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Kasey Kahne: Races
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Kasey Kahne is a very intelligent driver. He can push the car hard and get a great qualifying lap out of it. Kasey is ... smart enough to lay back and not use up his equipment too soon during the race.
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At a young age Kasey Kahne fell in love with racing. It's easy to see why, considering that his dad owned several sprint cars that Kasey would drive at the local dirt tracks. By the time he was 18, Kasey had started to race full sized sprint cars. Between the ages of 18 and 20, Kasey raced in a number of competitions and went on to win the USAC Midget Series Driver of the Year award. He ... won the Night Before the 500 Classic in 2000 and 2001. Kasey was the first driver to win back to back Night Before titles since Jeff Gordon did it in 1989 and 1990.
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Francis Wins Wypall Crew Chief of the Race: Kenny Francis and Kasey Kahne teamed up to capture another win this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. For the second time this season, Kahne started on the pole and held on to take the checkers, this time out-dueling Tony Stewart and Matt Kenseth in the final stages of the Samsung / Radio Shack 500. Francis' dominant weekend earned him the Wypall Wipers Crew Chief of the Race. A panel of voters; including Tony Eury Sr., a member of the local media and a Wypall Wipers representative; all cast their vote for Francis as the Crew Chief of the Race. For winning the Crew Chief of the Race award, Wypall Wipers gave Francis $1,000. At the end of the season, the crew chief with the most weekly wins will receive $20,000 and be crowned the Wypall Wipers Crew Chief of the Year.
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Kasey Kahne made 20 starts in the Nationwide Series driving the #98 Channellock Ford Taurus for Robert Yates Racing. His best finish was a tenth-place finish at Cabela's 250. In 2003, he moved to the #38 Great Clips Ford for Akins Motorsports. He won his first pole at Michigan International Speedway and his first Nationwide race at the Ford 300. He ... made a pair of starts in the Craftsman Truck Series in the #2 Team ASE Racing Dodge Ram for Ultra Motorsports, winning in both starts.
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Francis Wins Wypall Wipers Crew Chief of the Race: The only person that Kasey Kahne couldn't outrun this weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway was Mother Nature. Sunday afternoon's rain showers forced NASCAR to postpone the Golden Corral 500 until the following day, but Kahne had no problem leaving the field in his #9 Dodge Charger's wake once the race went green. Kahne's day earned his crew chief, Kenny Francis, the Wypall Wipers Crew Chief of the Race. A panel of voters; including Tony Eury Sr., a member of the local media and a Wypall Wipers representative; all agreed that Francis deserved Crew Chief of the Race honors for putting Kahne in position to collect the win. For winning the Crew Chief of the Race award, Francis was presented $1,000. At the end of the season the crew chief with the most weekly wins will receive $20,000 and be crowned the Wypall Wipers Crew Chief of the Year.
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Kahne Set To Join California Speedway Walk Of Fame: #9-Kasey Kahne will take his place alongside past California Speedway Nextel Cup race winners when he is inducted into the California Speedway Walk of Fame on Saturday, September 1 at 2:00 pm. Fans can join Speedway officials and Kahne as his footprints, signature and a bronze plaque are preserved in concrete during an enshrinement ceremony held at Gate 12. Kahne, one of NASCAR's brightest and most popular young drivers took home the checkered flag at last year's Labor Day weekend Nextel Cup race at California Speedway. In earning the win, Kahne's average race speed of 144.462 mph set a new record for fastest average race speed in California Speedway's September Cup race. Kahne joins Jeff Gordon ('97, '99 & 04), Mark Martin ('98), Jeremy Mayfield ('00), Rusty Wallace ('01), Jimmie Johnson ('02), Kurt Busch ('03), Elliott Sadler ('04), Kyle Busch ('05), Greg Biffle ('05) and Matt Kenseth ('06) as drivers to be enshrined at the Speedway's Walk of Fame.(California Speedway)(8-28-2007)
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