Saturday, June 7, 2008

DJ Kennington back in the #81 Dodge in the Nationwide Series

With a week off from the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series, DJ Kennington has jumped back into his MacDonald Motorsports-owned Dodge Charger for a race at Nashville Superspeedway. Sponsored by Mahindra Tractors and NPPL, the Federated Auto Parts 300 is planned for Saturday night(June 7th) starting at 7:30PM. DJ Kennington's #81 Dodge sits 30th of 46 cars in Friday afternoon practice while Kevin Harvick Racing driver Cale Gale posted the fastest speed in the #33 Camping World Chevrolet. Qualifying will take place at 3PM Eastern time for the race to start later in the evening.

Harvick has no intentions in running the Nationwide race this week. However, on driver who is planning to make the event is Kyle Busch. In part of a weekend which will see him racing Sprint Cup, Nationwide, and Craftsman trucks, Kyle plans to compete a total 1,058 miles between three different race tracks. 2007 Truck series rookie of the year Willie Allen practiced the #32 Dollar General Toyota Kyle intends to race Saturday night. As well, Clint Bowyer, Carl Edwards, and David Ragan for planning to double their fun for the weekend by running the Nationwide event before their Sunday afternoon Sprint Cup Pocono 500.

Coverage starts in ESPN2 at 7PM Eastern for United States viewers or simulcasted on TSN for Canadian fans. For those without access to cable or satellite television, NASCAR provides the Nationwide Series' Federated Auto Parts 300 available for free via NASCAR Video Broadband live.

DJ Kennington back in the #81 Dodge in the Nationwide Series

With a week off from the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series, DJ Kennington has jumped back into his MacDonald Motorsports-owned Dodge Charger for a race at Nashville Superspeedway. Sponsored by Mahindra Tractors and NPPL, the Federated Auto Parts 300 is planned for Saturday night(June 7th) starting at 7:30PM. DJ Kennington's #81 Dodge sits 30th of 46 cars in Friday afternoon practice while Kevin Harvick Racing driver Cale Gale posted the fastest speed in the #33 Camping World Chevrolet. Qualifying will take place at 3PM Eastern time for the race to start later in the evening.

Harvick has no intentions in running the Nationwide race this week. However, on driver who is planning to make the event is Kyle Busch. In part of a weekend which will see him racing Sprint Cup, Nationwide, and Craftsman trucks, Kyle plans to compete a total 1,058 miles between three different race tracks. 2007 Truck series rookie of the year Willie Allen practiced the #32 Dollar General Toyota Kyle intends to race Saturday night. As well, Clint Bowyer, Carl Edwards, and David Ragan for planning to double their fun for the weekend by running the Nationwide event before their Sunday afternoon Sprint Cup Pocono 500.

Coverage starts in ESPN2 at 7PM Eastern for United States viewers or simulcasted on TSN for Canadian fans. For those without access to cable or satellite television, NASCAR provides the Nationwide Series' Federated Auto Parts 300 available for free via NASCAR Video Broadband live.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

NASCAR Canadian Tire Series race weekend at St Eustache was a wash out!

'Rain, rain, go away, at least come back after the race!' Perhaps similar chanting was heard throughout the weekend inside the St Eustache paddock area for the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series race. For the second time this weekend, the second event of Canada's premier stock car racing league will be delayed. This time, NASCAR and the short track of St Eustache, Quebec has been forced by weather to relinquish the #2 race of the season to the Mosport road course race for June 14th. According to the Autodrome St Eustache's website and http://www.flagworld.com/news/?p=1283, July 5th is tentatively scheduled as substituting for the activities on this weekend's rain out.

The rain postponement of the National Kodak 250 came with extreme opposition from a hardworking crew at Autodrome St Eustache. As rain stopped falling later Sunday morning, track officials succeeded in drying the 4/10 paved oval for the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series cars only practice section. Jason Hathaway in his #3 Dodge Avenger clocked the fastest time with Alex Tagliani(committed to running his first full-time for Jacobs Racing as teammate to Andrew Ranger) and Cayuga winner Scott Steckly behind him. However, the rain returning following this track section rendered the National Kodak 250 cancelled for the weekend.