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Live from Daytona: The Winn Dixie 250
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| Posted by: Joe VanHoose |
7/8/2007 1:48 AM |
Kyle Busch wins the Winn Dixie 250. Check here for a lap-by-lap recap.
Kyle Busch celebrates in victory lane after winning the Winn Dixie 250.
"It was a hairy battle, but this Chevrolet was awesome," Busch said. "We finally got one this year. It means a lot to the team and myself to prove that I don't give up."
Lap 102 -- Harvick looks to the outside in turn 1 but Busch holds him off. Busch wins by a car length over Harvick with Blaney, Stewart and Bowyer rounding out the top five. David Ragan spins off of turn 2 but doesn't collect any others.
Lap 100 -- Busch leads as the race restarts.
Lap 98 -- Montoya gets sideways and spins off of turn 4. Heading straight toward the inside wall, he gets the car righted and cruises onto pit road as the caution flag flies. This sets up a green-white-checkered finish.
Lap 96 -- Kyle Busch leads the field to green and a five-lap shootout. He blocks Harvick on the restart as the leaders hold position.
Lap 91 -- Scott Wimmer cuts a tire and slaps the turn 3 wall, bringing out the caution. Dave Blaney just won't go away. He's moved back to third and looks to have the fastest car besides Kyle Busch.
Top 10 -- Busch, Harvick, Blaney, Bowyer, Kahne, Leffler, Edwards, Mears, Stewart, and David Gilliland.
Restart on lap 96 with five laps to go.
Lap 88 -- Harvick shuffles Stewart out of the draft and moves to second with 12 laps to go.
Lap 84 -- Busch leads Stewart, Harvick, Kahne and Edwards to the green flag.
Lap 80 -- J.J. Yeley turns Jamie McMurray down the back stretch, bringing out the fourth caution.
Lap 79 -- The field shoots below Wallace and drop kicks him out of the top 10.
Lap 76 -- The leaders pit for tires and strategies develop. Mike Wallace takes only two tires to come out second. J. J. Yeley takes two tires to come out seventh. No one beats Kyle Busch as he keeps his lead.
Top 10 -- Busch, Wallace, Stewart, Harvick, Kahne, Yeley, Edwards, Montoya, Leffler and Blaney. Green flag on lap 79.
Lap 75 -- The third caution comes out for debris. This should ensure the leaders that they can make the rest of the way without stopping for fuel.
Lap 73 -- After running in the top 10, Greg Biffle heads to the garage with a blown engine. Busch still leads, but the top 16 cars run single file behind him.
Lap 68 -- Busch leads but they are three-wide for second. The shakeup sends Blaney to second, Stewart to third, Kasey Kahne to fourth and Kevin Harvick back to fifth.
Lap 62 -- The top six cars break away by 10 car lengths over the pack behind them as Busch continues to show muscle at the front.
Lap 56 -- As the field goes back to green, several cars including Harvick and Casey Mears hit pit road on the last caution lap to top off their fuel. If the race goes green, they may be able to make the distance.
Lap 53 -- Kevin Harvick finds trouble on pit road once again. His crew struggles to get the left rear tire on the car, and Harvick comes out last of the lead-lap cars. Kyle Busch leads the field off pit road.
Top 10 -- Busch, Bowyer, Blaney, Leffler, Greg Biffle, Stewart, McMurray, Montoya, Earnhardt, and Brian Vickers.
Lap 51 -- David Reutimann gets tangled up with Steven Wallace. Wallace spins off turn 4 and spins directly in front of Reutimann, who tags him in the door. Wallace drives away while Reutimann exits his destroyed car.
Lap 47 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr has cracked the top five, bringing Juan Pablo Montoya with him. Earnhardt runs fifth with Montoya in seventh while Busch still leads.
Lap 42 -- Kevin Harvick, who restarted 27th, has moved back to fourth and is looking for more.
Top 5 -- Busch, Bowyer, Blaney, Harvick, McMurray.
Lap 39 -- Kyle Busch moves to the inside and passes Bowyer for the lead in turn 4. Dave Blaney has moved back to the outside and back into the top five.
Lap 35 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. slaps the wall in turn 2 but keeps his position on the track. Kyle Busch has moved up to second while McMurray has fallen to seventh.
Lap 31 -- McMurray settles into second with Kyle Busch behind him in third. The racing is picking up with drivers in the top 20 within two seconds of the lead. They race two and three wide all the way around the track.
Lap 28 -- Bowyer gets a big push from Jamie McMurray and goes back to the front. McMurray then steps to the outside and challenges for the lead himself.
Lap 25 -- Green flag.
Lap 22 -- Several drivers have problems on pit road. Kevin Harvick couldn't get out of his pit box and fell outside the top 20. Tony Raines got turned into his pit box and fell to the back of the pack. Kyle Busch got forced into the grass but beat the field off pit road. Clint Bowyer came out second followed by Jason Leffler, Mike Wallace and Mike Bliss.
Lap 20 -- The competition caution flag flies as Bowyer still leads. The man on the move, though, is Dave Blaney. He's taken his Toyota to the high side and has moved to third. Dale Earnhardt Jr. has moved from 35th to 11th.
Lap 15 -- Justin Ashburn parks his car with a blown engine. Clint Bowyer still leads with Busch in second and Stewart in third.
Lap 13 -- Harvick slides high and Clint Bowyer moves to the lead, bringing Tony Stewart and Kyle Busch with him.
Lap 10 -- Harvick still leads but the lead pack has grown from five to 18. Cars from third on back are swapping positions every lap.
Lap 5 -- The top five cars of Harvick, Bowyer, Leffler, Stewart, and Casey Mears break away from a gaggle of cars behind them.
Lap 1 -- Jason Leffler brings the field to the green flag, but Tony Stewart beats him to turn 1. Kevin Harvick jumps to the inside and takes the lead with Clint Bowyer in tow.
There will be a competition yellow at lap 20. The 250-mile race will take 100 laps around Daytona's 2.5-mile tri-oval. The corners are banked at 31 degrees and the back stretch measures over a half mile long.
9:15 a.m. -- The engines have fired and the cars are rolling off the grid. Three cars will start at the back for rule infractions: Justin Ashburn for missing the driver's meeting, Mike Wallace for unapproved adjustments, and Carl Edwards for an engine change.
This is only the second time the NASCAR Busch and Cup Series have raced at the same track on the same day. The only other time was at Lowe's Motor Speedway in 2003.
9 a.m. -- Thanks to everyone checking this out this early on a Saturday. Green flag is about 10 minutes away. Here are the top 10 starters:
1. Jason Leffler
2. Tony Stewart
3. Aric Almirola
4. Kevin Harvick
5. Clint Bowyer
6. Ward Burton
7. Casey Mears
8. Scott Wimmer
9. Dave Blaney
10. Reed Sorenson
NOTABLES
11. David Reutimann
14. Kyle Busch
17. Juan Pablo Montoya
19. Carl Edwards
31. Bobby Labonte
35. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Want to know what a bad deal feels like? Just ask Boris Said. He, Kenny Wallace, Jeremy Mayfield and Michael Waltrip all had qualifying times in the top five that were good enough to make the race. They were locks to make the field if qualifying played out entirely.
But Mother Nature dealt a blow to those four drivers, sending a thunderstorm that cut qualifying short with 14 cars left to run. As a result, drivers will line up based on owner points, and Waltrip, Wallace, Mayfield and Said don’t have enough.
“I feel like getting mad and crying, but I’m not going to do that,” Said said while standing underneath an umbrella as the rain came down. “We had a great car and our guys put so much effort into it, it’s just a shame.”
Denny Hamlin, who will start on the front row because he is second in the point standings, said he felt horrible with the outcome.
“That’s got to be tough,” Hamlin said. “Believe me, I would rather we qualify and I end up 30th and they get what they earn than back into a second-place start.
“It’s a shame it didn’t work out, but we’re under a schedule and we have to keep it.”
Rain continues to fall at 8 p.m., and the Busch Series Winn Dixie 250 will be delayed for some time. NASCAR officials are still confident that there will be a race tonight. |
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