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Test Session At Lowe’s Motor Speedway Leads Open Week For NASCAR Nationwide Series Teams
CSD Staff, May 13

CONCORD, N.C. - The second open week of the NASCAR Nationwide Series season actually starts with on-track activity as the majority of teams trek to their “home” track – Lowe’s Motor Speedway – for the fourth scheduled test of the year.

Johnny Benson (No. 18) brings his car down pit road while Brad Keselowski (No. 88) stays on track during NASCAR Nationwide Series testing at Lowe's Motor Speedway (Photo Credit: HHP / Harold Hinson)

Lowe's Nationwide Series Testing Afternoon Speeds

Lowe's Nationwide Series Testing Evening Speeds

The test began Monday and will conclude Tuesday night.

The No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota continued to dominate the NASCAR Nationwide Series as Denny Hamlin set the pace during testing on Monday.

The No. 20 car has won four consecutive races with three different drivers and Hamlin topped the speed chart in both sessions on the first of two days of testing. His evening lap of 29.635 seconds, 182.217 mph, was clearly superior among the more than 40 cars that took to the 1.5-mile superspeedway.

Defending NASCAR Nationwide Series champion Carl Edwards was second fastest on the electronic timers at 182.014 mph in the No. 60 Roush Fenway Ford.

Kasey Kahne, winner of last year's CARQUEST Auto Parts 300, was third fastest in the No. 9 Gillett Evernham Dodge at 181.947 mph while Greg Biffle was fourth at 181.708 in the No. 16 Roush Fenway Ford. Rookie Chase Miller rounded out the top five at 181.549 mph in the No. 19 Gillett Evernham Dodge.

David Stremme, driver of Rusty Wallace's No. 64 Dodge, said the horsepower difference between the Nationwide cars and the Sprint Cup cars has a tremendous impact on how a driver approaches the 1.5-mile superspeedway.

Next Sprint Cup Race:

What: NASCAR SPRINT ALL-STAR RACE
Where: Lowe's Motor Speedway, CONCORD, NC
GREEN FLAG: 7:30 p.m. ET May 17
TV: SPEED, 7:00 p.m. ET
Radio: MRN/Sirius Satellite Ch. 128.
Distance:90 Laps 130 miles
Track layout:1.5 paved track
2007 WINNER: Kevin Harvick

Todays Headlines:

--Labonte Brothers to Team Up At Petty

-- Darlington overnight TV Ratings up 8%

--Sadler Wants to Sing: Could Be Cutting Demo Soon

--Stewart draws crowd at Graceland

--Busch makes history at Darlington

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Labonte Brothers to Team Up At Petty
CSD Staff, May 13

Mooresville, N.C. – Petty Enterprises announced its driver lineup for the No. 45 Dodge Tuesday for the races beginning with the June 1 event at the Dover (Del.) International Speedway through the July 12 event at the Chicagoland (Ill.) Speedway.

Darlington overnight TV Ratings up 8%
CSD Staff, May 13

Saturday night’s Sprint Cup racing from Darlington earned FOX a 4.3/8 share. That’s an +8% gain over last year's 4.0/8 for the Darlington race, which ran on Sunday afternoon due to rain. FOX's 4.3/8 for the night was good enough to narrowly win the Primetime battle. CBS was second with a 4.2/8. For the season-to-date, NASCAR on Fox is averaging a 5.4/11 in the overnights, a tenth better than last year's 5.3/11. (Jayski)

Sadler Wants to Sing: Could Be Cutting Demo Soon
By Greg Engle,Editor Cup Scene Daily, May 13

Elliott Sadler may be coming to a record store near you.

Stewart draws crowd at Graceland
By Craig Wack, the Commerical Appeal, May 13

Elvis still has amazing drawing power, even 30-plus years after his death.

Busch makes history at Darlington
by Lee Spencer, FOXSports.com , May 13

DARLINGTON, S.C. - Like him or not, Kyle Busch is rewriting the NASCAR history books this season.

NASCAR Number
By Bill Marx, The Sporting News,May 13

9: Races in which Dale Earnhardt Jr. has led laps, the most in the Sprint Cup Series this season. Through 11 races, Earnhardt has failed to lead a lap only at Fontana and Bristol. Kyle Busch is next with eight.

This Day in NASCAR History
By Bill Marx, The Sporting News,May 13

1958: Junior Johnson wins the Wilkes County 160 at North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway for his first victory on a paved track. It is his sixth of 50 NASCAR victories. Twenty-three of those wins come at dirt tracks.

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