2009 Indianapolis 500 Results and Recap – Helio Wins!
2009 Indianapolis 500 Results and Recap
Well, it was actually a bit of an exciting race this year. That was incresed for me because I am a Helio Castroneves fan, and my prediction turned out to be right.
Helio stared strong from the pole, but led just seven laps before being passed by Dario Franchitti. His car was not goo throughout the middle of the race, but he hung in there. His team made the changes when they needed to, and let him adjust at points rather (more. . .)
2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 Starting Grid and Picks (5-24-2009)
Ryan Newman won his 44th career pole, and eighth at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. His Stewart-Haas Racing teammate and boss Tony Stewart didn’t qualify so well, he is back in 28th place.
They will be looking to build on last week’s success in the All-Star race also at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. In the final segment Newman, Kyle Busch, and Jeff Gordon got tangled and crashed.
2009 Indianapolis 500 Starting Grid
The 2009 Indianapolis 500 will take place this Sunday. Here is how the will start the race. You can tune in Sunday May 24 on ABC at 1PM ET to see the race.
Johnson, Gordon headline NASCAR in Phoenix
Well, two weeks ago we focused on Jeff Gordon’s winless streak and discussed his odds at Texas.
While we expected him to do well, we didn’t think he’d win. Well, he proved us wrong, and more importantly to him is leaving the NASCAR Sprint Cup field in the dust. He’s 162 points ahead on second-place Jimmie Johnson in the standings, and the season isn’t even 1/4th of the way done yet.
If he keeps up this pace the Chase won’t matter. It will be Jeff Gordon and (more. . .)
The eyes of Texas are upon NASCAR
Martinsville shaped up pretty much as we had predicted…with Jimmie Johnson winning holding off teammate Jeff Gordon, who finished fourth. And Denny Hamlin finishing second. Dale Earnhardt Jr. got back on track somewhat with an eighth place finish…lower than we had thought, but still a Top 10 and our final pick Jeff Burton was a disappointing 15th.
The spotlight this week turns to Texas Motor Speedway and Gordon, who is still looking for his first win since 2007. Despite the 47 consecutive races without a win, (more. . .)
NASCAR’s Buschs will be tamed at Martinsville
Last week wasn’t exactly a great week for our NASCAR Sprint Cup preview at Bristol as the five drivers we had to watch, well one didn’t even finish the race, a couple probably shouldn’t have and well….well, let’s just focus on this week, where we don’t think a Busch will win.
Martinsville is another short track, but has a different look from Bristol. It’s a little bit shorter and has shorter straightaways. There’s a lot of strategy in the turns here.
One guy who has seemed to (more. . .)
NASCAR goes short track
After a week off, the NASCAR Sprint Cup series heads to the short track of Bristol in a race that has extra importance with it setting the top 35, which determines the automatic qualifiers for each week’s races.
We’ve already briefly explored who is where on that list, so now lets focus on Bristol and who will be the person to beat.
A lot of drivers tell you that at Daytona and Talladega they know a big wreck is coming, and the key is to stay out (more. . .)
Off week for NASCAR
First off, welcome to the NASCAR review/preview at sportswrapup.com. This started at our older site prosportswrap.com, so if you’d like to review some older posts, they can be found there. Every week we have a slight recap of the last race and recap the week ahead. The plan is to eventually have a short recap the Sunday of the race, or the Monday after and then on Wednesday preview the next race.
There isn’t a NASCAR Sprint Cup race this coming week, so we’ll look instead (more. . .)
