New Track Records at New Hampshire Motor Speedway

This week the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series are in New England, and the Camping World Truck Series is in Iowa.

 If Friday set the tone for the weekend, then we are in for some exciting racing at the Magic Mile on Sunday! 

It was a busy day in NASCAR with a lot of interesting news that broke out early. Quick review:

Kevin Harvick, along with his sponsor Budweiser will join Stewart-Haas Racing in 2014 and is scheduled to pilot the No. 4 Cheverolet SS. Unfortunately, with lack of funds Stewart has let go driver Ryan Newman. As of right now, Newman does not know what his future holds. Though he knew that he signed a one-year contract with SHR for the 2013 season, he found out on Wednesday that he would certainly not return to his seat in the No. 39.

In Friday's Cup series time trials, nine drivers out-ran Newman's record of 28. 165 seconds, at 135.232 mph which he set in July 2011.

Kyle Busch was the first to break the record with a speed of 135.757 mph. Afterwards, Dale Earnhardt Junior snapped the pole away from Busch as he beat him  with a speed 135.786.
There was confusion with Jimmie Johnson's inspections, and that held him back. He missed his originally scheduled qualifying time, and went on the 5 minute clock before his run time-  but when he did get out on the track, he broke the track record, knocking his teammate off the pole.


Kurt Busch qualified third with a speed of  135.835 mph.

Brad Keselowski  took the 48 Chevy out of first with a time of 28.022 seconds at 135.922  mph. 

The final line-up for the start of the Camping World RV Sales 301

Brad Keselowski 

Kurt Busch 

Dale Earnhardt Jr. 

Kyle Busch

Jeff Gordon

Carl Edwards

Denny Hamlin

Kasey Kahne

Jeff Burton

Juan Pablo Montoya

Jamie MacMurray

Matt Kenseth

Brian Kenseth

Paul Menard

Ryan Newman

Tony Stewart

Aric Almirola
Kevin Harvick

Martin Truex Jr. 
Clint Bowyer

Marcos Ambrose
Greg Biffle

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 
David Gilliland
Joey Logano
AJ Allmendinger
David Reutimann
Casey Mear
David Regan
Michael McDowel
Travis Kvapil
Danica Patrick
Bobby Labonte
Mike Bliss
Josh Wise
Landon Cassill
Ken Schrader
Joe Nemechek
Dave Blaney
J.J. Yeley
Morgan Shepherd 
David Stremme
Jimmie Johnson