Fastcar Newsdesk

February 25th, 2012

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Thanks to PRN’s Mark “Guru” Garrow and www.jayski.com

DAYTONA
Saturday-Feb 25-1:15PM- NASCAR Nationwide Series 120 laps/ 300 miles-ESPN
Sunday-Feb 26 -1PM-Daytona 500- 200 laps/500 miles-FOX Ch.5

Happy Hour ‘Final’ practice: Saturday, February 25, 10:30 am 12:00pm/et, TV-SPEED

Track/Race Length: 2.5 mile oval, 200 laps, 500 miles
Tri-oval with 31-degree banking in the turns
18-degree banking in the tri-oval and 6-degree banking on the straightaways
Date track opened: 1959
Banking in turns 1-4: 31 degrees        Banking in tri-oval: 18 degrees

2011 Daytona 500 Race Winner: #21-Trevor Bayne, 130.326mph, started 32nd

2011 July Race Winner: #6-David Ragan, 159.491mph, started 5th

Daytona 500 1^st Place Prize Money winner: $1,431,325
2nd $1,050,075
3rd $759,600
4th $609,900
5th $486,550
100 lap leader $200,000

VERY PROUD to have captainherb.net on the #93 Chevrolet of Chris Cockrum in the Daytona truck race Friday night.  The RockdaleCountydriver finished 16^th in the unofficial results and his teammate Ryan Sieg was listed 15^th.  Max Gresham finished 26^th

The Unadilla Thrilla David Ragan was out of the Bud Shootout early in a crash-but his new Blue and White #34 was sored 14^th in the Thursday Heat Race and will start 25^th in the Daytona 500

Sorenson driving for Jimmy Means at Daytona: The #52 Chevy will be driven in Daytona’s DRIVE4COPD 300 byGeorgia native, Reed Sorensen. The talented driver wrapped up 2011 by finishing fifth in points for NASCAR’s Nationwide Series. Sorensen’s career in the series consists of four wins, two poles, and an outstanding 85 top-10 finishes. Sorenson also has seven years of Sprint Cup experience, which includes 15 top-10 finishes. Jimmy Means, owner of the team states, “Means Motorsports is certainly excited about our chances of getting off to a great start this season, especially when you consider Reed’s skills, experience, and the strong fifth place finish he had in last year’s event. We have had some success with sponsorship for the first race of the season and we can only assume the opportunities will increase with the addition of Sorensen as our driver.”

: #99-Carl Edwards won the pole for the Daytona 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway with a lap of 194.738mph for his first Daytona 500 pole and 11th career pole and it is Roush Fenway Racing’s 80th pole. Edwards is the 37th driver to win the Daytona 500 pole. #16-Biffle gets the outside pole and will start 2nd.

So far these cars headed to the back–#10-Patrick (backup); #27-Menard (backup); #38-Gilliland (backup); #42-Montoya (backup)

#7-Danica Patrick won the Coors Light Pole for the DRIVE4COPD 300 at Daytona International Speedway with a speed of 182.741mph. She is the second woman to win a pole in the Nationwide Series (Shawna Robinson won the pole at Atlanta in 1994). #60-Trevor Bayne will start second. The rest of the top 10: #2-Elliott Sadler, #5-Dale Earnhardt, Jr., #3-Austin Dillon, #12-Sam Hornish, Jr., #33-Tony Stewart, #88-Cole Whitt, #22-Brad Keselowski, and #6-Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. #10-Jeff Green used the past champions provisional. Did Not Qualify: #89-Morgan Shepherd, #73-Derrike Cope, #42-Erik Darnell, #47-Scott Speed, #74-Mike Harmon, #46-Chase Miller, #76-Donnie Neuenberger. The starting lineup is posted on the Daytona starting lineup page (pdf).

6th Daytona practice Friday’s 2nd practice for the Daytona 500 is over, after 60 scheduled minutes, the top 5, slowest and notes:
#20-Logano 199.885
#18-Busch 199.885
#51-Busch 199.349
#11-Hamlin 199.097
#14-Stewart 198.640
slowest: #47-BLabonte 187.821 and #17Kenseth 190.662
Best 10-lap average was #2-Keselowski at 195.898   Only 23 cars ran the practice.
See fastest speeds, 10 lap average, laps run on the Jayski Daytona Practice 6 Speeds page (pdf).(2-24-2012)