NBS:Stater Bros 300 thread

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hornish wrecks lap 131

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at the checkers: Kenseth Mears Busch Edwards Biffle

kenseth led 48 laps

[Robert Ryan]

Did Juan go up the ladder...or stay about the same?

[tassiedevilAB]

i Don't know about JPM, but Ambrose sure went with a bullet to 10th place in the drivers points, gotta luv that!

Only just got home from the FPV open day, that was a great day!

All they said there was Marcos wrecked his car in qual & finished up in 25th place in the race! but he has lost top spot in the rookies championship!

[tassiedevilAB]

this is what Marcos had to say!

25/02/2007

AMBROSE RISES TO TENTH IN NASCAR BUSCH SERIES POINTS WITH SOLID RACE IN CALIFORNIA


Marcos Ambrose has risen to tenth in the NASCAR Busch Series standings after finishing 25th in the Stater Bros 300 at California Speedway in Fontana, California today.

It was another solid finish for Ambrose in his second NASCAR Busch Series start, the Australian driving the #59 Kingsford Charcoal Ford Fusion to be the third highest finishing Raybestos Rookie of the Year contender in today’s 150-lap event.

The race was a gutsy performance for Ambrose and the #59 Kingsford crew as they worked hard all race to improve the set-up of the team’s spare car after a qualifying crash put the main car out of commission.

Ambrose crashed at the start of his qualifying run, which was held less than four hours before the start of the race. Not only did this put Ambrose in 41st and last position for the start of the race, it meant that the #59 crew had to work hard to get the spare #59 Kingsoford Charcoal Ford Fusion ready for the race.

From this point on it was always going to prove a tough event for Ambrose, but he soldiered on despite having no track time in the spare car over the weekend. With set-up critical at California Speedway, Ambrose persevered with the car with the aim of collecting a finish and some vital points.

Ambrose broke in to the top 30 on lap 60 of the 150-lap race, exiting pit road in 27th after his second pit stop under the third caution period of the day.

With 25 laps to go Ambrose remained in 27th and over the course of the final laps Ambrose gained further positions to finish 25th, despite battling a set-up that made the car a challenge, especially in the middle part of the corners.

Matt Kenseth won today’s Stater Bros 300 in his Ford Fusion ahead of Casey Mears and Kyle Busch.

Ambrose makes his NASCAR road course debut next weekend in Mexico City at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in the third race of the 2007 NASCAR Busch Series season.

Marcos Ambrose – #59 Kingsford Charcoal Ford Fusion

“I still don’t know what happened on the qualifying run,” said Ambrose.

”It was a bit of a mess and it really put us back. I have to thank the team for what they were able to do in getting the car ready before the race. They did a great job to get everything on the spare car ready.

“I hadn’t driven the spare so it was very hard to get out there with the speeds these cars do and run with the frontrunners. Not having driven it, the set-up was obviously not right. We worked away at it and tried to tune it during the pit stops but it just didn’t work, especially through the mid-corner.

“The qualifying thing put us in the spare car and there is only so much you can tune it in the pit stops, so we were pretty much stuck with what we had.

“We were able to get to the finish and get some points. It was a solid finish and we are keeping the points ticking along and for these first few races that is definitely the goal. Credit really has to go to the team this weekend.

“This is probably the toughest track to get used to that I have raced on in the past 12 months. You’ve got to have everything nailed with the set-up and be on top of everything to get things going. But saying that I’m quite confident that next time we come here we will have it worked out.

“We can look ahead to Mexico and our first road course now but I think the team should be pretty proud of what they did today. Unfortunately after qualifying we were in a pretty tough situation but they did everything they could, got me back out there and worked really hard during the race.”


It could have been A disaster, but he is a fighter, i had him down for a top15 qual. going on his last prac. times & hopefully a top10 finish in the race!
well my prediction was way out after his spin in qual. he did good considering where he had to start from!

go aussie go !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lee Roy]

Cool. Go Marcos!!!!

[race aficionado]

Good for the Aussies!

mokin:

[Alexamateo]

well, I guess you just can't swerve out of all of them safetly, eh?

. . . . oh well . . . . the cool thing is that I get to see him again tomorrow.

Thanks.

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mokin:

If you haven't seen it Race, there's really nothing Juan could have done. Looking foward to next week @ Hermanos Rodriguez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C3KC6shJFg

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Busch Standings after race 2 california

1 -- Kevin Harvick 345 Leader
2 +1 Carl Edwards 330 -15
3 +8 Matt Kenseth 327 -18
4 -2 Dave Blaney 309 -36
5 +5 Greg Biffle 289 -56
6 +3 Denny Hamlin 280 -65
7 +1 Tony Stewart 272 -73
8 +26 Kyle Busch 232 -113
9 +17 Regan Smith 223 -122
10 +6 Marcos Ambrose* 203 -142