Kahne’s win, celebrates Petty’s 200th Anniversary

For the first time since 1999, “The King” returned to Victory Lane as a car owner last Sunday at Infineon Raceway, and NASCAR legend Richard Petty’s timing couldn’t have been more appropriate.
Driver Kasey Kahne (No. 9 Budweiser Dodge) claimed the first victory for the new Richard Petty Motorsports — the organization that melded teams from [...]

Race Recap: Kahne Wins Turning Left & Right

By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service
SONOMA, Calif.—How strange was it for Kasey Kahne to win a road-course race?
The driver of the No. 9 Richard Petty Motorsports Dodge had to ask his crew chief for directions to victory lane after taking the checkered flag in a green-white-checkered finish in Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon [...]

Kasey Kahne grabs first Petty Motorsports Victory

1 5 9 Kasey Kahne
2 4 14 Tony Stewart
3 3 47 Marcos Ambrose
4 11 48 Jimmie Johnson
5 24 11 Denny Hamlin
6 17 42 Juan Pablo Montoya
7 20 44 A J Allmendinger
8 26 33 Clint Bowyer
9 13 24 Jeff Gordon
10 8 19 Elliott Sadler
11 38 55 Patrick Carpentier
12 33 13 Max Papis #
13 34 99 Carl [...]

Some Cup Regulars ARE Road Specialists

With the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series visiting California wine country for Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350, one can expect to see several specialists competing at Infineon Raceway for the first of two road-course events this season.
Sunday’s race will be no exception. Veteran road racers Boris Said, Ron Fellows, Max Papis, Patrick Carpentier and Brian Simo are [...]

Video: Preview of the Cup Series at Infineon from NASCAR

Gordon Expects Havoc on Sunday at Infineon

GORDON EXPECTS HAVOC ON SUNDAY AT INFINEON
SONOMA, Calif. (June 16, 2009) – Five-time Infineon Raceway winner
Jeff Gordon expects the new double-file restart rule to create interesting
scenarios on and off the track Sunday in the Toyota/SaveMart 350.
Gordon, a native of nearby Vallejo, has finished fourth and second in the
first two races since NASCAR introduced double-file restarts to its top division.  But those two races did not [...]