The RAB Racing #29 Toyota Care Camry with Kenny Wallace at the wheel made its first start of the 2013 NASCAR Nationwide season at a place where Wallace has quite a history. In 24 yeas of experience racing at Richmond International Speedway Wallace has found victory lane three times, including 18 top 10 finishes and 432 total laps lead
Ryan Reed posted a solid 16th-place finish in his Roush Fenway debut in Friday night’s Nationwide Series race at Richmond International Raceway. The 19-year old driver, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 17, advanced his No. 16 Drive to Stop Diabetes Ford Mustang all the way to the sixth position and was battling for fifth with just 10-laps remaining when he was involved in an altercation which led him to clip the outside wall – relegating the team to a 16th-place finish.
Harvick and Menard are tied for ninth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver championship point standings, trailing leader Jimmie Johnson by 72 markers, while Burton sits 19th.
"We were there, but on the wrong sequence at the end," said Kurt Busch, who saw a race-contending performance drop to a solid ninth-place finish in the closing laps of Saturday night's Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway.
Rocketing ahead of the field on a green-white-checkered finish, Kevin Harvick powered his No. 29 Bell Helicopter Chevrolet SS to victory in the Toyota Owners 400 Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway.
Frank Kimmel, the nine-time ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards champion who's the career victories and poles leader at Salem Speedway, Saturday qualified eighth for Sunday's third race of the ARCA season, the Kentuckiana Ford Dealers ARCA 200 presented by Crosley Radio.
When Justin Boston took the checkered flag to win the pole for Sunday's Kentuckiana Ford Dealers 200 presented by Crosley Radio, crew chief Billy Venturini immediately started passing out high five's and handshakes from his seat above the pit box for the 25 team.
MARCOS AMBROSE, No. 9 DeWalt Ford Fusion (Incident Quote) - “This is so disappointing for us. It appears we've blown an engine. We've had fantastic power from Ford Racing and Roush Yates Engines so we can't complain. It's just the racing gods aren't on our side this year. We were fast tonight and ran top 10. We are proud of that and will have to regroup and go to Talladega.”
Clint Bowyer was the first Camry driver to the finish line in the Toyota Owners 400 tonight at Richmond International Raceway with a second-place result.
"That was a heck of a first lap of the restart. I thought that the outside line might have the advantage because it had a couple of guys with new tires in the second row, and lined up on the outside. But the two tires - these cars drive a lot off the left rear - and we only took two tires, and they didn't get that great of restart but my car launched, and I was able to drive it in the first corner and hope for the best down there."
