Samsung 500 - NASCAR Race

Name of Race: Samsung 500
Name of Track:     Texas Motor Speedway
Date: April 6th

Texas Motor Speedway

Texas Motor Speedway is a speedway located in the northernmost portion of the U.S. city of Fort Worth, Texas -- the portion located in Denton County, Texas. The track layout is very similar to Atlanta Motor Speedway and Lowe's Motor Speedway (formerly Charlotte Motor Speedway). The track measures 1.5 miles around and is banked 24 degrees in the turns, and is of the quad-oval design, where the front straghtaway juts outward slightly.

The track is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., the same company that owns Atlanta and Lowe's Motor Speedways, as well as the short-track Bristol Motor Speedway.

Very Fast Track

Based on qualifying speeds in 2004 and 2005, the Texas Motor Speedway was once considered the fastest non-restrictor plate track on the NASCAR circuit, with qualifying speeds in excess of 192 mph and corner entry speeds over 200 mph.

However, as the tracks' respective racing surfaces continue to wear, qualifying speeds at Atlanta have become consistently faster than at Texas (2005 and 2006).

Busy Race Season

Texas Motor Speedway is home to two NASCAR Nextel Cup races: the Samsung/Radio Shack 500 and the Dickies 500, as well as two Busch Series Races, the O'Reilly 300 and the O'Reilly Challenge and last but not least, the Indy Racing League race, the Bombardier Learjet 500.

Courtesy of Wikipedia.

Samsung 500 NASCAR Race Results

Below are the race results for Samsung 500, in order of finishing place.

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2008 Nextel Points
1 Kyle Busch Leader
2 Carl Edwards -208
3 Jimmie Johnson -369
4 Dale Earnhardt, Jr. -432
5 Jeff Burton -521
6 Greg Biffle -596
7 Kevin Harvick -623
8 Tony Stewart -645
9 Matt Kenseth -674
10 Jeff Gordon -681
2008 Busch Points
1 Clint Bowyer Leader
2 Brad Keselowski -204
3 Carl Edwards -222
4 David Reutimann -410
5 Mike Bliss -439
6 David Ragan -485
7 Kyle Busch -569
8 Mike Wallace -777
9 Jason Leffler -784
10 Marcos Ambrose -831
2008 Craftsman Points
1 Johnny Benson Leader
2 Ron Hornaday -119
3 Matt Crafton -156
4 Todd Bodine -239
5 Mike Skinner -254
6 Rick Crawford -261
7 Erik Darnell -287
8 Jack Sprague -353
9 Terry Cook -380
10 Dennis Setzer -436

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