Pepsi 300

[harvick#1]

he didn't race

[tstran17_88]

what happened to Montoya?

Got a little sunburn by his pool in Miami I would imagine.

[RaikkonenRules]

Kevin Hamlin ran the #42 this race and finished 19th, 2 laps down.

[RaikkonenRules]

Series Standings using Moto GP System

1 Carl Edwards 115
2 Kevin Harvick 72
3 Kyle Busch 68
4 Jeff Burton 59
5 Matt Kenseth 56
6 Dave Blaney 45
7 Denny Hamlin 39
8 Jaun Pablo Montoya 35
9 Tony Stewart 35
10 Clint Bowyer 34
11 Casey Mears 31
12 David Reutimann 29
13 Greg Biffle 26
14 David Stremme 25
15 Jason Leffler 23
16 Scott Wimmer 19
17 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 19
18 Regan Smith 18
19 Shane Huffman 17
20 Boris Said 16
21 Marcus Ambrose 14
22 Todd Kluever 14
23 Kurt Busch 13
24 Ryan Newman 13
25 Jon Wood 12
26 Mike Bliss 12
27 Mark Martin 11
28 Scott Pruett 11
29 Martin Truex Jr. 10
30 Bobby Hamilton Jr. 9
31 Robby Gordon 9
32 Kasey Kahne 9
33 Jorge Goeters 9
34 Stephen Leight 8
35 Adrian Fernandez 7
36 David Ragan 5
37 Mike Wallace 3
38 Jamie McMurray 3
39 Joe Nemechek 3
40 Steve Wallace 2
41 Ward Burton 1
42 Sam Hornish Jr. 1
43 Brent Sherman 1
44 Jay Sauter 1
45 Brad Coleman 1

[dont_be_jack]

what happened to Montoya?

No sense in racing on a racetrack that's not run by the Nextel Cup.

[djarumdudley]

nothing against Carl Edwards, but terribly crappy that he won. i really thought a Busch regular would pull this one out or at least some one unheralded like David Stremme. hopefully a regular can pull one off during the Nashville-Kentucky-Milwaukee stretch in June.

[RaikkonenRules]

Grr stupid Buschwackers. I wanted Leffler to win.

[The Phantom]

what happened to Montoya?

No sense in racing on a racetrack that's not run by the Nextel Cup.

I suppose Montoya doesn't need the money, but here's a good example of the difference between Marcus Ambrose and JPM - Ambrose left a lucrative drive in Australia (pretty much the best team in the V8 Supercar circus) to race NASCAR because he reckons racing 16 times a year isn't enough - he wants to race EVERY WEEKEND : )

Pity he was not able to back up his qualifying performance, but its a long year, he'll be back in the top ten soon.

[IndianChiefJoy]

I don't know/care about Marcos Ambrose, but Montoya have been racing since early January, before the Rolex 24 at Daytona that he won. The week after he started the speed week in Daytona, and didn't have a weekend off just to relax. With Rolex 24, Bush and Cup, Montoya have been racing every weekend for three months in a row, so, I guess he deserves a break.