AMBROSE WATCH

mlittle · Post by **mlittle** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:03 am

They just wrapped up Busch Series qualifying earlier this afternoon for the season-opening Orbitz 300 at Daytona International Speedway and leading the field to green Saturday afternoon will be Aric Amirola, who set the fastest time midway through qual. w/a time of 48.982 sec(183.741 mph); as for Marcos Ambrose, who makes his Busch Series debut tomorrow, it wasn't so good, as he'll start in 40th place, setting a time of 49.788 sec(180.766 mph)...........good luck to everyone Saturday!

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:28 am

mlittle wrote:They just wrapped up Busch Series qualifying earlier this afternoon for the season-opening Orbitz 300 at Daytona International Speedway and leading the field to green Saturday afternoon will be Aric Amirola, who set the fastest time midway through qual. w/a time of 48.982 sec(183.741 mph); as for Marcos Ambrose, who makes his Busch Series debut tomorrow, it wasn't so good, as he'll start in 40th place, setting a time of 49.788 sec(180.766 mph)...........good luck to everyone Saturday!

Marcus is quoted here as saying, " I dont want to be up front.........just want to stay away from the carnage........come home strong in the second half.........these boys have a lot of tricks I dont know yet............let 'em go practice on each other"......I read that to mean if he stuck the thing on pole he would be in the wall on lap 1

mlittle · Post by **mlittle** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:00 am

Julian Mayo wrote:
mlittle wrote:They just wrapped up Busch Series qualifying earlier this afternoon for the season-opening Orbitz 300 at Daytona International Speedway and leading the field to green Saturday afternoon will be Aric Amirola, who set the fastest time midway through qual. w/a time of 48.982 sec(183.741 mph); as for Marcos Ambrose, who makes his Busch Series debut tomorrow, it wasn't so good, as he'll start in 40th place, setting a time of 49.788 sec(180.766 mph)...........good luck to everyone Saturday!
Marcus is quoted here as saying, " I dont want to be up front.........just want to stay away from the carnage........come home strong in the second half.........these boys have a lot of tricks I dont know yet............let 'em go practice on each other"......I read that to mean if he stuck the thing on pole he would be in the wall on lap 1

BTW, Ambrose made it through the race, finishing on the lead lap in 17th place. Next stop..........Fontana and the 2-mile wicked-fast California Speedway.

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:14 am

On the lead lap is good......good driving, good pit crew

mlittle · Post by **mlittle** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:23 am

Julian Mayo wrote:On the lead lap is good......good driving, good pit crew

Well, he did finish ahead of ol' Juan Pablo.....

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:41 am

One of our top drivers, Craig Lowndes, forecast that once Ambrose had a handle on things, he would flog JPM

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:20 pm

Marcos actually qualified the thing in race trim, and the plan was to get owner points, to guarantee a start after the fifth race (by being inside the top 35 in the points), he plans to open it up a tad at California, then have a red hot go at the Mexico road course.

mlittle · Post by **mlittle** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:34 pm

Busch Series practice was earlier today and Ambrose was 13th-fastest at 177.708 mph(40.516 sec)...........the interesting irony about this week's race is that, for only the fifth time since Daytona 2001, the field will not be at 43 cars but only will be 41 cars strong........

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:42 pm

GO AMBOSE GO

mlittle · Post by **mlittle** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:19 am

Julian Mayo wrote:GO AMBOSE GO

He's going to have to work for it this evening; he spun and crashed during qualifying, meaning that he'll get to ride shotgun on the field for tonight's race........

mlittle · Post by **mlittle** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:22 am

mlittle wrote:
Julian Mayo wrote:GO AMBOSE GO
He's going to have to work for it this evening; he spun and crashed during qualifying, meaning that he'll get to ride shotgun on the field for tonight's race........

Started 41st; finished 25th.......next stop, south of the border at Hermanos Rodriguez.....

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:20 am

Thanks for the info Mfer

mlittle · Post by **mlittle** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:33 am

Final practice for Sunday's Telcel-Motorola 200 at Hermanos Rodriguez ended late this afternoon and Juan Pablo Montoya topped the practice charts with a time of 1:27.011 sec(104.108 mph); Ambrose was 6th-quickest at 1:28.630 sec(102.277 mph)......

mlittle · Post by **mlittle** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:04 am

Ambrose starts 12th in Sunday's race

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:00 am

How did he go ?