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Ambrose finishes 23rd in Nashville PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 23 March 2008
Marcos Ambrose has moved up to 16th in the NASCAR Nationwide Series standings after finishing 23rd in the Pepsi 300 at Nashville Superspeedway in Tennessee today.

Ambrose qualified 15th in the #59 Kingsford Hickory Ford Fusion at the 1.33-mile speedway and finished three laps down in the midfield. The Australian’s car was very ‘tight’ (understeer) throughout the race, making it a difficult day. Ambrose and his crew worked hard at getting a more balanced set-up throughout the race, but changes were not able to give the car a better set-up.

With an unusually low number of cautions in today’s race, opportunities for pit stops to tune the car were few, making it a tough day for Ambrose.

Scott Wimmer won today’s Pepsi ahead of series leader Clint Bowyer and defending series champion Carl Edwards.

Ambrose and the JTG Racing team will enjoy a rare weekend off next weekend, before the NASCAR Nationwide Series gets back underway on April 5 with the O’Reilly 300 at Texas Motor Speedway.

Marcos Ambrose – #59 Kingsford Hickory Ford Fusion

“We’ve got two weeks now to have a think about things and make some progress,” said Ambrose.

“Today was not a great day for our team but the potential is certainly there. We’ve just got to put our heads down and work hard on finding more speed.

“We had a really, really tight race car and we just couldn’t get it good enough.

“The boys are all working hard. I’m very confident that we will be back up there very soon.”

RESULTS: Pepsi 300 at Nashville Superspeedway
Race 6 of 35 in the 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series
1. #29 Scott Wimmer 225 laps
2. #2 Clint Bowyer
3. #60 Carl Edwards
4. #88 Brad Keselowski
5. #47 Kelly Bires
6. #64 David Stremme
7. #32 Denny Hamlin
8. #33 Cale Gale
9. #99 David Reutimann 224 laps
10. #25 Bobby Hamilton Jr
23. #59 Marcos Ambrose 222 laps

RESULTS: Qualifying
1. #20 Kyle Busch 29.310
2. #22 Mike Bliss 29.576
3. #66 Steve Wallace 29.596
4. #60 Carl Edwards 29.609
5. #47 Kelly Bires 29.620
6. #21 Stephen Leicht 29.623
7. #2 Clint Bowyer 29.628
8. #88 Brad Keselowski 29.663
9. #16 Colin Braun 29.670
10. #27 Brad Coleman 29.727
15. #59 Marcos Ambrose 29.866
2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series Standings – After Race 6 of 35
1. Clint Bowyer 877
2. Carl Edwards 866
3. David Reutimann 806
4. David Ragan 771
5. Mike Bliss 757
6. Brad Keselowski 756
7. Kevin Harvick 751
8. Kelly Bires 708
9. Mike Wallace 706
10. Jason Leffler 703
16. Marcos Ambrose 552

2008 NNS Prizemoney after 6 races:
Marcos Ambrose: US$183,188 (A$204,245)

AUSTRALIAN TV REPLAY
Saturday 29 March 2008
Ten HD
12:00pm – 1:00pm AEDST

ABOUT NASHVILLE SUPERSPEEDWAY
Location: Lebanon, Tennessee
Track Length: 1.333 miles (2.145km)
Race Distance: 225 laps – 300 miles (482.8km)
Degree of Banking in Turns: 14 degrees
Degree of Banking in Front Straight: 9 degrees
Degree of Banking in Back Straight: 6 degrees

NASCAR NATIONWIDE SERIES RECORD BOOK
Defending Nationwide Race Champion: Ca! rl Edwards
Defending Nationwide Polesitter: David Stremme
Marcos Ambrose 2007 Race Finish: 17th
Marcos Ambrose 2007 Qualifying: 2nd
 
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