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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Jamie McMurray Nextel Cup Series No. 26 IRWIN Industrial Tools Ford
One-Hit Wonder?
Now 30, McMurray still aiming to prove he’s not a flash in the pan
By Monte Dutton
NASCAR This Week
BROOKLYN, Mich. lt all must
have seemed so easy for Jamie Mc-
Murray back in 2002.
McMurray won his second Cup race
that year. Substituting for injured
Sterling Marlin, McMurray won the
UAW-GM Quality 500 at Lowe’s Motor
Speedway. It was one of stock-car rac
ing’s classic upsets.
Unfortunately for McMurray, it
hasn’t been duplicated. One hundred
and twenty-seven races have passed
without him winning another. This
year a move to Jack Roush’s five-car
team brought with it renewed hope
for McMurray, who turned 30 on June
3. He came close with a second-place
finish at Dover on June 4, the day af
ter his birthday.
A second-place finish brings with it
frustrations, too, but it was a welcome
sign of improvement for the Joplin,
Mo., native.
“That was big for us,” said McMur
ray. “Obviously, all my teammates
have run so well this year and the
pressure has been on our team a little
bit just to get up to the same level as
what those guys are running at. It was
good for us to get out and have a good
run and legitimately have a shot to
win a race. It’s been, like, three years
since I felt like I had a chance to win a
race, so it felt good.”
All four of McMurray’s teammates
Mark Martin, Matt Kenseth, Greg
Biffle and Carl Edwards made the
Chase in 2005. So did Kurt Busch, the
driver McMurray replaced.
Already, McMurray has experi
enced his first team shake-up at
Roush Racing. He began the season
with Jimmy Fennig, Busch’s crew
chief, heading up his team. Now Bob
Osborne, formerly with Edwards, is
calling the shots.
“There’s not a big difference in the
stuff we’re trying,” said McMurray.
“It just seems that maybe the commu
nication is a little bit better with Bob
(Osborne) and me throughout the
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real fast.
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the shotgun a lot with three
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Jamie McMurray, right, talks with team owner Jack Roush during a qualifying session in Charlotte
earlier this year. McMurray was an upset winner of the UAW-GM Quality 500 at Lowe’s Motor
Speedway in 2002, but he hasn’t been to victory lane since then.
race.
“We weren’t making the right ad
justments to the car throughout the
race. And that’s where our perform
ance has gained so much in the last
month or two is that if we don’t start
out great, we’re able to get our car
better throughout the race and that’s
been the biggest change with Bob ver
sus Jimmy (Fennig).”
McMurray admitted that the
change of teams has been more of a
struggle than he expected.
“You always think, if I could just
get in his car, I could do that, but the
thing that I didn’t know was that
team has changed a lot,” he said. “I
think there’s one or two people left
SPORTS
on my team right now who were
there when Kurt (Busch) won the
(2004) championship, or even last
year. Some of them have moved up to
ire Busch (Series) crew chiefs, or
they were just moved around, and if
they’re on the team, they’re in a dif
ferent position than what they were.
It’s not the same team that Kurt had
a couple of years ago, or even last
year.
“This is a ‘people’ sport, and it’s all
about being a team and it takes a
while for everyone to get used to
working with each other.”
Contact Monte Dutton at
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SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 2006 ♦
FEUD OF THE WEEK
Tony Stewart
vs. Jeff Green
Nothing complicated here. Green
made a mistake, and it ruined Stew
art's performance on the 22nd lap of
what ended up being a rain-short
ened race at Michigan. Green apolo
gized and took the blame. Stewart
raged at first but eventually settled
down. His shoulder? "I feel good,"
Stewart said. "I don't feel good
about the day, obviously, but physi
cally I feel great."
NASCAR This Week's Monte
Dutton gives his take: "Like him or
not. Stewart's had some really rotten
luck. His luck could've been even
more rotten, of course, had he
banged up his shoulder again."
Crown Royal wants a race
• to be named after you
Crown Royal Championship Rac
ing is putting a fan's name on the
May 2007 Nextel Cup race at Rich
mond International Raceway. The
race will be named for the winner of
the Crown Royal “Your Name Here"
contest, marking the first time a ma
jor professional sporting event will
be named for a consumer. During
next year's Daytona 500, the grand
prize winner will be randomly chosen
from a pool of 10 finalists, who will
be selected based on having the
best submissions chronicling their
favorite “Crown-worthy moments."
For more information, visit
www.crownroyal.com/ynh4oo/ or
visit the Crown Royal Brand Experi
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Let’s make the ‘lucky dog’
pass truly for lucky dogs
While watching the race at Tal
ladega, an idea came to me
during one of the cautions. A
driver was awarded the "lucky dog
pass" and got a lap back. Why not do
this: Whenever a driver gets the lucky
dog pass, he donates an amount of
money to an animal shelter? Then it
is a true lucky-dog pass. ...
Sherry Dobrodt
Madison, Ind.
Good idea. Maybe someone at
NASCAR will follow up on it.
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($2,220,054) ($36,969,195)
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