Martinsville In-Car Audio
October 30, 2011 by admin
Filed under Feature, Race Audio
The Tums 500 at Martinsville Speedway was a tale of two races for Jeff Gordon. He sustained damage in a multi-car incident on lap 11, and restarted at the tail end of the lead lap due to a later pit road penalty. However, his miscues occurred in the first 200 laps of the 500 lap event. Gordon used pit road position and tactics to gain track position and took the race lead shortly after the halfway point. Gordon led until lap 320 when Danny Hamlin took the top spot. Gordon dropped to 3rd after losing a spot to Jimmie Johnson on pit road during a caution period on lap 362. On the restart, Gordon moved ahead of Johnson and took the lead from Hamlin entering turn three. A caution with 123 laps to go brought the field to pit road. Gordon exited in 2nd place after Kevin Harvick opted for two tires.
A caution flag with 42 laps to go resulted in Johnson staying on the track as the leader, with nearly every other lead lap car hitting pit road. Gordon restarted in 7th place with 39 laps to go. Gordon moved to 5th with 36 laps to go before a multi-car incident involving Matt Kenseth and Kyle Busch. On the restart with 27 laps to go, Gordon moved into 4th place before a caution for Ryan Newman’s spin. Gordon dropped to 5th on the ensuing restart, but regained the spot from Dale Earnhardt Jr with 17 laps to go. Gordon took the 3rd position before a caution for Brian Vickers spin with 8 laps to go. On the restart with 3 laps to go, Gordon looked to the inside of Johnson, but was unable to take the spot. He came across the line in 3rd place — his 13th top-5 finish in the last 14 races at Martinsville. Gordon remained 10th in the series standings.
Road Ahead: The Texas race weekend is next on the Cup series agenda. More importantly, I’ll be in Charlotte next weekend to lead The Jeff Gordon Children’s Foundation team in the Charlotte CureSearch Walk in Freedom Park on November 5.
source: gordonline.com
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Jeff and Jimmie at Martinsville
Martinsville In-Car Audio – Spring 2011
April 3, 2011 by admin
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April 4 – Jeff Gordon’s car looked solid at the outset and he moved from 21st to 13th in the opening 50 laps. However, he failed to make headway over the next 50 laps and ran 12th on lap 100. He moved into the top-10 on lap 145, and lined up 7th for a restart on lap 179. He made his way around Kyle Busch and entered the top-5 on lap 200. Gordon took the runner-up spot from Juan Pablo Montoya just before a major wreck on lap 221 involving Martin Truex and Kasey Kahne. The race was red flagged while track clean-up ensued. When the green flag waved, Gordon took the lead from Clint Bowyer on lap 253. However, Bowyer re-assumed the top spot from Gordon just three laps later. Gordon fell to 5th place before he was able to get back to the inside line. He dropped further back to 8th while battling a loose handling condition. Gordon steadily made his way back to the front and took over 2nd place by lap 310. With 135 laps to go, Gordon eased ahead of Kyle Busch for the race lead. However, Busch passed Gordon for the lead with 108 laps to go. Gordon was caught on pit road during a late race caution and restarted 9th with 29 laps to go. He made up four spots and posted his 12th top-5 finish in the last 13 races at Martinsville. Gordon gained four spots in the standings and is now 12th in the points race.
Road ahead: The series heads to Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday night. After a disappointing effort at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in early March (similar 1.5-mile track), Gordon and crew chief Alan Gustafson will look to ride the momentum of a good effort at Martinsville.
JG’s comments:
“We did have a great day with our Drive to End Hunger Chevrolet. Don’t forget to text Hunger to 50555 and help us out. I was real proud of Alan (Gustafson, crew chief) and all the guys on this team today. We weren’t great at the beginning. We just worked our way up there slowly, took our time and were patient. Then we had a race car that could run with these guys and we got there and took the lead. That one time I got real lose. I don’t know it just seemed like the track changed on us there at the end and that caution did not help us any either so that got us behind. I thought it was an awesome day for us to drive up there to fifth at the end.”
TOP FIVE FINISH AND YOU LED A LOT OF LAPS, PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE HOW YOUR RUN WAS TODAY?
“You know, it was really good. These tires were tricky today and getting track position was tough but we were really patient with the car at the beginning of the race and then it started coming to us and I thought that Alan and the guys in the pits just did an excellent job and we got ourselves out front, we just couldn’t seem to stay there when it counted most and Kyle was really, really strong on that one run and we couldn’t hold him back and we just tried to hang with him but when that caution came out when we pitted so that caught us out so we had to make up our track position at the end so it was a great top-five finish for us.”
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Martinsville II In Car Audio
October 24, 2010 by admin
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October 25 – - Denny Hamlin’s 15th career victory came in the Tums 500 at Martinsville Speedway. Compared to the previous 14 wins, this was by far his biggest as he closed to within 6 points of Jimmie Johnson in the quest for his first NASCAR championship. Hamlin gained 35 points on Johnson, who finished 5th in the race, with four races remaining in the 2010 season.
Jeff Gordon’s title hopes likely became an afterthought following Martinsville as he finished 20th due in part to contact from Kurt Busch. Gordon started 11th and moved into the top-5 within 50 laps. He took the lead shortly before the halfway point by staying out during a caution period. He later slipped back to 3rd as Dale Earnhardt Jr took control of the event after the 300-lap mark. A caution flag on lap 347 brought the leaders to pit road. Gordon exited in 8th place after a problem on the left rear resulted in a 16.1 second pit stop. Gordon fell out of the top-10 on the restart and was unable to get to the inside line. He slipped to 14th on lap 370 before pulling in line in front of David Ragan. Ten laps later, Gordon dove to the inside of Kurt Busch in turn 3 and bumped his way around. Busch drilled Gordon on the frontstretch and turned him into the wall. The National Guard Chevrolet sustained heavy damage to the rear. The crew made repairs with Gordon losing a lap and restarting 22nd.
A caution for Travis Kvapil’s spin with 100 laps to go allowed Gordon to get back on the lead lap. However, Gordon remained outside the top-20 as the laps wound down. He was lapped by race leader Kevin Harvick with 60 laps to go, which put the finishing touches on an ultra-disappointing day. Gordon went a second lap down with 8 to go when race winner Denny Hamlin went by and came across the line in 20th. He dropped to 5th in points and trails by 203. It was his worst finish at Martinsville since October 2002 — eerily enough that was also the last time the San Francisco Giants were playing in the World Series. That is, before Brian Wilson struck out Ryan Howard on Saturday night.
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Martinsville Race Rewind
Race Rewind of the 2010 Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 at M’ville. Denny Hamlin wins his 3rd grandfather clock at the famed short track, beating teammate Joey Logano, and the King, Jeff Gordon
Jeff Gordon calls out Matt Kenseth, plus Logano and Newman comment.
Martinsville Race Audio
March 29, 2010 by admin
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March 29 – - If nothing else, Jeff Gordon is Mr. Consistency at Martinsville Speedway. Gordon posted a 3rd place finish in the rain-delayed Goody’s 500 for his 11th straight top-five and 15th straight top-ten finish at the 1/2-mile track. However, the ending of the Goody’s 500 was a disappointment as Gordon lost the race lead on a final green/white/checkered restart after Matt Kenseth drilled him from behind. Gordon regrouped and knocked Kenseth up the track in turn three, but not before Denny Hamlin took the race lead and the victory. ”I didn’t get a great restart,” Gordon said. ”I saw (Kenseth) behind me. He drove in the back of me so hard. I made sure he wasn’t going to win the race after that.”
Gordon started 11th and gained five spots in the opening 10 laps. He passed Jimmie Johnson and lap 25 to move into 6th, and entered the top-5 on lap 30. He gained a spot during a pit stop sequence on lap 40, and quickly moved into the runner-up spot on lap 49. Gordon tracked down and passed Jeff Burton for the race lead on lap 59. He held the lead until Kurt Busch took the top spot on lap 140. He dropped two spots on a pit stop sequence on lap 164 and slipped further back by lap 190 while battling handling issues in the corner. However, the car eventually came to him and he moved back into the top-10 on lap 193. Gordon’s forward charge continued as he took 7th from Dale Earnhardt Jr on lap 204. At the halfway point Gordon was running in 6th. He remained there until lap 303 when Joey Logano took the position. His forward charge commenced on lap 314 after a pit stop. He passed Clint Bowyer and Jimmie Johnson to re-enter the top-five, and then took 4th from Kyle Busch on lap 328.
Gordon struggled on restarts for most of the race and following a caution flag on lap 364, he dropped to 7th. He regouped to take 6th on lap 390 before another caution on lap 421. Pit stops followed and Gordon exited in 9th place. With 70 laps to go, he moved into 7th place, and then took 6th from Martin Truex Jr. He passed Matt Kenseth for 5th with 50 to go, and passed Clint Bowyer for 4th with 18 to go. With 9 laps to go, Jeff Burton cut a tire and hit the wall, which allowed Gordon to move up to 3rd place. Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch both elected to come to pit road under caution, which gave Gordon the race lead. On the restart, he pulled away from Ryan Newman and looked to be on the way to his 83rd career victory. However, Kyle Busch’s spin in turn four with 2 laps to go brought the caution flag. Gordon was angered by the timing of the flag as he was less than 90 feet from taking the white flag — which would have automatically frozen the field and ended the event.
On the green/white/checkered restart, Kenseth slammed the rear of Gordon’s car and knocked him up the track in turn 1. He raced side-by-side with Kenseth on the backstretch and clipped the rear of Kenseth’s Ford to send him up the track and make sure the Wisconsinite did not visit victory lane. Hamlin dove low to take the race lead and the victory with his teammate Joey Logano in tow. Gordon regrouped to hold off Ryan Newman to finish 3rd. The finish allowed Gordon to move up to 7th in the series points standings.
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Martinsville II Race Information
October 21, 2009 by admin
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**There will be NO in-car audio posted to the site after this week’s race. We’ll be on a mission trip helping out the good folks down in New Orleans re-build/repair some homes. In car audio will return on Nov 1 at Talladega.**
THE RACE: Tums Fast Relief 500
TRACK: Martinsville Speedway
NASCAR Sprint Cup Race #32 of 36 for the 2009 season
Chase for the Sptint Cup race #6 of 10
Race: Sunday, October 25, 2009 in Martinsville, VA
Title Sponsor: Tums
Scheduled Green Flag (approx): 1:43pm/et
Television Coverage/Re-air/TV Team
NASCAR Countdown: ABC – 1:00pm/et
Television Race Coverage: ABC, 1:30pm/et
TV Announcers: Dale Jarrett, Andy Petree, Dr. Jerry Punch
Pit Reporters: Dave Burns, Jamie Little, Shannon Spake, Vince Welch
Studio: Allen Bestwick, Tim Brewer, Brad Daugherty, Rusty Wallace
SPEED’s NASCAR Raceday Pre-Race Show: 11:00am/et with John Roberts, Jimmy Spencer, Kenny Wallace
Scheduled Race Re-Air Dates/Times:
Monday, October 26 at 2:30am/et on ESPN2
Monday, October 26 at 1:00pm/et on ESPN Classic
Wednesday, October 29 at 12:00pm/et on SPEED
TV Listings, Links and Info:
Jayski’s TV Listings Page
NASCAR on TV
Race Fan TV
Radio Coverage/Shows/ Team
This Week – Motor Racing Network (MRN) and Sirius XM Satellite Radio
mrnradio.com
sirius.com
Practice Dates/Times/TV
Practices:
Friday, October 23, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm/et, TV-SPEED
Saturday, October 24, 10:00 – 11:45 am/et, TV-ESPN2
Happy Hour ‘Final’ practice: Saturday, October 24, 11:15 am – 12:15pm/et, TV-ESPN2, via tape ~6:30pm/et
Qualifying Information/Times/TV
Qualifying Draw: Friday, October 23, 10:30am/et
Qualifying: 2 laps for positions 1-42, Friday, October 23 at 3:10pm/et, TV-ESPN2, 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:
Scanner
PitCommand
RaceView
Sirius Satellite Radio Driver Feeds:
#5 Mark Martin Ch. 129 / XM 108
#14 Tony Stewart Ch. 154 / XM 111
#48 Jimmie Johnson Ch. 153 / XM 110
#24 Jeff Gordon Ch. 152 / XM 109
NASCAR Officials Ch. 156 / XM 113
#?? Fan’s Choice Ch. 155 / XM 112
Fan’s Choice voting for the Tums Fast Relief 500 closes Friday at 3 pm ET
Scanner Frequencies
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Here are Jeff’s frequencies:
| Primary: | 467.0625 |
| 2nd: | 465.8625 |
| 3rd: | 468.2125 |
| 4th: | 469.4875 |
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