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Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:53 pm EDT

Fellows will drive for DEI at Sonoma

By Joe Zedalis

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One of NASCAR's top road-racing drivers, Ron Fellows, will pilot the No. 01 Dale Earnhardt Inc. Chevrolet on Sunday at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif.

Fellows, who has two career runner-up finishes in Sprint Cup road races, will sub for rookie driver Regan Smith, who is 30th in points.

"Our goal for Regan remains winning the Rookie of the Year title and building momentum that we hope will carry us into 2009," DEI vice president John Story said. "Ron has a successful history with DEI, and he certainly knows his way around Infineon. The opportunity to capitalize on his experience and abilities against some of the other road-course experts is our objective."

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  1. Gill Billy
    1. Posted by Gill Billy Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:13 pm EDT

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    4,359th
  2. namthgiw
    2. Posted by namthgiw Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:33 pm EDT

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    Who?
  3. MarKn
    3. Posted by MarKn Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:08 pm EDT

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    who cares
  4. Carol
    4. Posted by Carol Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:19 pm EDT

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    markn we can always count on you to come up with something uplifting.
  5. MarKn
    5. Posted by MarKn Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:08 pm EDT

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    He shows up every year and never ends up doing anything. Said is the only road racing ace that actually runs good, and not just road racing also at Daytona.
  6. scott
    6. Posted by scott Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:47 pm EDT

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    Ron Fellows has run in fewer CUP races than Boris Said, yet he has more Top 5 finishes than Said.Said has raced in 30 CUP races and only has 2 Top5s. Fellows has raced in only 17 CUP races with 3 Top 5s. Fellows has also led more laps in the fewer races he's run then Said has..
  7. lgr
    7. Posted by lgr Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:06 pm EDT

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    UHHHGGGG. more ringer hype. if the cup guys are not given a chance to run the road races, guess what, they wont get experience running road races. thats why i personally hate the ringers.
  8. Rudy88
    8. Posted by Rudy88 Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:16 pm EDT

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    lgr He's not really a ringer, he's a NASCAR driver. What wrong wrong with putting the best man for the job in the car. If you own a business and you have 2 men working for you and one is better at a particular job than the other, which one would you use. Personally, I would pick the one that is the most qualified and I wouldn't call that using a ringer. I think that getting experience is great, but when you are going for the win, you use the experienced driver.
  9. Carol
    9. Posted by Carol Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:19 pm EDT

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    If I had Regan Smith and Ron Fellows in my stable, I'd sure put Ron in the car for Sonoma! ; ) But it will be nice to see Boris Said run a race. I was really enjoying seeing him run like, every week, and getting interviews and all, only not so much lately.
  10. lgr
    10. Posted by lgr Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:06 pm EDT

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    ok thats the other side of the argument, i see the logic there. especially for teams with little to lose. But if they say smith is running for rookie of the year, wouldnt he pick up some points for that even if he had a bad finish?
  11. MarKn
    11. Posted by MarKn Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:08 pm EDT

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    #9 Rudy if you were Jr. would you want Terry coming in to sub for you since Terry is better at road racing.
    How are you going to get better without doing it under race conditions
  12. Carol
    12. Posted by Carol Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:19 pm EDT

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    I'm not sure how the Rookie of the Year points work, but I don't think a bad finish would be helpful in that regard. Something tells me that stepping out of the car for a race won't hurt him though.
  13. MarKn
    13. Posted by MarKn Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:08 pm EDT

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    #7 Said avg. finish is 24.0 to Fellows 25.4
  14. bodymarshallbill
    14. Posted by bodymarshallbill Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:11 pm EDT

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    I hope Montoya gets in someone's face again this year at a road race and gets his helmet handed to him ...with his HEAD STILL IN IT!
  15. scott
    15. Posted by scott Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:47 pm EDT

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    Fellows finishes better than Said again. Thanks to Harvick, his finish wasn't better.
    As for Robby Gordon. I am tired of hearing about what a great road racer he is at Infineon. With the exception of one win with RCR, he consistantly finishes worse than he starts. Instead of giving him all this raod racing credit, its time the announces start calling him the great Pretender.

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