| Chevrolet officials: Move to Impala a 'marketing decision' | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 10:46:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | HAMPTON, Ga. - Chevrolet officials say their switch from the Monte Carlo to Impala beginning next season is strictly a marketing decision. In the 16 Nextel Cup races next season in which the car of tomorrow will be utilized, Chevy teams will field the Impala SS. They will use the Monte Carlo in all remaining races and in the Busch Series. The Impala is our passenger car flagship and the best-selling domestic car in America. We would like to align those strengths with our powerful accomplishments on the track, said Pat Suhy, General Motors program manager for NASCAR. Chevrolet introduced the Impala in late 1957 as a 1958 model, racing it first on the beach course in Daytona Beach, Fla. Bob Welborn won a qualifying race in an Impala for the 1959 Daytona 500. The Monte Carlo has been the car of choice for Chevrolet since 1995.... | |
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| | | Shell Oil Company and Richard Childress Racing Announce Primary Sponsorship | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 6:45:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | TALLADEGA, Ala., Oct. 7 -- Shell Oil Company announced the brand's return to NASCAR today through a multi-year primary sponsorship of Richard Childress Racing (RCR). Through the sponsorship both Shell and Pennzoil brands will be featured on the No. 29 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS to be driven by Kevin Harvick in the 2007 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup series. Shell will also be the associate sponsor on other RCR cars including the No. 31 Cup car driven by Jeff Burton and the No. 07 Cup car driven by Clint Bowyer. "We're proud to have Shell come on-board as the primary sponsor of RCR's No. 29 team with Kevin Harvick," said Richard Childress, president and CEO of Richard Childress Racing. "Shell has a long history in motorsports throughout the world and we look forward to adding to that winning tradition.... | |
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| | | Chevrolet Monte Carlo - Setting Records from the Beginning | | Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 12:45:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | Since the Chevrolet Monte Carlo's first year of NASCAR competition in 1971, the car has been one of GM's biggest successes in racing and the ball started rolling with a win (and a record set) by Charlie Glotzbach - with help from Friday Hassler - at Bristol on July 11, 1971. Chevy experienced success in the 1960s with the Impala and Chevelle. Towards the end of the decade, other brands were giving the Bowtie a run for its money. After the new 1970 Monte Carlo made its street debut, it was soon deemed to be a good fit for stock car racing. With a long wheelbase and rearward engine placement that shifted mass towards the middle of the car, the big coupe was suited to the banked tracks and as it turned out, the Monte Carlo was indeed the car that boosted Chevy's NASCAR statistics.... | |
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| | | Earnhardt, Gordon driven to succeed | | Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 2:46:33 AM by Blog57 Team | | Last season, when Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished 19th in the Nextel Cup points standings, his mouth often ran faster than his sluggish No. 8 Chevrolet. His Monte Carlo SS regularly drove like a Nova. He let his team know it, once announcing at Pocono Raceway over his radio -- a frequency monitored by fans and Dale Earnhardt Inc. employees at the No. 8's shop in Greater Charlotte, N.C. -- that his car was the biggest piece of you-know-what he had ever driven. ``Well, the three guys that helped put that thing on the base plate are like, `Dammit. That hurts,' " Earnhardt said yesterday during a media blitz involving the 10 drivers in the Chase for the Cup. ``I go in the shop the next day and I'm like, `Hey, what's going on with everybody?' They come up to me and they go, `Man, what you said was wrong.... | |
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| | | Get next to a Nextel Cup car | | Posted Sunday, August 20, 2006 4:46:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | Kevin Harvick's Number 29 GM Goodwrench Chevrolet Monte Carlo will be on display at Diamond Hills Auto Group, 4545 W. Ramsey St. in Banning, on August 29 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.A Richard Childress Racing team representative will accompany the automobile, which is an exact, working copy of the machine Harvick has used to gain third place in the Nextel Cup Series after a recent road race win at Watkins Glen, NY.The representative will answer questions about the car, Childress Racing and NASCAR, and visitors will receive a “Hero Card" souvenir.Harvick, a Bakersfield resident when not competing, won't be at Diamond Hills, since he's busy racing and having what may be his best Nextel Cup season.This week he'll be traveling between Michigan and the Bristol, TN raceway. In addition to being third in the Nextel Cup competition, Harvick holds first place in the Busch series.There is more information on the GM Goodwrench Chevy at www.rcrracing.com.... | |
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| | | G. Chambers Williams III: Survey shows the cheaper brands are gaining on their pricey counterparts | | Posted Saturday, August 19, 2006 10:46:11 AM by Blog57 Team | | Non-luxury car brands have significantly narrowed the gap in quality between themselves and luxury brands, cutting the disparity in half over the past four years, a new J.D. Power survey shows. The 2006 Vehicle Dependability Study, which surveyed the original owners of model year 2003 vehicles, showed that consumer problems with the new cars over the first three years of ownership dropped sharply for some brands, including a few not among the traditional high-end vehicles. Most notably, while Lexus won the top overall spot in the survey for the 12th year in a row, with 136 problems per 100 cars, three of the top five overall winners were not luxury brands. They included Mercury, in second place with 151 problems, followed closely by Buick, No. 3 with 153 problems.... | |
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| | | Stoney Creek driver has five feature wins | | Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 8:45:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | A winning racing effort is usually the combination of several things, but the three most important are a solid dependable race car, driver skill, and car preparation. And lately these three items have worked in harmony for A.J. Lewis. Running in the Thunder Stock division at Ohsweken Speedway, the 21-year-old Lewis has amassed five feature wins so far this year, and these were all in a row. The Stoney Creek resident is presently leading the division points race at the third-mile dirt oval. "Everyone started to wonder if we were legal," said A.J.'s father, John Lewis, at the track recently, "but we were torn down and everything is legal." When a race car is "torn down," officials probe into the engine after taking off the cylinder heads to make sure all is within rule specifications.... | |
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| | | Wolves Start Their Engines this Summer | | Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 6:46:01 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Chicago Wolves will sponsor Turtle Soup Racing stock car driver Stevie Campbell's racecar for the remainder of his racing season at the Illiana Motor Speedway in Schererville, Ind., each Saturday this summer. The Wolves logo is now plastered atop Campbell's 2006 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Super Late Model, while the number 94 - which signifies the team's inception in 1994 - runs on its sides. Before entering the racing circuit, the South Holland native was a professional hockey linesman for 15 years, which includes officiating Wolves contests in both the International Hockey League and the American Hockey League. "This is the perfect deal for me because it combines the two sports that I am most passionate about," Campbell said. "To be able to put together racing and hockey is an unbelievable feeling for me.... | |
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| | | Truex to Drive Navy Chevrolet at Chicagoland | | Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 8:46:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | For the second week in-a-row, Martin Truex Jr. will step up to drive the No. 88 Navy Accelerate Your Life Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS. In addition to his Nextel Cup responsibilities, Truex will run the No. 88 in the NASCAR Busch Series USG Durock 300 at Chicagoland Speedway on Saturday. He is filling in for JR Motorsports regular driver Mark McFarland who was injured in an on-track accident at Milwaukee. In Truex's two previous Busch Series starts at Chicagoland, his best starting position is 16th and he picked up his best finish at the track last year when he took the checkered flag in seventh. He also led three laps in last year's USG Durock 300. The Navy team is bringing brand new chassis No. 022 to Chicagoland this weekend. Last weekend Truex drove the No. 88 Navy Chevrolet to an eighth-place finish at Daytona International Speedway.... | |
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| | | Race car zooms eyes on Navy | | Posted Tuesday, July 04, 2006 2:45:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | The slogan "Accelerate your life" was emblazoned on the side of the Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS in the Kroger shopping center on U.S. 51 in Millington. The car, a replica of the No. 88 NASCAR Busch Series car driven by Mark McFarland, was on display in several locations in Millington during the week, including the ceremony at the Naval Support Activity Mid-South where the Navy's top recruiter, Rear Adm. Jeffrey L. Fowler, relinquished command to Rear Adm. Joseph F. Kilkenny. .... | |
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