• Matt Kenseth tested at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Tuesday and was 3rd fastest overall out of 41 cars. This is great news as Matt has had to run in the last chance hooligan race the last 3 times he has been at Charlotte.

• The Busch series has off this weekend and will be at New Hampshire on May 9th. Matt tested here earlier this year with great results.

• Matt Kenseth and the #17 Lycos Team placed 8th on Saturday. There were 7 cautions that removed most of the field from the speedway, including several of the points leaders. Matt drove through an early wreck with cars flying all around him, never being touched. A later wreck that happened in front of him took teammate Mark Martin out of the race and left Matt with a damaged right rear fender, broken shock mount and trailer arm. The team worked quickly to get Matt back out on the track and kept him on the lead lap. Despite the damage, Matt kept his right foot on the floor and managed to stay pretty close to the leaders. The Lycos in-car camera had some great views of the spinning cars and smoke filled wrecks.

• Matt regains the points lead in the Busch series, having a 26-point lead over Mike McLaughlin. This is the 5th consecutive top 10 finish, congrats Matt and team!!!

• Matt was faster in second round qualifying, but not enough to get the #60 Cup car into the top 36. Overall it was a bad weekend for Roush as blown engines and poor qualifying kept all 5 out of the top 20.

One word describes Matt’s first round qualifying attempt for Sundays race, Slow..... The Roush cars have been struggling in qualifying at the plate tracks and a lot of work needs to be done to the #60 Peterbilt car if they have hopes of making the race.

• Matt qualified in 20th position today for the Touchstone Energy 300 to be ran on Saturday.

• The Busch race will be tape delayed on Saturday, starting at 4:00 pm Eastern on ABC. MRN radio will have live race coverage.

• Qualifying for the Winston Cup cars is Friday at 4 pm Eastern, televised live on ESPN2. Second round qualifying is Saturday at 11:45 am. The DieHard 500 starts Sunday at 1 pm Eastern, televised live on ABC.

• This will be a big weekend for Matt Kenseth as he will be attempting to make his first Winston Cup debut at Talladega Superspeedway. Matt will need to qualify the #60 Ford in 36th position or better to make the field of 43 cars on Sunday. Saturday, Matt will be running the #17 Lycos Chevrolet at Talladega with hopes of regaining the points lead.

• First round Qualifying for the Touchstone Energy 300 begins Thursday at 4:30 pm Eastern. There will be one lap of qualifying for the top 25 positions. Second Round qualifying will be held Friday. The race is Saturday at 1 pm and will be televised live on ABC.

• Matt has been testing the #60 Roush Cup car since Monday at Talladega. Listen to an interview with Matt on Nascar Today.

• It wasn’t the 10 yellow cautions or the grease left on the racing surface, it wasn’t even a blown fuse somewhere in the Hickory power grid that kept Matt out of the winners circle. It was a busted shifter that left Matt stranded in 4th gear. The Lycos Chevrolet stayed out of trouble all day, avoiding many wrecks that left most of the point leaders scrambling for hammers and duct tape. Matt was running in 2nd and chasing down the leader Ed barrier when the last caution of the race came out on lap 280. Stuck in 4th gear on the restart, Matt was quickly passed with all hopes for a win gone. He did finish a strong 5th and moves up to 2nd in the point standings, 31 behind Earnhardt Jr.

• “That yellow just killed us,” said Kenseth, who now trails Earnhardt Jr. by 31 points for the series lead. “We had the race won. We made up a straightaway on (Berrier) in 10 laps. We were just riding around all day, not wrecking and waiting for the finish.”

Matt has qualified 14th for the Galaxy Foods 300 to be run tomorrow afternoon. Matt’s practice times were 11th fastest in morning practice. There will be 31 cars in the field, 24 based on time and 7 provisionals. Since there will be no way to pit all 31 cars due to the size of the track, there will be mandatory stops on laps 100 and 200 for tires and fuel. This track is known as a wreck fest and there will be lapped cars very early in the race.

• The Busch cars get the weekend to themselves at Hickory Motor Speedway for the running of the Galaxy Foods 300. Qualifying on the .363 mile medium banked track starts Friday at 2:30 Eastern and the race is Saturday at 4pm televised live on TNN.

• Matt will be driving the #60 Roush Racing Winston Cup car at Talladega on April 26th. As of yet there is not a sponsor for this one race event. Matt will be testing the #17 Lycos Busch car and a Cup car at Talladega next week. Nascar.com.

• It was just announced on RPM Tonight that Roush Racing will be fielding a Winston Cup car for Matt Kenseth at Talladega Superspeedway on April 26th. Matt will be on RPM Tonight Thursday Evening to announce the event.

• Despite starting back in 24th place, Matt was able to quickly move the #17 Lycos Chevrolet through the field to a 8th place finish. It looked like Matt was destined for another top 5 finish late in the race as most of the leaders, including Matt, were taking green flag pit stops. A caution around lap 180 gave many of the cars on the tail end of the lead lap a break, putting most of the leaders who had just pitted a lap down. Matt was able to get his lap back after another wreck on the re-start, with just 8 laps to go.

• It was a great day for Lycos, The #17 had an in-car camera for the first time and there were several Lycos commercials during the race. Matt had a camera over his right shoulder and one on the rear bumper that caught a few nice wrecks.

• Matt remains in the championship hunt, presently in 4th place, 54 points behind Earnhardt Jr. The Lycos crew continues to have excellent pit stops, giving Matt very valuable track position.

• Matt will be starting 24th for tomorrow’s running of the Coca-Cola 300 at Texas Motor Speedway. Looks like there were some wrecks late in qualifying that could have effected times for Matt and some of the others. His Friday practice times were 12th and 5th fastest.

In a surprising move, Matt Kenseth has announced that he will be taking over driving duties in the Ford BIGFOOT Monster Truck. Matt will attempt to crush all the Busch cars that failed to finish at last weeks Bristol race in a special event at Texas Motor Speedway. “I feel like I have been going in circles my whole life and have finally decided to take on some bigger challenges” Matt will be busy working with the monster truck crew this week, finding a setup that will work well on Texas Motor Speedways 8 degree banked frontstretch.