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Sept. 26, 2014
Volume VIII, Edition CLXVII
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This Weekend's TV Schedule
Friday, September 26
Time Telecast Network
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Nationwide Series Happy Hour ESPN 2
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sprint Cup Series Qualifying ESPN 2
5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. NASCAR America NBC Sports Network
6:15 p.m. - 9:15 p.m. NHRA AAA Insurance Midwest Nationals Opening Qualifications ESPN3$
Saturday, September 27
Time Telecast Network
4:00 a.m. - 4:30 a.m. The 10: Greatest Families in NASCAR History FOX Sports 1#
4:30 a.m. - 6:00 a.m. Sprint Cup Series Practice No. 1 FOX Sports 1*# (from September 26)
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Whelen Modified Tory F. W. Webb 100 FOX Sports 1*/ (from September 20)
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Sprint Cup Series Practice No. 2 FOX Sports 1
11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Langley Speedway Practice FansChoice.tv^
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Nationwide Series Qualifying FOX Sports 2
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Empty Cup: Quest for the 1992 NASCAR Championship FOX Sports 2#
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Sprint Cup Series Happy Hour FOX Sports 2
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Lake County Speedway Hot Laps FansChoice.tv^
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Langley Speedway Qualifying FansChoice.tv^
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Nationwide Series Dover 200 ESPN 2
4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Tucson Speedway Practice FansChoice.tv^
5:50 p.m. - 8:50 p.m. Langley Speedway Sherwin-Williams Night At The Races FansChoice.tv^
5:55 p.m. - 8:55 p.m. Lake County Speedway Winged Outlaw Figure Eight Series FansChoice.tv^
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. AMA Pro Flat Track: Calistoga, Timed Practice FansChoice.tv^
8:15 p.m. - 9:15 p.m. Tucson Speedway Qualifying FansChoice.tV^
9:30 p.m. - 1:10 a.m. AMA Pro Flat Track: Calistoga, Main Events FansChoice.tv^
9:55 p.m. - 12:55 a.m. Tucson Speedway Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure FansChoice.tv^
10:00 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. Camping World Truck Series Rhino Linings 350k FOX Sports 1
Sunday, September 28
Time Telecast Network
3:30 a.m. - 5:00 a.m. NHRA AAA Insurance Midwest Nationals Final Qualifications ESPN 2*/ (from September 27)
7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. motoGP World Championship Grand Prix of Aragon FOX Sports 1
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Sprint Cup Series Happy Hour FOX Sports 1*# (from September 27)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. NASCAR RaceDay FOX Sports 1
12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. NHRA AAA Insurance Midwest Nationals Final Eliminations ESPN3$
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. NASCAR Countdown ESPN
2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Sprint Cup Series AAA 400 ESPN
2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Pirelli World Challenge: Miller Motorsports Park NBC Sports Network* (from September 13-14)
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Moto3: Aragon FOX Sports 1*
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. NHRA AAA Insurance Midwest Nationals Final Qualifications ESPN 2*//# (from September 27)
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Moto2: Aragon FOX Sports 1*
4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. NHRA AAA Insurance Midwest Nationals Final Eliminations ESPN 2*/
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge: COTA FOX Sports 1*/ (from September 19)
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. DTM: Guangzhou CBS Sports Network*
7:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. NASCAR Victory Lane FOX Sports 1*
DVR Theater (Late Sunday Night/Early Monday Morning)
1:00 a.m. - 3:00 a.m. Sprint Cup Series AAA 400 ESPN 2*/# (from September 28)
3:00 a.m. - 5:30 a.m. Camping World Truck Series Rhino Linings 350k FOX Sports 1*# (from September 27)
4:00 a.m. - 6:00 a.m. DTM: Guangzhou CBS Sports Network*# (from September 27)
5:30 a.m.- 6:00 a.m. The 10: NASCAR's Greatest Races FOX Sports 1#
/ - Highlighted Coverage
// - Highlighted Coverage that has been cut a second time
# - Repeat Coverage
^ - Available via free online streaming
$ - Available via password-protected online streaming. Check with your internet and/or programming provider for availability
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Top News
by Justin Tucker and Beth Lunkenheimer
Have news for Beth, Justin and Frontstretch? Don't hesitate to let us know; email us at phil.allaway@frontstretch.com.
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Frontstretch Folio: AAA 400
by Brad Morgan
The Sprint Cup Series returns to Dover International Speedway for the 29th race of the 2014 season on Sunday, Sept. 28. Television coverage of the AAA 400 begins at 2 p.m. ET on ESPN; your local Motor Racing Network (MRN) affiliate and SiriusXM Radio Channel 90 will handle the radio broadcast. Drivers will compete for at least 400 laps (400 miles) before the checkered flag waves.
Records and Facts
Jimmie Johnson won at Dover in April and during the Chase last season. In total, Johnson has nine wins here, more than any driver in the history of the series. Johnson led 272 laps and beat Brad Keselowski to the stripe for his ninth victory.
Johnson's fall win at Dover in 2005 stands as the closest track finish since the advent of electronic scoring. He edged Kyle Busch by .08 seconds.
Hendrick Motorsports has more Dover wins (16) than any other organization. Johnson (nine) leads the way, followed by Jeff Gordon (four), Geoff Bodine (one), Ken Schrader (one) and Ricky Rudd (one).
Track Facts
Track Length: 1-mile oval
Pit Road Speed: 35 mph
Degree of Banking: 24 degrees
Frontstretch: 1,076 ft., 9 degrees of banking
Backstretch: 1,076 ft., 9 degrees of banking
Grandstand Seating: 135,000
Website: http://www.doverspeedway.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dover-DE/Dover-International-Speedway/42053218597
Twitter: http://twitter.com/MonsterMile
Pre-race Schedule
Practices: Friday, Sept. 26, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 1
Saturday, Sept. 27, 11 – 11:50 a.m. ET on FOX Sports 1
Happy Hour: Saturday, Sept. 27, 2 – 2:50 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 2
Qualifying: Friday, Sept. 26, 3:40 p.m. ET on ESPN2
VIPs
Grand Marshal/Command: Brian Mitchell
Honorary Starter/Wave Green Flag: Don Gagnon
Invocation: TBA
National Anthem: USO Show Troupe
Honor Guard: Dover Air Force Base Honor Guard
Flyover: Russian YAK 52s, a Chinese CJ-6 and a U.S. RV-8TBA, The Bandit Flight Team
Race Day Forecast
Sunday: Clear
High: 77
Low: 59
They Said It:
"I got home last night and all the sudden it started hitting me that we have a shot to advance. I don't know, the outlook is different, we can make it now. If we did, it would be good publicity for our sponsors, who have supported our team for such a long time." - AJ Allmendinger
"You're aiming for a moving target. Once the track starts taking rubber and starts getting black, the car drives 100-percent different than when the rubber's not down. So, do you set up and adjust your car to drive on the rubber at the end of a run? Or for the first three-quarters of a run when it's not down? So, it makes it really challenging to chase it. It's strange to go around the track on a black racetrack, and then caution comes out, and by the time you go green again, it's regular white concrete again. It's kind of crazy." - David Gilliland
"Dover is definitely one of the most taxing places that we go to for sure. There are just a lot of g-forces as you go off into the corner and it kind of throws you down into a hole. There's a lot of banking with a lot of speed and it's hard on your body. I usually leave out of there with sore heels from where my feet have beat on the floorboard through the day. It's definitely a very taxing race track for a driver." - Kevin Harvick
"We're so early in this thing and with the resets that there are the success of one day really means nothing come the last race at Homestead. With each reset it looks like an NCAA bracket. In that sense to compare it, it would be like if a great NCAA team beat a lower-seeded team it doesn't really matter when you get to the next round. It's great. It's positive momentum and everything you want to do and think you should do, but when it resets it resets and nothing that you've done in the past really matters as long as you're eligible for the bracket. We're a long, long ways from using the word 'favorite' or feeling overly confident." - Brad Keselowski
Brad Morgan is a senior writer for Frontstretch. Email him at brad.morgan@frontstretch.com.
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Keeping It Short: Going Home One Last Time
by Mike Neff
It was announced before this year that 2014 is the final season of World of Outlaw Sprint Car competition for Steve "The King" Kinser. The 20-time champion of the series has decided to hang up the helmet after running the series since its inaugural season in 1978. Kinser is the winningest driver in the history of the series and has been the face of the sport, along with Sammy Swindell and Doug Wolfgang. Kinser came into the sport after growing up racing at Bloomington Speedway and had not been back to the track in a winged sprint car in the last two years. Knowing that this was going to be the last season of his career the sanctioning body and the track managed to get Bloomington back onto the docket for one last appearance by the King at home.
Bloomington truly is home for Kinser. He currently makes his home just a few miles from the track and has been going to the speedway since he was a child. His first sprint car race was at the track in 1976 and, when he won the inaugural championship for the World of Outlaws he clinched it at his home track. Kinser took the checkered flag at Bloomington in an WoO car eight times in his career. The last of them was in 1998. The Tony Stewart Racing shop where his cars are constructed is next to his home and employs six people from the Bloomington area.
This will be Kinser's last race in the state of Indiana in his WoO career as the tour makes its way through the final six weeks of the season before wrapping up at the World Finals in Charlotte at the beginning of November. As mentioned earlier, Kinser is the winningest driver in the history of the series. He's won 577 A-mains, almost double the 294 of Swindell, his closest competitor on the list. There are only three other drivers in the history of the sport with more than 100 wins. Wolfgang has 107, Kinser's cousin Mark has 153 and the current top dog in the series Donny Schatz has 170. In 1987 Kinser won 46 races during the season, including 12 straight. He's won the Super Bowl of Sprint Car racing, the Knoxville Nationals, a record 12 times. He's won feature races in the WoO at 142 different race tracks.
Kinser also ran the Indianapolis 500 and had a brief career in NASCAR, but the World of Outlaws was always where his heart belonged. After qualifying for the 500 he went to Tri-State Speedway to win his 415th career race. He finished 14th in that 500.
There are only three or four drivers in the history of american motorsports that are the face of their series. Richard Petty is The King of NASCAR. John Force is The Man in drag racing. AJ Foyt is the greatest driver of all-time. The fourth face on the Mt. Rushmore of American race car drivers is Steve Kinser, the King of the Outlaws.
If you are in the Bloomington area on Friday night, make the trip over to the speedway. You can get in for $35 and be a part of one of the biggest dates on the Salute to the King tour. The gates open at 3 p.m. and racing starts at 7:30. It isn't often you get to say farewell to a king at his home.
NASCAR Whelen All-American National Championship
It is over. After the season long battle, debates, disputes, name calling and finger pointing, the title has been bestowed on Anthony Anders. Lee Pulliam came up one spot short of being the first driver in history to win three championships in a row. Keith Rocco, the constant in the top 3 over most of the last decade notches another third-place finish. Dillon Bassett raced at more tracks than anyone and came home in fourth with Chad Finchum rounding out the top 5.
Ryan Preece managed to hold off Kres Vandyke and stay in the sixth spot. Peyton Sellers comes home in eighth, tied with Vandyke for seventh but lost on the tie breaker of wins. Randy Porter makes a move back into the top 10 to score the ninth spot and Tommy Lemons Jr. wraps up the top 10.
Pos. Name Tracks Races Wins Top 5s Top 10s Points
| 1 | Anthony Anders | Anderson, Greenville, Hickory, Myrtle | 51 | 30 | 44 | 48 | 720 |
| 2 | Lee Pulliam | Caraway, Southern Natl, S Boston, Greenville, Motor Mile | 46 | 25 | 41 | 42 | 708 |
| 3 | Keith Rocco | Stafford, Waterford, Thompson | 46 | 16 | 35 | 40 | 698 |
| 4 | Dillon Bassett | Motor Mile, Anderson, Southern Natl, Hickory, Caraway, East Carolina, Langley | 37 | 13 | 31 | 35 | 649 |
| 5 | Chad Finchum | Kingsport, L Pine | 37 | 19 | 33 | 34 | 647 |
| 6 | Ryan Preece | Thompson, Riverhead, Waterford, Stafford | 46 | 12 | 37 | 42 | 643 |
| 7 | Kres Vandyke | L Pine, Kingsport, Motor Mile | 39 | 10 | 35 | 37 | 629 |
| 8 | Peyton Sellers | Motor Mile, S Boston, Caraway, Langley | 37 | 5 | 30 | 36 | 629 |
| 9 | Randy Porter | Greenville, Anderson | 25 | 6 | 19 | 21 | 615 |
| 10 | Tommy Lemons, Jr | Motor Mile, S Boston, Southern Natl, Caraway | 45 | 7 | 31 | 38 | 614 |
| 45 | 7 | 31 | 38 | 614 |
This week's racing schedule can be found here.
Mike Neff is a senior writer for Frontstretch.com. Feedback can be sent to mike.neff@frontstretch.com.
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TODAY ON FRONTSTRETCH:
Happiness Is...Kyle Busch, AJ Allmendinger, Jobs, and Dover
by Huston Ladner
Nuts for Nationwide: Ben Rhodes Could Be Turner Scott's Next Big Thing
by Joseph Wolkin
NASCAR Rules Changes Creating Some Fascinating Conundrums
by Aaron Creed
Friday Faceoff: New Rules, Chase Choices, and 'Young Uns
by Frontstretch Staff
Frontstretch Foto Funnies: I Can't See Over the Dashboard
by Frontstretch Staff
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FRONTSTRETCH TRIVIA
Q: In the 1999 MBNA Gold 200, Adam Petty had a career day, leading 23 laps and contending for the win late in the going. However, Petty's race ended 20 laps too early. What happened?
Check back Monday for the answer, here in the Frontstretch Newsletter!
Thursday's Answer:
Q: Prior to the concrete surface being laid down at Dover for 1995, the then-Dover Downs International Speedway had an asphalt surface with sealer. Why was the track constantly sealed?
A: Dover's asphalt surface was prone to breaking up under the forces of the racecars. As a result, the sealer was needed in order to help keep the track surface together. Bristol was in a similar boat prior to that track being converted to concrete in 1992. In both cases, the sealer made the track surface quite slippery.
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-- AAA 400 Race Recap by Justin Tucker
-- Never Fear, The Underdogs Are Here by Amy Henderson
-- Sidebar Stories: Dover by Phil Allaway
-- Links to your favorite Frontstretch Columns and More!
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This Weekend on the Frontstretch:
Four Burning Questions: Dover by Matt Stallknecht
Matt covers all the big stories and questions heading into Dover's second series date of 2014.
Nationwide Breakdown: Dover 200 by Joseph Wolkin
Joseph has all the post-race analysis you need following Saturday's Nationwide Series race from Dover.
Tracking the Trucks: Rhino Linings 350 by Farrah Kaye
Farrah will track all the stories that come from the Truck Series' standalone race at Las Vegas.
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Monday on the Frontstretch:
Thinkin' Out Loud: AAA 400 by Mike Neff
Mike covers all the details and post-race analysis from Dover.
Big Six: AAA 400 by Amy Henderson
Amy tackles the who, what, when, where, how and why from Dover.
Pace Laps: All Racing Series by the Frontstretch Staff
Our staff keeps you posted on all the racing action that occurred over the weekend.
Bowles-Eye View by Tom Bowles
Tom returns to tackle one of the most important storylines post-Dover.
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