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[NEWS] Yesterday in motorsport #5
by 321Ignition Magazine
Yesterday in motorsport
7 February, 2010
Harvick wins Bud shootout
When Clint Bowyer crashed Kevin Harvick’s primary car for the Bud Shootout during qualifying, 2009 event winner Harvick could only laugh as he sat on his couch at home watching it on TV because he was unable to make it to the track to qualify himself due to a dose of the flu.
By the time he arrived at Daytona to drive in the 75-lapper, he admitted he was okay for a short stint, but was glad it wasn’t the 500.
The drawn grid system had seen Harvick start off the front row alongside Carl Edwards (Scotts Ford), but it was Edwards that dominated the early running to lead at the 25-lap mark when NASCAR stopped the event for the mandatory ten minute break.
On the resumption of play, Edwards again led, but it was Harvick (Shell/Pennzoil Chevrolet), Kasey Kahne (Budweiser Ford) and Tony Stewart (Old Spice Chevrolet) that were the most threatening, and they soon left Edwards in their wake.
Early into the period, 500 pole-winner Mark Martin came together with Kurt Busch mid-field, forcing the Miller Lite Dodge onto the front straight grass where it tore off the splitter and blew the bonnet onto the windscreen in spectacular fashion, forcing the second caution of the night. The third came just six laps from home after Michael Waltrip came unstuck, taking the hapless John Andretti with him.
The bulk of the field pitted leaving Greg Biffle (3M Ford) and Kasey Kahne up front, but under mounting pressure on the restart with two laps to go. Harvick quickly jumped to the lead, but Biffle was holding up the outside line, and a bump draft from Jeff Gordon into turn three turned him sideways and across the path of team-mates Edwards and Matt Kenseth, taking the trio, Mark Martin and a host of other cars out of contention.
Harvick ultimately claimed the win and the $US200K winners cheque, from Kahne, McMurray, Kyle Busch, Hamlin, Vickers, Logano, Jeff Gordon, Stewart, Montoya and Earnhardt.
Tatnell takes eighth WSS title
Sydney’s Brooke Tatnell has taken his Krikke Motorsport Cool Sprintcar to his eighth World Series Sprintcar title over the weekend after finishing fifth in the 14th and final round at Perth Motorplex, holding out arch-rival Robbie Farr in the process.
Performance Wholesale World Series Sprintcars
Final points (after 14 rounds of 14)
1. Brooke Tatnell (2168)
2. Robbie Farr (2134)
3. Max Dumesny (2062)
4. Ryan Farrell (2059)
5. Jason Johnson (1957)
6. James McFadden (1917)
7. David Murcott (1904)
8. Bryan Mann (1872)
9. Danny Reidy (1732)
10. Kerry Madsen (1695)
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