Posted by Chad on 7/18/2007, 7:36 am, in reply to "Milwaukee Journal Article" Kenseth entered the night as a favorite of the home-state crowd and as a favorite to win the race based on his recent previous performances at Slinger. He was making progress from 11th but his car suddenly began spewing oil, touching off a chain-reaction crash behind him. His crew looked the car over and made a quick attempt to fix it before giving up. "It lost all its oil, and so the engine needs to be checked out anyway," Kenseth said. "We could have got it fixed and got out there maybe 20 minutes later, but to be 80 laps down and take a chance is kind of dumb. These motors are too expensive to do that." Kenseth, who won when he was a short-track regular in 1994 and again 2002 as a NASCAR star, entered the night in a position to tie Trickle and the late Joe Shear with a record four victories. "We just got stuck behind some cars and got shuffled to the back pretty much before we got going," Kenseth said. "But we were starting to run better and move our way to the front, and I thought we could have had a good finish, anyway." Busch rocketed through the field from 12th to first in 25 laps. But just as quickly he dropped while pitting four times. "We had a flat left rear, left front and right front," Busch said. "Just running over stuff, I guess. Nobody else is having a problem but us." An unconventional setup in his car obviously worked well over the short run, and he left convinced that it would have held up for the full 250. "This thing was just bad fast, but you've got to finish," Busch said. "I got the lead and I was running 70%."
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Kyle Busch, NASCAR's top free agent, managed to lead, cut three tires and bend the rear suspension on his car by hitting the wall in a skirmish with Trickle.
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