Iowa Sends Apologies to Humpy and Bruton
With apologies to Humpy Wheeler, the president and general manager of Lowe’s Motor Speedway has nothing on Rusty Wallace and Co.
Wheeler has a history of predicting the winner of the Sprint All-Star Race at Lowe’s. But it’s the Rusty Wallace-designed Iowa Speedway that’s 2-for-2 in foreshadowing the winner with Kasey Kahne’s victory Saturday night.
Kahne, like last year’s Sprint All-Star Race winner Kevin Harvick did, is scheduled to spend the day following his $1M win running in the NASCAR Camping World Series race at the Newton, Iowa track.
Kahne committed to run Sunday’s US Cellular 200 in March. Saturday, he drove to the front in the final segment of the All-Star event in Charlotte to collect the big payday.
He will be in the No. 9 Budweiser Dodge for Today’s NASCAR Camping World Series practice at 9 a.m. CT. Qualifying for the 44-car field is 12:30 p.m. CT and the race is scheduled for 4:15 p.m. CT. The race will be broadcast live on HDNet.
Last year, Harvick won the Sprint All-Star Challenge but finished second in the Featherlite Coaches 200 at Iowa Speedway, getting beat by 16-year-old NASCAR rookie Joey Logano.
Could that happen again? It’s certainly a possibility.
Like Logano, 18-year-old Austin Dillon won the NASCAR Camping World Series East opener at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in South Carolina in his first NASCAR start. The grandson of legendary car owner Richard Childress, Dillon was second fastest in Saturday’s practice session. Alex Haase (pictured above), also 18, posted the top speed in practice running for Kyle Busch Motorsports. Rookies Ricky Carmichael and Jeff Barkshire also posted top five times in practice.
Technorati Tags: Kasey Kahne, Kyle Busch, Lowe’s Motor Speedway, Rusty Wallace, Richard Childress, NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race
