Comments (1) Big shift, Denny goes to 7-2 and Tony slips to 12-1…Harvick bumps up to 10-1
Denny Hamlin 7-2
Kyle Busch 9-2
Mark Martin 5-1
Jimmie Johnson 5-1
Jeff Gordon 8-1
Kasey Kahne 10-1
Kevin Harvick 10-1
Tony Stewart 12-1
Clint Bowyer 18-1
Dale Earnhardt Jr. 20-1
Carl Edwards 20-1
Ryan Newman 20-1
Kurt Busch 25-1
Juan Montoya 30-1
Jeff Burton 30-1
Greg Biffle 50-1
Brian Vickers 50-1
Matt Kenseth 50-1
Jimmie Johnson 5-1
Kyle Busch 6-1
Tony Stewart 6-1
Jeff Gordon 7-1
Mark Martin 8-1
Denny Hamlin 10-1
Clint Bowyer 14-1
Kurt Busch 15-1
Carl Edwards 16-1
Greg Biffle 18-1
Kasey Kahne 18-1
Matt Kenseth 20-1
Kevin Harvick 20-1
Ryan Newman 20-1
Dale Earnhardt Jr 20-1
Jeff Burton 22-1
Juan Pablo Montoya 22-1
Brian Vickers 25-1
Here are the opening lines for Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Watkin’s Glen or should I call it by it’s proper name of, Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen
Tony Stewart 9-2
Jeff Gordon 6-1
Kyle Busch 6-1
Marcos Ambrose 7-1
Juan Montoya 7-1
Robby Gordon 15-1
Denny Hamlin 20-1
Carl Edwards 20-1
Mark Martin 20-1
Kevin Harvick 20-1
Jimmie Johnson 20-1
Kurt Busch 20-1
Ron Fellows 30-1
Kasey Kahne 30-1
Ryan Newman 30-1
Jamie McMurray 30-1
Clint Bowyer 40-1
Patrick Carpentier 40-1
Greg Biffle 40-1
A.J. Allmendinger 50-1
Jeff Burton 50-1
Matt Kenseth 60-1
Dale Earnhardt Jr. 60-1
Martin Truex Jr. 60-1
Brian Vickers 100-1
Crown Royal to Sponsor Kenseth in 2010
Roush Fenway Racing announced Tuesday that Diageo, parent company of Crown Royal, has renewed its multi-year sponsorship. Crown Royal will serve as the primary sponsor for Matt Kenseth and the No. 17 Cup Series team for 18 Cup events in 2010.
“I’m excited about teaming up with Crown Royal,” said Kenseth, one of only five drivers in NASCAR history to win the Cup rookie of the year award, a Cup championship and the Daytona 500.
Mustang to Make NASCAR Debut in Fall
The Mustang body will race in the Nationwide Series next season, Ford officials confirmed Tuesday. It marks the first time a Mustang will be used in any NASCAR Series.
The Nationwide Series is switching to the Car of Tomorrow chassis and body for some events next season before racing the new car full time in 2011. Brian Wolfe, director of Ford North America Motorsports, made the announcement.
“Mustang is the most successful product nameplate in racing history,” Wolfe said. “It seems only right that it should be coming to the most popular form of racing in North America.
“We had been talking with NASCAR for some time about Mustang as part of its vision for a muscle car rollout in the Nationwide Series. We both saw it as a way of differentiating the series from Sprint Cup.”
Wolfe said Ford will roll out the first Nationwide Mustang sometime this fall.
Harvick Avoids Talk of 2010
He was not ready to commit to driving for Richard Childress Racing next season.
Despite a contract and sponsorship that runs through 2010 and a statement by owner Richard Childress that he expects both deals to be honored, Harvick went out of his way to be noncommittal.
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Fewer Officers But More Tickets
SAN DIEGO — The number of police officers patrolling the streets of San Diego has shrunk over the past few years, but the number of traffic tickets they’re writing is increasing.
More tickets aren’t necessarily due to more bad drivers, but rather a more focused effort to crack down on them, police officials said.
Between 2007 and 2008, the number of citations written for hazardous violations jumped by 22 percent citywide, from 34,420 to 42,140.
INDIANAPOLIS — Kevin Harvick walked out of his garage stall at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, sat down on a stack of tires, and proceeded to field a flurry of questions from reporters wondering if he wants to leave Richard Childress Racing after this year. Through it all, he wore an expressionless mask worthy of a championship poker player going all in on a bluff.
And yet, his frustration with what he’s called the worst season of his racing career is clearly evident. A championship contender for most of his tenure at NASCAR’s premier level, Harvick came to Indianapolis a distant 25th in points and with no real shot at the year-end championship Chase. It’s been 90 races since his last victory, that knife’s-edge triumph over Mark Martin at Daytona now more than two and a half years ago. His struggles are reflected throughout RCR, which after two years of placing three drivers in the Chase is on the verge of being locked out.
For the No. 29 team, it’s been problem after problem after problem. A change of crew chief earlier in the year seemed to have little effect. “I don’t think moving from one crew chief to another necessarily did anything but make people realize that the problem was somewhere else other than our crew chiefs,” Harvick said. There are have been accidents and parts failures too many to count, only adding to the frustration of a driver who hasn’t cracked the top 10 since Atlanta in March.
“There’s really nothing being looked at,” he said. “Everybody’s kind of stale right now, and everything is just not fast enough, and everything just isn’t running well enough to be where everybody wants to be. So I don’t really have anything to look at, or look forward to, or have anything cooking, or anything different, or anything like that. Right now, I’m the driver of the Shell-Pennzoil RCR Chevrolet, and that’s what I intend to continue to focus on.” -KH
Kevin Harvick w
ants out; Richard Childress says not yet. Is this a relationship that can weather another year bound by contract? “Richard Childress Racing has a multi-year contract with Shell-Pennzoil that includes the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Shell-Pennzoil remains a great partner for RCR and Kevin Harvick as well as our sport overall. RCR also has a multi-year contract with Kevin Harvick that includes the 2010 season. That said, Shell will be the sponsor and Kevin will be the driver of RCR’s No. 29 Shell-Pennzoil Chevrolet Impala SS in 2010.” -Richard Childress
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