Race 2 Win: Busch Series Race Notes

NASCAR Busch Series

Sam’s Town 300 - Clint Bowyer Notes

Clint Bowyer
No. 2 BB&T Chevrolet
Event Preview Fact Sheet

Event/Date: Sam’s Town 300 – March 10, 2007
Venue: Las Vegas Motor Speedway – Las Vegas

NOTES:

This Week’s BB&T Chevrolet at Las Vegas Motor Speedway … Clint Bowyer will pilot Chassis No. 068 from the Richard Childress Racing (RCR) stable in this weekend’s Sam’s Town 300. This is a brand new BB&T Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS.

Quality Control … The BB&T racing team tested at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS) Feb. 5-6 and posted speeds consistently in the top seven of the 63 cars that made laps at the newly-reconfigured, mile-and-a-half tri-oval.

Pretty Sporty Average … In two NASCAR Busch Series (NBS) starts at LVMS, Bowyer has an impressive 6.5 starting average and has finished ninth both times. Additionally, the Emporia, Kan., driver has completed all 406 laps contested in those two races.

For the Betting Types … According to the Web site www.vegasinsider.com, Bowyer is a 16:1 favorite to win the Sam’s Town 300. The 27-year-old driver’s odds to win Sunday’s race are listed at 20:1 and he is currently at 40:1 to win the NEXTEL Cup Series Championship.

RCR Busch Cars in Vegas … In 14 NBS starts at LVMS, RCR has earned one win (Kevin Harvick – March ’04), six top-five and nine top-10 finishes with Bowyer, Harvick, Ron Hornaday Jr., Jeff Green and Johnny Sauter.

Double Down in Sin Town … In addition to his obligations behind the wheel of the BB&T Chevy, Bowyer will also make his third NEXTEL Cup Series start of 2007 in the No. 07 Jack Daniel’s Chevrolet in Sunday’s UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 at LVMS. Bowyer finished 18th and sixth, respectively, in the first two NEXTEL Cup races of the year and is currently sixth in the division’s point standings. The third race of the 2007 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series season will be televised live Sunday, March 11 on FOX beginning at 4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST). The race can also be heard live on the Performance Racing Network (PRN) and Sirius Satellite Radio.

Catch the Action … Live coverage of the Sam’s Town 300 from LVMS will take the green flag Saturday, March 10 beginning at 2:30 p.m. EST on ABC. PRN and Sirius Satellite Radio will also carry the race broadcast live. Qualifying for the fourth of 35 points-paying races on the 2007 NASCAR Busch Series calendar will be televised live on SPEED Friday, March 9 at 8 p.m. EST.

CLINT BOWYER QUOTES
For the first time, since you started racing in the Busch and NEXTEL Cup Series full time, you were able to take last weekend off. Are you going to enjoy running a limited Busch schedule?
“I don’t know yet. I struggled with it at California. That was the first time I’d been to a companion Busch and Cup weekend without my Busch car. I stood up on top of the suites on the front straightaway and watched the race with Richard (Childress) and I was kicking myself during the whole race for not running the full schedule but it will be nice to be able to do some different things. Time off is obviously beneficial. Sometimes a little break helps keep you focused so I think it will be good for me. It will also open the door for me to do some dirt racing and have a little more fun. Don’t get me wrong, I had a lot of fun and learned a lot last year but it was so busy that it was hard to enjoy the opportunity I had been given. This year, I’ll be able to do a lot of different things - like truck racing or dirt racing. What ever we want to do, we’ll have better chance to go out and do it.”

Do you think running a partial schedule helps the Busch team? Will they be a little more charged up when they get to the race track?
“It gives everyone a whole different outlook. We’re going to race for the win. We’re not looking for top fives or top 10s. We’re there to win, that’s it. That allows us to take some chances that a lot of other guys might not take – be it on the race track or in the pits. We’re going for broke every time we go out there with the BB&T Chevrolet.”