WIX FILTERS LAP LEADER NOTES FOR THE UAW-DODGE 400 NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES RACE AT LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY, MARCH 2, 2008.
Kyle Busch led three times for 56 laps to earn WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race honors today’s UAW-Dodge 400. Busch has led at least one lap in all three Sprint Cup races this season for a total of 156 laps.
Busch scored an 11th-place finish in today’s race. His average finish in three races is 6.6.
UNOFFICIALLY Busch is second in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship standings, 21 points behind leader Carl Edwards and 20 ahead of third-place Ryan Newman.
Busch started today’s race from the pole, his third pole position in 117 races.
Busch leads Jimmie Johnson by one race (2-1) in the overall WIX Filters Lap Leader standings.
STEVE ADDINGTON, CREW CHIEF, No. 18 M&M’S TOYOTA: “We’ve been competitive since Kyle came over. It’s just a tribute to these guys. We had some problems here that we didn’t know about going on. He started complaining about the motor. It sucked a gasket and just killed all the power and then he’s got to overdrive it and then we were just making adjustments. It was a pound here, a pound there just get the car too tight or too loose and then had a flat tire there on that restart that put us behind late in the race. But we came back for 11th-place so we can’t complain if that’s our bad days with the couple of things that we found here after the race.” THIS TEAM HAS BEEN VERY STRONG. YOU SWITCHED TO TOYOTA AND HAVEN’T SKIPPED A BEAT. “We’ve still got some issues to work through but as a whole, things are going great. This M&M’s Camry has been great and so have these guys that work on it. I can’t say enough about the guys that work on this race team.”
WIX FILTERS LAP LEADER AWARD STANDINGS
Kyle Busch 2
Jimmie Johnson 1
WIX FILTERS LAP LEADER AWARD WINNERS BY RACE
EVENT DRIVER
Daytona 500 Kyle Busch, 86 laps
Auto Club 500 Jimmie Johnson, 76 laps
UAW-Dodge 400 Kyle Busch, 56 laps
