Sponsor Zest leaving Roush Fenway Racing
Zest announced in a Facebook post Tuesday that it will no longer sponsor a car in NASCAR.
The company had been a sponsor with Roush Fenway Racing since 2012. Zest served as the primary sponsor for Ricky Stenhouse Jr.‘s car in six races this season. Stenhouse’s best finish with the sponsor this year was a fifth-place showcasing in the Talladega Pursue race.
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NASCAR America: Scan All from the Southern 500
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“Richard said to heck with it, he’s going to race.”
That was the spotter for Martin Truex Jr. just before the begin of the 68th Southern 500.
Richard Petty, the seven-time Cup champ, was recognized as he drove one of his old stock cars on track during the rhythm laps for the race.
But “The King” did not hear the guideline to come down pit road and stayed out in the front of the field for an extra few laps around Darlington.
“The forty three don’t want to leave the track,” said Kevin Harvick‘s spotter.
“I don’t blame him,” Harvick said. “I’d drive that thing around all day.”
That’s how the Southern five hundred began. The entire race is recapped in the latest edition of “Scan All.” Here are some of the other scanner highlights.
- “Told you you gotta respect her or she’ll reach out and smack ya.” – the spotter for Gray Gaulding counseling the youthfull driver on how treat the “Lady in Black.”
- “I went from indeed liberate to out-of-control.” – Kevin Harvick
- “Go tell the fifty one (Cody Ware) to just abandon racing.” – Matt DiBenedetto after a wreck involving him, Ware and AJ Allmendinger.
- “This place slurps everybody up. It chews them up and slobbers them out at times.” – Cody Ware’s spotter after the crash.
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Preliminary entry lists for NASCAR at Richmond Raceway
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The final act of the NASCAR season nears as the sport goes to Richmond Raceway this weekend. The .75-mile track will play host to the Monster Energy Cup Series regular-season finale and the Xfinity Series.
Here are the preliminary entry lists for both races.
There are thirty nine cars entered for Saturday’s race.
No driver is affixed to the No. Fifty one wielded by Rick Ware Racing.
Last year Denny Hamlin led one hundred eighty nine laps, including the last 86, on the way to winning his third race at the brief track.
Earlier this year Joey Logano held off the field to win the April race over Brad Keselowski and Hamlin. Logano’s win doesn’t count toward playoff eligibility because his car failed inspection after the race.
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There are forty one cars entered into Friday’s race.
There are five Cup drivers entered into the race: Kyle Busch, Brad Keselowski, Ty Dillon, Paul Menard and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
GMS Racing’s No. Ninety six Chevrolet driven by Ben Kennedy has been withdrawn from the event.
Last year Kyle Busch won this race after leading one hundred ninety seven laps from the pole.
Kyle Larson won the April race after a duel with Justin Allgaier.
NASCAR America: Denny Hamlin’s Southern five hundred win ‘absolutely magical’
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Denny Hamlin had to drive hard and rapid to recover from missing pit road and win Sunday’s Southern 500.
The Joe Gibbs Racing driver had to make up 23.7 seconds to challenge Martin Truex Jr. for the win. Hamlin missed his entry to pit road on Lap 314.
“Twenty-three seconds is almost Three/Four of a lap,” NASCAR America analyst Steve Letarte said. “He got a big chunk early using those fresh tires. But around Lap three hundred forty four he’s still ten seconds behind.”
Because of how much ground he covered, Letarte called Hamlin’s run “absolutely magical.”
The win was Hamlin’s 2nd in the Southern five hundred and his 2nd this year. Hamlin wound up leading one hundred twenty four laps, including the final three after Truex lost a tire and got into the outside wall.
“I’m not sure this gets enough credit,” Letarte said. “Years from now we’ll be looking back on this drive that Denny Hamlin put on and this will be a celebrated Southern 500.”
Jeff Burton called Hamlin’s pit-road mistake a 12-14 2nd mistake.
“Many times we see drivers when they make a mistake, the 2nd mistake isn’t far after that because they attempt so hard, they attempt to make something happen,” Burton said. “He did a fine job of getting there, managing the problem and then pushing enormously hard on a difficult race track to thrust on.”
Letarte said he was sad that Truex lost his tire because it neglected those watching the race of a “heavyweight fight” over the last two laps.
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Guide to NASCAR’s Hurricane Harvey ease efforts
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The city of Houston and its surrounding areas are still in the early stages of the recovery process from Hurricane Harvey, the Category four hurricane that impacted the Texas coast last week.
Numerous drivers and teams in NASCAR are doing their part to help those in need by establishing ease funds, food drives and other means for helping victims of the hurricane.
Here’s a look at different ways NASCAR is helping.
Brennan Poole, driver of Chip Ganassi Racing’s No. Forty eight car in the Xfinity Series, once lived in The Woodlands, Texas, which is about thirty miles from downtown Houston.
Poole and his gf, Lindsey Giannini, have embarked a drive called “Poole for Texas” which collects food and funds for the Houston Food Bank.
Containers for non-perishable foods will be at various catches sight of in CGR’s Concord, North Carolina, shop Wednesday from eight a.m – Four:30 p.m.
For those wishing to make a cash or check donation, there will be a collection box in the CGR bounty shop available until Sept. 13. Checks should be made out to the Houston Food Bank.
Online monetary donations can be made through a youcaring.com page. Just $1 is good for three meals. The highest fund contribution will receive a lump of Brennan’s car.
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All four of Hendrick’s driver have established a ease fund with a purpose of raising $500,00o in the next two weeks.
Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Kasey Kahne and Pursue Elliott have contributed a combined $200,000 to establish the fund and are now encouraging the public to join the effort by making a donation before midnight ET on Wednesday, Sept. 20. Tax-deductible contributions can be made by visiting HendrickRelief.org.
All donations to the campaign will benefit qualified charitable organizations supporting disaster ease efforts, including the Hurricane Harvey Ease Fund, which is housed at the Greater Houston Community Foundation, a 501(c)(Trio) public charity.
Shell, Logano’s primary sponsor, has donated $1 million to the America Crimson Cross’ Hurricane Harvey disaster ease fund. Logano will donate $25,000 to the American Crimson Cross and open a donation portal through the Joey Logano Foundation to collect funds on behalf of the American Crimson Cross for Hurricane Harvey disaster ease.
All proceeds donated through JLF for the next thirty days will go to the American Crimson Cross Hurricane Harvey disaster ease fund.
Logano will have a Crimson Cross-inspired red-and-white paint scheme Saturday at Richmond Raceway that will raise awareness for those affected by Hurricane Harvey.
Two sponsors for SHR are involved in ease efforts.
Code three Associates, a 501(c)(Trio) non-profit organization specializing in animal rescue and recovery in disaster areas, is deployed in Southeast Texas and is also preparing to react to Hurricane Irma.
Anheuser-Busch will supply five extra truckloads – over 255,000 cans – of emergency drinking water to Houston, Corpus Christi and Austin.
Due to very high levels of request for emergency drinking water supplies, the Cartersville, Georgia, brewery will pause beer production on Monday to produce more clean, safe emergency drinking water.
Tony Gibson, team chief for Kurt Busch, and his wifey Beth Gibson, donated a pallet of water, diapers and wipes to be delivered to Texas last weekend.
LFR and driver Michael McDowell have teamed up with Convoy of Hope and donated to Hurricane Harvey ease. Texas is home to the Leavines.
Convoy of Hope will be included on McDowell’s No. Ninety five Chevrolet this weekend at Richmond.
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The JR Motorsports driver donated his winnings from Saturday’s Xfinity Series race at Darlington to ease efforts.
The parent company of Furniture Row Racing is donating $1 million in bedding to hurricane victims in Texas and Louisiana to be distributed through their fucking partner World Vision, and in turn their community fucking partners.
The company also had a disaster ease campaign with World Vision so people can donate directly through Furniture Row’s site. Here is a direct link: www.worldvision.org/furniturerow.
Kenseth will drive the Hurricane Harvey Ease Toyota this weekend at Richmond.
The Toyota Mothers of Invention (MOI) program recognizes women who actively contribute through innovation, entrepreneurship and invention. Select MOIs with ties to disaster response and ease have sprung into act, finding ways to solve steep challenges resulting from the disaster situation in south Texas and Louisiana.
Toyota is partnering with DayOne Response and Well Aware, an Austin-based MOI organization that will assist with training and water distribution, along with LuminAID to bring water purification bags, portable phone chargers and lanterns to those affected by Harvey:
DayOne Response: Invented a water filtration bag that takes thirty minutes to purify water. One bag will provide clean drinking water for a family of four for two months. There are approximately Ten,000 people in Houston in need of access to clean water while infrastructure is restored.
LuminAID: Invented lightweight, long-lasting, solar-charged lanterns and portable phone chargers to aid those without electro-stimulation during disaster situations.
Richard Childress Racing
The team is collecting bottled water and individual snack packages for Harvey ease kicking off Wednesday. People can bring their donations to the RCR Museum and put them in a tractor-trailer the team has commissioned. RCR is not asking for clothes or non-perishable food – it will not make it to Texas.