October 2009 - News

• 19-Year-Old Camping World Truck Series Rookie To Pull Double Duty; Also Competing In WinStar World Casino 350k Night Prior
• Buescher 14th In Camping World Truck Series Championship Standings

FORT WORTH, Texas (October 30, 2009) –Plano native James Buescher will drive Phoenix Racing’s No. 1 entry in the upcoming O’Reilly Challenge Nationwide Series race Saturday, Nov. 7, at Texas Motor Speedway.

Texas Motor Speedway and 105.3 The FAN are giving one lucky listener the chance to become an honorary pit crew member on Ricky Carmichael’s No. 4 Monster Energy Chevrolet team for the WinStar World Casino 350k NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race Friday, Nov. 6.

If any driver is due for a win at Texas Motor Speedway, it is Mike Skinner. Skinner’s name is scattered across the TMS record book for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, but his name isn’t etched into the Wall of Champions in Victory Lane yet.

By Bill Marx
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service
 
(October 27, 2009)
 
After two consecutive wins, Jimmie Johnson came up short and finished … second. Superman now leads the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup by 118 points heading into Talladega. Johnson is four races from his fourth straight Cup championship. Here’s the breakdown of the top 12 after Sunday’s race at Martinsville Speedway.
 
1. Jimmie Johnson, 6,098. Only a four-tire call at Kansas—when most of the other cars in the top 10 took two—has kept Johnson from having top-five finishes in each of the first six Chase races. Instead, that ninth-place day has dragged down his average finish in the Chase to 3.0. Horrors!

By Reid Spencer / Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

MARTINSVILLE, Va. -- Given his background in cut-throat Formula One racing, you can imagine Juan Pablo Montoya's surprise in discovering that his Sprint Cup competitors were more than willing to help him learn the ropes. Quite often, Montoya has sought the counsel of veteran Mark Martin, one of the most respected racers in the garage.

Texas Motor Speedway will be celebrating its fans throughout the Dickies 500 weekend and one of the highlights will be the opportunity for one of them to win an expenses-paid trip for two to Las Vegas to watch the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion be crowned at the annual NASCAR Sprint Cup Awards Ceremony.

Kevin Harvick, Inc. has announced that Ricky Carmichael, the former 15-time American Motorcycle Association (AMA) champion, will drive the organization’s No. 4 entry for the Nov. 6 WinStar World Casino 350k NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.

By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service
(John Harrelson/Getty Images for NASCAR)
 
(October 17, 2009)
 
CONCORD, N.C.—Saturday night’s NASCAR Banking 500 was appropriately named. After winning the race as his two closest pursuers fell by the wayside, Jimmie Johnson can all but take his fourth straight NASCAR Sprint Cup title to the bank.