Daytona 500 In Car Audio

February 15 – - It was a long day into night at Daytona International Speedway as an asphalt problem in turn two delayed the Daytona 500 into a night finish.  For Jamie McMurray, it turned out to be his finest moment as a NASCAR driver, while Jeff Gordon struggled late in the event with traffic and crashed on the final lap.

Gordon started in the rear of the field and moved up to 33rd by lap 5.  On lap 8, he dove onto the track apron to avoid a multiple car crash triggered by Brad Keselowski’s spin in turn two.  Gordon pitted for tires and restarted in 31st on lap 13.    He worked the draft and moved up with Kyle Busch to 23rd on lap 30. Five laps later, he lost Busch in the draft, but moved to 21st position.  Gordon entered the top-20 on lap 40 as a green flag pit stop sequence began.  He came to pit road for tires and fuel on lap 50.

Gordon rode in 20th for the next 15 laps as the field strung out in a single-file line.  Joe Nemechek’s spin on lap 67 brought the caution, and the field came to pit road.  Gordon exited pit road in 15th place and restarted there on lap 70.  However, he fell to 19th and moved up to the high line on lap 74.  Mike Bliss’ spin on lap 78 brought the caution out and the field returned to pit road for tires.  Gordon changed two tires and restarted in 5th on lap 82.  He drafted with Martin Truex and moved into 3rd on lap 88 behind Greg Biffle and Kyle Busch.  Clint Bowyer gave Gordon a drafting push, and Gordon moved to the outside to try for the race lead.   However, Busch moved up in line and took the race lead with help from Gordon. Bowyer gave Gordon drafting help to take the race lead on lap 98. Gordon led the race at the halfway point, before Bowyer passed on lap 101.  Gordon settled into the low line behind Kevin Harvick in 3rd place.  Gordon made a bid for the lead and got shuffled back to 5th place on lap 108.  He fell to 9th on lap 111 before John Andretti’s cut tire resulted in a caution flag on lap 117.  Gordon changed four tires and departed in 11th place.   The race was red flagged for nearly two hours after a chunk of asphalt needed replacement in turn two.

When the race restarted, the sun was setting in the western sky and the track temperature was noticeably cooler.  Gordon hung to the low line and moved up to 7th with 73 to go.   Gordon stayed behind Truex in the draft and moved up to 5th with 63 laps to go. Five laps later, AJ Allmendinger got loose underneath Gordon exiting turn two.  Allmendinger spun toward the inside of the track, barely avoiding the left rear of Gordon’s car.   Pit stops followed with Gordon exiting pit road in 5th place.  On the restart, Gordon hooked up in a tight draft with Elliott Sadler on the high line. With 52 to go, Gordon pushed Sadler alongside Truex for the race lead.  Two laps later, he bumped Sadler aside to take 3rd place.  Gordon tried to move to the middle line with 48 laps remaining, but got hung out in the draft.  He slipped back to 16th place before hooking up in a draft with Mark Martin and moving up to 12th.  A caution at the 400-mile mark was for a problem with the asphalt patch in turn two.  The race was red-flagged once again with drivers exiting their cars for an extended period.

The drivers returned to their cars at 6:30pm/eastern time for a finish under the lights.  The lead lap cars came to pit road with Gordon opting for two tires and departing in 4th place.  He restarted in 5th with 32 laps to go because Scott Speed did not pit.  With 16 laps to go, Gordon worked his way around Speed on the inside line but had no drafting help.  He fell to 8th before getting in line behind Jamie McMurray.  He dropped to 10th on the high line behind Truex with 12 laps to go.  Five laps later, Ryan Newman, Travis Kvapil, and Elliott Sadler crashed on the backstretch to bring out the caution.  Gordon came to pit road for two tires and restarted in 13th place with 3 laps to go.  On the restart, Bill Elliott crashed in turn three to bring out the caution and set up a green/white/checkered flag finish.  Gordon lined up 15th for the GWC restart.   Kasey Kahne wrecked coming off turn two (no mercy!) on the first GWC attempt as Kevin Harvick pushed his way through Greg Biffle and Martin Truex to take the race lead.

On the second GWC restart, Harvick got a push from Carl Edwards to take the racfe lead. However, the outside line zoomed by as Biffle pushed McMurray into the lead.  McMurray held off a furious charge by Dale Earnhardt Jr to take the victory.  Gordon wrecked in turn three on the final lap due to Denny Hamlin’s front bumper and finished the event in 26th place.

source: www.gordonline.com

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Daytona Race Information

THE RACE: The Daytona 500
TRACK: Daytona International Speedway
NASCAR Sprint Cup Race #1 of 36 for the 2010 season
Race: Sunday, February 14, 2010 in Daytona Beach, FL
Title Sponsor: none

Scheduled Green Flag (approx): 1:19pm/et

Television Coverage/Re-air/TV Team

NASCAR Pre-race: Fox – 12:00pm/et
Television Race Coverage: FOX, 1:00pm/et
SPEED’s NASCAR Raceday Pre-Race Show: 9:00am/et with John Roberts, Kyle Petty, Kenny Wallace

Scheduled Race Re-Air Dates/Times:
Wednesday, February 17 at 12:00pm/et on SPEED

TV Listings, Links and Info:
Jayski’s TV Listings Page
NASCAR on TV
Race Fan TV

SPEED sets Daytona Speedweeks Schedule: SPEED will open its 2010 Daytona Speedweeks coverage Feb. 4 with live coverage of Budweiser Shootout practice, the Budweiser Shootout Selection Show and the Fourth Annual SPEED Performance Awards. On Feb. 6, SPEED will bring race fans live and exclusive coverage of Danica Patrick’s stock car debut, as the popular open wheel racer makes her first ARCA Racing Series start for Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s JR Motorsports race team. To enhance television coverage of Patrick’s effort, SPEEDtv.com, will offer exclusive in-car and ISO streaming videos, along with pit-to-car radio communication between Danica and her team. The Gatorade Duel at Daytona takes center stage Feb. 11, beginning with a special edition of NASCAR RaceDay Built by The Home Depot at 1 p.m. ET, followed by live race coverage at 2 p.m. ET. Krista Voda and Jeff Hammond will host. The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series opens its season Feb. 12 with Krista Voda hosting NCWTS Setup at 7:30 p.m., followed by race coverage at 8 p.m. ET. Rick Allen, Darrell Waltrip and Phil Parsons will call the race for SPEED, with Ray Dunlap and Adam Alexander in the pits. And on Sunday, Feb. 14, SPEED delivers a special three-hour edition of NASCAR RaceDay Built by The Home Depot, leading into FOX coverage of the Daytona 500. John Roberts hosts, with Kyle Petty and Kenny Wallace sharing their observations as teams prepare for The Great American Race. Wendy Venturini and Hermie Sadler lead a team of SPEED RaceDay voices reporting from all around the race track.(SPEEDtv PR)(1-27-2010)

Radio Coverage/Shows/ Team

This Week – Motor Racing Network (MRN) and Sirius XM Satellite Radio
mrnradio.com
sirius.com

Budweiser Shootout Practice Dates/Times/TV

Practices:
Thursday, February 4, 5:00 – 5:45 pm/et, TV-SPEED
Thursday, February 4, 6:30 – 7:30 pm, TV-SPEED

Daytona 500 / Gatorade Duels

Practice Dates/Times/TV

Practices:

Friday, February 5, 2:10 – 3:30 pm/et, TV-SPEED
Friday, February 5, 4:00 – 5:30 pm/et, TV-SPEED
Wednesday, February 10, 12:00 – 1:30 pm, TV-SPEED
Wednesday, February 10, 2:00 – 2:50 pm, TV-SPEED
Friday, February 12, 1:40 – 2:40 pm, TV-SPEED

Happy Hour ‘Final’ practice: Saturday, February 13, 10:30 – 11:55am/et, TV-SPEED

Qualifying Information/Times/TV

Qualifying Draw: Friday, February 5, 1:10pm/et
Qualifying: 2 laps for positions 1-2 and the order for the Gatorade Duels, Saturday, February 6 at 1:05pm/et, TV-FOX, no re-air scheduled;
AND live via radio at MRN Radio and Sirius XM Satellite NASCAR Radio Channel 128.

Live Leaderboards

Fox Sport’s Racetrax
Nascar.com Leaderboard
Yahoo.com Live Chat and Leaderboard
ESPN Racecast & Chat

In Car Audio

Nascar TrackPass:
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PitCommand
RaceView
Sirius Driver Feeds

#24 Jeff Gordon Ch. 155 / XM 108
#48 Jimmie Johnson Ch. 125 / XM 102
#5 Mark Martin Ch. 126 / XM 103
#14 Tony Stewart Ch. 127 / XM 104
#2 Kurt Busch Ch. 156 / XM 109
#88 Dale Jr. Ch. 130 / XM 105
#11 Denny Hamlin Ch. 157 / XM 110
#42 J.P. Montoya Ch. 158 / XM 111
??? Fans’ Choice Ch. 153 / XM 106
Officials’ Channel Ch. 154 / XM 107

Fan’s Choice voting for the Daytona 500 closes Friday at 3 pm ET

Going to the race this weekend?
Full field Sprint Cup Frequencies are found here.

Here are Jeff’s frequencies:

Primary:	467.0625
2nd:	465.8625
3rd:	468.2125
4th:	469.4875

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Jeff Gordon – Daytona 500 In-car Audio

Matt Kenseth took the lead of the Daytona 500 just one lap before a caution flag on lap 148. As it turned out, it was the most important lead change of his career as the 2003 NASCAR champion was out front when the race was red flagged for rain on lap 152. NASCAR called the event after waiting less than 20 minutes. It was Kenseth’s 17th — and biggest — career victory. Jeff Gordon’s day was an up and down affair that culminated with a 13th place effort. Gordon started 3rd and ran in the lead pack for the first half of the race. He took the lead on lap 69 but a recurring tire problem on long green flag runs hindered his efforts. He dropped a lap down due to an early pit stop for tires on a green flag run after the halfway point, but rallied back after receiving the free pass under caution. However, he simply ran out of time due to the rain before his comeback through the field could be completed.
[Source: www.gordonline.com]

In-Car Audio:
Daytona 500 – 13th Place
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[Race Results]

Starting Lineup for the 2009 Daytona 500 – Jeff Gordon to start 3rd.

Here is your 2009 Daytona Starting Lineup!  Your Daytona Starting Lineup grid has Martin Truex Jr. at the poll position.  But the Daytona 500’s biggest question for Sunday – will Jeff Gordon win again?

Gordon, 37, has a reported 41 race winlesss streak so far.  If he doesn’t win at Daytona Sunday, this will now be the worse slump of Jeff Gordon’s career, despite 81 previous career victories and 4 championships.

Is Gordon favored to win?  Nope. Gordon tells the New York Times:
“Last year was a big deal, and it’s behind us and we learned from it.  We grow from it and make ourselves better and try to make sure it doesn’t happen this year.  I don’t think it’s going to.”

Sunday’s Daytona 500 Lineup

1. Martin Truex Jr.
2. Mark Martin
3. Jeff Gordon
4. Kyle Busch
5. Tony Stewart
6. Brian Vickers
7. Jimmie Johnson
8. Juan Montoya
9. Joey Logano
10. Denny Hamlin
11. Aric Almirola
12. Bobby Labonte
13. Kurt Busch
14. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
15. Kasey Kahne
16. Carl Edwards
17. Scott Riggs
18. Jeremy Mayfield
19. Paul Menard
20. A.J. Allmendinger
21. Jamie McMurray
22. Clint Bowyer
23. Marcos Ambrose
24. David Stremme
25. Casey Mears
26. Jeff Burton
27. Michael Waltrip
28. David Reutimann
29. Sam Hornish Jr.
30. Elliott Sadler
31. Robby Gordon
32. Kevin Harvick
33. David Ragan
34. Reed Sorenson
35. Greg Biffle
36. Ryan Newman
37. John Andretti
38. Scott Speed
39. Matt Kenseth
40. Bill Elliot
41. Travis Kvapil
42. Regan Smith
43. Terry Labonte

[Source: news.lalate.com]

Jeff Gordon In-car Audio to be Aired on Sirius/XM at Daytona 500 this Weekend.

If you have Sirius or the “Best of Sirius” programming on your XM, you can tune in and listen to live in-car audio from Jeff Gordon this Sunday for the Daytona 500.   This is a great “free” alternative if you don’t subscribe to Nascar.com’s TrackPass/TrackView.

Here is the driver lineup for Sirius/XM:

• Live race call provided by MRN – SIRIUS 128 / XM 128
• Jimmie Johnson in-car audio – SIRIUS 121 / XM 102
• Tony Stewart in-car audio – SIRIUS 125 / XM 103
• Dale Earnhardt Jr. in-car audio – SIRIUS 126 / XM 104
• Jeff Gordon in-car audio – SIRIUS 127 / XM 105
• Fan’s Choice (Driver TBD) – SIRIUS 113 / XM 106

[Complete Daytona Broadcast Schedule]