Last year, Dale Jr. and Kyle Busch ended the Richmond race with a crash. But that’s in the past for them, Lee Spencer says.
Last year, Dale Jr. and Kyle Busch ended the Richmond race with a crash. But that’s in the past for them, Lee Spencer says.
Kyle Busch passed Carl Edwards on the first lap of a restart with 22 laps to go and won the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Richmond International Raceway.
Busch, who led four times Friday night in the Lipton Tea 250, made the move that counted in the third and fourth turns on the 229th trip around the 0.75-mile oval. Edwards led the previous 71 laps, with Busch seemingly the only other drivers with a car to contend.
NASCAR may be in Richmond, but everybody’s still discussing how to make ‘Dega safer. Lee Spencer has the latest.
Carl Edwards has had a busy week since his last-lap wreck at Talladega Superspeedway, where his car sailed into the frontstretch fence and spewed debris into the stands.
The Roush-Fenway Racing driver made stops on the Larry King and “Ellen” shows, and then headed to Daytona Beach, Fla., with car owner Jack Roush to discuss safety concerns with NASCAR. Edwards said after Sunday’s wreck that NASCAR would continue the harrowing restrictor-plate racing until “we kill somebody.
Brian Vickers turned a lap at 127.131 mph to win the pole position for Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway.
Vickers was the 10th car on the track in qualifying Friday night, and his speed held up as notable short-track qualifiers Jeff Gordon and Denny Hamlin made runs at him.
Gordon got the closest at 126.844 mph, but was forced to settle for the outside of the front row. Hamlin will start third after a lap at 126.665, with Martin Truex Jr. fourth.
Ahhhhh yes Richmond. Smoked Turkey, Cold Bud, Junior, Mark Martin plus Buck and Bass. Now where is Cutler?