Trevor Bayne Says He's Sticking With Nationwide Championship Run

Filed under: Carl Edwards, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Nationwide Series, Sprint Cup, NASCAR

Whoever wins the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup series championship, his name won't be Daytona 500 champ Trevor Bayne.

The 20-year-old rookie, who became the youngest winner of the Daytona 500 Sunday, said he's sticking with his original plan for the season -- a full-time Nationwide series run for the championship and a part-time Sprint Cup campaign.

"I think I am going to stay with Nationwide," Bayne said Tuesday on the weekly NASCAR teleconference. "Nothing has really changed for me other than that I am the Daytona 500 champion, which is really incredible.

"I think we are still going to have an awesome year for Roush Fenway running for that Nationwide championship. Obviously we still have a blank car and I would love to get some partners on it, but as of now we are still running for it full time over there. I am still not full-time Cup and I am going to run for the championship in Nationwide. I don't regret any of our decisions there."

Bayne will also run at least 17 more races in Sprint Cup for the Wood Brothers.

As they have for the past several years and for most of their long and storied history in NASCAR, the Wood Brothers are running only a partial schedule.

 

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Trevor Bayne Becomes Youngest Winner in Daytona 500 History

Filed under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., David Reutimann, Jeff Burton, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Daytona Int'l Speedway, NASCAR Crashes, Sprint Cup, NASCAR

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- For all the talk of a new track surface, a different style of racing and promises of the "wildest" Daytona 500 ever, Sunday's much-anticipated NASCAR season-opener still ended up like so many of those that have preceded it -- decided in the final laps.

Making his first-ever Daytona 500 start, 20-year-old rookie Trevor Bayne held off Carl Edwards, David Gilliland and Bobby Labonte to earn the venerable Wood Brothers Racing team its fifth Daytona 500 victory and first since NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee David Pearson's win in 1976.

"Am I dreaming? Is this real? I don't even know where to go,'' a stunned Bayne exclaimed to his team on the radio as he crossed the finish line and drove his No. 21 Motorcraft Ford to victory circle, where he was too young to even drink the traditional celebratory champagne.

The race lived up to its billing, easily setting records for caution flags (16) and lead changes (74 among 22 drivers), but in the end it was a a great show of poise heading to the checkered flag that made Bayne the youngest winner of NASCAR's most prestigious trophy - one day after he celebrated his 20th birthday.

A five-car accident at the front of the field with four laps remaining in the 200-lap regulation period set up the first of two green-white-checkered overtime periods and all but eliminated several of the strongest cars, including Ryan Newman, Regan Smith and Clint Bowyer, who exchanged the lead in the closing 15 laps.

Robby Gordon's spin on the first restart sent cars scrambling, and fan favorite Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s No. 88 Chevrolet was collected in the melee, setting up the final two-lap shootout among Bayne and the veterans.

 

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2011/02/20/trevor-bayne-becomes-youngest-winner-in-daytona-500-history/

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How Jimmie Johnson will win his 6th straight Championship

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Daytona 500: Driver Breakdown

Filed under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Daytona Int'l Speedway

(AP) -- A look at drivers competing in the 2011 Daytona 500, in order of starting position:

No. 88 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports

DRIVER: Dale Earnhardt Jr.

BORN: Oct. 10, 1974

HOMETOWN: Kannapolis, N.C.

CREW CHIEF: Steve Letarte

SPONSOR: Mountain Dew/AMP Energy/National Guard

NOTES: NASCAR's most popular driver won the Daytona 500 pole, then wrecked in practice on Wednesday. Now, he'll start Sunday's race at the back of the field. Earnhardt was a non-factor on the track for the fourth consecutive year in 2010. Earnhardt finished 21st in points. With teammates Mark Martin and Jeff Gordon also struggling, owner Rick Hendrick shook up most of the four-car team. Will another new crew chief and a shop change be enough to overhaul Junior's fortunes?

No. 24 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports

DRIVER: Jeff Gordon

BORN: Aug. 4, 1971

HOMETOWN: Pittsboro, Ind.

CREW CHIEF: Alan Gustafson

SPONSOR: Drive To End Hunger/DuPont

NOTES: After a winless season, Gordon was one of three drivers shuffled at Hendrick Motorsports. He moved out of the 24/48 shop into the building now known as the 5/24 shop. The four-time series champion is paired with crew chief Gustafson.

 

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2011/02/20/dayton-500-driver-breakdown/

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Clint Bowyer Wins Pole for Nationwide Race at Daytona, Danica Fourth

Filed under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Daytona Int'l Speedway, Nationwide Series, Danica Patrick, NASCAR

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Up until the final few minutes of Friday's NASCAR Nationwide Series qualifying, it looked as if IndyCar star-turned-NASCAR newbie Danica Patrick may just have landed herself the pole position at stock car's most famous track, Daytona International Speedway.

Midway through the session Patrick laid down the fastest lap of the afternoon bumping veteran Carl Edwards off the top spot and igniting a buzz around the garage area. Had her lap stood, she would have been the first woman to win a Nationwide Series pole since Shawna Robinson did it in March 1994.

Instead, another newcomer, Landon Cassill, knocked Patrick out of the top spot only to have Sprint Cup Series veteran Clint Bowyer come in and better them both. Bowyer's lap of 180.821 mph in the Kevin Harvick-owned No. 33 Rheem Chevrolet earned the former series champ the pole position for Saturday's DRIVE4COPD 300 and stifled the building frenzy around a possible Patrick front row start.

Cassill will start alongside him while another late qualifier Dale Earnhardt Jr,. took the third position. He'll start next to Patrick on the second row; he owns both cars.

This is only Patrick's 13th Nationwide Series start in her highly-publicized racing double as a full-time driver in the IZOD IndyCar Series and a part-timer in NASCAR's second-tier Nationwide circuit.

"It's been a fast car the whole time we've been here,'' Patrick said, as she watched the remaining few cars qualify. "No matter what happens now, it'll be a good starting position. This is a big deal and for it to come at Daytona, it's 10 times a bigger deal.''

 

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2011/02/18/clint-bowyer-wins-pole-for-nationwide-race-at-daytona-danica-fo/

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Earnhardt Jr. wrecks late, fades in Daytona 500

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Kurt Busch Wins First Gatorade Duel Qualifying Race at Daytona

Filed under: Kurt Busch, Dodge, Penske Racing, Daytona Int'l Speedway, NASCAR

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Kurt Busch had never won a restrictor plate race before this week and now it seems he can't lose.

Busch improved to a fitting 2-for-2 at Daytona International Speedway, his No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil Dodge claiming the win in the first of two Gatorade Duel qualifying races at the track Thursday afternoon. He won NASCAR's Budweiser Shootout exhibition race last weekend.

With a record 20 lead changes among nine drivers, Busch took the lead on the first lap of a green-white-checkered restart and led when he needed to thanks, in part, to the push from runner-up finisher Regan Smith in the No. 78 Furniture Row Chevy, whose effort earned him a third row starting spot in Sunday's Daytona 500.

Busch, however, will start the 500 from the pole position. He would have started third, behind fastest qualifier Dale Earnhardt Jr., but Earnhardt wrecked his car in practice Wednesday and will have to start a back-up car from the back of the field. NASCAR rules say that in that event, the third-place starter moves up to the pole.

Former Daytona 500 winners Kevin Harvick and Matt Kenseth finished third and fourth after establishing themselves as drafting partners in what was a race of two-car drafts and strategically picking your dancing partner. Kasey Kahne's Toyota and Juan Pablo Montoya's Chevrolet paired up for fifth and sixth place. Full results are here.

"You've gotta have a partner and Regan Smith was a great teammate today,'' Busch said. "It was almost like a roulette wheel was spinning and our numbers came up today.''

"We are going to ride this wave. We've made all the right decisions so far.''

In the second race, Jeff Burton captured his first victory ever at Daytona.

Despite a handful of technical changes to the cars -- including a smaller carburetor restrictor plate -- to lessen the opportunity of two-car packs, the two-car draft remained the norm and produced unexpected "friendships.'' Seldom did teammates run together. Instead, it was a friendship of convenience and proximity, like the Dodge-Chevy, Chevy-Ford and Toyota-Chevy combination of the top finishers.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., who won the pole position for Sunday's Daytona 500 last weekend, had to start from the rear of the field after crashing in Wednesday's practice and switching to a back-up car. He ran among the top-10 but ended up 13th and, according to NASCAR rules, will have to start from the rear of the 43-car 500 field anyway.

 

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2011/02/17/kurt-busch-wins-1st-gatorade-duel-qualifying-race-at-daytona/

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