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NASCAR NEWS - Thursday, August 23, 2007
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Injury keeps Petty out; Wallace to drive at Bristol
By Team Release
LEVEL CROSS, N.C. - Kenny Wallace will fill in for Kyle
Petty in the No. 45 Dodge in Saturday night's Sharpie
500 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Petty's broken hand again
will keep him out of the driver's seat for the second
consecutive week. Petty is hopeful to return to the car
at the California Speedway
Wallace will be making his 20th Cup start at Bristol this
weekend. He has two top-10 finishes at the track and one
pole. Wallace also has a Busch Series win at the track.
"I look at this from two ways," Wallace said. "First, I
feel terrible that Kyle can't drive this weekend. I know
he was very determined to get back behind the wheel at
Bristol. Everyone is feeling good that he'll be back in
California, but I know he wants to race this weekend.
"Secondly, it's an honor that Kyle and Wells Fargo are
letting me fill in for him. Racing is what we all love to
do. I know Kyle wants to be racing at Bristol. I'm going
to give this car the best ride I can."
Wallace made 10 starts this year for Furniture Row Racing.
The team announced Aug. 14 that Wallace had stepped down
as the driver of No. 78 car.
Team officials said that Wallace would remain with the
team as a consultant and will be called upon to run races
as needed, but that he also will be available to drive for
another team.
Sterling Marlin will drive the No. 78 Chevrolet this
weekend at Bristol.
Petty is still recovering from a broken hand suffered at
Watkins Glen International. Petty had successful surgery
on the hand and it continues to heal.
"It's disappointing not to be able to race at Bristol,"
Petty said. "I had every intention of getting back at
Bristol, but I have to let the hand heal. You can't rush
this along.
"Kenny is a good friend and a talented driver. I'm
confident that he'll do a great job for our team and
sponsors this weekend."
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Earnhardt gains positions, but keeps losing ground
By David Caraviello, NASCAR.COM
BROOKLYN, Mich. - Dale Earnhardt Jr. spent all day trying
to make up ground, picking off one position after another
in a race where a swapped-out transmission doomed him to
start at the back. But at the end of a wet, extended
weekend at Michigan International Speedway, NASCAR's most
popular driver found himself staring up a deficit even
larger than the one he faced coming in.
The difficulty of Earnhardt's bid to make the year-end
Chase for the Nextel Cup crystallized Tuesday, when the
driver of the No. 8 car overcame a pit-road miscue to
finish 11th in the 3M Performance 400, moved up one
position in the standings -- and still lost ground.
Earnhardt came to Michigan 14th in points, 100 behind
Kurt Busch for the 12th and final Chase berth. He left
soggy Brooklyn in 13th place but 163 points out, and
with his situation appearing more ominous as the final
weeks of the regular season wind down.
He's getting no help from Busch, who kept the pressure on
Tuesday by winning his second race in three weeks, and
extending a late push that's seen him finish 11th or better
in each of the last six starts. To avoid missing the Chase
for the second time in three years, Earnhardt now has to
knock an average of 54 points off Busch's advantage over
the next three events. Over his last three, he's lost an
average of 65 points to the Penske Racing driver.
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"No, it's not frustrating," Earnhardt said. "When they beat
you fair, you can't get frustrated about that. They did
what they had to do. They've got a great feel going right
now. They're really quick. When you get beat fair like
that, you can't be frustrated. You have to take it like a
man. We'll just go on and go next week."
Earnhardt struggled with handling at times Tuesday,
slapping the wall at one point -- "Whoa, my quarterpanel!
I just knocked the fence down!" he screamed over the radio
-- but overall recovered quickly from the transmission
change and was in the top 10 by Lap 70. He led the race
briefly for one lap, and was solidly in the top five when
he overran his pit stall on a green-flag stop with 32 laps
remaining.
"I was watching the 66 [of Jeff Green] who was in his
stall. I thought I pitted past him, but I was two stalls
before him," Earnhardt said. " When you come down pit road,
and guys are anywhere near your stall, you look at whether
they're jacked up on the left, because if they drop and
pull out you're going to have a crash, and I don't want to
do that. I was just looking at that, and I drove right by
my pit. My fault, totally."
Earnhardt fell to eighth, slid to 15th after he was pinned
behind traffic following a pit stop where some drivers
stayed out, and never again threatened. That was left to
Dale Earnhardt Inc. teammate Martin Truex Jr., trying to
fight for the race victory and hang on to his spot inside
the Chase at the same time. His runner-up finish helped
him stay in 11th place in the standings, but Busch still
carved a healthy 25 points out of his lead.
"It's kind of odd," Truex said. "You think second is a good
day, but the guy you're racing is finishing ahead of you.
It's just like Pocono, when Junior finished second to Kurt.
The 2 is on their game plan right now, and for sure we
can't afford any mistakes."
The No. 2 team isn't giving them any option. Ten races ago,
after a crash at Charlotte and getting parked and saddled
with a 100-point penalty for nearly running over one of
Tony Stewart's crewmen at Dover, Busch was 17th in points.
Pat Tryson was installed as crew chief three weeks later,
bringing with him a patient plan that has his squad on the
brink of a playoff berth.
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"Our plan has been all along, from when we started eight
races or so ago, to try to get 20 points on everybody
around us every week. Around us, in front of us," said
Tryson, who started this season as Greg Biffle's crew
chief at Roush Fenway Racing. "I think that's how we still
have to look at it. It's easy to lose 90 points in one day.
You can break a motor, you can get caught up in a mess. I
think we just need to keep doing what we're doing, trying
to get 20 on everybody around us every week. We do that,
we'll be in good shape."
Another good sign Saturday night brings the annual stop
at Bristol Motor Speedway, where Busch has won five times.
Entering that race, Jeff Gordon and Denny Hamlin are locked
into the Chase, while Matt Kenseth can clinch just by
starting the final three events. Yet the points leader
continues to have good cars and little to show for them;
last week at Watkins Glen he led until overrunning the
first turn with two laps remaining, while Tuesday he was
among the leaders until he slid up into Kenseth and into
the boggy infield grass with 10 to go.
"Hey, I want my bad luck to come right now," said Gordon,
who finished 27th. "I want all the good luck we can get
[in the Chase]. Every time we're out there, we're learning
something. I had a fast racecar today. I'm happy about
that. Good pit stops. And we weren't going to get the
10 bonus points we were looking for today anyway, because
the 2 car was too strong."
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