Texas In- Car Audio
November 6, 2011 by admin
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Tony Stewart captured his second consecutive victory and closed to within 3 points of Carl Edwards with just 2 races remaining in the 2011 season. Jeff Gordon finished 6th after battling a loose handling condition when the sun went down. Gordon started 23rd and steadily marched forward. He moved into the top-15 by lap 80 and entered the top-5 in the second half of the race. He ran as high as third before handling issues surfaced on the longer run. Nevertheless, the 6th place finish is Gordon’s best effort at Texas since winning at the track in April 2009 — a span of 5 races.
Road Ahead: The penultimate race of the 2011 season takes the Cup series to the reconfigured one-mile oval in Phoenix. JG scored the victory in Phoenix in February, prior to the reconfiguration which added banking and a different angle on the backstretch.
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Texas In-Car Audio
April 10, 2011 by admin
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After starting 32nd, Jeff Gordon took two tires on the first pit stop on lap 9 to gain 8 positions. He restarted 24th but fell back to 29th within four laps. A caution on lap 45 allowed the DuPont team to make chassis adjustments. Gordon was unable to make significant headway and additional adjustments came under caution on lap 113. As the night sky enveloped the track, Gordon moved to 22nd on lap 160. However, he went a lap down less than 20 laps later as the handling woes continued. A caution on lap 208 allowed Gordon to get back on the lead lap by staying on the track. He lost the lap during a long green flag run, and went another lap down on lap 226. He made the lap up trying to stretch the fuel to the end of the event, but ran out on the backstretch of the final lap. Gordon finished a difficult night in Texas in the 22nd position.
Road ahead: The series heads to Talladega Superspeedway — which should resemble the Daytona 500 with two-car drafting partners hooking up for extended periods of time. Gordon qualified on the outside of the front row at Daytona. His restrictor plate program for Talladega should be strong. However, plate racing often comes down to drafting partners and avoiding the multi-car melee(s).
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Texas II In Car Audio
November 7, 2010 by admin
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November 8 – - Jeff Gordon’s frustration boiled over in the late afternoon sun at Texas Motor Speedway. After battling handling issues for the balance of the day, Gordon was wrecked during a caution period by Jeff Burton in turn two on lap 191. The drivers exited their cars and had a brief melee before being separated. Gordon sustained his 3rd DNF of the season and finished 37th.
Gordon started 15th and moved to 14th by lap 10. The field was slowed by a caution flag for Joe Nemechek’s engine on lap 12. Pit stops followed with Gordon opting for two tires. He restarted 8th on lap 17 and immediately jumped to 6th. However, he dropped to 7th on lap 27 as his lap times began slowing. Jimmie Johnson passed Gordon to take a position on lap 35. He fell to 10th on lap 37 when Paul Menard and Kyle Busch went by. A debris caution on lap 43 slowed the field and allowed Gordon’s crew to make chassis adjustments on pit road. Gordon changed four tires and gained two spots in the pits. He lost those spots immediately after the restart as his handling woes continued.
Gordon dropped to 12th on lap 50 unable to advance forward. A caution for Sam Hornish’s wall contact on lap 59 slowed the field. Gordon changed tires and restarted 17th on lap 64. He moved up to 15th within three laps of the restart. Kevin Harvick sent him back to 16th on lap 71. He followed Harvick through traffic and ran 14th on lap 90. He moved back into the top-10 on lap 105 with a pass on Elliott Sadler. Gordon came to pit road for a green flag pit stop on lap 111. Following the stops, Gordon ran in 14th place. Martin Truex’s spin on lap 132 brought the field to pit road. Gordon restarted in the top-10 but dropped back a few laps after the green flag. He faded to 15th by lap 150 when the caution waved for Truex’s cut tire. Pit stops followed and Gordon restarted 18th on lap 156. Gordon masterfully held his line and avoided Kyle Busch’s spinning car one lap after the restart. He spent the next 25 laps running in 20th place.
On lap 191, Jeff Burton drilled Gordon from behind sending him into the wall. Gordon exited the car and jogged across the track to the safety vehicle. He shoved Burton with both hands and unloaded with a right hand. Burton took the blame for the incident in a TV interview, which was little consolation to Gordon. “He went wide in turn three, I got to the inside and he drove into me,” Gordon said. “Then the caution came out. We went into turn one and I guess he was frustrated and drove in my right rear and put me in the wall.” Gordon slipped to 6th in points and will be mathematically eliminated from title contention next week at Phoenix. Although that’s merely for posterity since his focus had shifted to 2011 a few weeks ago.
After the wreck, Gordon’s pit crew was called over to Johnson’s pit stall as crew chief Chad Knaus elected to replace his entire crew. Gordon’s crew pitted Johnson’s car for the remainder of the day — turning stops a full second quicker than the 48 team had previously done earlier in the event.
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Jeff Gordon Post Race Comments
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Intensity Ratchets Up Between Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon at Texas
April 19, 2010 by admin
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April 19 — Matt Kenseth seems to be off the hook as Jeff Gordon’s top object of ire as the four-time champion continues to come up short in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
Instead, surprisingly it was Gordon’s teammate Jimmie Johnson who was responsible for irritating a focused Gordon the most during the running of Monday’s Sprint Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway, one eventually won by Denny Hamlin.
Johnson, long the guy tabbed at fault for snatching wins and championships from Gordon in the last decade, earned Gordon’s wrath Monday on lap 241 of 334 when the Hendrick Motorsports duo tangled in a battle for the lead off of turn four. Gordon, with a faster Chevrolet much of day, worked to Johnson’s bumper and then inside him before Johnson got a little loose.
Johnson appeared to chase his No. 48 down the track one lane, and two machines fabricated side-by-side in the same Charlotte shop made door-to-door contact. Johnson caught the worst of the contact as his left-front fender bent in and he eventually made a trip to pit road for a flat left-front tire.
Gordon, meanwhile, offered what turned out be his second-most aggressive over-the-radio thought of the day.
“Four time’s a little upset!” said Gordon in a mocking tone over his in-car radio feed after continuing on to the lead. “He just wants to be treated different than everybody else.”
Gordon’s greatest anger over the radio came when he offered a expletive-laced snap judgment of Tony Stewart’s driving moves after they were involved in the race-changing nine-car pileup with 16 laps to go. Gordon had led a race-high 124 laps and appeared to be sailing towards a victory before David Reutimann’s expired and flaming engine brought out a caution with 22 laps left.
Gordon restarted in eighth position after a relatively slow four-tire stop. As Hamlin and Kyle Busch got out ahead, Gordon, Stewart, Johnson and others were jumbled behind them, and after touching a couple of times, Gordon and Stewart went into the outside wall, triggering the big wreck.
“That f***** Stewart drove f****** into us when he knew the 48 was there!” Gordon shouted on his radio.
He immediately got out of his car and approached Stewart as he emerged, but Stewart took blame for the accident and they did not appear to be in conflict.
But the Johnson incident — one that both were specifically asked about after the race — revealed that Gordon’s fire to beat Johnson this season is burning as hot, if not hotter, than ever.
“He wasn’t fast enough and my car was just so good I could just get right to his bumper and he got loose,” said Gordon. “I guess he thought I was being too aggressive. I don’t know, he just drove into my door. It ended up costing him.”
Gordon, who has now gone 36 races without a win, noted that his extra aggressiveness in making the lap 241 pass correlated with his strong race car — a piece that led six separate times Monday.
“When you have a race car like that, you don’t have teammates and friends out there and (you) race hard,” Gordon said. “That is what Jimmie has had.”
Both Johnson and Gordon used the word “disappointed” to describe how each had raced one another, with Johnson attempting to settle the dispute from being the major story this week. He also cautioned about reading too much into in-car radio traffic.
“Don’t get the headline writers out saying trouble at HMS, because it’s really no big deal,” said Johnson. “And we all know from scanning during the race, there are a lot of colorful things said on that racetrack about teammates and other drivers and all that kind of stuff.”
That being said, the four-time and defending champion did acknowledge that this week he’d try to sort things out with Gordon, long a friend as well as co-car owner of the No. 48 car.
“We’ll get it taken care of at the shop and during the week, and come back to the next race and do it again,” Johnson said. “I think we are both pretty frustrated with how we have been racing each other.”
It was Johnson, just as in multiple races in the last few years, who finished the day ahead of Gordon after nearly chasing Hamlin down to steal the win in the closing laps. Johnson wound up 2nd, while Gordon’s name showed up in the results sheet at 32nd.
But just as he was after dominating in March at Las Vegas before Johnson slipped by for the win, Gordon also saw the bright side.
“I am just excited that we have something to race with all of these guys out here right now,” said Gordon.
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Be sure to catch our full race recap from Texas complete with in-car audio, post race audio, stats and photos here.
Texas In Car Audio
April 19, 2010 by admin
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April 19 – - There are few moral victories in racing, and rarely would a 31st place finish qualify in that category, but Jeff Gordon made a loud statement in the Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. Gordon led 124 laps, took no prisoners while racing a teammate, and looked to be in sound position for his first victory in more than a year. However, a late race wreck coming off turn four destroyed the National Guard Special Forces Chevrolet and left Gordon with his first DNF of the season.
Gordon started 12th and entered the top-10 on lap 21 with a pass on eventual winner Denny Hamlin. He steadily worked through traffic by passing Kurt Busch for 9th place on lap 40, and took 8th place from Kasey Kahne two laps later. He entered the top-5 for the first time on lap 48 by getting around Kyle Busch, and took 4th from Clint Bowyer on lap 55. An adjustment during a pit stop under caution on lap 77 moved Gordon up to 3rd in the running order. He dropped to 12th on lap 115 after pitting while others stayed on the track. On the restart, Gordon worked his way back toward the front of the field and gained six spots by lap 120. He re-entered the top-5 on lap 126 with a pass on Kurt Busch, and took the runner-up spot five laps later. He tracked down and passed Dale Earnhardt Jr for the race lead on lap 137. By lap 150, Gordon had extended to a 3-second lead. Gordon lost the lead during a pit stop sequence, but regained it from Earnhardt Jr on lap 182.
Gordon swapped the lead briefly with Jimmie Johnson with 100 laps to go. Gordon pulled up to the rear of Johnson’s car in turn four which loosened Johnson’s car to the point where he climbed the hill in the corner to save the car. As Gordon pulled low on the fronstretch, Johnson turned into the right side of Gordon’s car. The contact eventually resulted in a flat tire for Johnson and stirred ill-will by both drivers over the in-car radio. Gordon moved into the lead and maintained a comfortable distance as the laps wound down. However, David Reuitimann’s blown engine with 24 laps remaining slowed the field. Gordon opted for four tires and restarted in 8th place. He made his way to 7th on the inside of Tony Stewart coming off turn four with 17 laps to go. Stewart got loose and tried to save his car. He touched the right side of Gordon’s car, which further sent his car out of shape. Stewart then clipped the right rear of Gordon’s car sending him into the frontstretch wall. More than six other drivers were collected in the melee. Gordon exited his car and immediately went to Stewart’s wrecked car for an explanation. Stewart assumed blame for the wreck after viewing the replay. “It was my fault, I feel bad about doing something stupid like that,” Stewart said. “I didn’t plan on getting loose, but it is 100 percent my fault. It wasn’t (Jeff’s) fault, obviously. I got a chance to see it in the infield care center, it is definitely my fault. I apologize to all the teams and drivers that got caught up and their fans for it. We had a really good car there and just a shame that it happened let alone to some of your teammates like that.”
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Steve Letarte’s Post Race Comments
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Texas In Car Audio
November 8, 2009 by admin
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November 9 – - If Jeff Gordon falls a few points short of the NASCAR championship, he’ll likely point to Texas as the deciding factor. After Jimmie Johnson’s early crash opened a window of opportunity for Gordon to trim the points deficit, he struggled to a 13th place finish and still trails by 112 points. Had Gordon scored the victory, the deficit would have been just 46 points. Nevertheless, there are still two races — and more than 700 miles of racing– to go in the season.
Gordon started on the pole and led the opening laps. On lap 3, Jimmie Johnson spun on the backstretch after contact from Sam Hornish and drilled the inside wall. Johnson sustained heavy front and rear end damage on the Lowes Chevrolet and brought his car to the garage for extended repairs. Gordon led until lap 13 when his car became loose in the corners. Kurt Busch took the lead one lap later. Kyle Busch took the runner-up spot on lap 19. As the action progressed on the track, Jeff Gordon’s car chief Jason Burdett went to the garage area to help with repairs on Johnson’s car.
Gordon fell to 5th on lap 40 after Tony Stewart passed. Gordon came to pit road for a green flag pit stop on lap 55. Crew chief Steve Letarte opted for track bar and air pressure adjustments to tighten the car up in the corners. A slow pit stop hindered Gordon as he ran 11th after the stop. On lap 88, Sam Hornish lost control and hit the inside wall on the backstretch to bring out the caution flag. Gordon came to pit road for tires and a track bar adjustment. He gained two spots and restarted in 9th place. Juan Pablo Montoya passed Gordon on lap 99, putting him back in 10th spot. On lap 116, Johnson returned to the track in a rebuilt car to gain points. However, Gordon continued to struggle with the handling and dropped to 14th on lap 125. Gordon came to pit road for adjustments on lap 146 under the green flag. After the pit stop sequence, Gordon ran in 16th. A debris caution on lap 167 saved Gordon from going a lap down.
A wreck on lap 175 collected Carl Edwards and Montoya. Gordon spun in turn two but luckily did not hit anything. He came to pit road for tires and for repairs on the splitter brace. He muddled around in 18th position before the next caution on lap 205. Gordon went a lap down with 29 laps to go as the handling didn’t improve under the lights.
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