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Dale Earnhardt, Jr. says his team has figured out the source of its engine woes and is optimistic heading into Sunday's UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
-- SceneDaily.com

The publicity and excitement that have accompanied Juan Pablo Montoya's move to NASCAR might have others in open-wheel thinking about crossing over. Tomas Scheckter is not one of those others. While he understands why drivers such as Montoya are interested in racing in NASCAR, Scheckter knows why he is not. Scheckter said he has driven a Nextel Cup car. "Not to be insulting," he said, but it was too much "like driving a big taxicab."
-- Kansas City Star

That it took only 10 NASCAR races for Juan Pablo Montoya's competitiveness to rankle someone is not surprising from a guy who'll unload a paintball gun on his wife if the situation dictates. Team owner Chip Ganassi said before the Daytona 500 that he hoped Montoya, who seemed more mature than the man he knew as an unmarried 24-year-old in the CART series, would prove more patient this year. He had his doubts.
-- St. Petersburg Times

The TNT broadcast of the Pepsi 400 from Daytona in July will be a test case. For all but four minutes per hour, viewers will have live action from the race on their screens at all times, with hybrid styles of commercials -- something TNT calls "branded content" -- notched into a separate box at the bottom right of the screen.
-- Charlotte Observer

Mark Martin said that he is not interested in running a full-schedule this season, is doing what he wants to do and is thrilled to be working with Regan Smith. Martin has no plans on changing his Nextel Cup schedule and says the best part of not running a full schedule is not worrying about those "stinking" points. Martin however, would not say there is a zero percent chance he will not running a full schedule.
-- jayski.com

The U.S. Auto Club's Silver Crown Series has scheduled a race for May 10 at Darlington Raceway after the open-wheel cars tested there for two days last week. The 50-lap race, with caution laps not counting, will be held under the lights on Thursday night before the track's Nextel Cup event that Saturday evening. The historic Darlington track last hosted open-wheel race cars 51 years ago, when Pat O'Connor won a USAC event on July 4, 1956.
-- Charlotte Observer

The UAW-Daimler Chrysler 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will mark Jon Wood's first official Nextel Cup start in the No. 21 Air Force Ford. Regular driver Ken Schrader will step aside, but still compete in a second Nextel Cup entry, the red No. 47 Ore-Ida/Kingsford/Clorox Ford.
-- jayski.com

Former wrestling champion Bill Goldberg will go from the squared circle to the 1.5-mile oval track of Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Goldberg, a die-hard motorsports fan, will serve as an honorary member of Nextel Cup driver Greg Biffle's No. 16 Ameriquest Ford pit crew for the UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400.
-- jayski.com

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