Kansas Odds & Ends

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Kansas Speedway Odds and Ends
• Scott Wimmer led the first Nextel Cup practice at Kansas Speedway on Friday with a lap of 30.289 seconds around the 1.5-mile track for a speed of 178.283 mph. Kurt Busch was second with a speed of 177.649 mph followed by Matt Kenseth, Carl Edwards, Mike Wallace, Robby Gordon, Mark Martin, Sterling Marlin, Greg Biffle and Joe Nemechek to round out the top-ten.

• Denny Hamlin, Busch Series driver for Joe Gibbs Racing, will make his first Nextel Cup Series start on Sunday provided he can qualify the car on time. Qualifying is scheduled for 10:40 AM/Eastern time on Saturday.

• Scott Roggs, driver of the Valvoline No. 10 Chevrolet, wrecked his primary car in the first practice session at Kansas Speedway on Friday. The team pulled the backup car out to get it ready for the final practice. The wreck comes only five days after Riggs' spectacular accident at Talladega.

• Kevin Harvick and wife DeLana, will fly back to their North Carolina home on Friday to be with DeLana's critically ill father. RCR is expected to have a substitute driver to qualify the No. 29 Goodwrench Chevrolet and Jeff Burton is expected to drive Harvick's Busch Series car in Saturday's United Way 300. No word yet whether Harvick will return for Sunday's Banquet 400 Nextel Cup race.
 
as immature as Kevin and DeLana seem on the 360 show, her father seems like a wonderful man. I really hope he pulls through.
 
Kevin raced today and reported that his Father In Law had rallied and was doing better.
 
I talked with Kevin Harvick's chief pilot and he mentioned that the doctors said that John Paul's lungs started to fill up with fluid and that they were not going to drain them and that he would not make it through last night. Kevin flew back and apparently John Paul said that if draining his lungs would give him another day in life then to do it. They did and he got better. Enough that Kevin flew back this morning. Cancer however has taken over key parts of his body and it looks bleak I wish that man and his family the best.
 
Newman's car not passing pre-race insp: Speed Channel's NASCAR This Morning is reporting that the #12 alltel Dodge of Ryan Newman, went threw pre-race inspection Sunday morning at Kansas Speedway a couple times, but couldn't pass as a left rear quarter panel height was too high, after being given 5 minutes to try to fix the problem and still couldn't pass, the team was told to go to the back of the line and try again and be the final car thru tech. The team can work on the car since Newman will go to the back before the drop of the green flag since the team already changed transmissions after qualifying

Helton
 
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