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2007 TV Schedule
2007 Schedule

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Daytona 500
Auto Club 500
UAW 400
Kobalt Tools 500
Food City 500
Goody's 500
Samsung 500
Subway Fresh 500
Aaron's 499
Crown Royal 400
Dodge Avenger 500
All_Star
Coca Cola 600
Autism Speaks 400
Pocono 500
Citizens Bank 400
Toyota/Save Mart 350
Lenox Tools 300
Pepsi 400
USG Sheetrock 400
Allstate 400
Pennsylvania 500
AMD at the Glen
GFS Marketplace 400
Sharpie 500
Sharp AQUOS 500
Chevy Rock & Roll 400
Syvania 300
Dodge Dealers 400
Lifelock 400
UAW-Ford 500
Bank of Americ 500
Subway 500
Bass Pro Shop MBNA 500
Dickies 500
Checker Auto 500
Ford 400

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2007 NASCAR TV
Broadcast Times Announced

TNT Kyle Petty to serve as Race Analyst

Petty Meets Key
Legislature In Support
Of Track In Northwest

Track Facts:
Banking/Turns: 15°
Distance: 1.5 miles
Shape: D-shap oval

The Lifelock 400
Sunday, September 30
Kansas Speedway
400 Speedway Blvd.
Kansas City, KS

Schedule
Practice
12:30 p.m. EST, Friday, September 28
10:00 a.m. EST, Saturday, September 29
1:50 p.m. EST, Final Practice Saturday, September 29

Qualifying
4:10 p.m., Friday, September 28

Race Day Sunday, September 30
2:00 p.m. EST Sunday
TV: ABC 2:00 p.m. EST start
Radio: Motor Racing Network (PRN), XM Radio
2006 winner Tony Stewart

The Focus is Kansas
Petty Knows Kansas, Every Race Has Big Implications

This weekend, Kyle Petty and the #45 Dodge team will travel to the 1.5-mile Kansas Speedway for the LifeLock 400. Kansas is the only Midwestern stop for the Nextel Cup Series during the “Chase for the Championship.”

While the top-12 drivers are engaged in a battle for the Nextel Cup championship, Petty and several other competitors are in a point’s race as well. Teams that finish the season inside the top-35 in owner points will go into the first five races of 2008, including the 50th Daytona 500, with a guaranteed starting spot. This becomes even more important when you factor in the COT, which will be fully implemented in 2008.

Petty remains 34th in the owner points standings.

Petty has made five starts at the Kansas Speedway. His best finish of 15th came in the inaugural event at the track in 2002.

Comments from Petty as he prepares for Sunday’s LifeLock 400:
“Right now, every race is important for everyone for different reasons. You can’t spoil any good runs and our team’s total focus is on having good races. For us, as we’re looking at it right now, this top-35 battle is going to go all the way to Homestead. Can we get ahead and be out of that circumstance by Homestead? Yea, we can, but right now we are working hard to earn every point and move forward. It’s obvious that Dover wasn’t meant to be, but we’re focused on Kansas right now. You are 15 steps behind if you’re not looking to the next race. Our attention is on Kansas.”

“We understand that we’re going into Kansas with the purpose to have a strong race and finish. Every team out there is going to try and win, sure, but we’re looking at the bigger picture too. Next year will be the beginning of change in our sport. You don’t want to be left out of the first four or five races. A guaranteed spot at the beginning of the season starts with these races now.

“There are some guys that are racing Kansas Speedway this weekend knowing it has implications for Daytona and the beginning of 2008. That’s a reality. We happen to be one of those teams, right now. It’s about staying focused and getting good finishes. We want to distance ourselves from that position.”
“I owe it to my team, my sponsors and myself to race as hard as I can. Billy (Wilburn, crew chief) is working his rear off right now with these guys getting our cars better. It’s a great group of hard-working guys on the team right now. They know it’s important for us to have a good run this weekend.”

“Our intermediate program has probably been the most improved area of our race team this year. Those tracks make up the majority of our schedule so that was the first place we began to work. Kansas is a lot like Chicago. John Andretti had a great run earlier there this year there. Our third place finish at Charlotte in May, I think that can also attest to the fact that we are making strides in that area. The car that we’re used to we’ve been better there.”

“I have been asked, on several occasions, my opinion on the fact that no driver from the state of North Carolina has won a race yet this season. If you look, there are probably fewer of us now than at any point in the history of NASCAR. It’s just a part of the evolution of the sport. I think North Carolina, as a whole, definitely played a large role in getting Nextel Cup racing to the level it is today. At the same time we’re heading to Kansas the home of Sprint, our series title sponsor in 2008. The sport has changed and it has grown much bigger and better. That is no way a negative.”

1. Greg Biffle, Ford
2. Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet
3. Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet
4. Casey Mears, Chevrolet
5. Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet
21. Kyle Petty, #45 Dodge
42. Bobby Labonte, #43 Dodge

OVERVIEW:
Greg Biffle won Sunday’s LifeLick 400 at the 1.5-mile Kansas Speedway. Biffle had just enough fuel to survive the race after NASCAR called the event short due to darkness.

Rain had the biggest affect on the outcome of Sunday’s race. A beautiful, windy Midwest morning eventually led to darkening skies and torrential rain over the mile-and-a-half oval. The rain began right at the start of Sunday’s race and 18 laps into the event the race was halted for nearly 45 minutes. Once the race was restarted it was Matt Kenseth at the point. Kenseth, a contender in the championship chase, led the field until lap 47 before losing it to Kurt Busch. Meanwhile other contenders such as Kyle Busch and Martin Truex, Jr. ran into problems on Sunday. Busch wrecked hard and Truex, Jr. lost a tire. Busch, Kenseth and Tony Stewart continued to battle for the lead on the track before the next delay in the action came. The delay came when teams were preparing for pit stops. Stewart was the leader when the race was red flagged for rain- Busch and Kenseth had to pit for fuel. The second rain delay was a little over two hours. Stewart had to pit once the race went back to green. NASCAR then decided to shorten the race to 225 laps because of darkness. That changed the pit strategy for everyone, but a major wreck occurred on the restart. The wreck involved Matt Kenseth and Stewart also had damage. Stewart did not pit to make repairs and it cost them laps latter with a big wreck involving Kurt Busch and Carl Edwards. The cautions forced NASCAR to shorten the race again to 210 laps as team thought about fuel strategy. Denny Hamlin spun in the closing laps as he was the next chase driver to have problems. Darkness became the next problem for NASCAR to deal with and when Juan Pablo Montoya cut a tire NASCAR decided that it couldn’t go on any longer. Greg Biffle, low on fuel, was leading and took the win under the caution period. Clint Bowyer was closing and Biffle ran out of gas right after NASCAR called the race on lap 210. If the race would have gone been a green-white-checkered finish Bowyer might be celebrating today.

Kyle Petty and the #45 Dodge team did everything possible to earn five extra bonus points on Sunday. Petty stayed out during the first caution period in an attempt to gain bonus points. Two other competitors did the same and Petty had to hit pit road. The team then attempted the old fashion way. Petty charged to the front of the speedway and up to 14th when the second rain period came. Petty then had to hit pit road for fuel once the race went back to green, but not before finally leading a lap. Petty came back on the track and fought with the lead lap cars. Petty avoided both wrecks- doing a masterful job of avoiding the Stewart incident. Petty had no problem making it to lap 210 and finished 21st. The team remains 34th in owner points.

“We had a better run today than what we’ve had in the past few weeks,” said Petty. “The car really hooked up in the middle of the race. The rest, you just had to avoid the wrecks. We adjusted the car early and it was good the rest of the day.”

Bobby Labonte and the #43 Dodge team used the rain strategy to get to 16th during the lap 146 caution period. Before the stop Labonte was fighting the handling of the car. It was “tight and loose”, but Labonte still made the charge before the caution. Like Petty, Labonte continued on the lead lap once the race went back to green in the 13th position. The team was never given a chance to show what they had. Labonte was collected in a major crash that collected nearly a dozen cars on the first lap the race went back to green. The front of the Cheerios Dodge was shortened as the team immediately went to work to replace the radiator and attempt to complete the race. The safety of the team was the importance of crew chief Doug Randolph as the car was severely damaged and it was determined that too much damage was done to continue. Labonte finished 42nd.

“It’s a very disappointing end to our day,” said Labonte. “We were in a good position, but there wasn’t anywhere to go when the guys started wrecking. We haven’t had problems with DNF’s this season, but we had a lot of lapped guys and lead lap guys all in the same group on the restart. It’s unfortunate that we ended our day like this.”

The NASCAR Nextel Cup Series now heads to the 2.66-mile Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway for Sunday’s 500-mile race. It will be the first race on a superspeedway using the new cars.