线程： Kenseths 轮: 是的吉布斯有好球赢得冠军

它是在代托纳宣布迈克尔 Waltrip 会在代托纳 500，提高认识和支持康涅狄格州的纽敦和桑迪胡克小学开车天鹅赛车丰田。

代托纳海滩，佛罗里达州— — 几个星期前，丹尼哈姆林和凯尔 Busch 涌出对他们有多么激动与在他们乔吉布斯赛车队的更改的驱动程序。
加法的 Matt Kenseth 为 2013 NASCAR Sprint 杯子季节会添加深度到团队和经验，可能，使它更强大的冠军竞争者。
都说 （他赢取了 Sprint 杯标题 2002 年) 的 Kenseth 的冠军沿袭和他丰富的知识将大大有助于吉布斯，如此有效应在过去甚至比其小组的所有三个。
好的马特，现在你知道它所期望的你。所以你期望从吉布斯组织？布希和哈姆林有正确的想法吗？
"我希望他们是正确的"2 月 14 日在一年一度的纳斯卡媒体日说，Kenseth。"我希望他们的期望是不是太高。
你真的不能故障 Busch 与哈姆林，或别人在吉布斯，如果他们觉得 Kenseth 将提高门槛。
本机威斯康星已在 Sprint 杯赛车与徳芬威球场赛车在他 15 年的所有竞争了。
他有 24 事业胜利，如所说，在 2002年冠军。只两次在他的职业生涯中他已经做完了出前 10 在最后一点的身分。他是在 2012 年第七届。
现在，考虑他来上与哈姆林和 Busch，长期以来一直成功的团队。
是的既不驱动程序赢得了一个标题。但哈姆林在 2006 年加入吉布斯，赢得了 22 赛事以来。他在 2010 年和五个在 2012 年赢得了八倍。
法国小 NASCAR 首席执行官布莱恩 (中心) 纽顿桑迪胡克的倡议的会议，他和他的妻子，捐赠了 $50,000 的事业。

他一直出了前 10 只一次在他七年的吉布斯和 2012 年清盘第六。
然后有 Busch。他加入吉布斯在 2008 年，他赢得了八个种族的年。他是去赢得更多 16。然而，他只有一次就完了跻身前 10 名。
他溜过去一年，在最后一刻失去追逐就地向杰夫 · 戈登。
尽管如此，并不需要整个大量智力，得出的结论其驱动程序把多年来的健康数字，与吉布斯有率作为标题的竞争者。
"我觉得只要你有一个大的团队和队友你试着利用每个你有的工具，"Kenseth 说。"你试着在一起工作。您尝试使该组织和它可以一样好。您尝试获取所有三个汽车跑到前面。
如果它是如何，Kenseth 说，那么结果就是它提供了每个个人的团队更多的机会。
"是的希望与您各自的团队你可以想出的方式来赢得，"他说。"但这是所有关于获取公司运行良好。如果发生这种情况，那么它将很多对我来说更好，也为其他人要好得多。
"我们可以得到对所有三个队角逐在 wins 和希望，一次冠军的点"。
现在，很多观察家都想的赔率都是好人这正是会发生什么。

意见： 在媒体一天，它被宣布那 NASCAR 天鹅赛车和两次代托纳 500 冠军迈克尔 Waltrip 会进行特别的赞扬，提高认识和桑迪胡克学校支持基金捐款。
上星期在康涅狄格州的纽敦，纳斯卡、 天鹅赛车和 Waltrip 镇官员、 社区领袖、 急救和受害者的家属与私人会晤之后宣布号 30 Lean1 天鹅赛车丰田反而会成为号 26 桑迪胡克学校支持基金丰田荣誉 26 受害者的桑迪胡克小学和突出特点鼓励 NASCAR 社会捐款 $10 通过发短信新城到 80888 调用动作贴花。
贡献 — — 100%的他们 — — 将受益桑迪胡克学校支持基金，为那么多的纽顿公民支持愈合过程。
除了开车，纽顿在代托纳 500 Waltrip 证实迈克尔 Waltrip 赛车的所有三项将在比赛中运行"文本纽顿到 80888"贴花。
纳斯卡主席和首席执行官布赖恩 · 法国还宣布他和他的妻子艾米会亲自开球 NASCAR 产业支持与将匹配由纳斯卡基金会捐赠 5 万美元。
目前，我们都可以看到已选定的车辆和司机帮助鼓起支持慈善程序。多年来一直的他们的分数。
这是不同的。
Waltrip 和其他人谈到在新城举行的会议，都未能注意到它的观众，听说的什么带来的情感变化。
许多人笑了 — —，他们没有这么做的事件以来，可怕 12 月 14 日 20 名儿童和六名成年人丧生。
那些人进行会议表示它变得非常清楚纽顿公民不是用钱这么多有关。
相反，他们很兴奋在一个事件，会加强他们的精神和为他们提供中央感到自豪。
新城中代托纳 500 将有它自己的汽车。它将由两届代托纳比冠军。它将统一、 精神和社会愈合的来源。
即使没有一分一毫作出了贡献，这就是它将会。我认为这是对公民的纽顿比金钱更重要。
这是什么使这一努力不同。它不是慈善机构一样关心、 支持和更新。
在纳斯卡，它没有过像这样 — — 的和值得的最高赞扬。

— —-在投票关闭昨晚，球迷的投票冲刺无限的第一个组件上的 — — 长度的种族的三段 — — 要设置在三十圈、 25 圈和 20 圈。
体育的 65 年历史中第一次，纳斯卡和冲刺上月宣布球迷们将投票决定在代托纳，在 8 P.M 星期六晚上设置竞赛中的几个关键的竞争元素。
成功的组合，线段长度收到 55%的选票，同时为 40 圈、 20 圈和 15 圈选项完成第二，有 23%。在最后的地方是 35 圈 30 圈、 10 圈有 22%的选择。
是吧？
我很多人认为球迷们肯定会投赞成票"枪战"十圈
"嘿，我以为也会 '点球大战'，"说阿里奇 Almirola 的驱动程序。
球迷们仍有时间上的使用或非使用的中转站 — — 投票，它将类型 — — 驱动程序可能消除，天哪，小姐 Sprint 杯将在胜利巷穿的 firesuit。

It was announced at Daytona that Michael Waltrip would drive a Swan Racing Toyota in the Daytona 500 to raise awareness and support for Newtown, Conn. and Sandy Hook Elementary School.

DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. – A couple of weeks ago, drivers Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch gushed about how excited they were with a change at their Joe Gibbs Racing team.
The addition of Matt Kenseth for the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup season would add depth and experience to the team and, possibly, make it a stronger championship contender.
Both said Kenseth’s championship lineage (he won the Sprint Cup title in 2002) and his wealth of knowledge would contribute greatly to Gibbs, so effectively that all three of its teams should be even better than in the past.
OK, Matt, now you know what it expected of you. So what do you expect from the Gibbs organization? Have Busch and Hamlin got the right idea?
“I hope they’re right,” Kenseth said at the annual NASCAR Media Day on Feb. 14. “I hope their expectations aren’t too high.”
You really can’t fault Busch and Hamlin, or anyone else at Gibbs, if they feel Kenseth will raise the bar.
The Wisconsin native has competed in all of his 15 years in Sprint Cup racing with Roush Fenway Racing.
He has 24 career victories and, as said, the 2002 championship. Only twice in his career has he finished out of the top 10 in the final point standings. He was seventh in 2012.
Now, consider that he is coming on board a team that, with Hamlin and Busch, has long been successful.
Yes, neither driver has won a title. But Hamlin joined Gibbs in 2006 and has won 22 races since. He won eight times in 2010 and five in 2012.
NASCAR CEO Brian France Jr. (center) was in Newtown for meetings on the Sandy Hook initiative and he and his wife have donated $50,000 to the cause.

He’s been out of the top 10 only once in his seven years with Gibbs and wound up sixth in 2012.
Then there’s Busch. He joined Gibbs in 2008, the year he won eight races. He’s gone on to win 16 more. However, he’s finished among the top 10 only once.
He slipped last year, losing a spot in the Chase at the last moment to Jeff Gordon.
Still, it doesn’t take a whole lot of brainpower to reach the conclusion that with the healthy numbers its drivers have put up over the years, Gibbs has to rate as a title contender.
“I think whenever you have a big team and teammates you try to utilize every tool you have,” Kenseth said. “You try to work together. You try to make the organization as good as it can be. You try to get all three cars to run up front.”
If that is how it is, Kenseth said, then the result is it offers each individual team more opportunity.
“Yes, hopefully, with your respective team you can figure out a way to win,” he said. “But it’s all about getting the company to run good. If that happens, then it will be so much the better for me and so much the better for the others.
“We can get to the point where all three teams contend for the wins and, hopefully, a championship.”
Right now, many observers are thinking that the odds are good that’s exactly what’s going to happen.

OBSERVATIONS: At Media Day, it was announced that NASCAR, Swan Racing and two-time Daytona 500 champion Michael Waltrip would conduct a special tribute to raise awareness and contributions for the Sandy Hook School Support Fund.
Following a private meeting with town officials, community leaders, first responders and victims’ families last week in Newtown, Conn., NASCAR, Swan Racing and Waltrip announced that the No. 30 Lean1 Swan Racing Toyota will instead become the No. 26 Sandy Hook School Support Fund Toyota to honor the 26 victims of Sandy Hook Elementary School and prominently feature a call-to-action decal encouraging the NASCAR community to make $10 donations by texting NEWTOWN to 80888.
The contributions – 100 percent of them – will benefit the Sandy Hook School Support Fund, which supports the healing process for so many Newtown citizens.
In addition to driving the Newtown car in the Daytona 500, Waltrip confirmed that all three Michael Waltrip Racing entries will run the “text NEWTOWN to 80888” decal in the race.
NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France also announced that he and his wife Amy would personally kick off the NASCAR industry support with a $50,000 donation that will be matched by The NASCAR Foundation.
Now, we all have seen charity programs in which cars and drivers have been selected to help drum up support. Over the years there have been scores of them.
This is different.
As Waltrip and others spoke about the meeting in Newtown, none failed to note the emotional change it brought about in the audience as they listened to what was said.
Many smiled – and they hadn’t done so since the terrible Dec. 14 incident in which 20 children and six adults perished.
Those who conducted the meeting said it became abundantly clear that the Newtown citizens were not so much concerned with money.
Rather, they were excited over an event that would bolster their spirits and provide them with a central source of pride.
Newtown will have its own car in the Daytona 500. It will be driven by a two-time Daytona winner. It will be a source of unity, spirit and healing for the community.
Even if not a single dime is contributed, that’s the way it will be. I think that is more important to the citizens of Newtown than money.
This is what makes this effort different. It’s not about charity as much as it is caring, support and renewal.
In NASCAR, it’s never been done like this before – and is worthy of the highest commendation.

—- In voting that closed last night, fans voted on the first component of The Sprint Unlimited – the length of the race’s three segments – to be set at 30 laps, 25 laps and 20 laps.
For the first time in the sport’s 65-year history, NASCAR and Sprint announced last month that fans would vote to decide several key competition elements in the race at Daytona, set for Saturday night at 8 p.m. ET.
The winning combination for the segment lengths received 55 percent of the votes, while the option for 40 laps, 20 laps and 15 laps finished second with 23 percent. In last place was the option for 35 laps, 30 laps and 10 laps with 22 percent.
Huh?
I was one of many that felt fans would surely vote in favor of a 10-lap “shootout.”
“Hey, I thought there would be a ‘shootout,’ too,” said driver Aric Almirola.
Fans still have time to vote on the use, or non-use, of a pit stop – and the type it will be – the possible elimination of drivers and, by golly, which firesuit Miss Sprint Cup will wear in victory lane.