Friday NHMS Tidbit and notes

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After abiut 35 laps of practice for the Sprint Cars - AJ Almendinger is at the top of the charts with a speed of 132.952 followed by Gregg Biffle, Tony Stewart, David Reutimann, Sam Hornish, Jr, Denny Hamlin, Kasey Kahne, Ryan Newmann, Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick

[JED]

At the end of practice for Sprint Cup cars: Tony Stewart with a speed of 133.628, followed by Carl Edwards with a speed of 133.385, Marcos Ambrose, AJ Allmendinger, Kyle Busch, David Regan, Jimmy Johnson, Brad Keselowski, Gregg Biffle, Denny Hamlin

[JED]

Walking through the modified pit area there are several crew's working on their cars. This is not an impound race.

The #70 team of Andy Seuss, #51 team of Justin Bonsignore, #26 car of Gary McDonald, #4 of Bobby Santos, II, #98 of Erick Rudolph, #36 of TC, #59 of Chuck Hossfeld...

The Suess crew is working on the rear end of the #70 car to address an oil leak. The other teams are checking their cars out and tweaking where it is needed. It is like studying for an exam and doing the last minute cram and double check.

[JED]

Brad Keselowski has just won his first ever pole at NHMS.
Joe Nemecheck qualified to start I believe 29th. This is Nemecheck's 31st NHMS Sprint Cup Start. He has started in every race here at NHMS since the track has opened.

Clint Bowyer qualified second and third belongs to Tony Stewart.

[JED]

This ia also Brad Keselowski's first ever pole with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series after 44 starts.

[JED]

National Anthem and invocation are just completing for the K&N Pro Series East race.

[JED]

Lap 17 of K&N Pro Series East race - Caution - as car #12 hits the wall, Jorge Arteaga. Leading the race is Max Gresham (#18) and second is Kevin Swindell (9) followed by Ryan Truexx (00), Brett Moffitt (20) and then Eddie MacDonald (71)