INDIANAPOLIS -- It took just three hours, 28 minutes and 29 seconds to undo the 15-year love affair between the Brickyard and NASCAR.
INDIANAPOLIS -- He's won the Brickyard 400 two times, so he knows what it takes to succeed at Indy. He's current ESPN race analyst Dale Jarrett, and he'll be chatting live with FanHouse.
The last time Dale Jarrett wasn't in a race Geoffrey Bodine took home the trophy. Terry Labonte, Rick Mast, Rusty Wallace and Mark Martin rounded out the top 5 in that race -- the 1994 Tyson Holly Farms 400 at North Wilkesboro.
Dale Jarrett got some much needed practice time at Indianapolis on Tuesday in preparation for the 2007 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard."With this team, we need time on the racetrack. This was invaluable to a team like ours," said Jarrett.Jarrett was among four other drivers from each manufacturer who were on hand to assist Goodyear in finding the correct tire combination for the July 29 race. Jimmie Johnson, Bobby Labonte, and Ricky Rudd were the other three.
UPDATE: After chatting with Andy Hall, the manager of media relations for ESPN Communications, it seems that this break for Jerry and Dave Burns was something worked into the schedule. "Jerry will be back in the booth at Phoenix. His (and Dave Burns') two weeks off are part of a schedule for the year that rotates time off for our announcers. Between the 35 Busch races and the 17 Cup races, we're doing 52 races this year, plus practice and qualifying shows for a lot of those, so these guys are going to be very busy," said Hall.
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"If I would have run into the back of him, I would have called him right away and talked to him about it, but I tried to pass him five or six times, and that time I had three or four feet underneath him and that was my spot, so I didn't feel I did anything wrong," Kenseth said. "I was in my spot, which was underneath him, and he came down into my lane and spun himself out, so I don't really feel like I was at fault in the incident, and I didn't see a big need to seek him out."Denny Hamlin told reporters that the issue that caused him to fall back late in the race from the lead to 14th wasn't a fuel pump issue, rather one with fuel pick-up from the tank.
"I could have used the bumper to move him out of the way and win the race, but I didn't want to,"That was a concept Matt Kenseth obviously didn't understand, probably because he wasn't looking to win the race. It was a failure that ended with the driver of the big, brown truck seeing red -- and not because of the COT. Dale Jarrett was a little irritated with the Roush-Fenway driver after climbing from his wrecked race car:
Yep, now that DJ is out of the Ford camp, he's firing at will."This is not the first time that (Kenseth's) done something like this. Everybody has this great vision that Matt Kenseth is this nice guy on the race track. He is a nice guy away from the track. But he's a rough driver on the race track when he doesn't have to be.
"We'll have a discussion."
Brian Vickers was Toyota's top finisher today in 15th place. He and Mayfield's Bill Davis Racing teammate Dave Blaney, who finished 23rd, are the only two Toyota drivers that completed all of todays 504 laps."I was trying to pass Kyle Petty and get in under him and then Matt Kenseth just turned me going into the corner. The car was good; I was having a good time. It's fun racing, but it's not fun when somebody does something like that. It's not the first time, but it will be the last .. You have to show some patience and here we are only 60 laps into the race and somebody does something like that ... This is not the first time that he's done something like this. Everybody has this great vision that Matt Kenseth is this nice guy on the race track, he is a nice guy away from the track, but he's a rough driver on the race track when he doesn't have to be. We'll have a discussion."Michael Waltip and David Reuitmann failed to qualify.
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