Spotter's Call - Talladega Superspeedway

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Four Chase drivers opt out of running laps in practice #2 at Talladega

Chase contender Kevin Harvick's #29 RCR team and seven other race teams (including three more Chase drivers/teams) decided to not run any laps in practice #2 at Talladega Superspeedway today. The teams felt like they had gathered enough data from the first practice session. The list of drivers not running laps in practice #2 were:

• Kevin Harvick
• Ryan Newman
• Denny Hamlin
• Brian Vickers
• Bobby Labonte
• Clint Bowyer
• Paul Menard
• Casey Mears

Posted on 10/21/2011 4:58 PM

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Kyle Busch has to go to back-up car at Talladega

With only 20 minutes left in practice #2 at Talladega Kyle Busch blew out his front right tire completely destroying the front right side his primary car. Kyle only had 12 laps on that set of tires. Speculation is that he ran over something as opposed to a true tire issue. Kyle will be using his back-up car for the race. The #18 team were able to get the back-up car out and run the last five minutes of practice.

Posted on 10/21/2011 4:01 PM

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Kurt Busch and Regan Smith pair-up for most laps in practice #1 at Talladega

Kurt Busch hooked-up with Regan Smith to run 30 laps in practice #1 at Talladega Superspeedway. This was the most laps of all the drivers. Not surprisingly the two drivers were only separated by 0.004 seconds. Kurt Busch ranked 12th and Regan Smith ranked 11th in first practice.

Posted on 10/21/2011 3:29 PM

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Two-car tandem partner list for Talladega

NASCAR Cup teams have already picked their partners for this weekend's Good Sam Club 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Based on practice #1 and driver talk here are the driver pairs:

• Greg Biffle/Carl Edwards
• Kevin Harvick/Paul Menard
• Kurt Busch/Regan Smith
• Clint Bowyer/Jeff Burton
• Tony Stewart/Bobby Labonte/Landon Cassill
• Marcos Ambrose/AJ Allmendinger
• Dale Earnhardt, Jr./Jimmie Johnson
• Denny Hamlin/Ryan Newman
• Matt Kenseth/David Ragan
• Brad Keselowski/Dave Blaney
• Jeff Gordon/Mark Martin
• Kasey Kahne/Brian Vickers
• David Reutimann/Martin Truex, Jr.

Posted on 10/21/2011 3:18 PM

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Denny Hamlin says new pressure relief valve rule will make no difference

Denny Hamlin ran 25 laps in the first practice at Talladega and is 24th on the speed chart. Afterwards he said the new pressure relief valve change NASCAR implemented to lower the boiling point of radiator temperature has already been overcome by the Cup teams. He says we'll see no change in the two-car racing that we've seen the last few plate races.

Posted on 10/21/2011 2:33 PM

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Joey Logano has a knack for plate racing at Talladega

Joey Logano has four top-5 finishes at Talladega in his five career Cup races here. His average finish position is 12.6 and his median is 9th over these five. Logano finished 10th in the Aaron's 499 at Talladega earlier this year and 3rd in the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona this summer.

Posted on 10/19/2011 4:59 PM

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Clint Bowyer runs up-front at Talladega with great results

Clint Bowyer is just behind RCR teammate Kevin Harvick in average finish position over the last three Talladega races with an average finish of 3.3 to Harvick's 2.7. But, over the last four Bowyer takes the prize with an average of 5.5 which is the best of all drivers. Clint's approach to Talladega is of the stay-up-front philosophy as noted in his lap-by-lap charts for the Aaron's 499 earlier this year where he finished 2nd and the AMP Energy Juice 500 last fall which he won.

Posted on 10/19/2011 4:45 PM

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Kevin Harvick best over last three Talladega races

Kevin Harvick is the only driver with three straight top-5 Talladega finishes in the last three races here. He has finishes of 5th, 2nd and 1st from the most recent Talladega race back. Harvick's performance at Talladega was mediocre in the five races prior to the last three where he averaged a 25th place finish.

Posted on 10/19/2011 4:27 PM

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