Nascar'da
her an herşey olabilir, saliselerin, milimetrelerin önemi vardır;
Nascar, asla ve asla
hata kabul etmez... İşte bunun son örneğini 2009'un şampiyonu Jimmie
Johnson'ın pit ekibi verdi. Açıkcası, 2009'u 1-2-3 yaparak şampiyon olan takımı Hendrick
Motorsports'ta bir pit sorunu var. Martinsville
ve Richmond'da Jeff Gordon, Dover International Speedway'deki
, Autism Speaks 400'de ise Jimmie Johnson pit hataları ve cezalarıyla
yarışı kaybetti.
* Nascar SprintCup 2011...
Dover'da kapalı sıkıntılı bir hava ama kuru bir pistte Country
şarkıcısı Joe
Nichols, ABD Milli Marşı'nı söyledi, Nascar'ın yaşayan
efsanesi Richard
Petty, ''Motorlarınızı çalıştırın'' komutunu verdi, 71
yaşında
olan Petty, 1184 yarışta 200 defa damalı bayrağı görmüş, 712 defa da
ilk 10'da finişe gelmişti. 1964, 1967, 1971'de
o zamanki
adıyla Grand National'de, 1972, 1974, 1975,
1979 WinstonCup adıyla 1 numaralı seride şampiyon olmuştu.
Petty'nin komutunun ardından ısınma turları atıldı ve Yeşil
Bayrak sallandı, Martin
Truex Jr. pole pozisyonda başladı ama daha ilk tur bitmeden liderliği Kasey
Kahne'e kaptırdı.
367.
turda Jimmie Johnson'ın pit ekibinin yaptığı hata ve acele eden ve pit
yolundaki hız limitini aşan son 4 yılın şampiyonuna verilen verilen
cezayla birlikte liderliği ele geçiren ''Wild
Thing'' Kyle Busch, 18 numaralı Toyotas'ıyla bir kez daha Damalı
Bayrağı gördü. Küçük Busch, doğumgününü kutladığı 2 Mayıs gecesi de
Richmond'da benzer biçimde Jeff Gordon'un pit-taktiği hatasıyla
kazanmış ve 21 yarış
sonra Damalı'yı görmüştü.
Kyle
Busch, SprintCup'ta JJ'in hatasıyla kazanırken 1 gece önce de
Nationalwide'ı da aldığı için Dover haftasonunu 2'de 2 yaparak
bitirdi. * Rain,
crash and Hamlin
Dover TOP10
(18) Kyle Busch
(Toyota) (31) Jeff Burton
(Chevrolet) (17) Matt Kenseth
(Ford) (11) Denny Hamlin
(Toyota) (00) D. Reutimann
(Toyota) (16) Greg Biffle (Ford) (29) K.Harvick
(Chevrolet) (99) Carl Edwards
(Ford) (14) T.Stewart
(Chevrolet) (20) Joey Logano
(Toyota)
CHASE
Puan
Pole
KY
Top5
Top10
YD
Ödül
1-Kevin
Harvick
1768
1
1
4
9
-
$2,638,364
2-Kyle
Busch
1699
1
2
3
7
-
$2,359,526
3-Matt
Kenseth
1642
0
0
4
7
-
$2,077,891
4-Jimmie
Johnson
1637
1
3
5
7
3
$2,669,300
5-Denny
Hamlin
1618
0
3
5
5
-
$2,209,829
6-Jeff
Gordon
1605
0
0
5
5
1
$2,139,566
7-Greg
Biffle
1581
0
0
2
8
-
$1,975,904
8-Jeff
Burton
1569
0
0
3
5
-
$1,988,584
9-Kurt
Busch
1531
1
1
4
6
-
$2,038,080
10-Carl
Edwards
1487
0
0
1
6
2
$1,808,005
11-Mark
Martin
1475
1
0
4
5
1
$1,679,089
12-Martin
Truex Jr.
1434
1
0
1
4
1
$1,422,500
Lap 400—CHECKERED FLAG: Kyle
Busch wins at Dover, sweeping the
Nationwide and Cup series races for his 18th career Cup victory. Jeff
Burton was second, Matt Kenseth third.
Lap 399—WHITE
FLAG: Kyle Busch takes the white flag.
Lap 395—Kyle
Busch’s lead is nearly 7 seconds with five laps to go.
Lap 393—Jeff
Gordon is sitting 11th, less than a second behind Joey
Logano for a spot in the top 10.
Lap 391—Jeff
Burton is 5.3 seconds behind Kyle Busch, and will now need
a Busch mistake to pull out the victory.
Lap 389—Kyle
Busch’s lead is at 5.2 seconds.
Lap 387—The
rest of the top 10 cars are pretty well spaced out, so the
only drama in that range is if Jeff Burton can catch Kyle Busch for the
victory. Lead is currently at 4.8 seconds.
Lap 384—Kyle
Busch holds the lead, and Jeff Burton might not have
enough time to catch him … only 16 laps remaining.
Lap 380—Jeff
Burton gets around Matt Kenseth, but is still 5 seconds
behind Kyle Busch. However, Burton is running slightly faster than
Busch right now.
Lap 377—Jeff
Burton is closing on Matt Kenseth for the right to drive
in Kyle Busch’s fumes in second.
Lap 374—Kyle
Busch has a 5-second lead. Juan Montoya is out of the race
with a bad sway bar.
Lap 372—Jeff
Burton gets around Denny Hamlin for third.
Lap 367—LEAD
CHANGE: Kyle Busch regains the lead after green flag pit
stops cycle through. 1. Kyle Busch 2. Matt Kenseth 3. Denny Hamlin 4.
Jeff Burton 5. David Reutimann
Jimmie
Johnson is now a lap down.
Lap
366—Jimmie Johnson flagged for exiting too fast, and has to do a
drive-through penalty. That is HUGE.
Lap 365—LEAD
CHANGE: Martin Truex Jr. takes the lead when David
Reutimann pits.
Lap 364—LEAD
CHANGE: David Reutimann takes the lead when Jimmie Johnson
and Kyle Busch pit under green.
Lap 363—Carl
Edwards stops a few laps earlier than planned and takes
four.
Lap 361—Denny
Hamlin and Tony Stewart start the green flag pit stops.
Stewart pleased with his car, gets a chassis adjustment and four tires.
Hamlin takes four tires.
Lap 360—David
Reutimann finally gets around Jeff Burton for fourth.
Lap 355—LEAD
CHANGE: And now it’s Jimmie Johnson back to the lead.
Lap 354—LEAD
CHANGE: Kyle Busch takes the lead back.
Lap 353—LEAD
CHANGE: Jimmie Johnson flew past Kyle Busch for the lead.
Guess he had a little more to get from his car.
Lap 352—Juan
Montoya heads back to the garage.
Lap
351—Points leader Kevin Harvick is still sitting seventh, a
whopping 23-spot improvement for him over the course of the race.
Lap 349—Kyle
Busch has opened up a nearly half-second lead on Jimmie
Johnson, which doesn’t sound like much, but is a larger gap than he’s
had in some time.
Lap 345—Sam
Hornish Jr. is flagged for going too fast on pit road and
will have to serve a pass-through penalty.
Lap 342 —
Kyle Busch and Jimmie Johnson have led 300 of the 341
completed laps.
Lap 337—Clint
Bowyer is now the final car on the lead lap.
Lap 334—As
green flag stops approach, Jimmie Johnson continues to stalk
leader Kyle Busch.
Lap 327—Jeff
Gordon is sitting 13th, between Joey Logano and Ryan
Newman, and Juan Montoya has returned to the track.
Lap 317—Carl
Edwards is up to eighth.
Lap 309—There
are 18 cars on the lead lap, as Kurt Busch is the final
car ahead of his brother, Kyle Busch, who’s leading the race.
Lap 305—Matt
Kenseth has dropped back from Jimmie Johnson but is still
sitting third, and Jamie McMurray has returned to the track after
extensive repairs in the garage.
Lap 301—Carl
Edwards just reported his best lap of the day and he’s in
ninth.
Lap
300—Martin Truex Jr. is up to eighth.
Lap 297—Greg
Biffle and Jeff Gordon tangle in a battle for 10th.
Lap 292—LEAD
CHANGE: Kyle Busch gets around Jimmie Johnson for the
lead, and Matt Kenseth is on Johnson’s tail for second.
Lap 291—GREEN
FLAG: Jimmie Johnson once again is in front of the rest
of the field. 1. Jimmie Johnson 2. Kyle Busch 3. Matt Kenseth 4. Jeff
Burton 5. David Reutimann
Clint Bowyer
is moved to the rear of the field for “moving equipment,”
and Kurt Busch is sent back for pitting early.
Lap 289—A.J.
Allmendinger is flagged for exiting pit road too quickly.
Lap 288 —
Lead lap cars hit pit road.
• Clint
Bowyer is pulling his jack on the apron after contact with
several cars on the pit stop • Jimmie
Johnson took four tires • Kyle Busch
took four tires • Matt
Kenseth took four tires
Lap
287—YELLOW FLAG NO. 5: Kurt Busch goes into the wall hard in Turn 4
after brushing it in Turn 2. He had a right-front tire blow out, and
there’s severe damage to his right-front quarter panel.
Lap 284—Carl
Edwards is up to 10th, and A.J. Allmendinger climbs to
12th.
Lap
279—Marcos Ambrose is out of the race after hitting the wall twice
in essentially the same spot.
Lap 277—A.J.
Allmendinger continues to climb his way back into the mix,
back up to 13th after originally being two laps down.
Lap 276—Clint
Bowyer is up to fifth, with Denny Hamlin behind him.
Lap 273—Kyle
Busch passes Matt Kenseth for second, but is still more
than two seconds behind Jimmie Johnson.
Lap 267—Kurt
Busch has fallen to ninth now, behind Jimmie Johnson, Matt
Kenseth, Kyle Busch, Jeff Burton, Clint Bowyer, Denny Hamlin, David
Reutimann and Kevin Harvick.
Lap
265—They’re pushing Jamie McMurray to the pits as well as he
reports his suspension is busted.
Lap 263—Juan
Montoya heads to the garage as his teammate, Jamie
McMurray, hits pit road with a flat left-rear tire.
Lap 261—LEAD
CHANGE: Jimmie Johnson takes the lead from Matt Kenseth.
Lap 259—Clint
Bowyer gets around Kurt Busch for fifth, and Juan Montoya
hits pit road, putting him three laps down in a disappointing run for
him.
Lap 258—Jeff
Burton takes fourth, Kurt Busch is fifth, and Bowyer and
Hamlin keep battling for sixth.
Lap 256—Denny
Hamlin has joined the party in the battle for fourth, and
got Clint Bowyer a little loose in the crowd. A little payback from the
Nationwide race, perhaps?
Lap 254—Jeff
Burton is battling Kurt Busch for fourth, with Clint
Bowyer right behind them.
Lap
251—Three-wide for second into Turn 3, and Jimmie Johnson comes out
the victor.
Lap 250—GREEN
FLAG: Matt Kenseth leads the field back to green. 1. Matt
Kenseth 2. Kurt Busch 3. Kyle Busch 4. Jimmie Johnson 5. Denny Hamlin
Lap 248—Greg
Biffle is penalized for being too fast exiting.
Lap 247—LEAD
CHANGE: Matt Kenseth stays out, taking over the lead from
Jimmie Johnson.
Lap
247—Lead-lap cars hit pit road, with most taking two tires.
Lap
245—YELLOW FLAG NO. 4: Sam Hornish Jr. brings out a caution after
spinning out coming out of Turn 4. Ryan Newman gets the free pass.
Lap 244—Carl
Edwards, who was penalized earlier in the race, is 14th
behind Jeff Gordon.
Lap 240—Denny
Hamlin moves to the inside of Greg Biffle, getting the
No. 16 loose and putting Hamlin fifth in the race.
Lap
238—Martin Truex Jr. has quietly moved back into the top 10, in
seventh.
Lap 236—LEAD
CHANGE: Jimmie Johnson takes the lead back, continuing the
duel but opening the door for Jeff Burton to close the gap in third.
Lap 234—LEAD
CHANGE: Kyle Busch passes Jimmie Johnson to the outside.
Lap 233—Greg
Biffle is up to fifth.
Lap 231—Jeff
Burton struggles on the restart and was left behind on the
inside line, and is now well behind the two-car battle between Jimmie
Johnson and Kyle Busch for the lead.
Lap 231—GREEN
FLAG: Jimmie Johnson is still in the lead as they take
the flag. 1. Jimmie Johnson 2. Jeff Burton 3. Kyle Busch 4. David
Reutimann 5. Kevin Harvick
Lap 226—Pit
road is open, and several lead-lap cars have come in. • Jimmie
Johnson gets four tires and no adjustments • Jeff Burton
takes four tires • David
Reutimann takes four • Kyle Busch
takes four • Denny
Hamlin takes four • Kevin
Harvick takes four • Matt
Kenseth takes four this time
Lap
225—YELLOW FLAG NO. 3: Marcos Ambrose blows another right-front
tire and goes into the wall in Turns 3 and 4, a near repeat of the
previous caution. A.J. Allmendinger gets the free pass.
Lap
222—Jimmie Johnson says he has no complaints, but he’s running as
hard as he can, and he’s surprised other cars are able to keep up with
him.
Lap 219—All
three JGR cars are in the top nine (Kyle Busch fourth,
Denny Hamlin sixth, Joey Logano ninth) and all three Richard Childress
Racing cars are in the top eight (Jeff Burton second, Kevin Harvick
fifth, Clint Bowyer eighth).
Lap 217—Tony
Stewart is now the last car on the lead lap, in 16th.
Lap 213 —
Kevin Harvick takes over fifth from Matt Kenseth.
Lap 209 —
Kevin Harvick is closing in on Matt Kenseth for fifth after
Kenseth took two tires on the most recent pit stop.
Lap 207 —
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is seven laps down.
Lap
205—Martin Truex (started first) is down to 15th, and third-place
starter Mark Martin is running 20th.
Lap
200—They’re halfway home as David Reutimann passes Kyle Busch for
third place.
Lap 199—Denny
Hamlin is up to eighth, just behind teammate Joey Logano.
Lap 194—A.J.
Allmendinger is successful after a tough battle with Ryan
Newman in becoming the first car one lap down, setting him up for the
free pass on the next caution.
Lap 192—Jeff
Burton has passed Kyle Busch and is now second only to
Jimmie Johnson, but he’s still 1.6 seconds off the lead.
Lap 190—Matt
Kenseth and David Reutimann both get around Joey Logano to
climb into the top five.
Lap 185—There
are 16 cars on the lead lap, as Ryan Newman is the first
car one lap down.
Lap 183—Jeff
Burton works his way around Joey Logano to move into
third, behind Kyle Busch.
Lap 181—Kevin
Harvick continues to climb, getting lucky when the
previous caution came out when he was in danger of being lapped, and
he’s now up to eighth.
Lap 180 —
Juan Montoya and Mark Martin make a little contact.
Lap 176—LEAD
CHANGE: Jimmie Johnson passes Kyle Busch for the lead, and
Busch isn’t giving up easily.
Lap 175 —
Denny Hamlin passes Kurt Busch for 12th.
Lap 171—LEAD
CHANGE: Kyle Busch passes Jimmie Johnson for the lead.
Lap 170—GREEN
FLAG: The race restarts after Carl Edwards was sent to
the rear of the field for passing the pace car under caution. 1. Jimmie
Johnson 2. Kyle Busch 3. Joey Logano 4. Jeff Burton 5. Matt Kenseth
Lap 167 —
Lead-lap cars hit pit road. • Jimmie
Johnson took four tires • Kyle Busch
took four tires as well • Matt
Kenseth moves up by taking only two tires • Joey Logano
(fourth) and Tony Stewart (fifth) each took four tires
Lap 166—A.J.
Allmendinger dropped from third to 28th with the pit stop,
and is now two laps down.
Lap
165—YELLOW FLAG NO. 2: Marcos Ambrose goes into the wall between
Turns 3 and 4, bringing out the caution. A.J. Allmendinger had just
pitted for four tires and fuel, and was caught on pit road.
Lap 164—Kevin
Harvick has moved up to 15th after starting 30th.
Lap
159—Jimmie Johnson leads second-place Kyle Busch by 5.5 seconds.
Lap 157—J.J.
Yeley (engine) is officially out.
Lap 153 —
Some shuffling in the top 10, as Nos. 6-10 now go Jamie
McMurray, Jeff Burton, Kurt Busch, Jeff Gordon and Greg Biffle.
Lap
148—Replays show A.J. Allmendinger had a 21.2-second pit stop on
his green flag stop after his right rear tire had a loose lug nut,
which is what has put him so far off the lead.
Lap 147—Greg
Biffle is up to seventh, picking up 17 spots since the
start of the race.
Lap 143—J.J.
Yeley takes his car to the garage.
Lap
141—Jimmie Johnson holds a commanding lead of nearly 3.5 seconds
over Kyle Busch, then it’s another 4.5 seconds back to A.J.
Allmendinger.
Lap 137—LEAD
CHANGE: Jimmie Johnson regains the lead after green flag
pit stops.
1. Jimmie
Johnson 2. Kyle Busch 3. A.J. Allmendinger 4. Joey Logano 5.
Tony Stewart
Lap 136—Robby
Gordon gets a pass-through penalty for a commitment line
violation.
Lap 136—LEAD
CHANGE: Jeff Burton passes Kurt Busch for the lead.
Lap 135—LEAD
CHANGE: Jimmie Johnson pits, giving the lead to Kurt Busch.
Lap
134—Martin Truex Jr., Clint Bowyer and Joey Logano among those on
pit road under green.
Lap 133—Kyle
Busch, Denny Hamlin, Kasey Kahne, Mark Martin and Ryan
Newman are among those on pit road.
Lap 131—The
second-place car of A.J. Allmendinger as well as Matt
Kenseth are both on pit road under green.
Lap 130—The
lapped car of Juan Montoya hits pit road. He says his car
hasn’t had much grip, and he takes four tires. Elliott Sadler also pits
for four tires.
Lap
128—Jimmie Johnson and A.J. Allmendinger are in their own universe
right now, as third-place Kyle Busch is nearly 7 seconds off the lead.
Lap 125—Dale
Earnhardt Jr. is on pit road for a green flag stop, aiming
for a track bar adjustment.
Lap 124—Tony
Stewart is up to fourth, and Joey Logano is up to fifth.
Lap 122 —
Jeff Burton is in the top 10. Martin Truex Jr. is back up to
11th.
Lap
119—They’ve gone more than 60 laps since the last yellow, meaning
green flag pit stops are on the horizon.
Lap 114—Never
mind, Kyle Busch’s radio just came unplugged from his
helmet. Crisis averted. He’s running third, but is more than 5 seconds
off the lead.
Lap 111—A.J.
Allmendinger got around the lapped car of Casey Mears, who
is filling in for Brian Vickers, and now has a straight shot at Jimmie
Johnson.
Lap
109—Jimmie Johnson is stretching his lead back out, seemingly
toying with A.J. Allmendinger.
Lap 108—Greg
Biffle and Jeff Burton both pass Martin Truex Jr., putting
Biffle 10th and Burton 11th.
Lap 104—A.J.
Allmendinger is less than two-tenths of a second behind
leader Jimmie Johnson.
Lap 103 —
Martin Truex Jr. is down to 10th, and he’s got Greg Biffle,
Jeff Burton and Mark Martin breathing down his neck.
Lap 98—Jeff
Burton (13th) climbs into the top 15 for the first time
today.
Lap 96—Kyle
Busch has lost the ability to hear his crew chief and
spotter on his radio, but they can still hear him. So he’s trying to
communicate and hope they can fix the car without him getting any
feedback from them.
Lap 95—Jeff
Gordon is up to eighth, closing in on Clint Bowyer.
Lap 93—Bobby
Labonte (electrical) and Joe Nemechek (brakes) are both
out of the race.
Lap 92—A.J.
Allmendinger is less than a second behind Jimmie Johnson
for the lead.
Lap 90—Joey
Logano moves into the top 10, passing Mark Martin for the
spot.
Lap 89—Clint
Bowyer is dropping further, this time passed by Kurt Busch
for sixth.
Lap
88—Pole-sitter Martin Truex Jr. is still hanging around, running
eighth.
Lap 86—Tony
Stewart moves into the top 5 with a pass of Clint Bowyer.
Also, A.J. Allmendinger moves into second, passing Kyle Busch.
Lap 85—LEAD
CHANGE: Jimmie Johnson goes outside past Kyle Busch,
regaining the lead.
Lap 82—Jamie
McMurray has passed Clint Bowyer for fourth place.
Lap 80—Jimmie
Johnson is really closing on Kyle Busch, and A.J.
Allmendinger isn’t fading in third.
Lap
78—Speaking of Joey Logano, he’s up to 12th now, having passed
David Reutimann as well. He started 18th.
Lap 77—Greg
Biffle is up to 14th after starting 24th. He was running
13th, but was passed by Joey Logano on the previous lap.
Lap 74 — A.J.
Allmendinger takes over third place from Clint Bowyer. He
started eighth.
Lap 71—After
being sent to the rear for his pit-road penalty, Kasey
Kahne is still having trouble with his shifter.
Lap 69—Bobby
Labonte drives his car to the garage.
Lap 66—Jeff
Gordon has climbed up to 11th, and is now right behind
teammate Mark Martin for a spot in the top 10.
Lap 63—A.J.
Allmendinger passes Kurt Busch for fourth place; Tony
Stewart is up to sixth.
Lap 60—LEAD
CHANGE: Kyle Busch passes Jimmie Johnson for the lead.
Lap 59—GREEN
FLAG: Jimmie Johnson leads the field to green.
Lap 58—David
Ragan is sent to the rear of the field on the restart, too
fast exiting pit road. Kasey Kahne is also sent to the rear for sending
too many men over the wall.
Lap 56—The
lead-lap cars head to pit road.
• Jimmie
Johnson takes four tires • Kyle Busch
takes four tires • Clint
Bowyer takes four tires • Martin
Truex Jr. takes four tires • Kurt Busch
takes four tires
Lap 54—YELLOW
FLAG NO. 1: Sam Hornish Jr. hits the wall in Turn 1,
bringing out the first caution. There is no free pass.
Lap 53—Jeff
Gordon is not pleased with his car, though he’s running
14th.
Lap 52—Kasey
Kahne is really moving, cutting Johnson’s lead in half.
He’s just over a half-second out of the lead right now.
Lap
50—Michael McDowell, Dave Blaney and Mike Bliss are officially out
of the race.
Lap 48—Jimmie
Johnson and Kasey Kahne have really checked out. Johnson
leads Kahne by only 1.4 seconds, but the third-place car of Clint
Bowyer is 4.5 seconds back.
Lap 45—Kurt
Busch is up to seventh after starting 12th, and Tony
Stewart is up seven spots to ninth.
Lap 44—Dave
Blaney heads to the garage, but the 87 of Joe Nemechek
heads back out to the track.
Lap 42—Jimmie
Johnson’s lead on Kasey Kahne has grown to two seconds.
Lap 41—Mike
Bliss joins the parade to the garage.
Lap 40—Johnny
Sauter is officially out of the race. The reason from the
garage was electrical.
Lap 39 —
Jimmie Johnson has opened up a 1.5-second lead on Kasey Kahne.
Lap
38—Michael McDowell also heads to the garage.
Lap 37—Clint
Bowyer passes pole-sitter Martin Truex Jr. for fourth.
Lap 36—Joe
Nemecheck follows, also pulling his car to the garage.
Lap 33—Johnny
Sauter takes his car to the garage.
Lap 32—Tony
Stewart passes Jamie McMurray to crack the top 10.
Lap 30—Ryan
Newman continues to slide, falling down to 13th now between
David Reutimann and Denny Hamlin.
Lap 28—Tony
Stewart is charging toward the top 10, climbing to 11th
from his 16th-place starting spot.
Lap 26—LEAD
CHANGE: Jimmie Johnson passes Kasey Kahne for the lead.
Johnson won both races at Dover last year.
Lap 25—Jimmie
Johnson goes outside of Kasey Kahne to try to make a pass.
Lap 23—Kurt
Busch is up to ninth after starting 12th.
Lap 19—Jimmie
Johnson is slowly closing in on Kasey Kahne, as the lead
is now down to less than a second.
Lap 17—Jimmie
Johnson passes his ex-teammate, Kyle Busch, to take
second behind Kasey Kahne.
Lap 15—Ryan
Newman is struggling, dropping from a sixth-place start to
10th.
Lap 13—A.J.
Allmendinger and Jamie McMurray continue to battle for 9th.
Lap 10 —
Kasey Kahne has opened up a lead of nearly a full second on
Kyle Busch.
Lap 8 — Mark
Martin is down two spots, dropping to fifth after starting
third.
Lap 5—David
Reutimann is up two spots to 11th.
Lap 3—Kyle
Busch has also passed Martin Truex Jr., moving into second
behind Kasey Kahne.