Bowyer Best at Daytona

[Schwartz Fan]

Bowyer Best at Daytona


DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Clint Bowyer recorded his first win at Daytona International Speedway on Friday night after he drove his No. 29 Chevrolet to victory in the NASCAR Nationwide Series Subway Jalapeno 250.

Bowyer, who had the dominate car, leading 48 laps from the pole, held on during a green-white checkered finish to pick up his seventh career win. It also backed up his strong run with this chassis in the season opener at Daytona where he led 33 laps and finished third.

"This car was fast," Bowyer said. "It was fast in February. This means a lot to me to win at Daytona. This is a track you work your whole life to get to."

The win was the first for Richard Childress Racing in 2009 in what has been a rocky start for the team in the Sprint Cup Series. All of its four teams sit 15th or worse in the standings.

"At RCR things haven't been the best," Bowyer said. "Hopefully this win will give everyone a little pep in there step and some excitement."

Kyle Busch finished second for his 14th top-10 finish of the season and extended his series points lead to 172 over Carl Edwards, who came home third.

"We didn't have the best car tonight so we'll take a second place," Busch said. "That car the 29 had was pretty fast and of course it's a bowtie and we're struggling with what we've got with Toyota."

Joey Logano and Kasey Kahne, who was making his season debut in the series, rounded out the top five.

"It was fun to be in the Nationwide Series and work with Braun," said Kahne, who was driving the No. 10 Toyota. "We just had no help. I felt like my car was really fast and nobody wanted to push me."

The 102-lap race saw seven cautions for 31 laps including a five-car crash that ended with Kertus Davis' car catching on fire. That incident set the field up for the race to go into overtime.

The race was the last for the current Nationwide restrictor-plate car at the track as the series looks to be moving to a COT for the superspeedways and road courses in 2010.

"To run the speedways and the road courses with it (COT) about every team will build about four new cars," Richard Childress said. "We'll build four more cars next year and they'll be COTs.

"Safety is number one and I think it's worth going to them."

The NASCAR Nationwide Series now heads to Chicagoland Speedway for next Friday night's Dollar General 300.

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[Blakr]

Was there a cation during the GWC?
I remember laying there watching the restart for the GWC finish....

....then it was suddenly morning? lol

[Scooters]

If there is a crash during the GWC, they just, for all practical purposes, end the race at that point since its already in "overtime" and the caution would wipe out the remaining laps. The field still has to take the checkers, though. Only one shot at a GWC ever since that debacle in the truck series when GWC first came out.

Was it 5 GWC attempts that race? Something like that.

[revvinjim]

Originally Posted by Blakr Was there a cation during the GWC? I remember laying there watching the restart for the GWC finish.... ....then it was suddenly morning? lol

Blakr, that has happened to me so many times I've lost count. Just last week I fell asleep right after the caution for rain came out. The next morning, I just had to assume Logano won.