Driver of No. 51 Chevrolet Finishes Ninth in Rain-Shortened Auto Club 400 at Fontana
Date: March 25, 2012
Event: Auto Club 400 (Round 5 of 36)
Series: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Location: Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. (2-mile oval)
Start/Finish: 23rd / 9th (Running, completed 129 of 129 laps in a rain-shortened finish)
Winner: Tony Stewart of Stewart-Haas Racing (Chevrolet)
Five races into the 2012 season, Kurt Busch and his new team, Phoenix Racing, collaborated on their first top-10 finish – albeit a rain-shortened one – in the Auto Club 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event Sunday at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif.
Busch started 23rd in the No. 51 Phoenix Construction Chevrolet and worked diligently with crew chief Nick Harrison through three consecutive rounds of green-flag pit stops to ... FULL STORY »
DALE EARNHARDT, JR., NO. 88 DIET MOUNTAIN DEW/NATIONAL GUARD CHEVROLET – FINISHED 3RD
THE MODERATOR: We welcome to the driver meeting room Dale Earnhardt, Jr., who finished third in today's race.
Dale, talk a little bit about your run out there today.
DALE ... FULL STORY »
FONTANA, Calif. (March 25, 2012) – Despite a pit-road speeding penalty, Regan Smith posted a 20th-place finish in Sunday’s rain-shortened Auto Club 400 Sprint Cup race.
The scheduled 200-lap, 400-mile event was called on Lap 129 after rain hit the Inland ... FULL STORY »
CHAD KNAUS, CREW CHIEF, NO. 48 LOWE’S/JIMMIE JOHNSON FOUNDATION CHEVROLET – FINISHED 10TH
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CAR IN THE END?
“Unfortunately we have an oil leak. We’re looking into it right now to see what happened there on that last pit ... FULL STORY »
Camry driver Kyle Busch (second) was the highest-finishing Toyota driver in Sunday's rain-shortened NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Auto Club Speedway of Southern California.
Toyota drivers Martin Truex Jr. (eighth), Denny Hamlin (11th), Mark Martin (12th) and Clint Bowyer ... FULL STORY »
Brad Keselowski (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger R/T) Finished 18th
“We were really strong on the first run for sure. We started to lose the handle on the car after that. It’s difficult to say how fast we were going ... FULL STORY »
MARCOS AMBROSE – No. 9 DeWalt Ford Fusion – “It was just a quiet day. The track was coming to us a little bit, so we were hoping the race would get going again. This isn’t what we want for ... FULL STORY »
