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Home Depot Racing: Auto Club Speedway Race Report
Stewart Fights Loose-Handling Race Car at Fontana Home Depot Driver Finishes a Disappointing 22nd Date: Aug. 31, 2008 Event: Pepsi 500 (Round 25 of 36) Series: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Location: Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. (2-mile oval) Start/Finish: 14th/22nd (Running, completed 250 of 250 laps) Winner: Jimmie Johnson of Hendrick Motorsports (Chevrolet) Tony Stewart struggled with a loose-handling race car and finished a disappointing 22nd in Sunday night’s Pepsi 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. Stewart, driver of the No. 20 Subway/Home Depot Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) started 14th and hung inside the top-15 for the first 200 laps of the 250-lap event, despite battling a race car that was loose going into and coming off the wide sweeping corners of the 2-mile oval. While veteran crew chief Greg Zipadelli threw a multitude of changes at Stewart’s car throughout the night to fix the loose condition, nothing, including wedge, track bar, and air pressure adjustments seemed to remedy the problem. While the car’s handling was getting better by a pit stop on lap 147, the loose condition worsened from there and Stewart dropped 12 positions throughout the final 100 laps. “It was just a tough night,” said Stewart, who made his 15th career Sprint Cup start at the 2-mile oval. “We just couldn’t get the car to tighten up. About halfway through the race the balance was getting better, but it just went away over the last two runs and that was it.” Stewart dropped from sixth to eighth in Sprint Cup Series point-standings, but has a 138-point cushion between himself and 13th-place David Ragan– the first driver on the outside looking in of the 12-driver Chase for the Championship – with only one race remaining before the Chase field is set. Stewart’s Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) teammates – Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch – finished third and seventh, respectively, in the Pepsi 500. Busch remains the lead JGR driver in the championship point race. He continues to be the series’ point leader, but his lead has been trimmed to 208 markers over second-place Carl Edwards. Hamlin maintained his 11th-place position in points and sits 690 points arrears Busch. Stewart is 645 points behind Busch. The top-five drivers in points, Busch, Edwards, Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Jeff Burton have all clinched spots in the 12-driver Chase field. Greg Biffle, who is sixth in points, will clinch a spot by simply starting next week’s race at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway. Johnson won the Pepsi 500 to score his 36th career Sprint Cup victory, his third of the season and his third at California. Greg Biffle finished 2.076 seconds behind Johnson, while Hamlin, Kevin Harvick and Matt Kenseth rounded out the top-five. Edwards, Busch, Kasey Kahne, David Reutimann and Clint Bowyer comprised the remainder of the top-10. There were eight caution periods for 34 laps, with two drivers failing to finish the 250-lap race. The next event on the Sprint Cup schedule is the Sept. 6 Chevy Rock & Roll 400 at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway. The race begins at 7:30 p.m. EDT with live, high-definition coverage provided by ABC beginning with its pre-race show at 7 p.m. The race will also be broadcast live on SIRIUS Satellite Radio Channel 128. http://www.frontstretch.com/ncpr/19826/ |
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