Bobby Labonte wins his first short-track Winston Cup
\nSeries race at Martinsville Speedway this past weekend! I felt it coming \u2013
\nafter a fourth place finish at the last race in Martinsville, a good finish in
\nBristol, it was inevitable. Congratulations!<\/p>\n
Starting 15th<\/sup>, Labonte worked his way up "I\u2019m never one to push anybody out of the way, like And what a season this has been for Matt Kenseth. After Rounding out the top ten were; Dale Earnhardt Jr. 5th<\/sup>, Jeff Gordon started off well, but on lap 210 got caught in Hey, can somebody explain why Jarrett "raced" Yeah Terry \u2013 you led a lap! Now hopefully, all these Sorry to see Johnny Benson continuing to have problems. It And, Mr. Spencer, you know, I don\u2019t think you should <\/p>\n <\/u><\/p>\n Other notes:<\/p>\n Once again the Richard Childress operation continues to Harvick is beginning to be known as the "bad The RCR car driven by Robby Gordon also had a bad day, The Roush cars \u2013 what can you say. They are all doing <\/p>\n <\/u><\/p>\n Special note:<\/p>\n I once again, had the opportunity to "work" the Frank Kimmel dominated the ARCA\/REMAX Series event on Mike Helton was also the recipient of one of these Got an opportunity to meet the designer, Sam Bass, albeit Special thanks to Don Radebaugh and Zach Drager with the I had a great time \u2013 thanks again.<\/p>\n That\u2019s it for now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bobby Labonte wins his first short-track Winston Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway this past weekend! I felt it coming \u2013 after a fourth place finish at the last race in Martinsville, a good finish in Bristol, it was inevitable. Congratulations! Starting 15th, Labonte worked his way up through the field, with the team making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthrough the field, with the team making some great pit stop calls, and managing
\njust to be at the right place, at the right time, to gain that short-track win!
\nLabonte felt the key to his win was just track position.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019ve seen other guys do, so I figured if I was up front, I probably had a
\nbetter shot at it than being behind somebody. It\u2019s hard to pass on this track,
\nso being up front helped," remarked Labonte.<\/p>\n
\nstarting 26th<\/sup>, a second place finish; only 27 points behind Sterling
\nMarlin in the points race. What can you say — Kenseth literally
\n"battling" for position with Jarrett at the end of the race, really
\nmade it much easier for Bobby to get the win. And it really tied Tony Stewart up
\ntrying to get by. Stewart managed to take over third place with Jarrett coming
\nin fourth. Stewart pretty much had the dominant car, but with 55 laps left,
\nopted to pit and take on two new tires, and was not able to make it back to the
\ntop spot, fortunately for his teammate.<\/p>\n
\nTerry Labonte 6th<\/sup>, Ricky Rudd 7th<\/sup>, Mark Martin 8th<\/sup>,
\nJeff Burton 9th<\/sup>, and Kurt Busch in 10th<\/sup>. Sterling Marlin
\nfinished 12th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n
\na wreck, cut a tire, and having lost his power steering, wound up finishing 23rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n
\nback to the finish line to beat Kenseth out of a position after a late-race
\ncaution? What the heck was that? It looked like Tony Stewart was thinking about
\nit, but backed off at the last minute. I just didn\u2019t quite get that one. Also,
\nin retrospect, I bet Tony was sorry he let Jarrett have his lap back. On these
\nshort-tracks, it\u2019s just too easy to make the come back.<\/p>\n
\nreporters will leave you alone. For me personally, it\u2019s just nice to see your
\nteam coming around, getting back on track, and you having good runs. Keep it up!<\/p>\n
\nseemed like he was forever getting involved in some mishap causing him to spin
\nor something.<\/p>\n
\never again throw stones about rough-housing again. It\u2019s just a thought.<\/p>\n
\n
\nhave its troubles. Kevin Harvick was barred from driving the Cup race as a
\nresult of rough driving (the first in the series\u2019 54 year history). The
\npenalty came as a result of Harvick\u2019s repeated run-ins with Coy Gibbs during
\nthe Craftsman Truck Series race on Saturday. The RCR Chevrolet was driven by
\nKenny Wallace, who spun out after 73 laps and wound up 32nd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n
\nboy" and last year\u2019s grace period is over. If I were him, I would be very
\ncareful who I messed with in upcoming events.<\/p>\n
\ncutting down a tire, spinning out, but Childress should be grateful that at
\nleast the car wasn\u2019t totally demolished.<\/p>\n
\ngreat, and don\u2019t be surprised if they all wind up staying in the top ten in
\npoints. The cars are good, drivers consistent, it\u2019s inevitable.<\/p>\n
\n
\nraces in Nashville this weekend. Special thanks to all the drivers, teams,
\nrepresentatives from both the ARCA\/REMAX and Busch Series for a great weekend. A
\nfun time was had by all!<\/p>\n
\nFriday night, with Scott Riggs coming in the winner in the Busch Series on
\nSaturday. Both seemed to be particularly thrilled with the "trophy"
\nwhich just happened to be a Gibson guitar complete with a Sam Bass design on the
\nbody. No one would let me just "hold it" for them\u2026not even for a
\nminute.<\/p>\n
\nguitars, and from what I hear, he was not letting his out of his sight either!<\/p>\n
\nbriefly. Sam was most gracious and presented the track PR director with framed
\nrenderings of his designs for this race, as well as upcoming events. What a
\ntreat that will surely be displayed prominently at the track for all to see!<\/p>\n
\nARCA\/REMAX Series, and to Herb Branham, Communications Manager with NASCAR (et
\nal), for all their help and guidance during the race to ensure everything ran
\nsmoothly.<\/p>\n