUSTMENT KEVIN
WANTED FOR HELP HIS CAR TURN
BETTER.
KYLE: YOU CALL IT FROM THE SEAT
YOU HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT.
WE MAKE BAD CALLS AND GOOD
CALLS FROM THE SEAT.
ONE THING ABOUT THE RACETRACK
AND THESE TIRES, THERE'S SO
MUCH GRIP ON THE RACETRACK.
IN PAST WEEKS WE TALKED ABOUT
NO GRIP BUT THERE'S SO MUCH ON
THIS RACETRACK AND THESE TIRES.
IF YOU'RE DOWN ON AIR PRESSURE
AND YOU'RE GOING TO LET IT CUT
THE CAR AND IT'S GOT SO MUCH
GRIP IT TURNS OUT FROM UNDER
YOU BECAUSE THE TIRE ACTUALLY
TURNS LEFT A LOT FASTER THAN
YOU WANT IT TO AND WHEN THAT
HAPPENS YOU FEEL LIKE IT'S
GOING DOWN.
BILL: IS THIS CAR LOOSE RIGHT
NOW?
DAVE: HE'S NOT REPORTED THAT
AND HAS BEEN SILENT ON THE
RADIO SINCE HIS SPOTTER ASSURED
HIM IT LOOKED OK.
BUT AGAIN HE ASKED THE AIR
PRESSURE TO BE TAKEN DOWN AND
THAT WAS THE ADJUSTMENT HE
WANTED.
DAVE: IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE HE'S
AFRAID TO TURN THE STEERING
WHEEL THAT'S TURNING TOO GOOD.
YOU GO IN THE CORNER AND SEE
THE CAR GO UP THE RACETRACK BUT
HE'S NOT TUGGING ON THE WHEEL
SO IT'S ALMOST LIKE IT'S
TURNING TOO GOOD.
WALLY: EXACTLY.
LAST NIGHT IN QUALIFYING WE'D
BEEN REALLY GOOD IN PRACTICE.
THIS IS A KYLE PETTY STORY,
SORRY, BUT WITH THE GRIP AND
RACETRACK AND THE WAY IT WAS
WHEN I TURNED IN THE CORNER
INSTEAD OF CHATTERING THE RIGHT
FRONT IT TURNED OUT FROM UNDER
ME AND I NEVER EXPERIENCED THAT
AND MAYBE THAT'S WHAT KEVIN IS
EXPERIENCING.
WE'RE IN THE BOOTH AND NOT IN
THE CAR AND I'M NOT
SECOND-GUESSING ANYBODY BUT
MAYBE LIKE WALLY SAID HE'S
GOING UP THE RACETRACK LIKE
HE'S AFRAID TO HAMMER IT IN THE
CORNER.
BILL: YOUR JOB UP HERE IS TO
SECOND-GUESS, BUDDY.
KYLE: THANK YOU.
BILL: MATT KENSETH LEADS CARL
EDWARDS BY .7.
56 LAPS ARE COMPLETE IN THE
DOLLAR GENERAL.
BILL: TNT SPORTS LIVE AT THE
LOWE'S MOTOR SPEEDWAY IN
CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA.
MATT KENSETH IS THE RACE LEADER
BY ABOUT A SECOND AND A HALF
NOW OVER CARL EDWARDS.
THERE ARE 34 CARS NOW ON THE
LEAD LAP.
LET'S TAKE YOU THROUGH THE
FIELD STARTINGING WITH MATT.
MATT: OUT FRONT AND THE
COMPETITION IS MATT KENSETH BY
ALMOST TWO SECONDS.
NOW, THE TEAM TOOK THIS RACE
CAR FROM THE LOWE'S MOTOR
SPEEDWAY AND THEY LOST AN
ENGINE AND PARKED IT IN THE
BACK OF THE SHOP AND BROUGHT IT
HERE AND WAS SO GOOD THEY
WANTED TO SEE IF IT COULD
COMPLETE THE DEAL.
RIGHT NOW HE'S OUT FRONT.
B.P.?
BILL: RIGHT NOW TRYING TO DEAL
WITH TRAFFIC AND HE SAID THE
AIR PRESSURE HE CALLED FOR ON
THE LAST PIT STOP WASN'T RIGHT
THE THING.
WALLY: KEVIN HARVICK TAKING NO
CHANCES.
BILL: IT'S FLAT.
WALLY: YOU SEE THAT WITHOUT
BINOCULARS.
BILL: YES.
WALLY: WE HAVE A ZOOM A CAME
LENS.
THEY'RE TAKING OFF FOUR AND
GETTING THIS DONE NOW, IT'S NOT
SAFE AS KYLE PETTY WAS
THINKING.
BILL: HE MAY NOT BE THE LUCKY
DOG TAKING THE EXTRA TWO.
KYLE: NOW THEY ARE STRUGGLING
WITH THIS PIT CREW.
BILL: CAN'T GET THE LUG NUT ON
THERE.
SO KEVIN HARVICK HEADS BACK OUT
AND WE'LL SEE WHERE HE FALLS IN
ON THE SCORING CHART.
THERE'S MATT KENSETH THE RACE
LEADER.
SOME WACKY STUFF ON FRIDAY THE
13TH.
CONTINUE GOING THROUGH THE
FIELD.
WE'LL KEEP AN EYE ON THE 33
CAR.
MATT?
MATT: CATCHING UP ON THE FIVE
OF KYLE BUSCH RUNNING IN THE
THIRD POSITION.
HIS LAP TIME ABOUT .10 OF A
SECOND FEASTER THAN THE LEADER.
NO CHANGES ON THE CAR THE LAST
TIME THROUGH PIT ROAD.
HE ASKED HIS TEAM TO LOOK AT
THE RIGHT FRONT FENDER WITH
CONTACT ON THE OTHER CAR AND
THEY TOLD HIM NO ISSUES.
GOOD TO GO.
DAVE: HE WAS GETTING GOOD
REPORTS FROM HIS CHIEF.
AND THE CAR WAS TIGHT ON THE
CORNER.
THEY PITTED ON THE CAUTION IN
JIMMIE JOHNSON'S TRACK AND
DECIDED TO STAY OUT.
HE TOOK ON FUEL ONLY.
THOSE TIRES HAVE A FEW LAPS ON
THEM.
MARTY: THANKS TO A FUEL ONLY
STOP LAST TIME DOWN PIT ROAD,
HE'S CURRENTLY IN THE SIXTH
POSITION.
IN NINTH IN MAY.
HE IS NOW TOO TIGHT YOU A CAN'T
FIND THE MIDDLE GROUND.
MATT: THE DOUBLE ZERO OF SAUTER
HAD SOME RADIO PROBLEMS BUT ARE
OK.
THE CAR WAS LOOSE ON EXIT AND
SNUG IN THE POSITION AND TRYING
TO KEEP THE 10TH POSITION.
THE 35 OF REGAN SMITH, QUIET ON
THE RADIO AS WE MOVE ON BACK.
HIS CAR SAYS IT'S TIGHT IN THE
MIDDLE.
THEY MADE A TRACK BARRED A
JUSTMENT ON THE LAST STOP AND
ALL QUIET ON THE RADIO SINCE
HIS STOP.
MARTY?
MARTY: IT'S CLINT BOWYER IN THE
TWO CAR.
HE SAID MAN THIS THING WILL NOT
TURN FOR ANYTHING.
WAY TOO TIGHT FOR CLINT BOWYER.
DAVE?
DAVE: TONIGHT REED SORENSON IS
STARTING IN THE BACK OF THE
FIELD BECAUSE HIS CAR GOT OUT
OF SHAPE IN QUALIFYING AND
THEY'VE BEEN MOVING UP FROM THE
PACK AND THE LAST REPORT FROM
THE PIT STOP, ABOUT A THREE ON
THE RIGHT SIDE AND THEY CHANGED
TWO RIGHT-SIDE TIRES AND
CHANGED THE WEDGE.
MARTY: WHEN THEY CAME TO PIT
ROAD LAST TIME PAUL MENARD WAS
RUNNING THIRD AND IS NOW IN
11TH.
HE SAID THESE STICKER TIRES ARE
JUNK AND NO GRIP OUT HERE.
IT TAKES A LONG TIME FOR THAT
CAR TO COME IN.
ONCE IT DOES HE'S PRETTY GOOD
BUT HE'S LOST A LOT OF TRACK
POSITION WAITING FOR THE CAR TO
COME TO HIM.
ALLEN: HERE'S THE STRETCH
THROUGH THE FIELD BECAUSE I
HAVE FOUR IN A ROW.
TONY STEWART TONY STEWART
DRIVING THE EIGHT WAR AND --
EIGHT CAR AND NO CHANGES ON THE
PIT STOP AND SAYS HIS CAR IS
LACKING GRIP ON THE ENTRY OF
THE CORNER AND JUST LOST HIS
1TH POSITION AS JAMIE MCMURRAY
WENT BY HIM.
REMEMBER THE JIMMIE JOHNSON
CAR, SOMETHING ON THE GRILLE OF
THE CAR AND GOT IT CLEANED OFF
ON THE PIT STOP.
SCOTT WOODARD BIT IT BACK AT --
PITTED BACK ON LAP 22 WHEN
POMONA STAYED OUT BUT MOST
PITTED OFF 27.
AND HE STARTED 33RD.
THE 20 CAR OF DENNY HAMLIN, HE
ALSO GOT HIS WINDSHIELD AND
WHEEL COVERED FROM THE DEBRIS
IN THE JIMMIE JOHNSON CRASH AND
PITTED ON LAP 22 AND TOOK FUEL
ONLY ON LAP 37 TO REGAIN SOME
OF THEIR LOST TRACK POSITION.
BILL: NICELY DONE, ALLEN.
ALLEN: THANK YOU, SIR.
BILL: KEVIN HARVICK HAS
CURRENTLY SCORED 35TH IN THE
RUNNING ORDER, TWO LAPS DOWN
AND A LONG WAY BACK IN THE RACE
FOR THE LUCKY DOG.
BILL: NASCAR BUSCH SERIES
RACING LIVE FROM THE LOWE'S
MOTOR SPEEDWAY PRESENTED BY
OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE.
BROUGHT TO YOU BY MILLER LITE.
MILLER LITE WANTS YOU TO GET
INSIDE RACING, GET INTO IT WITH
A BETTER BEER AND SEE WHERE THE
GREAT TASTE OF MILLER LITE
TAKES YOU.
BY STAR MOTORCYCLES FROM
YAMAHA.
WE BUILD IT, YOU MAKE IT YOUR
OWN.
AND BY BANQUET.
BILL: MATT KENSETH IS THE RACE
LEADER.
THAT'S THE RACE FOR THIRD.
WALLY: THAT'S A CLOSE RACE FOR
THIRD.
BILL: CASEY MEARS --
WALLY: TOOK IT FROM KYLE BUSCH.
BILL: KENSETH LEADS CARL
EDWARDS BY 1.7 SECONDS.
JUST GETTING BACK TO THE
HARVICK SITUATION, WHAT HE
NEEDS IS FOR THIS TO STAY GREEN
FOR A LONG TIME.
AND TO ACTUALLY CYCLE THROUGH
SO EV ISN'T STUCK
UNDER THE GREEN LIKE HE DID.
WALLY: EVERYBODY WILL BE TWO
LAPS DOWN.
AND A LOT OF GUYS ARE AHEAD OF
HIM ONLY ONE OR MORE.
WHAT IS HE SAYING, DAVID?
DAVE: YOU GUYS TALKED ABOUT
THIS BEING FRIDAY THE 13TH.
THERE'S SOMETHING SPOOKY GOING
ON.
KEVIN BELIEVES THERE'S
SOMETHING RUBBING THE RIGHT
FRONT TIRE AND KYLE THIS IS
WHAT YOUR BUTT TELLS YOU VERSUS
WHAT YOUR CREW TELLS YOU AND
THEY TELL KEVIN NOTHING IS
RUBBING AND LOOKING FOR SMOKE
AS AN INDICATION SOMETHING IS
RUBBING AND THEY'RE TELLING HIM
NOTHING IS RUBBING BUT KEVIN
DRIVES ON AND THINKS SOMETHING
IS AMISS IN THE RIGHT FRONT OF
THE RACE CAR.
BILL: YOUR BUTT IS NEVER WRONG.
WALLY: IT WAS NOT WRONG FOR
KEVIN HARVICK.
I DON'T CARE WHO WAS LOOKING
THROUGH THE BINOCULARS.
YOU FEEL THE CAR THROUGH YOUR
HANDS AND THROUGH THE SEAT.
YOU TOTALLY FEEL THE CAR WITH
YOUR BODY AND YOU CAN TELL WHEN
THE CAR CHANGES ATTITUDES OR
SOMETHING GOES A LITTLE BIT
DIFFERENT.
KEVIN THINKS IT'S RUBBING.
YOU KNOW, HE MAY BE IN A
POSITION WHERE IT WENT FROM A
LITTLE BIT -- IT WENT FROM
REALLY, REALLY GOOD TO A LITTLE
BIT LOOSE OR PUSHY HE THOUGHT
THE TIRE WAS GOING DOWN AND MAY
HAVE THE RIGHT FRONT SPRING
COLLAPSING.
THE WAY THEY RUN, ONCE THEY GET
DOWN AND DON'T START
RECOVERING, THEY CHANGE THEIR
RIDE HEIGHTS AND WHEN IT
CHANGES RIDE HEIGHTS IT CHANGES
THE WAY THE CAR DRIVES.
BILL: DOUBLE ZERO, JOHNNY
SAUTER.
HE'S IN THE SIXTH SPOT AND
BEHIND HIM, JASON LEFFLER.
WALLY: ANDRETTI IS A LAP DOWN.
SAUTER COMPLETED THE PASS.
UPDATE ON CAR 38, DAVE?
DAVE: PRETTY GOOD RACE CAR FOR
JASON LEFFLER.
RIGHT NOW HE'S COMPLAINING THE
TIRE IS A LITTLE TIGHT GOING
INTO THE CORNERS.
HE GETS A WEDGE ADJUSTMENT ON
THE NEXT STOP BUT HOW ABOUT A
SET OF FRESH TIRES?
HE HASN'T TAKEN ANY AND WILL
NEED SOME THE NEXT STOP.
WALLY: SURPRISED KENSETH IS
RUNNING LIKE THAT WITHOUT
TAKING TIRES.
KYLE: YOU EXPECT KENSETH TO RUN
GOOD HERE LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT
HOW GOOD HE IS.
BUT SAUTER AND LEFFLER, YOU
LOOK AT THOSE GUYS, THEY DIDN'T
TAKE TIRES EITHER AND STAYED
OUT AND BEEN ABLE TO MAINTAIN
FIFTH, SIXTH, SEVENTH POSITION
AND AREN'T THAT FAR BACK.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF
LAPS THEY'VE RUN THEY ONLY LOST
SIX OR SEVEN SECONDS AND THAT'S
NOT BAD.
HANGING IN THERE.
BILL: LOOKING INTO 17 NOW FOR
SMOKE.
WALLY: LOOK AT THERE.
KYLE: 21 IS SMOKING, TOO.
I'M TELLING YOU SOMETHING, IT'S
NOT LIKE IT USED TO BE.
IT USED TO BE YOU'D BE RUNNING
AND YOU SEE SMOKE AND EVERYONE
CHECKS UP BUT NOW THEY RUN WITH
THESE THINGS AND THERE'S TIRE
RUB ON EVERY LAP ON SOMEONE'S
CAR, YOU PICK UP SMOKE AND
CATCH IT OUT OF THE CORNER OF
YOUR EYE.
THERE'S A LOT OF TIRES SMOKING
AND A LOT OF THINGS THAT GOES
ON, WHETHER THAT'S TIRE OR
WHATEVER IT IS.
BILL: CASEY MEARS ON PIT ROAD.
DAVE?
DAVE: HOW ABOUT A WINDOW OF
OPPORTUNITY?
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN BRAD PARROT
WITH THE FUEL MILEAGE?
THEY'RE COMING AGAIN EARLY TO
TAKE ON FOUR TIRES AND FILL
FUEL OF FUEL.
I HAVEN'T DONE THE MATH BUT
THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE
42 CAR AND IN FACT IS VERY
FAST.
WALLY: DO THE MATH, DAVE
BECAUSE WE'RE ALL LOST UP HERE.
BILL: WE'LL SEE HOW THAT PLAYS
OUT.
KYLE: I KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING
BUT KIND OF EARLY TO BE DOING
THAT, ISN'T IT?
WALLY: IT'S WAY EARLY IN A RACE
KNOWN FOR CAUTIONS AND WHEN
THINGS HAPPEN TO BE PLAYING THE
FUEL MILEAGE CAR THIS EARLY BUT
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WAY
KENSETH HAS RUN ON LOW TIRES
IT'S NOT A BAD CALL IF YOU
THINK IT'S GOING TO GO THAT
WAY.
BILL: MATT KENSETH IS THE RACE
LEADER, 86 LAPS COMPLETE NOW IN
THE DOLLAR YEN 300.
BILL: WE'VE BEEN GREEN SINCE
LAP 41.
92 LAPS ARE COMPLETE.
MATT KENSETH IS THE RACE
LEADER.
OUR ENERGIZER LAP LEADERS.
KENSETH HAS LED FOR 47, ABOUT
TO MAKE IT 48.
CARL EDWARDS STARTED FROM THE
POLE AND JASON LEFFLER USED PIT
STRATEGY TO GET IN FRONT.
THERE'S MATT, THE 17 CAR.
WALLY: IF YOU PAN RIGHT JUST A
LITTLE BIT, THERE'S CARL
EDWARDS IN THE 60 CAR.
BILL: HOW DID YOU DO THAT?
WALLY: I'M ONE WITH THE TRUCK.
BILL: OK.
WALLY: SOMETIMES.
BILL: ALLEN?
ALLEN: JUST A LITTLE UPDATE ON
CARL EDWARDS.
HE CAME ON THE RADIO AND TOLD
HIS TEAM HE THOUGHT HE HAD A
TIRE GOING FLAT SO THEY JUMPED
UP ON THE WALL AND SAID NO,
MAYBE NOT, IT'S NOT THAT BAD.
BUT HE SAID THERE'S JUST
SOMETHING WEIRD GOING ON IN THE
STEERING OF THIS CAR LIKE IT'S
CLIMBING UP.
HE HAD A GOOD LONG PAUSE AND
THEN SAID, I DON'T KNOW, JUST
WEIRD.
SOUNDS LIKE FRIDAY THE 13TH
THERE.
WALLY: "WEIRD" IS NEVER GOOD.
ALLEN: NOT AT 285 MILES PER
HOUR.
WALLY: THAT'S YOUR EXCUSE,
WEBER?
KYLE: THE OTHER THING HAPPENING
HERE IS REMEMBER THIS IS A
BRAND-NEW LEFT-SIDE TIRE AND
THE FIRST TIME ANYBODY HAS PUT
-- CRASH.
WALLY: THEY WERE RUN SOG GOOD.
REED SORENSON WAS IN FIFTH
POSITION.
THOSE GUYS WERE HAVING A REALLY
GOOD RUN.
BILL: NINTH IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP
STANDINGS.
WALLY: LOOK AT THE ROTOR
BOUNCING ACROSS THE RACETRACK.
KYLE: DON'T WANT TO HIT THAT.
LOTS OF SPARKS.
BILL: OUR FIFTH CAUTION AND
THIS HURTS THE GUYS THAT
STOPPED UNDER THE GREEN.
WALLY: LOOK AT THAT.
NOTHING YOU CAN DO WHEN THAT
HAPPENS BUT HANG ON AND GRIT
YOUR TEETH.
KYLE: THAT IS A HARD HIT.
THAT'S A BAD ANGLE.
THAT'S JUST A HARD HIT.
BILL: MIKE SKINNER WILL BE THE
LUCKY DOG AND COME AROUND AND
BE JUST THE 17TH CAR ON THE
LEAD LAP AND WE'RE NOT QUITE TO
HALFWAY.
WALLY: MATT WAS PUTTING THEM
DOWN PRETTY HARD THERE WITH THE
LAST 15 OR 20-LAP RUN AND WAS
PUTTING A BUNCH OF GUYS DOWN A
LAP.
KYLE: HE LAPPED FROM 31ST TO
ABOUT 17 IN 10 LAPS.
IT SEEMED LIKE HE WAS A LITTLE
OFF.
BILL: KEVIN HARVICK TRYING TO
CLINCH THE BUSCH SERIES
CHAMPIONSHIP AND CURRENTLY
SCORED 34, TWO LAPS DOWN.
SO IT'S KENSETH, EDWARDS, KYLE
BUSCH, TODD KLUEVER AND JAMIE
MCMURRAY IN THE SEVENTH SPOT,
THEN TONY STEWART.
MARTY?
MARTY: BILL, AN IMPRESSIVE RUN
FOR TODD KLUEVER AND HE MOVED
UP IN THE FOURTH AND HITS PIT
ROAD RUNNING FOURTH.
THE BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN, THE
06 CAR WILL PUT A HALF POUND IN
THE LEFT FRONT TIRE AND SAID HE
WANTS IT TIGHTER EARLIER.
MATT: ON THE TOP OF YOUR
SCREEN, MATT KENSETH, A
TWO-TIME WINNER AT LOWE'S AND
HE SAID THE CAR WAS TIGHT IN
TRAFFIC BUT OTHER THAN THAT WAS
REALLY GOOD ON THE TIRES AND
THEY'RE MAKING A SMALL PRESSURE
CHANGE.
ALLEN: LEFFLER COMING IN FROM
SECOND PLACE WITH AIR PRESSURE
ADJUSTMENTS GOING DOWN ON ALL
FOUR TIRES AND WILL TAKE THE
LEAD OFF OF PIT ROAD.
BILL: HERE THEY COME.
AND I WOULD IMAGINE SOME OF
THOSE NEXTEL CUP CREW CHIEFS
WILL LOOK AT THE TIRES ON THE
17 CAR.
KYLE: THEY'LL LOOK AT
EVERYONE'S BECAUSE THE SAME
THING, NOBODY HAS RUN THAT MANY
4R57S ON THIS LEFT-SIDE TIRE.
THAT'S THE FIRST RUN.
THE CREW CHIEFS THAT ARE DOWN
THERE, YOU SEE THE 60 CAR BEATS
HIM HAND PILL.
-- HANDILY.
THE INTERESTING POINT WAS
DURING THAT PIT STOP YOU DIDN'T
SEE ANYBODY WITH A WEDGE WRENCH
AND EVERYTHING WAS AIR PRESSURE
ADJUSTMENT.
AS BAD AS EVERYONE WAS
COMPLAINING THERE WAS NO MAJOR
ADJUSTMENT.
BILL: REED SORENSON BRINGING
OUT THE CAUTION.
♪♪
IF THERE WERE A STORE IN YOUR TOWN
CALLED "PEACE OF MIND"
BILL: TNT SPORTS IS AT THE
LOWE'S MOTOR SPEEDWAY IN
CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA, JUST
OUTSIDE OF CHARLOTTE.
BEAUTIFUL OCTOBER EVENING.
HERE'S OUR FREECREDIT
REPORT.COM PIT SUMMARY.
MATT KENSETH CAME IN THE RACE
LEADER BUT CARL EDWARDS WON THE
RACE OFF OF PIT ROAD.
KYLE BUSCH WENT IN THIRD AND
CAME OUT THIRD.
OUR FREECREDITREPORT.COM, PIT
SUMMARY.
THEY CONTINUE TO WORK ON THE
TRACK CONDITIONS HERE, TRYING
TO CLEAN UP SOME OIL.
WHILE THEY'RE UNDER CAUTION,
THAT'S ROBBY RISER, MATT
KENSETH'S NEXTEL CUP CREW CHIEF
TALKING TO HIS TIR
BILL: A RACE RECAP AND WALLY
WILL TAKE YOU THROUGH IT.
WALLY: LOOK AT ALL THESE HAPPY
PEOPLE, KYLE.
KYLE: JUST HAPPY TO BE AT THE
RACETRACK.
WALLY: LAP TWO, TROUBLE.
KASEY KAHNE IN THE WALL, GETS A
TAP BY DAVID REUTIMANN.
BILL: AND GREG BIFFLE GETS A
PIECE OF IT RIGHT THERE.
KYLE: HATE WHEN THAT HAPPENS.
WALLY: JIMMIE JOHNSON.
JUST LOST IT UP IN FOUR TRYING
TO CATCH HIM, RAN OUT ■OF ROOM.
KEVIN HARVICK, LEFT RIGHT FRONT
TIRE.
BILL: AND THAT WAS ONLY PART OF
THE ISSUE.
THE CREW TOOK A LONG TIME
MAKING THE PIT STOP.
AND THAT'S OUR MOST RECENT
CAUTION.
REED SORENSON WITH A HARD HIT.
OUR HOLIDAY INN RACE RECAP.
BILL: THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN.
EXCELLENT JOB.
WALLY: KYLE, YOU'RE ALL OVER
IT.
KYLE: THAT'S RIGHT.
BILL: JUST PAST HALFWAY.
WALLY: I WOULDN'T DO THAT.
KYLE: SAUTER IN THE DOUBLE ZERO
AND LEFFLER IN THE 38 ON THE
TAIL END OF THE LEAD LAP BUT IN
FRONT OF THE RACE LEADER CARL
EDWARDS.
BILL: THOSE TWO CARS RACING TO
STAY ON THE LEAD LAP AND THEN
WILL BE RACING FOR THE LUCKY
DOG, TRYING TO KEEP CARL
EDWARDS BEHIND THEM.
EDWARDS IS NOT GOING TO WAIT.
THREE WIDE.
SEE YA.
MATT KENSETH ON THE MOVE.
EDWARDS TRYING TO GET UNDER
SAUTER FOR THE LEAD.
WALLY: WE'VE GOT A WRECK.
BILL: SLIDING THROUGH THE
GRASS.
KYLE: A BUNCH OF CARS IN THIS
ONE.
WALLY: THAT'S MIKE SKINNER THE
12.
KYLE: I MEAN, I SAW TONY
STEWART, THE 72 CAR, THE EIGHT
CAR GETTING ABOVE DAVE BLANEY.
HE JUST LOSES IT.
I MEAN THE 44 LOSES IT AT THE
SAME TIME.
WALLY:IZE HARD TO TELL WHETHER
THE 44 LAST IT OR GOT HIT BY
THE 20 BECAUSE THEY'RE DOING
SOME SYNCHRONIZING SPINNING.
BILL: THIS WILL BE COMING RIGHT
AT YOU NOW.
WALLY: DENNY HAMLIN DID A NICE
JOB.
BILL: LOOKED LIKE KENNY WALLACE
DID, TOO.
KYLE: GETTING THROUGH THAT
MESS.
BILL: THERE'S SKINNER.
THIS IS ONBOARD WITH STEWART.
WALLY: LOSE IT RIGHT HERE, HE'S
HITTING ON THE THROTTLE.
>> THE GOOD NEWS -- I'VE GOT
GOOD NEWS.
BILL: GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS.
>> COME ON, COME ON.
WALLY: HE WAS RIDING THE
THROTTLE ON THAT ONE.
KYLE: I AGREE.
BILL: REGAN SMITH IN THE 35
CAR.
WELL, A BIG MESS.
JUST PAST HALFWAY AT THE LOWE'S
MOTOR SPEEDWAY.
CARL EDWARDS LEADS.
BILL: TNT SPORTS AT THE LOWE'S
MOTOR SPEEDWAY UNDER OUR SIXTH
CAUTION OF THE DAY.
FOR A MULTICAR WRECK.
COMING OFF OF TURN FOUR.
TONY STEWART IN THE EIGHT CAR
GOES AROUND.
A BIG MESS RIGHT BEHIND HIM.
WALLY: JEFF BURTON GOT THROUGH
THAT, SIMILAR TO LAST WEEK,
HAPPENED IN FRONT OF HIM.
KYLE: I DON'T THINK THE EIGHT
EVER HITS ANYTHING.
BILL: ALLEN, YOU BUSY?
ALLEN: JUST WATCHING THE PIT
STOP THE EIGHT JUST MADE, BILL.
TONY CAME ON THE RADIO AND SAID
HE HAD BAD NEWS FOR THE TEAM,
HE'S FINE BUT GOOD NEWS, HE
DIDN'T HIT ANYTHING.
THEN THERE WAS TWO LAPS OF
SILENCE ON THE RADIO UNDER
CAUTION AND THEN TONY, EURY JR.
CAME ON AND SAID YOU THINK YOU
WANT FOUR FRESH TIRES ON THE
CAR?
AND THEN TONY CAME ON AND SAID,
WE PROBABLY OUGHT TO DO THAT.
BILL: THERE YOU SEE THE DRIVERS
INVOLVED IN THE CRASH.
WE'VE GOT 16 CARS NOW ON THE
LEAD LAP AND CARL EDWARDS
CONTINUES TO LEAD.
BILL: STILL UNDER CAUTION AT
THE LOWE'S MOTOR SPEEDWAY, SO
YOU CAN LOG ON TO SI.COM FOR
BREAKING SPORTS NEWS AND
SCORES, STATS AND ANALYSIS.
FOR MORE ON THE POWER RANKINGS,
GO TO SI.COM TODAY.
108 LAPS COMPLETE AND 92 TO GO.
WE'VE HAD SIX CAUTIONS.
I WANT TO REPORT THAT REED
SORENSON HAS BEEN TREATED AND
RELEASED FROM THE INFIELD CARE
CENTER.
HE WAS THE PREVIOUS CAUTION.
RIGHT NOW UNDER THE YELLOW FOR
A MULTICAR WRECK THAT STARTED
COMING OFF TURN FOUR.
CARL EDWARDS, THE RACE LEADER
AND THEN MATT KENSETH, KYLE
BUSCH, TODD KLUEVER AND PAUL
MENARD.
17 CARS ON THE LEAD LAP.
CHAMPIONSHIP LEADER KEVIN
HARVICK IS 28TH, TWO LAPS DOWN
AFTER A FLAT RIGHT FRONT AND A
LONG PIT STOP.
BILL: WE'RE STILL UNDER CAUTION
AT THE LOWE'S MOTOR SPEEDWAY,
AND TOMORROW NIGHT THE CHASE
CONTINUES.
THE BANK OF AMERICA 500.
AND OUR COVERAGE BEGINS AT 7:00
EASTERN TIME.
AND THE GREEN FLAG TOMORROW
NIGHT, 7:20 EASTERN TIME.
SO WE COME ON THE AIR, WE'LL
GET YOU ALL SET AND TAKE YOU
RIGHT TO THE GREEN FLAG.
TOMORROW NIGHT, THE BANK OF
AMERICA 500.
WE'RE AT THE HALFWAY MARK IN
THE CHASE FOR THE NEXTEL CUP
CHAMPIONSHIP.
YOU SEE THE NUMBER OF STARTS BY
EACH OF THE 10 DRIVERS IN THE
CHASE AND HOW THEY'VE DONE
HERE.
JIMMIE JOHNSON HAS DOMINATED AT
THE TRACK LATELY.
MARK MARTIN, A FOUR-TIME WINNER
HERE AND SO IS JEFF GORDON,
DENNY HAMLIN, KYLE BUSCH AND
KASEY KAHNE HAD A LOT OF STARTS
AT THIS TRACK AND SEE HOW IT
PLAYS OUT TOMORROW NIGHT.
THE BANK OF AMERICA 500.
WALLY: THE FIELD HAS GOTTEN THE
ONE TO GO SIGNAL.
LET'S CHECK IN WITH ALLEN.
ALLEN: LET'S SEE IF WE CAN GET
PIERRE OVER HERE.
RACE CAR IS PRETTY GOOD.
CAN YOU HANDLE THE 17 FOR THE
REST OF THE DISTANCE?
>> THE 17 CAR IS ALWAYS TOUGH,
YOU KNOW.
SO WE'LL TRY TO DOT BEST WE CAN
AND WE'RE HAPPY WITH THE CAR
NOW AND WE'LL GO AFTER IT TO
SEE WHAT WE'VE GOT THE LAST FEW
LAPS.
ALLEN: ONE MORE STOP IN THE
RACE?
>> I THINK THERE WILL BE ONE
MORE STOP, DEFINITELY.
WE'LL SEE HOW IT PLAYS OUT WITH
CAUTIONS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
ALLEN: THANKS, PIERRE.
BILL: THANK YOU, ALLEN.
THE 17 CAR IS ON THE LEAD LAP
WHEN WE GO BACK TO GREEN, JASON
LEFFLER IN THE 38, THE LUCKY
DOG, CARL EDWARDS, KENSETH,
BUSCH, TODD KLUEVER, PAUL
MENARD, MCMURRAY, DENNY HAMLIN
AND A COUPLE OF ROOKIES IN
NIPETTH AND 10TH.
AUGGIE VIDOVICH IN NINTH AND
TONY STEWART IN 12TH.
COME TO THE GREEN IT WILL BE 88
TO GO.
>> GOING GREEN.
WALLY: CARL EDWARDS CLEARED THE
42 CAR PRETTY QUICK.
CASEY MEARS AND MATT KENSETH IS
STILL TRYING TO GET BY HIM.
AND HE DOES WANT TO GET BY HIM
BECAUSE EVERY LAP HE RUNS SIDE
BY SIDE WITH CASEY MEARS, CARL
EDWARDS IS GOING TO GET OUT
THERE A LITTLE FURTHER.
BILL: THERE'S KEVIN HARVICK IN
THE 33 CAR, TWO LAPS DOWN IN
THE 27TH POSITION BUT HE MIGHT
BE ABLE TO RACE HIS WAY BACK UP
TO THE FRONT AND GET ONE LAP
BACK ON THE TRACK HERE.
WALLY: HE PROBABLY HAS ONE OF
THE FEW CARS THAT'S CAPABLE OF
MAKING A LAP UP ON THE
RACETRACK WITHOUT THE LUCKY
DOG.
BILL: A TIRE ISSUE, COMING TO
PIT ROAD UNDER GREEN WHICH HAD
A VERY LENGTHY STOP.
TRYING TO NAIL DOWN THE BUSCH
SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP TONIGHT.
WOULD BE THE EARLIEST IT'S EVER
BEEN DONE IN THE HISTORY OF THE
SERIES.
WALLY: WE'VE GOT TROUBLE ON THE
BACKSTRETCH.
BILL: CAR ON THE INSIDE, A
COUPLE OF THEM.
WALLY: JEFF BURTON AND VIDOVICH
IN THE FOUR CAR.
OH, THE 23.
BILL: RIGHT ACROSS THE TRACK.
WALLY: HE JUST HAMMERS THE
WALL!
BILL: A LOT OF DAMAGE TO JEFF
BURTON'S CAR.
>> I COULDN'T STOP.
KYLE: BRAD HAD NO PLACE TO GO
WHEN THAT ALL HAPPENED AND THEY
COME UP THE RACETRACK, HE HAD
NO PLACE TO GO AND HAD TO TAKE
EVASIVE ACTION TO GO TO THE
LEFT OR DRIVE THROUGH THE DOOR
OF THE FOUR CAR.
WALLY: LOOKS LIKE THE FOUR CAR
LOSES IT GETTING OFF THE CORNER
THERE AND COLLECTS BURTON
TRYING TO AVOID IT.
KYLE: MAN, THAT IS A HIT THAT
FOUR CAR TOOK.
WALLY: WOW!
KYLE: AND THESE GUYS WERE
AVOIDING VIDOVICH COMING OFF
THE RACETRACK.
DON'T KNOW WHO THE RED CAR IS.
AND KESELOWSKI DIDN'T MAKE IT.
THE FOUR CAR TOOK A WICKED HIT
AND BRAD, THAT'S THE DRIVERS'
SIDE AND IT SLAPS UP NEXT TO
THE ROW BARS.
BUT WHEN YOU SEE BURTON HITTING
THE FOUR CAR HARD ENOUGH TO
LIFT THE FOUR CAR OFF THE
GROUND.
WALLY: THAT RIGHT REAR IS
BURIED IN THAT FOUR CAR.
WATCH THAT RIGHT REAR GET -- I
MEAN, DRILLED.
BILL: I THINK THAT'S MICHAEL
WALTRIP.
ONBOARD WITH STEWART.
I DON'T THINK THAT'S MICHAEL.
MICHAEL IS IN THE 99.
I KNOW THAT FOUR BUNCH HAD A
LOT OF SPONSOR PEOPLE HERE THIS
WEEK.
BILL: SEVENTH CAUTION.
BILL: UNDER CAUTION HERE AT THE
LOWE'S MOTOR SPEEDWAY.
EVERY 10-GALLON FILLUP AWARDS
YOU POINTS.
EVERY RACE POINT YOU EARN IS A
CHANCE TO WIN THE CHASE FOR THE
RACE POINT SWEEPSTAKES.
GET YOUR RACE POINTS AT SUNOCO,
GO TO NASCAR.COM OR
PARTICIPATING SUNOCO LOCATION
FOR DETAILS.
WALLY: A TOUGH ONE FOR YOU,
WASN'T IT, BILL?
BILL: THEY'RE GOING TO RED FLAG
THE FIELD.
AND PARK THE CARS ON PIT ROAD
WHILE THEY CLEAN UP THE DEBRIS
ON THE BACKSTRETCH.
AND IT'S TED MUSGRAVE THAT MADE
THE NICE MOVE ON THE
BACKSTRETCH.
WALLY: VERY NICE JOB.
BILL: HERE'S ANOTHER LOOK AT
WHY THE RACE IS NOW GOING TO BE
PUT UNDER THE RED FLAG.
BILL: WE SAW JEFF BURTON CLIMB
OUT OF HIS CAR A FEW MOMENTS
AGO AND THERE'S AUGGIE VIDOVICH
GETTING OUT OF THE FOUR CAR.
HEAVY DAMAGE TO THAT DODGE.
THERE'S BURTON'S CAR.
THAT WAS THE CAR THAT COULD
HAVE CLINCHED THE OWNER'S
CHAMPIONSHIP TONIGHT BUT THAT
WILL HAVE TO WAIT A COUPLE OF
WEEKS.
AND THE FIELD HAS COME TO PIT
ROAD.
BILL: NASCAR BUSCH SERIES
PRESENTED BY OUTBACK
STEAKHOUSE.
BROUGHT TO YOU BY U.S. NATIVE
-- U.S. NAVY AND BY ENERGIZER,
KEEP GOING AND PIZZA HUT, HOME
OF THECY CIVILIAN PIZZA.
-- THE SICILIAN PIZZA.
UNDER THE RED FLAG AFTER A
MULTICAR CRASH ON THE
BACKSTRETCH, LET'S CHECK IN
WITH DAVE BURNS.
DAVE: WITH AUGGIE VIDOVICH,
TAKE US THROUGH TURN TWO.
>> I WAS RACING AND PUSHING
PRETTY HARD AND LOST IT.
TRIED TOO HARD.
IT GOT OUT FROM UNDER ME.
I FEEL BAD FOR THE NINE LIVES.
IT'S A BUMMER AND I WANTED TO
WIN THE MONEY FOR THE CATS, AT
LEAST THEY'RE GETTING SOMETHING
OUT OF IT.
IF YOU CAN SAVE THE CATS, THAT
WOULD BE AWESOME.
DAVE: YOU CHANGED THAT RACE CAR
BEFORE THAT, RIGHT?
>> WE DID SOME ADJUSTMENTS AND
NOTHING TO DO WITH THE WRECK
AND IT WAS FOR THE BETTER
BECAUSE WE WERE TIGHT.
WE WERE TRYING HARD AND OUR
RESULT BEFORE THAT WERE SHOWING
IT SO I CAN'T THANK MY CREW
ENOUGH AND EVERYBODY BEHIND ME.
DAVE: AND THANK YOU FOR
BUILDING A STURDY RACE CAR, I
ASSUME.
>> ALWAYS THANKING THEM FOR
THAT.
DAVE: THAT WAS A BIG HIT BACK
THERE.
>> I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT.
I DIDN'T SEE IT.
I JUST CLOSED MY EYES.
DAVE: AUGGIE, WALKED OUT ON HIS
OWN POWER AND SORRY TO NOT BE
IN THE RACE.
BILL: WITH THE RACE LEADER CARL
EDWARDS PATIENTLY WAITING FOR
THE CLEANUP AND GETTING
HARASSED BY HIS CREW, I CAN SEE
IT IN HIS EYES.
TELL ME ABOUT YOUR RACE CAR TO
THIS POINT?
MATT: IT WAS REALLY -- MATT
KENSETH IS HARASSING ME AND
SOMEHOW GOT ON MY FREQUENCY BUT
I'M LEAVING THE MIKE OPEN SO HE
CAN HEAR ME.
HE SAID HE'S GOING TO PASS ME
AND BE MAN ENOUGH TO DO IT ON
THE RACETRACK AND NOT THE PITS
BUT DON'T THINK HE CAN DO IT.
I THINK MY CAR IS BETTER THAN
SS AMERIQUEST ONE.
I DON'T KNOW.
I'M HAVING FUN.
IT'S A FUN RACE.
MATT: TRACK CONDITIONS WHAT YOU
EXPECTED OR ARE YOU LEARNING
SOMETHING OUT THERE YOU WEREN'T
EXPECTING?
>> YEAH, IT'S A LITTLE BIT
DIFFERENT THAN I THOUGHT.
THE TRACK'S GOT A TON OF GRIP
AND P.K. AND THE GUYS GOT THE
CAR ALMOST PERFECT.
THERE'S REALLY -- I DON'T HAVE
ANY COMPLAINTS.
I CAN TELL IT'S TREACHEROUS OFF
THE CORNERS AND EVERY ONC IN A
WHILE GETS LOOSE BUT THE
BIGGEST THING IS I'M HAVING A
BLAST AND BEEN A WHILE SINCE
I'VE HAD A CAR THIS GOOD AND
BEEN ABLE TO ENJOY A RUN UP
FRONT LIKE THIS SO I'M HAVING
FUN.
CARL, YOU'VE GOT ABOUT 80 LAPS
TO GO IN THE RACE AND YOU'RE
EXPECTING ONE MORE PIT STOP.
ARE YOU EXPECTING HAVE TO DO
ANYTHING DIFFERENT TO THIS RACE
CAR BASED ON THE WAY THE TRACK
CONDITION HAS DEVELOPED
THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT?
>> THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
I CAN'T QUITE TELL, YOU KNOW,
IF THE CAR WILL GET REAL TIGHT
OR NOT.
WE'VE MADE AIR PRESSURE
ADJUSTMENTS AND SEE WHAT
HAPPENS.
HOPEFULLY WE WON'T HAVE TO DO
ANYTHING.
MATT: WHAT HE DOES IS HAVE TO
GO TO WORK.
MARTY: ARE YOU OK?
>> I'M FINE.
NOT A GOOD NIGHT FOR THE COAST
GUARD CHEVROLET.
MARTY: AN ODD NIGHT.
>> SOMETHING BROKE IN THE
CARBURETOR AND LOST POWER SO
THEN WE GOT FIVE OR SIX LAPS
DOWN AND WE WERE RIDING AROUND
AND I SAW TONY CHECK UP BECAUSE
THE GUY ON THE OUTSIDE OF HIM
IN FRONT OF HIM ON THE OUTSIDE
BUT MUST HAVE GOT LOOSE BUT HE
WAS IN MY BLIND SPOT AND I WAS
UNDER TONY AND DIDN'T SEE IT
AND SAW HIM CHECK UP AND I
COULDN'T SLOW DOWN AND DON'T
KNOW WHAT HAPPENED BUT I HIT A
LOT OF STUFF.
MARTY: YOU HIT PRETTY HARD,
TOO, WAS THAT A PRETTY HARD
HIT?
>> I DIDN'T HIT WHO AS HARD AS
THAT WAS THAT WENT FLYING
ACROSS THE TRACK, HE HIT HARD.
MARTY: THAT WAS AUGGIE.
>> I HATE THE COAST GUARD DEAL.
IT'S BEEN A GREAT EFFORT ALL
YEAR LONG AND WE HAD A GOOD CAR
TONIGHT BUT DIDN'T PUT IT
TOGETHER.
MARTY: DID YOU HAVE ENOUGH TIME
TO PICK UP INFORMATION FOR
TOMORROW NIGHT'S RUN OR A GOOD
ENOUGH CAR WHILE IT WAS
RUNNING?
>> WE JUST GOT IN SUCH A BAD
SITUATION WE ENDED UP WITH THE
LEFT-SIDE TIRES ON AND NO
RIGHTS AND WE JUST -- I DON'T
THINK WE LEARNED ANYTHING
TONIGHT OTHER THAN YOU DON'T
WANT TO WRECK BUT I KNEW THAT
BEFORE THE RACE.
MARTY: WE ALL KNEW THAT AND
GLAD YOU'RE OK.
BILL?
BILL: THE EN-INS HAVE REFIRED
AND YOU SEE THE CARS ROLLING
OFF PIT ROAD AND THE 42 OF