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NASCAR has announced that it will expand the field for next month's Budweiser Shootout from 24 to 28 cars to allow each manufacturer to run an additional entry.
The non-championship race at Daytona is the traditional curtain-raiser to the NASCAR Sprint Cup season, taking place a week before the famous 500-mile race at the Florida superspeedway.
It was originally intended to invite each manufacturer's top six cars (based on 2008 owners' points) to the Shootout, but now Toyota, Chevrolet, Ford and Dodge can all add a further driver.
Priority will be given to any former champion outside the top six cut-off who entered all 2008 races, or if the manufacturer does not have an eligible champion amongst its drivers, then last year's seventh-best team in its line-up will take the place.
I like Stewart fine and really don't have a problem with this new "rule" for the race since its non points anyway. But if they wanted TS in the race they could have just said the most recent past champion not otherwise eligible to put him in. OR, just said Tony Stewart also because, well, we want Tony Stewart in the race.
This will also put Robby Gordon in the race if TRIAD (the guys who bought out Davis) don't enter a car. And from reading the new champion rule I think that will also place Bobby Labonte in the race as the 7th Ford car instead of Paul Menard.
The non-championship race at Daytona is the traditional curtain-raiser to the NASCAR Sprint Cup season, taking place a week before the famous 500-mile race at the Florida superspeedway.
It was originally intended to invite each manufacturer's top six cars (based on 2008 owners' points) to the Shootout, but now Toyota, Chevrolet, Ford and Dodge can all add a further driver.
Priority will be given to any former champion outside the top six cut-off who entered all 2008 races, or if the manufacturer does not have an eligible champion amongst its drivers, then last year's seventh-best team in its line-up will take the place.
I like Stewart fine and really don't have a problem with this new "rule" for the race since its non points anyway. But if they wanted TS in the race they could have just said the most recent past champion not otherwise eligible to put him in. OR, just said Tony Stewart also because, well, we want Tony Stewart in the race.
This will also put Robby Gordon in the race if TRIAD (the guys who bought out Davis) don't enter a car. And from reading the new champion rule I think that will also place Bobby Labonte in the race as the 7th Ford car instead of Paul Menard.
