team reports Jun 22, 2006
He did win a NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Series race at the track in 1999 a victory Busch believes helped him land a ride with car owner Jack Roush a few months later. Last week: Busch was delighted with a second consecutive top-10 finish ninth at Michigan. (USA Today -- Sports)
Sears Point: Ford teams qualifying ... Jun 26, 2005
"It was a good, top-five lap. I think we might be able to hang onto that spot. We might get bumped by one or two guys, but we didn't get a chance to do our fast run in practice. We may have been 18th on the charts, which isn't indicative of where we could run but Sunday is the big deal. We haven't finished real well at Infineon - just one top-five in the past five years or so, but this race track is special to me. I had a chance to win a Featherlite Southwest Series race a few years ago, so I... (Motor Sport)
Truck series isn't just for beginners Jun 3, 2005
Hornaday, a two-time Featherlite Southwest Tour champion and runner-up for 2000 Busch Series Rookie of the Year, is sixth in the standings, 158 points behind Ted Musgrave. With Harvick in charge, no corners are cut, Hornaday said. (AZCentral -- Sports)
McKean again wins at PIR Nov 5, 2004
Eddy McKean has a suggestion for NASCAR: Run every single Featherlite Southwest Series race at Phoenix International Raceway. McKean, who has three wins in his past nine PIR starts, took the checkered flag again Thursday in the Cruise America 125, crossing the finish line as darkness was beginning to descend over a race that was marred by a yellow flag on the first lap and a red one on the 115th. (AZCentral -- Sports)
Prunedale's Pettit quietly making a name for himself Nov 14, 2003
The Elite Division included the Featherlite Southwest Series, International Truck and Engine Corporation Midwest Series, Kodak Southeast Series and Raybestos Brakes Northwest Series. com/Bay Pac Racing Ford in the Featherlite Southwest Series (Monterey County Herald, CA)
DeKalb's Ron Breese victorious in Toyota All-Star Showdown Nov 10, 2003
Breese's victory, ahead of Featherlite Southwest Series driver Jim Pettit II, put an exclamation point on his series' dominance of the Elite Division race. Breese competes in the NASCAR Elite Division, International Truck and Engine Corporation Midwest Series, whose drivers claimed five of the top-10 finishing positions and were also scored as the "team" race winners in the opening segment of the Elite Division race (Dekalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
TOYOTA SHOWDOWN-Race Day Report Nov 8, 2003
Breese, Jr., of DeKalb, IL, runs in the Midwest Series while Pettit runs on the Featherlite Southwest Series. The Midwest Series won the team championship while the Featherlite Southwest Series finished second (The Motor Sports Forum)
TOYOTA SHOWDOWN-Friday Report Nov 8, 2003
As the green flew, it was announced that Hamlin and Jason Jefferson would not be able to repair their respective cars and the left rear tire of Eric Holmes of the Featherlite Southwest Series went down, causing him to limp back to the pits. The green flew around ten laps later, but it was still lap nine on the scoreboard, as Howard retained the lead for one more lap before relinquishing it to Burney Lamar of the Southwest Series (The Motor Sports Forum)
TOYOTA ALL-STAR SHOWDOWN-Wednesday Nov 5, 2003
This morning, NASCAR's other touring series champions from the Featherlite Southwest Tour, the International Truck e Midwest Tour, the Kodak Southeast Tour, the Raybestos Northwest Tour and the Winston West Series arrived at Irwindale Speedway to join Santerre and prepare for Saturday's Elite Division and Grand National Division Showdown on the half-mile superspeedway. This evening, they'll participate in a Street Fair in the nearby city of Arcadia prior to tomorrow's practice and Friday's... (The Motor Sports Forum)
Sparta's Schendel tests skills in pair of all-star races Nov 4, 2003
It's an invitation-only, nationally televised (Speed Channel) event that features the best drivers from NASCAR's four touring series ' the International Truck and Engine Midwest Series, the Featherlite Southwest Series, the Southeast Series and the Raybestos Southwest Series. "Everywhere you go the competition is tough," said Schendel, who is coming off a sixth-place finish in a Southwest Tour event at the Phoenix International Raceway (PIR) last week (LaCrosse Tribune, WI)
