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Carl Edwards is pushed by a track safety vehicle after suffering electrical issues, during the Bank of America 500 at LMS. (Jason Smith/Getty Images Photo) ยป More Photos
NOTHING BUT WOE Carl Edwards came into the Bank of America 500 second in points, but left with his championship hopes in dire straights. The problems started during the first pit stop on Lap 45, when Edwards thought he had a wheel loose and came in for right-side tires seven laps later. That cost him a lap, but it was early in the race and he still had a chance to recover at that point.
But during a subsequent caution that began on Lap 63 after Mike Skinner and Ken Schrader crashed, the motor in the No. 99 Roush Fenway Racing Ford quit running altogether, forcing Edwards into the garage as his crew thrashed valiantly to find the cause of his problems. By the time Edwards rejoined the fray, he was 16 laps down in 39th position, with no hope of a decent finish. He finished 33rd.
“You can’t afford two mulligan’s in a row like this,” said car co-owner Jack Roush.
And for Edwards, who triggered a 12-car crash a week earlier at Talladega and had a shoving match with Kevin Harvick in the NASCAR Nationwide Series garage here, the bad finish capped a brutal week. “There’s only one thing to do and that’s to learn from everything this week,” said Edwards. “That’s for sure. I can guarantee you that if I had the week to do over again, the last seven days would be a lot different. But you just have to do what you think is right at the time and move on after that. Today’s race didn’t help at all. That car right there is a great race car. I don’t know if we’ve ever had the problem that we had there, it was something with the ignition system, so it’s very frustrating but nobody got hurt at least, I guess.”
CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR Kasey Kahne came ever so close to being the first driver in the history of Lowe’s Motor Speedway to sweep all three races at the track in a single season
Still, it was Kahne’s first top-five finish since Michigan in June. “We got up towards the front,” he said. “The car was pretty good.”
GOING, GOING, GONE For the third time in five races in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, Matt Kenseth found himself in an accident not of his own making, this time in the Bank of America 500 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
Kenseth was snared in a Lap 195 crash started when Tony Raines got turned on the frontstretch. Kenseth, the 2003 NASCAR Sprint Cup champion, tried to miss the carnage, but was unsuccessful. “There was just an accident I slowed down for and just got ran over from behind,” said Kenseth. “ … I was just slowing up for the accident and got run over.”
And that’s how the first half of the Chase has been for Kenseth, who along with Jimmie Johnson is the only driver to qualify for the Chase all five years of its existence. “Yeah, it’s been borderline miserable for sure,” said Kenseth, who was credited with a 41st-place finish at Lowe’s. “There have been a couple of bright spots, but even when things go right they go wrong. At Kansas we had a really good car, got wrecked there. Got wrecked last weekend with a really good car and then couldn’t really do a lot about any of that stuff, I don’t think. It’s just been one of those months. Hopefully, it will get better.”
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