Becca’s Big 6: Questions Answered After the 2006 Checker Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix
High-fives all around this week to Kevin Harvick’s pit crew, which deserves as much credit for Sunday’s Checker Auto Parts 500 victory as the driver himself.
High-fives all around this week to Kevin Harvick’s pit crew, which deserves as much credit for Sunday’s Checker Auto Parts 500 victory as the driver himself.
According to Tony Stewart, his Dickies 500 Texas win was particularly sweet because, “I finally won at a track that Jeff Gordon hasn’t won at.”
Fast forward to Atlanta, and there was hapless Mark Martin, when a crash that started on the bottom of the racetrack washed up right in front of him on lap 309.
Running seventh at Martinsville with 22 laps to go, Dale Earnhardt Jr. locked up his brakes and spun trying to pass Kasey Kahne, finishing 22nd.
Joe Nemechek’s ninth-place finish on Saturday was his first top 10 all year and his best finish since last year’s Charlotte race.
All the post-race attention at Talladega was on Brian Vickers’s last-lap punt of Chase contenders Jimmie Johnson and Earnhardt – and understandably so.
This week at Kansas, I had to laugh when the TV broadcast flashed the “Team Chevy Winning Moment” banner across the bottom of the screen.
Jeff Burton and the Cingular team have had several strong runs early in recent races, but has been unable to close the deal until Sunday’s Dover 400.
SPEED’s Bob Dillner reported, “there was an issue with the [Sylvania 300]-winning car of Kevin Harvick and also his teammate, Jeff Burton, in post-race tech.”
How… well did the Richmond race live up to its hype?