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November 14th, 2011
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Sprint Cup Race Recap: Kahne Gives Red Bull a Farewell Victory at Phoenix
by Brody Jones
Eight days. For some, that's how long it'll be until a nice, three-month vacation in between NASCAR seasons.
For Red Bull Racing, that's how long until 150 people might be forced to find other jobs.
Sunday, that team's desperation turned to determination in one of the surprise victories of the year. Kasey Kahne, in his next-to-last race with the Red Bull Racing operation, picked up his 12th career win at Phoenix in the Kobalt Tools 500, one he called the most satisfying of the 31-year-old Enumclaw, Washington driver's Sprint Cup career. Pushing in front during a final series of pit stops, with 14 laps left the "lame duck" driver's push to the win could be the tipping point his soon-to-be-former team needs in order to find investors to keep going. The two-car organization, which employs Kahne and Brian Vickers will lose the sponsor/owner support of Red Bull once the season is complete.
"I wouldn't say there's anyone out there that's building better cars at this time," Kahne said after exiting the driver's seat, picking up his sixth top-6 finish in the Chase; in fact, only title contenders Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards have scored more points during these playoffs. "The Red Bull guys are doing an awesome job and they haven't given up."
"It's tough to hear it's [possibly] shutting down in eight days. Over the last three months, you have one of the top-5 cars in NASCAR [possibly] shutting down [now] and that's crazy."
With Kahne breaking a long, 81-race Victory Lane drought, it was the fourth consecutive Phoenix race that has broken a lengthy dry spell. Ryan Newman, Carl Edwards, Jeff Gordon and Kahne in that order have all broken winless streaks of 60 or more races here since April, 2010, a quirky coincidence that's a first in NASCAR history. And for Kahne, there was an added degree of difficulty; a new track surface, combined with some remodeling over the summer left him with an entirely new one-mile track to contend with.
"It was slippery early, but as the tires built heat and got rubber on the track, the Goodyear tires came in pretty good," said Kahne, who joined many others in giving the new surface high marks. "It ended up being a great race. I'm really excited."
So are the two Sprint Cup championship combatants, amped up after running together for all 500 kilometers. Tony Stewart said that he was coming into the last two races of the year with the mindset of winning both events, and for most of the race it appeared the Columbus, Indiana native was on his way to doing exactly that. "Smoke" led 160 of the 312 circuits, but had to settle for third at the end of the day, behind current points leader Edwards after an air pressure adjustment during the final caution did not work out in the No. 14's favor.
"We'll just keep doing what we're doing," Stewart said post-race. "We have a third and two wins in the last three races so we're going to keep the pressure on him (Carl Edwards) and we'll make him sweat it out."
Once Stewart struggled, Edwards capitalized and surged in front of the No. 14 Chevy in the closing stages. The Columbia, Missouri points leader neither gained nor lost ground on Stewart, taking a scant three-point lead into the season finale at Homestead by finishing second.
"We have never gone into Homestead with the points lead," Edwards stated post-race. "You know they give a boat away if you win that thing. I saw that boat and I would like to go down there and win it. That would be fun to put a cap on this season. That is what our mission is. We feel we have the cars and pit crew and have shown that we can gut it out on these really tough days when maybe we don't have the fastest car. This is going to be good."
During the race's final segment, after a caution for Robby Gordon's spin on Lap 224 Edwards, Stewart, and Kahne also had to deal with a surprising Kurt Busch. Taking two tires, the No. 22 surged to the front and led 57 laps but ran out of fuel on the way to his final stop. That left Edwards out in front; however, the No. 99 Ford played it safe, making sure he didn't speed entering pit road. The loss of time was enough for Kahne, who usurped the lead from him and would pace the field the rest of the way. The final margin was 0.802 seconds over the No. 99 Aflac Ford, but with the effort put in by this group the celebration will last far longer.
"It feels so good," an elated Kahne said post-race, cashing in with this team before moving on to Hendrick Motorsports to drive the No. 5 car in 2012. "It's been a long time coming. This whole Red Bull team has done an unbelievable job to keep working hard. Kenny Francis (crew chief) keeps on it — everybody at Red Bull, the car, the Toyota engine. It was a great run today. The guys did an awesome job. We fell back a little bit early and then came back and just kept getting it better. These guys haven't given up in the last three months. It's been really cool. It was really, really cool."
A surprising Jeff Burton, posting his third top-10 result in four races and Ryan Newman rounded out the top-5 finishers. Sixth through tenth were A.J. Allmendinger, David Reutimann, Marcos Ambrose, Paul Menard, and Clint Bowyer.
There were a lot of worries over the repaving heading into Sunday; fortunately, the new surface still led to a clean race with plenty of passing. After a crash-filled race in the Nationwide Series, on Saturday the race had eight cautions, for 30 laps with only seven cars swept up in accidents. However, "Martinsville's Revenge" caught up with polesitter Matt Kenseth as Brian Vickers deliberately ran over the Cambridge, Wisconsin native to cause a midrace caution. Feeling like payback was needed for October's short track contact, Vickers basically ended Kenseth's day after the No. 17 Crown Royal Ford led 49 laps during the early stages and was a solid top-5 contender.
"If NASCAR is going to start parking people for being mad 25 seconds after you wreck somebody, then you [should] park somebody for that," said the 2003 champ over the incident. "You have someone that has been telling everybody for four or five weeks that as soon as he got a chance at a fast race track, he was going to make it hurt and wipe us out and they do nothing about it. It was so premeditated, it just surprises me that they didn't do anything."
Meanwhile, Kyle Busch's return to action, after a one-race parking couldn't shake the aggressive driver's bad luck. After M&M's pulled their sponsorship for the remainder of the year and the team blew an engine in practice, Busch blew his second motor of the weekend at the two-thirds mark of the race. "It's terrible to have one in a weekend, let alone two in a weekend," said a dejected Busch en route to a disappointing, 36th-place DNF.
The average speed of the races was 112.918 mph and the race took 2 hours, 45 minutes, and 47 seconds to complete. There were 14 lead changes among seven drivers in front of an attendance listed at 85,000 paying fans.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series wraps up its season at Homestead-Miami Speedway next week.
Brody Jones is a Contributor for Frontstretch.com. He can be reached via e-mail at brody.jones@frontstretch.com.
"I know for us, I can say completely truthfully this is the best Chase we've ever had," said Edwards. "We haven't gone out and got the trophies that we have in other Chases, but we've performed better than we ever have. If they're beating us, they're beating us at our best, and I think that's pretty neat."
Edwards continued his solid performance, finishing second for the second straight week, which was his series-leading 18th top-5 finish of the year. Despite the strong run, he wasn't able to stretch his lead on Tony Stewart, who finished one spot behind him in third. For Stewart, he had the fastest car for most of the day, leading a race-high 160 laps and getting that valuable bonus point in doing so. Unfortunately for him, the car's handle went away in the second half of the race, allowing winner Kasey Kahne and Edwards to get by. Due to leading the most laps, however, Stewart and Edwards scored the same amount of points. They both go into Homestead with the simplest championship-clinching scenario - win the race, win the title. If Stewart doesn't win the race, he would have to finish three positions ahead of Edwards to take the Chase. In the event of a tie, Stewart would win since he has four victories this season to Edwards' one.
Kevin Harvick remains third in the standings, but it was the second consecutive week where he was never a factor. Starting the day in 27th, Harvick was unable to sneak his way into contention as he has done so often this year, and was only able to finish 19th, one lap down after an unscheduled pit stop under green for a tire issue. As a result, he is now 51 points behinds Edwards, mathematically eliminated from the title and not flashing the speed which led to four victories earlier this season.
While he won't win the 2011 Sprint Cup, what a Chase it has been for the surprise of the season, Brad Keselowski. He only finished 18th, struggling late after running in the top-10 for most of the day. However, due to an overall bad day for the other Chasers, Keselowski moved up a spot in the standings to slot in fourth.
Taking a back seat to the title drama with Edwards and Stewart is that Jimmie Johnson's reign as champion officially came to an end on Sunday. It was an uncharacteristic afternoon for the five-time champ, whose 14th-place result was his fifth finish outside the top-10 in the Chase - the most he's had in any playoff since the format changed in 2004. Another streak that could come to end is Johnson's streak of top-5 point finishes. Every year, Johnson has finished fifth or better in the standings, but with one race remaining he is just two points ahead of sixth-place Matt Kenseth.
Kenseth, who started Sunday's race from the pole position, was strong early, leading 49 laps in the first half of the event. However, brake issues for the No. 17 team would ultimately determine Kenseth's fate, as he had to lift off the gas earlier than preferred. Eventually, his "good buddy" Brian Vickers got into the back of the 2003 champ, ending his chances for victory on lap 178 in a blatant payback for Martinsville contact. He fell two spots in the standings to sixth.
Staying steady in seventh sits Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Like most of his Hendrick teammates, Earnhardt was never a factor at Phoenix, finishing two laps off the pace in 24th. Right behind him in a tie for eighth is Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman. Busch took the lead after taking just two tires on a lap 222 pit stop, leading up until 34 laps remaining when he ran out of fuel. It dropped him all the way back to 22nd, but he was still able to move up one spot in the points.
As for Newman, his fifth-place finish was his best result in the Chase, and his fourth consecutive top-5 outing at Phoenix. His seventh fifth-place effort in 2011 helped him move into a tie with Busch for eighth, the highest he has been in this year's Chase to date.
Denny Hamlin remains tenth in the standings after finishing 12th on Sunday. It was a quite day for the Joe Gibbs driver, who had trouble even cracking the top-10 after starting back in 33rd. He is just two markers ahead of Jeff Gordon going into the final race; remember, just the top-10 in points get to go to the season-ending banquet in Las Vegas.
Gordon, who won the most recent event in Phoenix, had a disappointing afternoon after brake issues relegated him to a 32nd-place result. It cost him in the standings, as he fell three positions back to 11th. Gordon now has more finishes outside the top 20 (four) than inside the top 10 (three) during this Chase.
Kyle Busch made his anticipated return to Cup racing on Sunday and had to start shotgun in the field after an engine change. Busch slowly worked his way up through the pack, climbing to as high as third before an engine failure - his second of the weekend - ended his day on lap 188. The end result was 36th, and Busch is now last out of the 12 drivers in the Chase.
Standings: 1) Carl Edwards 2359, 2) Tony Stewart -3, 3) Kevin Harvick -51, 4) Brad Keselowski -65, 5) Jimmie Johnson -68, 6) Matt Kenseth -70, 7) Dale Earnhardt, Jr. -102, t-8) Kurt Busch -107, t-8) Ryan Newman -107, 10) Denny Hamlin -110, 11) Jeff Gordon -112, 12) Kyle Busch -135.
In the "best of the rest" category, it was a good day for many of the drivers just outside the top-12. Kasey Kahne's first victory in over two years has him just five points behind Clint Bowyer, who had a solid finish in tenth. A.J. Allmendinger continues his late season hot streak, finishing in the sixth position; any of those three drivers, along with Greg Biffle could slot into 13th place after Homestead.
Best of the Rest: 13) Clint Bowyer 1009, 14) Kasey Kahne -5, 15) Greg Biffle -22, 16) A.J. Allmendinger -25, 17) Marcos Ambrose -78.
Tracking The Top 35: DNQ Costly for TRG
Andy Lally and TRG Motorsports became a victim of the top-35 on Saturday, when the team failed to make the show for Sunday's race after losing their "locked in" spot a few weeks ago. It pretty much sealed the fate for them going into next year, as they are now a good 28 points behind Front Row Motorsports' No. 38 entry. FRM, which had J.J. Yeley back behind the wheel for Phoenix with Vampt sponsorship, finished in 28th after starting 41st; that was the solid, survival run the team needed to open up breathing room between the two cars heading to Homestead.
For Lally to even have a shot at the top 35 in owner points, his TRG No. 71 would have to finish 15th or better. Considering Lally hasn't run inside the top 15 all season... well, you can draw your own conclusions.
Casey Mears had the best performance among this group hovering around the top 35. He finished 26th, three laps off the pace.
31) Front Row Motorsports (No. 34 - David Gilliland), +117 points ahead of 36th.
32) Germain Racing (No. 13 - Casey Mears), +80 points ahead of 36th.
33) Tommy Baldwin Racing (No. 36 - Geoff Bodine), +62 points ahead of 36th.
34) FAS Lane Racing (No. 32 - Mike Bliss), +41 points ahead of 36th.
35) Front Row Motorsports (No. 38 - J.J. Yeley), +28 points ahead of 36th.
36) TRG Motorsports (No. 71 - Andy Lally), -28 points behind 35th.
37) Robby Gordon Motorsports (No. 7 - Robby Gordon), -137 points behind 35th.
38) Wood Brothers Racing (No. 21 - Trevor Bayne), -143 points behind 35th.
39) MaxQ Motorsports (No. 37 - Mike Skinner), -285 points behind 35th.
"'m proud of the crew guys for the job they did today," Reutimann said. "They really stuck with me and turned out some great pit stops. And, I have to thank Pat Tryson (interim crew chief) for stepping in to help us out -- he called a great race today. This team is capable of racing like this all the time, but for one reason or another we just haven't shown it much this year. This is a great group of guys! Probably one of the best in the garage and they have been with me a long time. We have one more week together and I was to go out on a high note at Homestead."
It's been an emotional time for Reutimann, whose loyalty was ultimately not rewarded by owner Michael Waltrip but it's runs like these that will give perspective new employers, even at this late date reason to hire the veteran driver for 2012. – Tom Bowles
STAT OF THE WEEK: 5. That's the number of finishes outside the top 10 for Jimmie Johnson this Chase, the five-time defending champion. How unusual is that slump for the No. 48? In the past four years combined, Johnson has only finished outside the top 10 in a Chase race SIX times. Digest that for a minute, as well as the fact Johnson is mathematically eliminated heading to Homestead for the first time since the 2003 season - his second on the Cup circuit. There's a reason people think this title streak may not be duplicated for decades. – Tom Bowles
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Friday's Answer:
Q: Today, Phoenix International Raceway has a state-of-the-art catchfence and a typical flagstand. However, this was not the case back in the early 1980s. What was PIR's flagstand like back then?
A: Phoenix International Raceway's infrastructure was quite substandard, at least by today's guidelines, back in the 1980s. At that time, the flagstand was a small box just on the other side and slightly above (meaning a couple of feet) above the Armco guardrail that constituted the outside wall at the time. Also note that this flagstand was in front of the catchfence. By the time the Cup Series first raced there, the guardrail had been replaced by a wall composed of vertical bricks, hoping to further protect those watching - and flagging. The flagstand was elevated further in 1990.
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-- Top News from Tom Bowles
-- Numbers Game by Brett Poirier
-- Sitting In The Stands: A Fans' View by S.D. Grady
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-- Links to your favorite Frontstretch articles, and more!
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The Yellow Stripe by Danny Peters
Danny gives us a commentary piece based on recent events in NASCAR. This week, with the season winding down he looks ahead to 2012 to see who are the main drivers and storylines to watch.
Who's Hot / Who's Not in Sprint Cup: Fort Worth-Avondale Edition by Summer Dreyer
We'll take a look at post-Phoenix numbers to see who's got the most momentum heading into Homestead... and beyond.
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November 14th, 2011
Volume V, Edition CCXLII
Sprint Cup Race Recap: Kahne Gives Red Bull a Farewell Victory at Phoenix
by Brody Jones
Eight days. For some, that's how long it'll be until a nice, three-month vacation in between NASCAR seasons.
For Red Bull Racing, that's how long until 150 people might be forced to find other jobs.
Sunday, that team's desperation turned to determination in one of the surprise victories of the year. Kasey Kahne, in his next-to-last race with the Red Bull Racing operation, picked up his 12th career win at Phoenix in the Kobalt Tools 500, one he called the most satisfying of the 31-year-old Enumclaw, Washington driver's Sprint Cup career. Pushing in front during a final series of pit stops, with 14 laps left the "lame duck" driver's push to the win could be the tipping point his soon-to-be-former team needs in order to find investors to keep going. The two-car organization, which employs Kahne and Brian Vickers will lose the sponsor/owner support of Red Bull once the season is complete.
"I wouldn't say there's anyone out there that's building better cars at this time," Kahne said after exiting the driver's seat, picking up his sixth top-6 finish in the Chase; in fact, only title contenders Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards have scored more points during these playoffs. "The Red Bull guys are doing an awesome job and they haven't given up."
"It's tough to hear it's [possibly] shutting down in eight days. Over the last three months, you have one of the top-5 cars in NASCAR [possibly] shutting down [now] and that's crazy."
With Kahne breaking a long, 81-race Victory Lane drought, it was the fourth consecutive Phoenix race that has broken a lengthy dry spell. Ryan Newman, Carl Edwards, Jeff Gordon and Kahne in that order have all broken winless streaks of 60 or more races here since April, 2010, a quirky coincidence that's a first in NASCAR history. And for Kahne, there was an added degree of difficulty; a new track surface, combined with some remodeling over the summer left him with an entirely new one-mile track to contend with.
"It was slippery early, but as the tires built heat and got rubber on the track, the Goodyear tires came in pretty good," said Kahne, who joined many others in giving the new surface high marks. "It ended up being a great race. I'm really excited."
So are the two Sprint Cup championship combatants, amped up after running together for all 500 kilometers. Tony Stewart said that he was coming into the last two races of the year with the mindset of winning both events, and for most of the race it appeared the Columbus, Indiana native was on his way to doing exactly that. "Smoke" led 160 of the 312 circuits, but had to settle for third at the end of the day, behind current points leader Edwards after an air pressure adjustment during the final caution did not work out in the No. 14's favor.
"We'll just keep doing what we're doing," Stewart said post-race. "We have a third and two wins in the last three races so we're going to keep the pressure on him (Carl Edwards) and we'll make him sweat it out."
Once Stewart struggled, Edwards capitalized and surged in front of the No. 14 Chevy in the closing stages. The Columbia, Missouri points leader neither gained nor lost ground on Stewart, taking a scant three-point lead into the season finale at Homestead by finishing second.
"We have never gone into Homestead with the points lead," Edwards stated post-race. "You know they give a boat away if you win that thing. I saw that boat and I would like to go down there and win it. That would be fun to put a cap on this season. That is what our mission is. We feel we have the cars and pit crew and have shown that we can gut it out on these really tough days when maybe we don't have the fastest car. This is going to be good."
During the race's final segment, after a caution for Robby Gordon's spin on Lap 224 Edwards, Stewart, and Kahne also had to deal with a surprising Kurt Busch. Taking two tires, the No. 22 surged to the front and led 57 laps but ran out of fuel on the way to his final stop. That left Edwards out in front; however, the No. 99 Ford played it safe, making sure he didn't speed entering pit road. The loss of time was enough for Kahne, who usurped the lead from him and would pace the field the rest of the way. The final margin was 0.802 seconds over the No. 99 Aflac Ford, but with the effort put in by this group the celebration will last far longer.
"It feels so good," an elated Kahne said post-race, cashing in with this team before moving on to Hendrick Motorsports to drive the No. 5 car in 2012. "It's been a long time coming. This whole Red Bull team has done an unbelievable job to keep working hard. Kenny Francis (crew chief) keeps on it — everybody at Red Bull, the car, the Toyota engine. It was a great run today. The guys did an awesome job. We fell back a little bit early and then came back and just kept getting it better. These guys haven't given up in the last three months. It's been really cool. It was really, really cool."
A surprising Jeff Burton, posting his third top-10 result in four races and Ryan Newman rounded out the top-5 finishers. Sixth through tenth were A.J. Allmendinger, David Reutimann, Marcos Ambrose, Paul Menard, and Clint Bowyer.
There were a lot of worries over the repaving heading into Sunday; fortunately, the new surface still led to a clean race with plenty of passing. After a crash-filled race in the Nationwide Series, on Saturday the race had eight cautions, for 30 laps with only seven cars swept up in accidents. However, "Martinsville's Revenge" caught up with polesitter Matt Kenseth as Brian Vickers deliberately ran over the Cambridge, Wisconsin native to cause a midrace caution. Feeling like payback was needed for October's short track contact, Vickers basically ended Kenseth's day after the No. 17 Crown Royal Ford led 49 laps during the early stages and was a solid top-5 contender.
"If NASCAR is going to start parking people for being mad 25 seconds after you wreck somebody, then you [should] park somebody for that," said the 2003 champ over the incident. "You have someone that has been telling everybody for four or five weeks that as soon as he got a chance at a fast race track, he was going to make it hurt and wipe us out and they do nothing about it. It was so premeditated, it just surprises me that they didn't do anything."
Meanwhile, Kyle Busch's return to action, after a one-race parking couldn't shake the aggressive driver's bad luck. After M&M's pulled their sponsorship for the remainder of the year and the team blew an engine in practice, Busch blew his second motor of the weekend at the two-thirds mark of the race. "It's terrible to have one in a weekend, let alone two in a weekend," said a dejected Busch en route to a disappointing, 36th-place DNF.
The average speed of the races was 112.918 mph and the race took 2 hours, 45 minutes, and 47 seconds to complete. There were 14 lead changes among seven drivers in front of an attendance listed at 85,000 paying fans.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series wraps up its season at Homestead-Miami Speedway next week.
Brody Jones is a Contributor for Frontstretch.com. He can be reached via e-mail at brody.jones@frontstretch.com.
Tracking The Chasers: One Race, Two Drivers, Three Points
by Garrett Horton
"I know for us, I can say completely truthfully this is the best Chase we've ever had," said Edwards. "We haven't gone out and got the trophies that we have in other Chases, but we've performed better than we ever have. If they're beating us, they're beating us at our best, and I think that's pretty neat."
Edwards continued his solid performance, finishing second for the second straight week, which was his series-leading 18th top-5 finish of the year. Despite the strong run, he wasn't able to stretch his lead on Tony Stewart, who finished one spot behind him in third. For Stewart, he had the fastest car for most of the day, leading a race-high 160 laps and getting that valuable bonus point in doing so. Unfortunately for him, the car's handle went away in the second half of the race, allowing winner Kasey Kahne and Edwards to get by. Due to leading the most laps, however, Stewart and Edwards scored the same amount of points. They both go into Homestead with the simplest championship-clinching scenario - win the race, win the title. If Stewart doesn't win the race, he would have to finish three positions ahead of Edwards to take the Chase. In the event of a tie, Stewart would win since he has four victories this season to Edwards' one.
Kevin Harvick remains third in the standings, but it was the second consecutive week where he was never a factor. Starting the day in 27th, Harvick was unable to sneak his way into contention as he has done so often this year, and was only able to finish 19th, one lap down after an unscheduled pit stop under green for a tire issue. As a result, he is now 51 points behinds Edwards, mathematically eliminated from the title and not flashing the speed which led to four victories earlier this season.
While he won't win the 2011 Sprint Cup, what a Chase it has been for the surprise of the season, Brad Keselowski. He only finished 18th, struggling late after running in the top-10 for most of the day. However, due to an overall bad day for the other Chasers, Keselowski moved up a spot in the standings to slot in fourth.
Taking a back seat to the title drama with Edwards and Stewart is that Jimmie Johnson's reign as champion officially came to an end on Sunday. It was an uncharacteristic afternoon for the five-time champ, whose 14th-place result was his fifth finish outside the top-10 in the Chase - the most he's had in any playoff since the format changed in 2004. Another streak that could come to end is Johnson's streak of top-5 point finishes. Every year, Johnson has finished fifth or better in the standings, but with one race remaining he is just two points ahead of sixth-place Matt Kenseth.
Kenseth, who started Sunday's race from the pole position, was strong early, leading 49 laps in the first half of the event. However, brake issues for the No. 17 team would ultimately determine Kenseth's fate, as he had to lift off the gas earlier than preferred. Eventually, his "good buddy" Brian Vickers got into the back of the 2003 champ, ending his chances for victory on lap 178 in a blatant payback for Martinsville contact. He fell two spots in the standings to sixth.
Staying steady in seventh sits Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Like most of his Hendrick teammates, Earnhardt was never a factor at Phoenix, finishing two laps off the pace in 24th. Right behind him in a tie for eighth is Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman. Busch took the lead after taking just two tires on a lap 222 pit stop, leading up until 34 laps remaining when he ran out of fuel. It dropped him all the way back to 22nd, but he was still able to move up one spot in the points.
As for Newman, his fifth-place finish was his best result in the Chase, and his fourth consecutive top-5 outing at Phoenix. His seventh fifth-place effort in 2011 helped him move into a tie with Busch for eighth, the highest he has been in this year's Chase to date.
Denny Hamlin remains tenth in the standings after finishing 12th on Sunday. It was a quite day for the Joe Gibbs driver, who had trouble even cracking the top-10 after starting back in 33rd. He is just two markers ahead of Jeff Gordon going into the final race; remember, just the top-10 in points get to go to the season-ending banquet in Las Vegas.
Gordon, who won the most recent event in Phoenix, had a disappointing afternoon after brake issues relegated him to a 32nd-place result. It cost him in the standings, as he fell three positions back to 11th. Gordon now has more finishes outside the top 20 (four) than inside the top 10 (three) during this Chase.
Kyle Busch made his anticipated return to Cup racing on Sunday and had to start shotgun in the field after an engine change. Busch slowly worked his way up through the pack, climbing to as high as third before an engine failure - his second of the weekend - ended his day on lap 188. The end result was 36th, and Busch is now last out of the 12 drivers in the Chase.
Standings: 1) Carl Edwards 2359, 2) Tony Stewart -3, 3) Kevin Harvick -51, 4) Brad Keselowski -65, 5) Jimmie Johnson -68, 6) Matt Kenseth -70, 7) Dale Earnhardt, Jr. -102, t-8) Kurt Busch -107, t-8) Ryan Newman -107, 10) Denny Hamlin -110, 11) Jeff Gordon -112, 12) Kyle Busch -135.
In the "best of the rest" category, it was a good day for many of the drivers just outside the top-12. Kasey Kahne's first victory in over two years has him just five points behind Clint Bowyer, who had a solid finish in tenth. A.J. Allmendinger continues his late season hot streak, finishing in the sixth position; any of those three drivers, along with Greg Biffle could slot into 13th place after Homestead.
Best of the Rest: 13) Clint Bowyer 1009, 14) Kasey Kahne -5, 15) Greg Biffle -22, 16) A.J. Allmendinger -25, 17) Marcos Ambrose -78.
Tracking The Top 35: DNQ Costly for TRG
Andy Lally and TRG Motorsports became a victim of the top-35 on Saturday, when the team failed to make the show for Sunday's race after losing their "locked in" spot a few weeks ago. It pretty much sealed the fate for them going into next year, as they are now a good 28 points behind Front Row Motorsports' No. 38 entry. FRM, which had J.J. Yeley back behind the wheel for Phoenix with Vampt sponsorship, finished in 28th after starting 41st; that was the solid, survival run the team needed to open up breathing room between the two cars heading to Homestead.
For Lally to even have a shot at the top 35 in owner points, his TRG No. 71 would have to finish 15th or better. Considering Lally hasn't run inside the top 15 all season... well, you can draw your own conclusions.
Casey Mears had the best performance among this group hovering around the top 35. He finished 26th, three laps off the pace.
31) Front Row Motorsports (No. 34 - David Gilliland), +117 points ahead of 36th.
32) Germain Racing (No. 13 - Casey Mears), +80 points ahead of 36th.
33) Tommy Baldwin Racing (No. 36 - Geoff Bodine), +62 points ahead of 36th.
34) FAS Lane Racing (No. 32 - Mike Bliss), +41 points ahead of 36th.
35) Front Row Motorsports (No. 38 - J.J. Yeley), +28 points ahead of 36th.
36) TRG Motorsports (No. 71 - Andy Lally), -28 points behind 35th.
37) Robby Gordon Motorsports (No. 7 - Robby Gordon), -137 points behind 35th.
38) Wood Brothers Racing (No. 21 - Trevor Bayne), -143 points behind 35th.
39) MaxQ Motorsports (No. 37 - Mike Skinner), -285 points behind 35th.
Garrett Horton is a Contributor to Frontstretch.com. He can be reached via e-mail at garrett.horton@frontstretch.com.
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Secret Star of the Race: The Run You Never Saw
When becoming a "lame duck" driver for a team unexpectedly, this late in the season it's never easy to finish on a high note. So give credit to David Reutimann and a strong, consistent seventh-place result he put together on Sunday. A top-10 runner for much of the day, this Michael Waltrip Racing driver put together his second-best performance of the season; only a Kentucky, runner-up finish this July was better. And what's more, he did it with an interim crew chief; Pat Tryson stepped in with head wrench Rodney Childers still suspended over "windshield-gate" from out in Talladega."'m proud of the crew guys for the job they did today," Reutimann said. "They really stuck with me and turned out some great pit stops. And, I have to thank Pat Tryson (interim crew chief) for stepping in to help us out -- he called a great race today. This team is capable of racing like this all the time, but for one reason or another we just haven't shown it much this year. This is a great group of guys! Probably one of the best in the garage and they have been with me a long time. We have one more week together and I was to go out on a high note at Homestead."
It's been an emotional time for Reutimann, whose loyalty was ultimately not rewarded by owner Michael Waltrip but it's runs like these that will give perspective new employers, even at this late date reason to hire the veteran driver for 2012. – Tom Bowles
STAT OF THE WEEK: 5. That's the number of finishes outside the top 10 for Jimmie Johnson this Chase, the five-time defending champion. How unusual is that slump for the No. 48? In the past four years combined, Johnson has only finished outside the top 10 in a Chase race SIX times. Digest that for a minute, as well as the fact Johnson is mathematically eliminated heading to Homestead for the first time since the 2003 season - his second on the Cup circuit. There's a reason people think this title streak may not be duplicated for decades. – Tom Bowles
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Running Their Mouth: 2011 Kobalt Tools 500
by Brody Jones
Each Monday, we go through media reports, interviews, PR, and all of our own stuff to find the best quotes from the Sprint Cup race, capturing the story of how the weekend unfolded. It's the most original commentary you'll ever find: the truth, coming straight out of the mouths of the drivers, crew members, and car owners themselves. Here's a sneak peek at what they all were thinking following Sunday's 500-kilometer race in Arizona:
Best Quote:
"I've been racing 30 years; shoot, 31 years and I've won probably two other big championships along the way. So, seven out of 31 years; this is normal. What we did over the last five years is abnormal. And then, now we'll get a taste of normalcy." - Jimmie Johnson, 14th
Love him or hate him, Jimmie Johnson's incredible five-year run as the NASCAR Sprint Cup champion was nothing short of phenomenal. And even though his reign will come to an end in 2011 at Homestead, it wasn't like this year was a total disaster for the No. 48 team. They won two races, more than guys such as Roush's Greg Biffle, teammate Mark Martin and MWR's David Reutimann, and managed to still contend for a top-5 points finish. Heck, with a little luck by the end of the checkered flag on Sunday they'll slot in third. So while Johnson and Co. won't be tasting champagne at Homestead this year, the five-year run they have put together may very well be something that NASCAR fans will never see again.
Crew Chief Quote Of The Week:
"From the pit box, the track changed a lot. It wasn't really surprising. I think everyone knew it was going to do something, we just didn't know what. Everyone was kind of guessing. We started, went in one direction, then had to turn around and go back in the other direction to get the car to work. All in all, we made a lot of adjustments on the car. Actually got it reasonable and pretty fast at the end. So we were pretty happy with it." - Kenny Francis, winning crew chief for Kasey Kahne
Kenny Francis and Kasey Kahne had been knocking on the door of Victory Lane in recent weeks, and it was only a matter of time before they broke through. Francis' hard work was the key; long considered one of the masterminds on the Cup circuit, the team stuck by him and has gained the trust for any and all adjustments he looks to make on the car. While Kahne did not have the most dominant Toyota for much of the race, he had the best car on the track when it mattered the most and, thanks to Francis, got Red Bull a much-deserved victory in Kahne's next-to-last race with the team before he heads to Hendrick Motorsports in 2012. While the team's future is largely in limbo beyond this season, hopefully this victory spurs some potential investors into taking a second look at a purchase.
Most Controversial Quote:
"Well yeah, obviously it is retaliation for retaliation I guess. I was out of brakes and I was up on everybody and I saw him coming and I lifted at least 10 car lengths before where I would normally lift and he drove in there at 165 miles per hour and cleaned us out. I don't know. If NASCAR is going to start parking people for being mad 25 seconds after you wreck and wrecking somebody, then you would park somebody for that. You have someone that has been telling everybody for four or five weeks that as soon as he got a chance at a fast race track he was going to make it hurt and wipe us out and they do nothing about it. It was so premeditated it just surprises me that they didn't do anything. I am disappointed but I expected it. We aren't racing street stocks at a quarter-mile track so they need to figure out how to get the drivers to settle their differences in a different way; talk about it or figure it out or do something instead of using your car as a battering ram somewhere this fast." - Matt Kenseth, 34th, on mid-race contact with Brian Vickers
Brian Vickers, you mad, bro? One has to wonder what kind of screws are loose in the mind of the Thomasville, North Carolina native to brag about intentionally wrecking another competitor. This year has shown Vickers to be erratic at best; in the previous Phoenix race, he was seen throwing a temper tantrum in a wreck that he blamed on Kenseth when video evidence showed the Cambridge, Wisconsin had little, if anything, to do with it. Plus, there have been tirades at Pocono about speeding penalties and driving like an angry teenager in a demolition derby at Martinsville.
One has to wonder at what point NASCAR has to have a "come to Jesus" meeting with Vickers about what his actions, after intentionally ramming Matt Kenseth into the wall for the second week in a row. Such boorish actions should not go unpunished by the sanctioning body...or every Tom, Dick and Jane with a beef on the track is going to retaliate and get someone hurt.
Best Of The Rest:
"I think coming to Red Bull, it was exciting for me. It was something new, a change. I was really looking forward to coming over here and having one strong year here. I've been able to work with Kenny (Francis, crew chief) and Keith (Rodden, engineer). We just keep trying to get a little bit better each week. They keep trying to give me things to make me be able to go around the track as fast as I can. I'm not sure how Brian (Vickers) and those guys go at it, but he's been a great teammate. Ryan Pemberton (No. 83 crew chief) has been great to work with. Always has a ton of enthusiasm. They're both in Victory Lane after the race congratulating us. They're right there in all of our debriefs and things. It's been a lot of fun working with those guys. Like I said, I was excited to go to Red Bull this year, to be able to have fun and have a good teammate and work with a lot of good people over there. It's been cool. It's been a lot of fun." - Kasey Kahne, race winner
"It is a credit to all the guys on the [No.] 43 and at RPM. The test was really good and we came back really good. Man, I don't know. We lost on that one restart. I don't know. The tires chattered a little bit. The tires were so sensitive and they chattered and got hung out. I overdrove one lap and got in the dirt and that killed us from there. Sixth is OK, but I feel like we deserved better. We have to work on our pit stops. Thanks to the [No.] 6 guys, our Ford teammates coming over and pitting the last two stops. That was a big difference." - A.J. Allmendinger, sixth
"Nobody could pass anyone — so it was really, really difficult from that aspect. We did the best that we could with what we had. We just missed the setup pretty bad today. We just didn't run that well."- Denny Hamlin, 12th, on the new Phoenix layout
"No, no indication this time, just a catastrophic failure. Just really, really unfortunate, too. These guys work their butts off two weeks in a row — all season long. It's just devastating. To go through turmoil like this, all you can do is group together and pull through it and try to persevere and move on. We have one more chance, one more opportunity next week to win a race before the year is out to end it on a high note. Look forward to next year with everything going on. Can't say enough about all these guys on this Interstate Batteries team this weekend, too. Changing the engine, starting behind, coming through, how to worry about qualifying and just getting in the show. All the way to third, you know, we had a shot. We were there. It's unfortunate that we weren't able to finish the race today." - Kyle Busch, 36th
Brody Jones is a Contributor to Frontstretch.com. He can be reached via e-mail at brody.jones@frontstretch.com.
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TODAY ON THE FRONTSTRETCH:
Matt McLaughlin's Thinkin' Out Loud: Phoenix Fall Race Recap
by Matt McLaughlin
Monday Morning Teardown: One Race, 267 Laps ... For All The Marbles
by Ron Lemasters
David vs. Goliath: Few Bright Spots For Underdogs In Desert
by Tom Bowles
Momentum For Two: Will Kahne, Burton Surge In '12 After Strong Chase Showing?
by Tom Bowles
The Big Six: Questions Answered After The Kobalt Tools 500
by Amy Henderson
Nationwide Series Breakdown: Wypall 200
by Bryan Davis Keith
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FRONTSTRETCH TRIVIA:
Q: What is now known as Homestead-Miami Speedway opened in the Fall of 1995. The original plan was to open the venue with an IndyCar race, but the track was not ready to host the March event on its original "Mini-Indy" configuration. Where was this race held, and what was notable about the track?
"I've been racing 30 years; shoot, 31 years and I've won probably two other big championships along the way. So, seven out of 31 years; this is normal. What we did over the last five years is abnormal. And then, now we'll get a taste of normalcy." - Jimmie Johnson, 14th
Love him or hate him, Jimmie Johnson's incredible five-year run as the NASCAR Sprint Cup champion was nothing short of phenomenal. And even though his reign will come to an end in 2011 at Homestead, it wasn't like this year was a total disaster for the No. 48 team. They won two races, more than guys such as Roush's Greg Biffle, teammate Mark Martin and MWR's David Reutimann, and managed to still contend for a top-5 points finish. Heck, with a little luck by the end of the checkered flag on Sunday they'll slot in third. So while Johnson and Co. won't be tasting champagne at Homestead this year, the five-year run they have put together may very well be something that NASCAR fans will never see again.
Crew Chief Quote Of The Week:
"From the pit box, the track changed a lot. It wasn't really surprising. I think everyone knew it was going to do something, we just didn't know what. Everyone was kind of guessing. We started, went in one direction, then had to turn around and go back in the other direction to get the car to work. All in all, we made a lot of adjustments on the car. Actually got it reasonable and pretty fast at the end. So we were pretty happy with it." - Kenny Francis, winning crew chief for Kasey Kahne
Kenny Francis and Kasey Kahne had been knocking on the door of Victory Lane in recent weeks, and it was only a matter of time before they broke through. Francis' hard work was the key; long considered one of the masterminds on the Cup circuit, the team stuck by him and has gained the trust for any and all adjustments he looks to make on the car. While Kahne did not have the most dominant Toyota for much of the race, he had the best car on the track when it mattered the most and, thanks to Francis, got Red Bull a much-deserved victory in Kahne's next-to-last race with the team before he heads to Hendrick Motorsports in 2012. While the team's future is largely in limbo beyond this season, hopefully this victory spurs some potential investors into taking a second look at a purchase.
Most Controversial Quote:
"Well yeah, obviously it is retaliation for retaliation I guess. I was out of brakes and I was up on everybody and I saw him coming and I lifted at least 10 car lengths before where I would normally lift and he drove in there at 165 miles per hour and cleaned us out. I don't know. If NASCAR is going to start parking people for being mad 25 seconds after you wreck and wrecking somebody, then you would park somebody for that. You have someone that has been telling everybody for four or five weeks that as soon as he got a chance at a fast race track he was going to make it hurt and wipe us out and they do nothing about it. It was so premeditated it just surprises me that they didn't do anything. I am disappointed but I expected it. We aren't racing street stocks at a quarter-mile track so they need to figure out how to get the drivers to settle their differences in a different way; talk about it or figure it out or do something instead of using your car as a battering ram somewhere this fast." - Matt Kenseth, 34th, on mid-race contact with Brian Vickers
Brian Vickers, you mad, bro? One has to wonder what kind of screws are loose in the mind of the Thomasville, North Carolina native to brag about intentionally wrecking another competitor. This year has shown Vickers to be erratic at best; in the previous Phoenix race, he was seen throwing a temper tantrum in a wreck that he blamed on Kenseth when video evidence showed the Cambridge, Wisconsin had little, if anything, to do with it. Plus, there have been tirades at Pocono about speeding penalties and driving like an angry teenager in a demolition derby at Martinsville.
One has to wonder at what point NASCAR has to have a "come to Jesus" meeting with Vickers about what his actions, after intentionally ramming Matt Kenseth into the wall for the second week in a row. Such boorish actions should not go unpunished by the sanctioning body...or every Tom, Dick and Jane with a beef on the track is going to retaliate and get someone hurt.
Best Of The Rest:
"I think coming to Red Bull, it was exciting for me. It was something new, a change. I was really looking forward to coming over here and having one strong year here. I've been able to work with Kenny (Francis, crew chief) and Keith (Rodden, engineer). We just keep trying to get a little bit better each week. They keep trying to give me things to make me be able to go around the track as fast as I can. I'm not sure how Brian (Vickers) and those guys go at it, but he's been a great teammate. Ryan Pemberton (No. 83 crew chief) has been great to work with. Always has a ton of enthusiasm. They're both in Victory Lane after the race congratulating us. They're right there in all of our debriefs and things. It's been a lot of fun working with those guys. Like I said, I was excited to go to Red Bull this year, to be able to have fun and have a good teammate and work with a lot of good people over there. It's been cool. It's been a lot of fun." - Kasey Kahne, race winner
"It is a credit to all the guys on the [No.] 43 and at RPM. The test was really good and we came back really good. Man, I don't know. We lost on that one restart. I don't know. The tires chattered a little bit. The tires were so sensitive and they chattered and got hung out. I overdrove one lap and got in the dirt and that killed us from there. Sixth is OK, but I feel like we deserved better. We have to work on our pit stops. Thanks to the [No.] 6 guys, our Ford teammates coming over and pitting the last two stops. That was a big difference." - A.J. Allmendinger, sixth
"Nobody could pass anyone — so it was really, really difficult from that aspect. We did the best that we could with what we had. We just missed the setup pretty bad today. We just didn't run that well."- Denny Hamlin, 12th, on the new Phoenix layout
"No, no indication this time, just a catastrophic failure. Just really, really unfortunate, too. These guys work their butts off two weeks in a row — all season long. It's just devastating. To go through turmoil like this, all you can do is group together and pull through it and try to persevere and move on. We have one more chance, one more opportunity next week to win a race before the year is out to end it on a high note. Look forward to next year with everything going on. Can't say enough about all these guys on this Interstate Batteries team this weekend, too. Changing the engine, starting behind, coming through, how to worry about qualifying and just getting in the show. All the way to third, you know, we had a shot. We were there. It's unfortunate that we weren't able to finish the race today." - Kyle Busch, 36th
Brody Jones is a Contributor to Frontstretch.com. He can be reached via e-mail at brody.jones@frontstretch.com.
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TODAY ON THE FRONTSTRETCH:
Matt McLaughlin's Thinkin' Out Loud: Phoenix Fall Race Recap
by Matt McLaughlin
Monday Morning Teardown: One Race, 267 Laps ... For All The Marbles
by Ron Lemasters
David vs. Goliath: Few Bright Spots For Underdogs In Desert
by Tom Bowles
Momentum For Two: Will Kahne, Burton Surge In '12 After Strong Chase Showing?
by Tom Bowles
The Big Six: Questions Answered After The Kobalt Tools 500
by Amy Henderson
Nationwide Series Breakdown: Wypall 200
by Bryan Davis Keith
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FRONTSTRETCH TRIVIA:
Q: What is now known as Homestead-Miami Speedway opened in the Fall of 1995. The original plan was to open the venue with an IndyCar race, but the track was not ready to host the March event on its original "Mini-Indy" configuration. Where was this race held, and what was notable about the track?
Friday's Answer:
Q: Today, Phoenix International Raceway has a state-of-the-art catchfence and a typical flagstand. However, this was not the case back in the early 1980s. What was PIR's flagstand like back then?
A: Phoenix International Raceway's infrastructure was quite substandard, at least by today's guidelines, back in the 1980s. At that time, the flagstand was a small box just on the other side and slightly above (meaning a couple of feet) above the Armco guardrail that constituted the outside wall at the time. Also note that this flagstand was in front of the catchfence. By the time the Cup Series first raced there, the guardrail had been replaced by a wall composed of vertical bricks, hoping to further protect those watching - and flagging. The flagstand was elevated further in 1990.
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Coming Tuesday in the Frontstretch Newsletter:
-- Top News from Tom Bowles
-- Numbers Game by Brett Poirier
-- Sitting In The Stands: A Fans' View by S.D. Grady
This Week's Edition: Who Could Be The Better Cup Champion?
-- Links to your favorite Frontstretch articles, and more!
Tomorrow on the Frontstretch:
The Yellow Stripe by Danny Peters
Danny gives us a commentary piece based on recent events in NASCAR. This week, with the season winding down he looks ahead to 2012 to see who are the main drivers and storylines to watch.
Who's Hot / Who's Not in Sprint Cup: Fort Worth-Avondale Edition by Summer Dreyer
We'll take a look at post-Phoenix numbers to see who's got the most momentum heading into Homestead... and beyond.
Five Points To Ponder by Bryan Davis Keith
Bryan is back with his weekly edition of talking points to tie up Phoenix and get us set for Homestead.
Talking NASCAR TV by Phil Allaway
This past weekend, the Sprint Cup Series made their second visit of the year to Phoenix International Raceway, along with the Nationwide Series. Were the race telecasts up to snuff, or were they missing something? Find out in this week's edition of the TV Critique.
Fact Or Fiction by Tom Bowles
Tom is back with a list of predictions and calls to get us set for the final week of NASCAR competition for 2011.
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