Mark Martin’s Last Full Season Will Be 2005
October 14, 2004
Mark Martin announced his plans for the future Thursday afternoon. In an emotionally-charged press conference at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, Martin announced his “Salute to You” Tour for the 2005 season.
NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Advance - Charlotte
October 14, 2004
Who’s Hot - Heading to Charlotte
Hendrick Motorsports Notes-Charlotte
October 14, 2004
PLATINUM PAINT MARKS 20TH:
To commemorate Hendrick Motorsports’ 20th anniversary, each of the organization’s five NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series entries will feature a platinum paint scheme this week at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. HENDRICK DRIVERS INVADE LMS:
For the first time this season, each Hendrick Motorsports driver will be on-hand for a race weekend. Kyle Busch, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Terry Labonte and Brian Vickers will all participate in Saturday’s NEXTEL Cup event. On Friday, Busch, Johnson, Blake Feese and Boston Reid will see NASCAR Busch Series action. Kyle Krisiloff will compete in Thursday’s American Speed Association event, while freshly signed Chase Austin will be at Lowe’s Motor Speedway as a spectator all week.
Jason Leffler To Drive FedEx Sponsored Gibbs Car in 2005
October 13, 2004
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - FedEx Corp (NYSE: FDX), a worldwide leader in the broadest range of transportation, e-commerce and business services, will sponsor a third Joe Gibbs Racing car for the 2005 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series season with Jason Leffler as the driver, officials from FedEx and JGR announced Oct. 13.
Dodge Teleconference with Kasey Kahne
October 13, 2004
KASEY KAHNE (No. 9 Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge) Kahne, the Raybestos Rookie of the Year leader, has five runner-up finishes in 2004 and ranks 14th in the series standings, 187 points out of 11th place. He started 19th and finished 12th in May at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. He qualified second last week at Kansas and finished 12th in the Evernham Motorsports Dodge.
“We had a really good car at Kansas and ran up front all day. The car kept getting tighter and tighter getting into the corner and we kept trying to free it up all day long to help that. We were off pit sequence a little bit with the rest of the field. We had to pit toward the end and got back in the pack and got a flat right rear. We just never got back to the front. We led a lot of laps, but we just never got back for a top-five finish. We had a good enough car to still finish 12th after starting 22nd or 23rd on the last final restart.
Manning to Sit Out Season Finale in Texas
October 12, 2004
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Indianapolis, IN, Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Elliott Sadler on NASCAR Teleconference
October 12, 2004
NASCAR NEXTEL Teleconference Transcript - Elliott Sadler
The NEXTEL leader bonus is at $20,000 for Charlotte and will go to the race winner if he is also the points leader at the end of the event. The NEXTEL wake-up call is set at 8 a.m. Friday morning at Lowe’s Motor Speedway with the featured guest joining in about 8:30.
Our guest today is Elliott Sadler, driver of the No. 38 M&M’s Ford. Elliott enters Saturday night’s race fourth in the Chase for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup, 143 points behind leader Kurt Busch. His fourth place finish at Kansas last week vaulted him four spots in the standings and that was the biggest jump of any driver in the Chase last week. He has been ranked in the NASCAR Top 10 in each race week this season, the first time in his Cup career he’s been in the Top 10.
Terry Labonte Shifting Gears
October 12, 2004
Tuesday morning at Hendrick Motorsports saw Terry Labonte make the announcement that many had been awaiting: He will retire at the end of the 2006 season after running twenty races split between the two years.
Now THAT’S A Sponsorship Program!
October 11, 2004
For a single entity running a motorsports sponsorship program, days like yesterday don’t come along often. The US ARMY has been sponsoring race cars and using motorsports as a recruitment tool for several years, but no single race day, to my recollection anyways, has been so kind to a single sponsor’s motorsports PR and marketing programs as yesterday was the US ARMY.
Now THAT’S A Sponsorship Program!
October 11, 2004
For a single entity running a motorsports sponsorship program, days like yesterday don’t come along often. The US ARMY has been sponsoring race cars and using motorsports as a recruitment tool for several years, but no single race day, to my recollection anyways, has been so kind to a single sponsor’s motorsports PR and marketing programs as yesterday was the US ARMY.