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UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 Preview
Topic Started: Mar 6 2006, 02:25 PM (28 Views)
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The Race: UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400

The Place: Las Vegas Motor Speedway



The Skinny: NASCAR hits Sin City for the third race of the season. An aero track like Fontana, the track will give teams another good indication of where they stand on the aero dependent tracks that make up so much of the NASCAR Nextel Cup Schedule.

Driver to Watch:

Mark Martin. Sunday's race marks his final trip to the 1.5 mile speedway, and as the driver that won the 1998 inagural, and somebody that is so good on aero tracks, Mark could be both the sentimental and literal favorite to pick up the trophy and get the sugar in victory lane with the Las Vegas Showgirls.

Keep an Eye on:


Kyle Busch. One of the local heros (Though with him, his brother Kurt, and Brendan Gaughan, "hero" is used loosely), Kyle has run well on the aero tracks during his short career, and his third career win very well could come at his home track.

Potential Story Lines:

Who'll make the gamble? Races at Las Vegas tend to have long green flag runs. Should one come near the end of the race, the event could turn into a fuel milage affair, or one won by a late pit stop. Two tires? Four tires? A splash of gas? Stay on the track? That's the, wakka wakka wakka, gamble the teams might have to make.

Home Sweet Home? Kurt Busch has run well in his first two races in the Blue Duece, but he's failed to score the result to match it. Sunday's race comes at Busch's home race track, and though he's never won there, he's run well enough too and Sunday very well could bring him a result that jump starts a run towards his second title.

Can Biff turn it around? Greg Biffle, for all intents and purposes, should've won the Auto Club 500. A blown motor, combined with a highly clean race and low attrition left him 42nd, despite falling out in the last 36 laps.He always runs good at tracks like Vegas, and with finishes of 38th and 42nd to start the year, he desperately needs to score a win or strong top 3 finish.

The beginning of the end for Harvick/RCR? Reports surfaced that Harvick has already sold off his Busch and Craftsman truck series teams to Toyota, and in a published report a source was quoted as saying that the team has begun to question Kevin's commentment to the organization he carried on his shoulders in its darkest hour five years ago. Sunday could be the beginning of the end of his run in car 29.


On Top of the World: JJ Yeley has to be feeling good. He made a strong run towards the top part of the field in the Daytona 500 before being wrapped up in the Dale Jarrett/Jeff Green mishap. He was 8th after a strong qualifying run in Fontana, and he finished fourth in Sunday's Busch race to sit 2nd in that circuit's standings. He made his very very very first stock car start ever in Las Vegas in March of 2004, so he has progressed extremely nicely.

Lucky The World Ain't Flat So I can't Fall off: An abysmal start to the Cup season coupled with a disastrous Mexico City race has Michael Waltrip hurting on the inside, and based on the pictures (I didn't see his Mexico shunt), he's probably pretty sore on the outside too.

Lucky the world ain't flat so I can't get thrown off: No clear idiot among the Cuppers shined through Sunday.

This Week's "Word" Of NASCAR : “I bet I'm hated in Mexico.” - Kyle Busch, after wrecking national hero Michel Jourdain Jr.

This week's random factoid: Hendrick Motorsports and Roush Racing have won all but one Las Vegas race, that being the 2002 event won by Sterling Marlin (For Chip Ganassi).
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