Daytona 500: 44 Days and Counting

By Luke, Thunder Lounge
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Michael Waltrip

• 2007 Stats

  • Organization: Michael Waltrip Racing
  • Car Number: 55
  • Crew Chief: Buddy Sisco
  • Sponsor: NAPA
  • Points: 44th :: 1149 :: -5574
  • Starts: 14
  • Poles: 1
  • Wins: 0
  • Top 5’s: 0
  • Top 10’s: 2
  • Winnings: $1,461,080

• 2008 Preview

  • Organization: Michael Waltrip Racing
  • Car Number: 55
  • Crew Chief: Paul Andrews
  • Sponsor: NAPA

The 2007 season started out as a complete nightmare for the newly formed Michael Waltrip Racing with a fuel additive scandal at Daytona that saw people suspended indefinitely (both were back to competition by mid-season). To make matters worse, Michael had a personal vehicle accident that was spun into more than it seemed to be.

However, things weren’t all sour grapes for Michael. He ended the season with two Top-10’s, as well as earning a pole. The second half, or last third if you will, of the season saw marked improvement at MWR across the board.

With 2008 closing in fast, look for further performance improvements out of Michael Waltrip Racing and Toyota as well. Toyota’s addition of Joe Gibbs Racing can only stand to strengthen the overall brand, provided JGR plays by Toyota’s rules of sharing information between teams regardless of Owner.

Similar to the strategies behind multi-car teams, Toyota takes it a step further to share information across all of its teams under the Toyota umbrella.

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Filed Under: Drivers, Michael Waltrip, Michael Waltrip Racing #55, Nascar, Nextel Cup





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By Luke, Thunder Lounge
Wednesday October 17, 2007
7:28am CDT
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New Driver At Roush?

Ricky Stenhouse of Olive Branch, MS has been drafted into training to become a Roushketeer. Ricky is currently racing USAC (National Sprints and Midgets) for Tony Stewart, and will move into ARCA in 2008 for Roush according to the Roush Fenway PR.

Um, WTF? Doesn’t look to be much room at the top, especially when one considers that Roush has to “get rid” of a car in a little over a year. Needless to say, their current program looks pretty much full, but here comes another one. Something smell a little fishy here? I wouldn’t say fishy, Charlie Tuna, but Roush knows where the sandbox is to play in. Let’s not forget that he plans to move a team over to Yates Racing when the time comes. However, we still wonder what’s going on with this.

Which brings us to a similar topic…

3M Primary Sponsor For Biffle In 2008, Multi-year Deal

3M has worked out a multi-year deal to be the primary sponsor of the #16 and Greg Biffle as per the Roush Fenway PR. While Biffle has not re-signed with Roush, his contract currently expires after the 2008 season, he did say he’s pretty likely (like 80% or so) to resign with Roush. Well, who’s going to be going then? Unless something drastic happens with the Biffle negotiations, the only choice Roush has is Regan. Nice kid, but if Biffle resigns, and you know Kenseth and Edwards aren’t going anywhere, and Jamie fits in there very, very, well too, the kids going to Yates. Which might not be a bad thing, as at least he’ll still have a job.

Either way, Jack’s making all these deals like he’s got more cars than a Mark Martin Ford dealership. Something else is going on that we don’t know. Has to be. So WTF?

Lights at Martinsville Would Be Bad?

Clay Campbell questions the addition of lights for Martinsville Speedway in a Virginian Pilot interview. his big concern is that is can get a little chilly at night in late March/early April, as well as in October. However, it may help out with some of the other things (modifieds and late models), and they have rigged temporary lighting in the past. However, the big deal is that those take up so much room.

Lights wouldn’t make sense? WTF? Just because you have them, doesn’t mean NASCAR would make it a night race. Although, I will admit, it would be really, really cool. The big benefit of it, Mr. Campbell, would be if a race goes late and there is a need for additional light. See: Kansas, 2007 for a prime example. I’ll also cite October, 2001, where it rained enough to keep the race from running on Sunday, but with lights it could have went off without a hitch. (I ate too many hot dogs that day.)

And now, our final WTF of the week…

Michael Waltrip Attributes Recent Improvement To Gibbs

Ruh Roh! Should you have told ESPN that, Mikey?

Yes, indeed, Joe Gibbs has been doing their homework on their new manufacturer for 2008. To be honest, if you didn’t think they were, you need far more help than I can give you. However, did anyone think that information would be disseminated to their new brethren before Homestead? Let me see here. We’ve got 2 drivers in the Chase, so let’s tick off our current manufacturer even more by sharing information with our new friends. Wow. Never would have thought it would be a reality.

Sharing information with the parent company about their own brand, OK, I can buy that. However, that information being disseminated and helping them better themselves now, against their current manufacturer Chevrolet? Inconceivable. Preposterous! Yet, it’s true.

WTF???

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By Luke, Thunder Lounge
Wednesday April 11, 2007
12:19pm CDT
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OK, so you’ve read the headlines about Mikey’s little incident by now. Unless of course, as Marc says, you’ve been vacationing with Martha. So we won’t delve into the specifics, or why it took so long for the Highway Patrol to show back up after trying the first time. Another story, another time.

The question is, what does this mean for Michael personally, and what does this mean for Michael Waltrip Racing.

This will depend on where you sit, and a personal reflection or opinion. You should make your own determination on it.

If you hate Toyota, Waltrip, both, or more then you’re going to be more harsh in your opinion. You’ll criticize his actions, and rip the reports apart to find fault and point fingers.

From the other standpoint, you almost empathize with the guy and see this as adding insult to injury. No pun intended, granted the injuries [reported] were very minor. You’ll most likely feel for Michael, and wonder (again) just how much worse it can get.

Then, you may share our opinion of it.

Let’s look at the situation. Here you have a guy that’s started up his own three car team, has big time sponsors, a former Cup Champion on your driver payroll, the so-called “flagship” team for a new manufacturer (like them or not), and yet hardly a thing to show for it.

You have a driver and “CEO” that’s probably been putting in 16 to 18 hour days and then some for a long time trying to make things work and get better. While there have been some positives, they do fail to outweigh the negatives.

So what could this latest “incident” be caused by? Sure, there are the literal actions which lead to the accident. However, the real contributing factor started long ago and finally culminated into a resulting sleep depraved person who nodded off at the wheel.

Accidents happen to the best of us. If you say one hasn’t happened to you, I’ll call shenanigans.

The problem and difference is, when it happened to you you probably weren’t of a “celebrity” status and it wasn’t blasted all over the media. If it can happen to Brian France, it can happen to anybody. There are no favorites in this game.

The question is, why run home vice calling the fuzz? Well, there may be several answers to that. I’ll go with the no harm, no foul method, and add in the “fear” of it being blown out of proportion. If it were me, and living out where I do, had a similar thing happened I probably would have finished walking down the section to the house too. That’s just how things happen out in the country. Unless you damage someone else’s stuff, of course. The you get the truck, tractor, or whatever and drag it home and call a body shop the next day.

Is it technically the right thing to do? By definition probably not. But it happens, and more times than you’ll ever find out about too.

So the next thing you have to look at, is that being a person of “celebrity” status and a role model position as well, did he do the right thing? Had the authorities been called immediately upon arriving at the premises, perhaps. Taking a short stroll, as compared to the usual marathon distance or even a 5k, may have given him the time to personally reflect on the stupidity of the actions leading up to the incident. Granted, I’m sure that Nextel phone wasn’t far away, but could the reason for not calling have been born out of fear? The fear of exactly what is happening now across the media. Welcome to the Shriner’s MWR Traveling Circus, Act III.

But does this hurt or tarnish Michael, or MWR? Some will try to, some will try salvage operations, and some will simply go, “Damn, talk about bad luck!”

To be honest, I believe that the only effect of this is a personal one. It’s not related to the team or business. It’s him personally, and personally facing an embarrassing moment and another kick from the President of the Luck Bank when Michael is down. Trying to avoid that, he made a personal error, because potentially the reward outweighed the risk.

Granted, we don’t have all the facts yet. We may never have them to pick apart and analyze. However, before placing personal judgment, how about taking that walk from the scene to the house in his shoes first.

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By Luke, Thunder Lounge
Monday March 19, 2007
8:39am CDT
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Wow. Where did this week go? I have no idea. Last I checked it was Tuesday, and now it’s Monday already. This sucks not only for our dear readers, but for myself as well. There was a lot of issues I, of course, had comments for last week. However we’ll move forward and try this again.

So by now you know Jimmie Johnson went back to back, passing Stewart with a couple laps to go yesterday at Atlanta, and sailing off into the sunset. Not a huge surprise, but a feat worthy of respect with the closeness of competition these days.

Johnson also, as the title implies, helped to make first time NASCAR history. It started Friday night with Skinner, Jeff Burton kept it alive Saturday, and Jimmie sealed the deal Sunday. Of course we’re referring to the first time ever that all three of the NASCAR top series had back to back winners. Skinner won the truck race at Fontana, and Burton also won last weekends Busch race at Las Vegas. And you thought Montoya’s top 5 was something.

Speaking of things Ganassi, not a bad effort thus far in 2007. Too bad that heading into the final race of guaranteed starts from the 2006 owners points that Robert Yates can’t yet say the same. We’re not officially calling the struggle yet, but it sure is shaping up to be. But hey, they’ll always have the front row at Daytona. Right?

So while you’re probably more worried about your canned pet food at the moment, and I’m thankful I use the non-tainted stuff, there’s folks out there with much bigger worries on their shoulders. Toyota, for starters, and it’s even poorer than expected start to its Cup debut.

After Atlanta, in the 2007 Owners Points battle, the lone Camry in the top 35 is Dale Jarrett by a scant 18 points. Next comes Blaney at 45 points out of the coveted Top 35. One small positive note in all their struggles is Vickers. He’s the next spot behind Blaney and 75 points out of the running. He’s also missed 2 of the 4 races thus far, only making the show in Fontana and Atlanta. That’s translating to a positive how, you ask? To still be that close in the hunt, and only making half the events to date, it means he’s ran “respectable” in those two events on average. Something Dale Jarrett and Dave Blaney who have had twice the opportunities to score points can’t say.

Anybody seen the recent NAPA commercial with Sammy Hagar in the closet? You know, the one where Mikey and DJ are walking though the hall at “Michael Waltrip Racing” and you hear Sammy jammin out with the “slightly different” version of his classic “I can’t drive 55″. Then Mikey opens the closet door and asks if he could turn it down a little bit, and Sammy snaps right back with “Can you drive a little faster”?

Could this be the sign that NAPA is digging its heels in and trying to make the best of a start-up situation? That’s the way I see it, to use Tim’s line, and although the results are obviously less than they had hoped for they can still make due with some creative advertising. Every little bit helps at this point.

If things keep going the way they have been, Toyota better hope Vickers makes it in this week at Bristol. A decent finish could squeak him into the Top 35 for Martinsville, and he could end up the lone Camry in the show thereafter. We say thereafter since that could be, and most likely will be, the last time DJ is eligible to use the Champions excuse (er, provisional) this season. Having used 4 so far, the trend would be one more at Bristol and Martinsville and then with his trend in Owners Points he’d be on the outside looking in.

The only salvation for struggling teams at this point is that now it’s time to put the COT on the track to race. Some say that the playing field will be leveled with it initially. While this is true to some extent, since nobody has raced it in an actual event yet, you can still expect the cream to rise to the top. Your bigger organizations have been working on it for quite a while now, as they have the resources and capabilities, while smaller operations have had to put more focus on the first for races of the season.

One thing is for certain though as we head to the mountains of Tennessee. All bets are off.

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Filed Under: Atlanta, Brian Vickers, Dale Jarrett, Drivers, Hendrick Motorsports #48, Jimmie Johnson, Michael Waltrip, Michael Waltrip Racing #44, Michael Waltrip Racing #55, Nascar, Nextel Cup, Team RedBull #83, Teams, Tracks





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By Luke, Thunder Lounge
Sunday February 25, 2007
8:53am CST
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Is anyone surprised by this? Jeff Gordon being on top at California? You shouldn’t be surprised that he’ll pace the field to the green today, not being the only driver with multiple wins (3) at the track, and a record there that speaks for itself. Then again, overall, it’s tough to find a track where this guy hasn’t had success. What the team has to face now is that no California winner has ever come from the pole. If the Truck or Busch race are any indication, don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.

Mark Martin looked to have the truck race wrapped up Friday night, yet some “inconvenient” contact from Hornaday on the second to last restart put Mark through the grass and opened the door for Skinner to sneak into Victory Lane to give Toyota their second piece of hardware in a row.

Then we have Mr. Roboto here. Patience and keeping up with the track conditions made for yet another Kenseth Busch win. His 22nd win, in 200 starts, in the series came without too much fanfare. Jeff Burton had a pretty fast car, as did Kyle Bush as well. In the end though, clean air and good calls kept Matt in the hunt as he walked off with the win. The only challenge coming from Casey Mears, in the 24’s first appearance in Busch Series competition since 2002, and while Mears made the charge, he needed another 5 to 10 laps. But he was coming though, and it at least provided a little hope of a battle to the checkers. In the end though, Katie was sending text messages on her way to greet Matt in Victory Lane. The interesting battle was actually behind Kenseth as Burton, Edwards, Mears and Bush battled for the spots behind Kenseth. Allowing Kenseth to pull out to a little over 2 seconds, Mears finally broke through and cut Kenseth’s lead in about half in 10 laps. Give or take.

Then we have Mr. Waltrip waiting at the gate. With only one car left to qualify, he was sitting on the bubble Friday afternoon. The remaining car? David Reutimann in Michael’s own #00 entry. One has to wonder what the call is there. Team orders? Do your best and let the chips fall as they may? Both cars having to make it in on speed, one was going home. Reutimann put it in the show, sending his boss to the house for the first time this season and putting the team orders rumor to bed. Unless the team orders are to do your best and let the chips fall where they may.

Toyota again put half its cars in the show. Blaney was guaranteed with owners points from last season, Jarrett used his 2nd provisional, Brian Vickers put his Camry in 15th, and then Reutimann. Essentially the same lineup from Toyota as last week, just swap Waltrip for Vickers.

I don’t see Vickers missing too many shows this season. He’s always been rather good in qualifying, and was at Daytona as well. However, as we all know, Daytona 500 qualifying is its own beast.

So as we head into the afternoon, we’ll have some initial stories to follow. One that deserves mentioning is Roush. Watch that team, and the whole team. McMurray’s always been good here, as have the other Roushketeers. Biffle was taking everyone to school a year ago, until he blew a motor in the closing laps.

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Filed Under: Brian Vickers, Busch Series, California, Craftsman Truck Series, David Reutimann, Drivers, Greg Biffle, Hendrick Motorsports #24, Jamie McMurray, Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin, Matt Kenseth, Michael Waltrip, Michael Waltrip Racing #00, Michael Waltrip Racing #55, Nascar, Nextel Cup, Roush Racing #16, Roush Racing #17, Roush Racing #26, Team RedBull #83, Teams, Tracks





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By Tim Spencer, Thunder Lounge
Tuesday February 20, 2007
1:27am CST
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Who is disappointed the most as the Daytona 500 winds down could very well be a slue of people, car owners and drivers as well. From bad finishes to just being taking out or being nipped at the finish line it what was the closest finish in NASCAR history at Daytona since the introduction of electronic scoring. Daytona had it all.

Probably the two most noted was the deal with Mike’s Toyota and Harvick pushing a fender in front of Martin for the win. We all know those two events have been put all over the press.

Toyota found out that Daytona was for the big boys. The highest finishing
Toyota was that of Dale Jarrett who finished 22^nd. His team owner managed to take a car that had not seen the track until the Duel and finish in the 30^th spot.

Dave Blaney finished the day in 34^th after flying down pit road to miss the being of one accident and cause another as he exited pit road and slammed into Schrader who was another innocent by stander taking out do to someone else’s carelessness. The final Toyota of Reutimann ended the day in 40^th. Add to that Waltrip is starting the season in the hole in points! Not to good of a day for the first race with the Toy’s.

How about Tony Stewart?? Think he had what he would call a disappointing day? He finished dead last after being taken out by Kurt Busch. Busch managed to return with his way ward Dodge run enough laps to move in front of Stewart and Kyle Petty. The sad part is that Busch and Stewart had by far the top cars of the day. Busch still led the most laps while Stewart led the second most laps.

How about all the cars that were trashed while trying to race back to the finish because NASCAR didn’t put out the caution on the final lap?? I’m sure there is a bunch of upset drivers and owners with that. Take for example, David Gilliland who spent part of the day a lap down and then got the luck dog to work his way back to the top five. Only to be knocked out in the last lap to finish eight. While eight is nothing to complain about for a rookie who was running in the top five to be caught up in someone else crash makes it a little disappointing. Matt Kennseth would also be another who was running well into the top ten when it broke loss and finished 27^th.

How about the fans?? I bet there are several fans that are disappointed and that would even be without the big wreck at the end. A true fan of racing would agree that the race was disappointing just from the standpoint that the race was only about 40 laps long rather than 200. It was definitely one of the most boring races that I’ve ever seen at Daytona. Let’s hope that July brings a better race, for the fans and for the drivers.

And That’s The Way I See It!!!

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By Luke, Thunder Lounge
Friday February 16, 2007
1:44am CST
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In what was an inspirational day at Daytona for some, it was a heart breaker for others as they loaded their trucks to head for the house. Also, not a day without it’s controversies, and the underdogs coming from the back to live a dream.

First up in the day was Tony Stewart who lead the field to the checkers in the first heat. Strong in the field were several cars, but in the end nothing was in the way of that orange machine and finding victory lane at Daytona for the second time in less than a week.

Kyle Bush had a pretty good run, as did Jeff Burton although his finishing position doesn’t really show what the car could (or was) doing. Ah, the comfort of knowing you’re in the show. Unfortunately, we can’t say the same for brother Ward.

This guy here, who’s had probably the worst 5 days in his life recently, maneuvered his way into one of the two available transfer spots in the 500, for a start just ahead of mid-pack. Granted the Red Army is going to be a little hot, when Waltrip spun Junior into the infield. Junior recovered for a top 5 in the heat. It wasn’t deliberate, and all was well between the two at the end of the event. A mistake was made, but all forgiven. Of course, had the outcome been different, who knows.

So now were on to the second heat. Duel #2, if you will.

With a winning dodge of Kurt Bush’s Dodge, who tried to block, Jeff Gordon again lead the field to the checkers at a Daytona event. In a less caution filled event than the first, the “controversies” were less, and although the racing wasn’t exactly boring, the drama was less than in the first. Up until the final few seconds, which saw Mike Wallace come out of almost nowhere to end up sliding into the 500 yet again.

With the factor between zero and hero being less than 3/10ths of a second in both heats, it was a nail biter.

Now we come back to Mr. Gordon, who will be starting the 500 from the 42nd position Sunday.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, you ask? Well if you’ve been under a rock this evening since shortly after the conclusion of the second heat, or perhaps trying to figure out why there’s two characters on your screen when you know darn well you only pushed the button once, you missed the #24 failing post race inspection.

Ah, but it goes further. Before some of you get up on your high horses, let the neutral opinion of Thunder Lounge interject. It wasn’t due to an intentional circumvention of the rules, meaning it wasn’t intentional, says NASCAR Director of Competition Robin Pemberton.

During post race inspection, the 24 came through the height sticks about an inch too low. This obviously called for further analysis, and Robin was even under the car a few times.

Here’s what happened. NASCAR, as we all know, mandates rear shocks and hands them out for installation. Well, the bolt that secures it to the shock mount failed. It wasn’t an illegal bolt, it either got cross threaded or whatever, and started failing. Read that as coming apart.

So the reason, as deemed by NASCAR, for the 24 being too low was part failure. However Robin said that since it was a failure which could have lead to serious safety incidences, that the 24 would be starting from the 42nd spot (tail end of that line) instead of the 4th position behind Ricky Rudd. No further penalties will be handed down, and the matter is closed.

What I don’t get, personally, is why a penalty for a part failure? When someone gets their front end, or rear end for that matter, knocked around and the templates don’t fit in post race, isn’t that a part failure in a sense? I mean, deification occurs, so a penalty for a part failure which wasn’t intentional (which is what they said) makes no sense to me. But, OK. Whatever.

So what this comes down to is that now a team can be penalized for a part failure? This could have an impact somewhere down the road. We’ll just have to wait and see.

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By Luke, Thunder Lounge
Wednesday February 14, 2007
5:45pm CST
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And we’re not kidding. If you’re not amazed by this, you must be a corpse or off on Nibiru somewhere, and far out of touch with the NASCAR world.

Let’s get to it, because NASCAR just did.

Mr. Waltrip, prepare for the shaft, and to make history.

First, 100 points from your driver points total, if it increases at Daytona or wherever. You’re 100 down now, pal.

Next, let’s not forget Buffy. We want 100 points from her for being listed as the owner.

Think we’re done? Nope, not even close, bub.

Your VP of Competition, Bobby Kennedy? Don’t come back. Ever.

Your crew chief David Hyder? Um, yeah. Don’t come back, either. Ever.

Oh and while were at it, to add insult to injury, Mr Hyder, please make your check out for $100,000. Brian’s kids need some new shoes.

Oh, for laughs, we’re going to let you try to race in in the Duel’s tomorrow Mikey. Granted we engineered it so you wouldn’t get any practice today, but hey, you’ve won here twice so you’ll figure something out.

Yeah, you’re reading that right.

Michael Waltrip just lost 100 driver points, Buffy 100 owners points, crew chief indefinitely suspended, so was their VP of Competition, and One Hundred Thousand Dollars paid to the order of ISC NASCAR by your crew chief David Hyder.

Thanks, and have a nice day.

You know, NASCAR gave them a chance. After they confiscated the first manifold from the #55, they checked it again after qualifying.

They found the SAME substance inside the second manifold. So, it obviously wasn’t coming from the manifold, but somewhere else. So they confiscated the car, engine, etc.

What was it “supposed to do”, you ask?

Supposedly the substance would mix with the fuel, boost the octane, and therefore boost the engine’s horses. Exactly how, I don’t know. Maybe the mixture of this “substance” with the fuel put more O₂ in the fuel to replace some of what’s lost with the plate? Beats me, but that sounds like a general idea. If that’s the “real” chemical properties or not, like I said, I don’t know.

The sad thing is, most likely Michael had not a clue about what’s going on. His “people” fed him the “we didn’t do a damn thing” lines, and now he’s dealing with this whirlwind crap storm.

Either way, I wouldn’t want to be in his shoes.

NASCAR isn’t playing around, and they’re making it very obvious.

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