Mindy's Minute

MINDY’S  MINUTE 
Moorpark,  Calif. - (August 22, 2006) After  a hot, muggy and eventually 
soggy Sunday afternoon at Memphis Motorsports Park,  NHRA put a halt on the day’s 
events until Monday for the O’Reilly Mid-South NHRA  Nationals.  The skies 
opened up  right before the first round was eventually over with only one pair of 
Pro Stock  Motorcycles to go. 
When  racing resumed on Monday, the Top Fuel class saw Ringers supporter 
Hillary Will  in her first final of her professional Top Fuel career. 
She  met one of her teammates, Doug Kalitta, at the line.  Will had a great 
reaction time at the  Tree over Kalitta, but he tracked her down to record a 
4.604/313.95 mph run to  the 26-year-old Will’s 4.644/312.13 mph run. 
Tony  Pedregon has had a consistent season and worked his way up through the 
POWERade  point standings to third place.  As  long as he keeps making it to 
the money rounds, he will give point’s leader John  Force and second place Ron 
Capps a run for their money. 
On  Monday, Pedregon met his former boss John Force in finals.  While they 
both left at the same time,  Force’s flopper was quicker than Pedregon’s Q 
Racing Monte Carlo, which smoked  the tires down track. 
Two  Ringers teams battled each other in Pro Stock finals and one of them was 
the  current point’s leader. 
For  the third race in a row, Jason Line took on a different competitor in 
Pro Stock  finals.  In Memphis, it was Kurt  Johnson.  But like Brainerd, Line  
didn’t have the racing gods in his favor. 
Like  last weekend in Brainerd, Line had the quicker car, but was beaten on 
the  infamous holeshot.  K.J. took the  win over point leader Line, 
6.718/204.42 to 6.703/205.38 mph to pick up his  first win at Memphis.  There are only 
three tracks on the current schedule that K.J. hasn’t won  at. 
Another  switcheroo in points took place in the Pro Stock Motorcycle 
category.  Memphis finalist Antron Brown took the lead  last week with his victory in 
Brainerd, but this week saw the reigning champion  regain the point. 
Andrew  Hines was handed his second win of the season after Brown jumped the 
gun on the  Tree.  Brown fell to second in  points, but only by three points. 
All  the NHRA straight liners will have a week off to test and regroup for 
the Mac  Tools U.S. Nationals at O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis, August 
30 through September  4. 
NASCAR  Nextel Cup Series  – GFS Marketplace 400 – Michigan International 
Speedway, Brooklyn, Mich. 
While  both Penske Racing South teammates Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman led 
during the GFS  Marketplace 400 on Sunday, their time out front was unfortunately 
limited and  seemed to doom the both of them as the day progressed. 
Michigan  is usually a good track for Newman, who qualified fourth for the 
race.  During the race, Newman’s Alltel Fastap  No. 12 Dodge had a reasonable 
size hole knocked into his grill, resulting in a  not so cooperative race car 
for Newman.  He settled for a 25th place finish. 
Busch  on the other hand had a couple run-in’s with Michigan’s retaining 
walls and on lap 127,  Busch and his No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge was involved in a 
wreck, ending his day,  handing him a 40th place finish. 
Ringers  supporter Todd Kluever made his second start in Nextel Cup action at 
Michigan, but only 10  laps into the race, he was involved in a wreck with 
Bobby Labonte and David  Stremme, retiring him for the rest of the race.  
Kluever was scored  43rd. 
NASCAR  Busch Series  – CARFAX 250 – Michigan International Speedway, 
Brooklyn, Mich. 
Jason  Leffler took the honors of leading the Ringers supporting racers to 
the  checkered flag in the CARFAX 250 on Saturday in 13th.  Penske Racing’s Kurt 
Busch pulled  double-duty over the weekend.  He  qualified sixth for the 
race, but the changing affects of the track foiled the  team, as well a late spin 
in the race when Busch came into contact with Denny  Hamlin.  Busch was forced 
to start  at the tail end of the longest line and wound up finishing  21st. 
Todd  Kluever’s bad weekend started on Saturday in the Busch race.  Kluever’
s No. 06 3M Performance Finish  Ford Fusion suffered transmission problems and 
was parked on lap 120, resulting  in a 37th place finish. 
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