HORNADAY'S DAY WAS TRULY THE PITS.Byline: Tim Haddock Auto Racing The results show that Ron Hornaday Ron Hornaday, Jr. (born in Palmdale, California on June 20, 1958) is a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver. He is the father of former NASCAR driver Ronnie Hornaday, and the son of Ron Hornaday, Sr., a two time Winston West Champion. Jr. finished 32nd in the NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. Busch Grand National season opener at Daytona International Speedway Daytona International Speedway is a superspeedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is a 2.5 mile (4 km) tri-oval race track facility with a seating capacity of 168,000 spectators. on Saturday. But those who watched the race know he probably had the best car in the field, running in the lead for most of the first half of the race. If not for a messy pile-up pile·up or pile-up n. 1. Informal A serious collision usually involving several motor vehicles. 2. An accumulation: "the pile-up of unsold autos" after the first pit stops, Hornaday looked like he was on his way to winning the 42nd running of the NAPA Auto Parts Auto parts are components of automobiles. They mainly are, in alphabetic order (only car specific articles or articles with car section):
``It's a shame. We had such a good car,'' said Hornaday, the two-time NASCAR Craftsman Trucks Series champ from Palmdale. ``We felt real good going down there. We were happy with the way we tested. The car was fast right off the trailer. We knew we could have finished well if we had just stayed out of trouble.'' After starting on the front row next to pole-sitter Hut Stricklin, Hornaday, a Busch series rookie, moved his Monte Carlo into the lead and held on for 43 of the first 62 laps. Coming out of the pits, though, he got tangled in crashes that took Bobby Hillin Jr., Chad Chaffin, Adam Petty and Stricklin out of the race. Hornaday said he had problems with his brakes coming out of the lengthy pit stop which got him back onto the track. Matt Kenseth won the race, .153 seconds ahead of Terry Labonte, whom Kenseth overtook on the final lap for his eighth career victory. Former NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and Winston West Series driver Kevin Harvick, of Bakersfield, was fifth. P.J. Jones, a Southern California open-wheel product making the jump from the CART FedEx Series, finished 40th, completing only 50 laps. The next race on the Busch Grand National schedule is the AllTel 200 on Saturday at North Carolina Speedway North Carolina Speedway is a racetrack located in Rockingham, North Carolina. It is affectionately known as "The Rock" and hosted NASCAR events from 1965 to 2004, and has proposed hosting Automobile Racing Club of America series races starting in 2008. , otherwise known as ``The Rock.'' Not so fine: Hornaday's crew chief, Gere Kennon, was fined $5,000 by NASCAR officials after they inspected the team's Dale Earnhardt Inc. No. 3 Chevrolet. NASCAR officials ruled Kennon violated two rules: ``attempt to pull air from sources other than normal approved methods'' and ``location of roll bars.'' Dave McCarty, crew chief of the No. 53 Hank Parker Racing Chevrolet, was fined $5,000 for the same violations. Pat Smith of the No. 97 PPI Motorsports Ford and Nick Short of the No. 8 Bobby Hillin Racing Chevrolet were fined $15,000 each for their rule violations. Ventura schedule set: The 2000 Ventura Raceway schedule was announced, and will include visits from the SCRA SCRA South Carolina Research Authority SCRA Sprint Car Racing Association SCRA Servicemembers Civil Relief Act of 2003 SCRA Securities Contract Regulation Act (Indian law) SCRA Scottish Countryside Rangers Association Sprint Car series and the CDCRA CDCRA California Dwarf Car Racing Association Dwarf Cars series. The SCRA Sprint Cars will make four stops at Ventura Raceway this year - May 4, July 29, Sept. 2 and Oct. 21. The CDCRA Dwarf Cars will accompany the SCRA Sprints on May 4, July 29 and Sept. 2. In addition, Ventura Raceway will host a weekend of motocross motocross Form of motorcycle racing in which cyclists compete on a closed course marked out over natural or simulated rough terrain. Courses vary widely but must be 1.5–5 km (1–3 mi) in length, with steep inclines, hairpin turns, and mud. events with the flat-track motorcycles, speedway bikes, pro/am track and sidecar 1. sidecar - Synonym slap on the side. Especially used of add-ons for the late and unlamented IBM PCjr. 2. sidecar - The IBM PC compatibility box that could be bolted onto the side of an Amiga. races June 24 and 25. Practice opens Saturday for all divisions at the dirt track. The season opens March 4 with VRA VRA Visual Resources Association VRA Voting Rights Act of 1965 VRA Volta River Authority VRA Veterans Recruitment Appointment VRA Virginia Recycling Association VRA Volunteer Rescue Association ( Australia) VRA Voice Risk Analysis Sprints, Street Stocks, Pony Stocks and I-4 Modifieds. Pontiac signs on: Pontiac will be the title sponsor of the NASCAR Winston West Series race at California Speedway in Fontana on April 29. The Pontiac Wide Track 200 will be part of weekend events at the 2-mile oval that will include the Busch Grand National Series Auto Club 300 and the Winston Cup NAPA Auto Parts 500. Individual race tickets went on sale Monday at California Speedway, which is also offering a package that features season tickets for the NASCAR series races April 27-29 and the CART FedEx series race and accompanying events Oct. 27-29. The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and Dayton Indy Lights Series will also run during the CART FedEx Series weekend. Horne steps down: Steve Horne announced Tuesday that he has resigned as team president of Forsythe Championship Racing Forsythe Championship Racing is a racing team in the Champ Car World Series owned by Gerald Forsythe. Team History The team first operated as Forsythe Racing from 1983 to 1985 with moderate success, most notably with rookie driver Teo Fabi who won four races in 1983, and , which will field the Panasonic Honda/Swift piloted by Bryan Herta, a Valencia resident and Hart High graduate, for the 2000 CART FedEx Championship Series. Horne's career has included 95 race wins and 14 championships over 25 years. When he was owner of the Tasman Motorsports Group, he teamed with Herta to win the 1993 Indy Lights championship. Horne sold his team to Jerry Forsythe in January 1999 to form Forsythe Championship Racing on the CART FedEx Series. ``It's not a good thing for sure,'' said Herta after testing in Orlando, Fla., Wednesday. |
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