Saturday
Ogier leads after chaotic first day
Friday
Another race at Phoenix, another crash for Danica Patrick after she collides with Justin Allgaier
We can say with pretty good authority that Phoenix is now probably one of Danica Patrick's least favorite tracks.
Patrick was caught up in a crash with Justin Allgaier and Travis Kvapil on lap 171 of Sunday's race at Phoenix.
Sunday was Patrick's fourth race at Phoenix and her fourth race having something go wrong. Plus, during last week's season-opening Daytona 500, Patrick was taken out when she was tagged by Aric Almirola's spinning car.
She confronted Allgaier after the race, and according to the Sporting News, it was an animated conversation that lasted for a few minutes. Following the incident, she wasn't too happy with Allgaier on her team's radio.
?She was just upset because she got involved in the crash that we had,? Allgaier told the Sporting News. ?She said she?s been through this and that she felt like I needed to settle down at that point.
?I explained my position on why everything happened. I think she understood where I was coming from. It doesn?t fix either one of our racecars; it doesn?t fix either one of our days.?
The crash at Phoenix damaged the left-front fender and left-rear side of Patrick's car. While the front fender damage seemed to be fixed, the damage over the left-rear wheel well led to a tire rub and a short time later, Patrick's car went spinning again from a flat tire.
She finished 36th. Her new Stewart-Haas teammate Kurt Busch also had a poor follow-up to Daytona. Busch spun out in the closing laps at Daytona, but a caution flag wasn't displayed after he saved his car from hitting the wall. He finished 21st. On Sunday, Busch had engine issues before his powerplant grenaded. And yes, the smoke billowing from his car did cause a caution flag. He ended up 39th.
Her other new Stewart-Haas teammate, Kevin Harvick, won the race.
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Thursday
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Wednesday
Dylan Kwasniewski grabs pole in NASCAR?s first group qualifying session of 2014
NASCAR's first group qualifying session of the season was a briskly entertaining 25-minute session akin to watching a NASCAR Wheel of Fortune wheel spin.
While qualifying for Saturday's Nationwide Series race at Daytona was fascinating to watch, it was impossible to track if you were used to the standard one-by-one qualifying. At one point, 30 cars were on the track drafting off one another. There was no idea to tell who was making a run at the pole or not.
And that's why it was so entertaining. The original 55 minute session was cut short to 25 and delayed twice by rain, but when it was over, Dylan Kwasniewski was on the pole for his first career Nationwide Series race.
Kwasniewski is running full-time for Turner Scott Motorsports, who swept the top three positions with Kyle Larson in second and Danica Patrick in third. While Patrick admitted that the qualifying session was exciting for those watching, it could be hairy for drivers at other tracks.
"I think there are some times when it's going to be a total disaster," Patrick said. "Like when we go to short tracks. I just can't imagine where it's going to be like. (At Daytona), there's plenty of room, people can go wherever, there's many many lanes, it's all about momentum. But when you go to places like Bristol, Martinsville, and shoot even Phoenix. Short tracks in general are just going to be a really big challenge. And then you've got the mile-and-a-halves where you're just going a lot faster."
"So I think these speedways are really interesting and there's a lot of moving around, but there are going to be some that you're going to find a lot of drivers really mad at other ones, or spotters mad at other spotters probably, because as drivers, we pretty much go when our spotter tells us to go."
But isn't that one of the objectives of the new qualifying format? With very few cars -- if any -- failing to make the field on most race weekends and a lack of incidents, qualifying had begun to feel like a formality at times. With the new group format, the potential for drama is back, whether it be in the form of feuds, strategy, wrecked race cars or a combination of all three.
As drivers and teams get accustomed to the new format, we'll see if any of that potential materializes, but its mere presence certainly isn't a bad thing.
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Tuesday
2013 Michigan International Speedway June NASCAR & ARCA Series Weekend Track Event Schedule
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Monday
Kurt Busch Solid in Pocono, Finishes 7th
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