Pit road scuffle brings rift between ex-teammates

Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman were teammates at Penske Racing for three seasons, and their most notable moment during that tenure was the former pushing the latter to a victory in the Daytona 500. They were friends, Busch said. But after last weekend’s saga at Darlington Raceway, that may not be the case anymore.
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Pit crews move to forefront on All-Star weekend

It begins with the sound of an electronic bell and the whir of impact wrenches, and ends with six men huffing and puffing to push a 3,400-pound stock car across an arena floor to the finish line. The Sprint Pit Crew Challenge brought thousands of enthusiastic fans and plenty of NASCAR insiders to Time Warner Cable Arena on Thursday night, to watch over-the-wall specialists ply their trade in a competition that paid more than $ 80,000 to the winning team.
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Kenseth’s pit crew carries on 17 team’s legacy

Cameron Cobb’s call to the big leagues came at Richmond International Raceway, and the final event of the 2007 Sprint Cup regular season. He was the jack man on Carl Edwards’ car in the Nationwide Series when Robbie Reiser, then crew chief for Matt Kenseth’s team, stopped Cobb in the garage area and asked him to come by the shop the following Monday morning. Russ Strupp, the longtime jack man on the No. 17 squad, had injured his back. Reiser wanted Cobb to fill in beginning the next week — in the opening race of the Chase.
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