At Kentucky Speedway, a Pileup Off the Track
Sabtu, 16 Juli 2011 by Android Blackberry
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| While stock cars sped around the track, 15,000 fans were stuck in 12-mile lines on Interstate 71 |
Ryan Newman Continues Modified Tour Dominance At New Hampshire
Ryan Newman attained individual perfection in opposition to the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour.
Saturday, the Sprint Cup Series common started his quest to produce it two several years inside a row of likely unbeaten while in the division.
Newman cruised from his challengers above the closing laps to win the Whelen Modified Tour F.W. Webb 100 Saturday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
It had been Newman's 3rd consecutive Modified Tour victory at New Hampshire and his fourth victory in his last 4 starts in the sequence.
Additionally to sweeping the two Modified Tour events in 2010 at New Hampshire, the South Bend, Ind., native also won the Modified Tour's event at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2010. Newman drives for automobile proprietor and West Boylston, Mass., native Kevin "Bono" Manion, a previous Whelen Modified Tour crew chief who is now a Sprint Cup crew chief for Jamie McMurray.
Soon after the race, Newman continued his marketing campaign for much more Modified Tour events as companion occasions on Sprint Cup weekends at tracks.
"Richmond, Phoenix, Martinsville," Newman mentioned, naming off tracks he wished the sequence visited.
Todd Szegedy of Ridgefield was second, 1.901 seconds driving Newman with the checkered flag. Ron Silk of Norwalk was 3rd.
The race went caution no cost from lap 13 into the close with Newman, Szegedy and Silk far in advance of the relaxation in the area for many with the occasion. Fourth put Matt Hirschman of Northampton, Pa., was about 50 % a lap behind Newman on the complete.
"Our vehicle was truly free," Newman claimed. "I seriously had to take care of the steering wheel as well as the throttle at the same time. And all of us top-three men ended up [loose]. It seemed like the track seriously was not significantly like it was in apply."
Newman led all but a few on the very first 47 laps, prior to Silk went by him for the front on lap 48. Szegedy dropped Newman to third on lap 49.
On lap eighty the charge began for Newman, as he passed Szegedy for 2nd. Four laps later on, Newman went below Silk for the lead in turn a few and under no circumstances trailed again.
"I created the comment that we ended up way loose, but it surely turned out we have been the tightest of your loose men and that was all it took to get ready to have back previous these two cars," Newman said. "We all raced clear and had loads of enjoyment. … It can be an awesome race auto."
Silk was second with the white flag and tried using to blast again to Newman's bumper, but he got large on the track in turn a person, letting Szegedy to consider above 2nd.
"I obtained a bit near to Newman there to the last lap, [the lapped vehicle of] Eric Beers gave me a [drafting] tow to get me inside variety of him and I actually tried out to sail it down into [turn] an individual there about the final lap and I just got up from the unfastened things," Silk mentioned. "Once you get up there you can't get out, to ensure Todd was in a position to get me in the last lap."
Said Szegedy: "Second to me was kind of a win. We defeat all of the regulars. [Newman] variety of permit us go and after that came back again and went right back by us yet again. He made it remarkable I guess. Great for him. I believe we've bought some do the job to try and do. I've acquired to drive the track a bit distinctive, we have bought to set the vehicle up a bit various. He is not unbeatable, he absolutely is usually beat. We've just bought to operate harder."
Newman is now scheduled to compete if the Whelen Modified Tour visits Bristol Motor Speedway on Aug. 24 and returns to New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sept. 24 to the Sylvania 300 Sprint Cup weekend.
Manion explained the crew even now hasn't made the decision if they will attempt to run the Whelen Modified Tour race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Aug. 13, a brand new event which is a companion to the track's IndyCar Series race on Aug. 14. The Sprint Cup Collection competes at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) Worldwide on Aug. 14.
"I never know if he'll be the following with the IndyCar weekend," Silk stated. "Maybe he would not be, perhaps we'll get a break."
Ryan Newman attained individual perfection in opposition to the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour.
Saturday, the Sprint Cup Series common started his quest to produce it two several years inside a row of likely unbeaten while in the division.
Newman cruised from his challengers above the closing laps to win the Whelen Modified Tour F.W. Webb 100 Saturday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
It had been Newman's 3rd consecutive Modified Tour victory at New Hampshire and his fourth victory in his last 4 starts in the sequence.
Additionally to sweeping the two Modified Tour events in 2010 at New Hampshire, the South Bend, Ind., native also won the Modified Tour's event at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2010. Newman drives for automobile proprietor and West Boylston, Mass., native Kevin "Bono" Manion, a previous Whelen Modified Tour crew chief who is now a Sprint Cup crew chief for Jamie McMurray.
Soon after the race, Newman continued his marketing campaign for much more Modified Tour events as companion occasions on Sprint Cup weekends at tracks.
"Richmond, Phoenix, Martinsville," Newman mentioned, naming off tracks he wished the sequence visited.
Todd Szegedy of Ridgefield was second, 1.901 seconds driving Newman with the checkered flag. Ron Silk of Norwalk was 3rd.
The race went caution no cost from lap 13 into the close with Newman, Szegedy and Silk far in advance of the relaxation in the area for many with the occasion. Fourth put Matt Hirschman of Northampton, Pa., was about 50 % a lap behind Newman on the complete.
"Our vehicle was truly free," Newman claimed. "I seriously had to take care of the steering wheel as well as the throttle at the same time. And all of us top-three men ended up [loose]. It seemed like the track seriously was not significantly like it was in apply."
Newman led all but a few on the very first 47 laps, prior to Silk went by him for the front on lap 48. Szegedy dropped Newman to third on lap 49.
On lap eighty the charge began for Newman, as he passed Szegedy for 2nd. Four laps later on, Newman went below Silk for the lead in turn a few and under no circumstances trailed again.
"I created the comment that we ended up way loose, but it surely turned out we have been the tightest of your loose men and that was all it took to get ready to have back previous these two cars," Newman said. "We all raced clear and had loads of enjoyment. … It can be an awesome race auto."
Silk was second with the white flag and tried using to blast again to Newman's bumper, but he got large on the track in turn a person, letting Szegedy to consider above 2nd.
"I obtained a bit near to Newman there to the last lap, [the lapped vehicle of] Eric Beers gave me a [drafting] tow to get me inside variety of him and I actually tried out to sail it down into [turn] an individual there about the final lap and I just got up from the unfastened things," Silk mentioned. "Once you get up there you can't get out, to ensure Todd was in a position to get me in the last lap."
Said Szegedy: "Second to me was kind of a win. We defeat all of the regulars. [Newman] variety of permit us go and after that came back again and went right back by us yet again. He made it remarkable I guess. Great for him. I believe we've bought some do the job to try and do. I've acquired to drive the track a bit distinctive, we have bought to set the vehicle up a bit various. He is not unbeatable, he absolutely is usually beat. We've just bought to operate harder."
Newman is now scheduled to compete if the Whelen Modified Tour visits Bristol Motor Speedway on Aug. 24 and returns to New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sept. 24 to the Sylvania 300 Sprint Cup weekend.
Manion explained the crew even now hasn't made the decision if they will attempt to run the Whelen Modified Tour race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Aug. 13, a brand new event which is a companion to the track's IndyCar Series race on Aug. 14. The Sprint Cup Collection competes at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) Worldwide on Aug. 14.
"I never know if he'll be the following with the IndyCar weekend," Silk stated. "Maybe he would not be, perhaps we'll get a break."
At Kentucky Speedway, a Pileup Off the Track
Nascar’s president, Mike Helton, answered 14 questions Friday at a information convention at a racetrack in Loudon, N.H. 9 concerns, and his opening feedback, dealt by using a colossal visitors jam, not a result of stock autos, prior to a race final Saturday about 900 miles away in Kentucky. .
Even though Kentucky Speedway officials apologized Monday for that gridlock, which prompted many ticket-holders to pass up the first Sprint Cup race for the track, in Sparta, Ky., Helton mentioned Nascar was trying to establish what brought on the “unfortunate episode” and the way it could be fixed.
“We won't relaxation until eventually now we have figured that out,” Helton mentioned.
He pointed out that Nascar had not completed its 2012 timetable, indicating that Kentucky Speedway wasn't certain to host yet another race, whilst he claimed later on which the business was looking for a alternative on the issues that produced Saturday.
Nascar estimated that a sellout crowd of 107,000 attended the race on the 11-year-old speedway, and that is off Interstate 71 concerning Louisville, Ky., and Cincinnati. But Bruton Smith, the founder and chief executive in the corporation that owns the track, said about 15,000 ticket-holders ended up unable to show up at. Some ticket-holders have been turned away by the police because the track’s parking loads ended up entire.
Smith, whose business, Speedway Motorsports Inc., purchased the track in 1998, transferred one among two yearly Sprint Cup races at Atlanta Motor Speedway to Kentucky and expanded the track’s seating capability to satisfy bigger desire. A second-tier Nationwide Series race in 2010 drew 71,300 followers.
“This was not our very first race at Kentucky Motor Speedway; we've got had a number of several years of Nationwide and truck races there,” Helton said. “I grant you the bodily layout on the encompassing area exterior the racetrack was below important variations.”
Helton extra: “Did all people changes contribute to that, and did it definitely, probably compound the problem? Was there overconfidence from your point that they had raced there for ten decades rather than used in entire consideration in the physical improvements which were taking place?”
Marcus Smith, Bruton’s son along with the president of S.M.I., claimed within a assertion Monday the corporation would honor unused tickets for your Kentucky race at any of seven remaining Sprint Cup races at S.M.I. tracks - together with New Hampshire - or the 2012 race at Kentucky Speedway, if one particular is held there.
However the event had definitely turn into a public relations nightmare. The Louisville Courier-Journal described that backups stretched for twelve miles on I-71 in each directions in the exit with the racetrack, even inside the middle in the race.
“I felt lousy with the followers simply because they are the ones that endured final weekend,” Tony Stewart, the racecar proprietor and driver, reported later Friday at New Hampshire. “It set a black eye on us.”
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which plays host towards the Brickyard four hundred, a Sprint Cup race on July 31, supplied totally free and discounted admission to practice and qualifying sessions to ticket-holders to the Kentucky race. Officials at other tracks criticized Bruton Smith.
“To consider every one of the difficult perform that we’ve completed the following at Michigan Worldwide Speedway and also other tracks have executed may very well be so speedily erased by Saturday’s occasions,” Roger Curtis, the president of Michigan International Speedway, mentioned in the statement Monday. “That speedway, having been open for racing due to the fact 2000, should have identified the difficulties it could deal with when it tripled in size.”
David Williams, the president on the Kentucky Senate, mentioned Monday he would find a legislative hearing to critique all areas of setting up for your race, which he was unable to show up at because he was stuck in traffic. Helton reported Friday that he had not talked to any public officials from Kentucky considering that before the race.
Kentucky Speedway is usually to perform host into a Camping Globe Truck Sequence race and an IndyCar Collection race to the initial weekend in October, despite the fact that the crowds for all those activities are anticipated to become relatively scaled-down than the an individual for that Sprint Cup race.
When asked if track officials would make use of the weekend in October to apply modifications on the flow of targeted visitors, Helton drew chuckles by replying, “I consider it’s a fantastic chance to consider things.”
Nascar’s president, Mike Helton, answered 14 questions Friday at a information convention at a racetrack in Loudon, N.H. 9 concerns, and his opening feedback, dealt by using a colossal visitors jam, not a result of stock autos, prior to a race final Saturday about 900 miles away in Kentucky. .
Even though Kentucky Speedway officials apologized Monday for that gridlock, which prompted many ticket-holders to pass up the first Sprint Cup race for the track, in Sparta, Ky., Helton mentioned Nascar was trying to establish what brought on the “unfortunate episode” and the way it could be fixed.
“We won't relaxation until eventually now we have figured that out,” Helton mentioned.
He pointed out that Nascar had not completed its 2012 timetable, indicating that Kentucky Speedway wasn't certain to host yet another race, whilst he claimed later on which the business was looking for a alternative on the issues that produced Saturday.
Nascar estimated that a sellout crowd of 107,000 attended the race on the 11-year-old speedway, and that is off Interstate 71 concerning Louisville, Ky., and Cincinnati. But Bruton Smith, the founder and chief executive in the corporation that owns the track, said about 15,000 ticket-holders ended up unable to show up at. Some ticket-holders have been turned away by the police because the track’s parking loads ended up entire.
Smith, whose business, Speedway Motorsports Inc., purchased the track in 1998, transferred one among two yearly Sprint Cup races at Atlanta Motor Speedway to Kentucky and expanded the track’s seating capability to satisfy bigger desire. A second-tier Nationwide Series race in 2010 drew 71,300 followers.
“This was not our very first race at Kentucky Motor Speedway; we've got had a number of several years of Nationwide and truck races there,” Helton said. “I grant you the bodily layout on the encompassing area exterior the racetrack was below important variations.”
Helton extra: “Did all people changes contribute to that, and did it definitely, probably compound the problem? Was there overconfidence from your point that they had raced there for ten decades rather than used in entire consideration in the physical improvements which were taking place?”
Marcus Smith, Bruton’s son along with the president of S.M.I., claimed within a assertion Monday the corporation would honor unused tickets for your Kentucky race at any of seven remaining Sprint Cup races at S.M.I. tracks - together with New Hampshire - or the 2012 race at Kentucky Speedway, if one particular is held there.
However the event had definitely turn into a public relations nightmare. The Louisville Courier-Journal described that backups stretched for twelve miles on I-71 in each directions in the exit with the racetrack, even inside the middle in the race.
“I felt lousy with the followers simply because they are the ones that endured final weekend,” Tony Stewart, the racecar proprietor and driver, reported later Friday at New Hampshire. “It set a black eye on us.”
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which plays host towards the Brickyard four hundred, a Sprint Cup race on July 31, supplied totally free and discounted admission to practice and qualifying sessions to ticket-holders to the Kentucky race. Officials at other tracks criticized Bruton Smith.
“To consider every one of the difficult perform that we’ve completed the following at Michigan Worldwide Speedway and also other tracks have executed may very well be so speedily erased by Saturday’s occasions,” Roger Curtis, the president of Michigan International Speedway, mentioned in the statement Monday. “That speedway, having been open for racing due to the fact 2000, should have identified the difficulties it could deal with when it tripled in size.”
David Williams, the president on the Kentucky Senate, mentioned Monday he would find a legislative hearing to critique all areas of setting up for your race, which he was unable to show up at because he was stuck in traffic. Helton reported Friday that he had not talked to any public officials from Kentucky considering that before the race.
Kentucky Speedway is usually to perform host into a Camping Globe Truck Sequence race and an IndyCar Collection race to the initial weekend in October, despite the fact that the crowds for all those activities are anticipated to become relatively scaled-down than the an individual for that Sprint Cup race.
When asked if track officials would make use of the weekend in October to apply modifications on the flow of targeted visitors, Helton drew chuckles by replying, “I consider it’s a fantastic chance to consider things.”
