Kasey Kahne
- Height: 5-8
- Weight: 150
- Born: Apr 10, 1980, Enumclaw, WA
News and Notes
Nov 18
This week: Kahne, 65 points out of ninth place and 44 ahead of 11th-place Carl Edwards, has no wins, one top-five finish and two top-10s in five Homestead starts. He was sixth last year after finishing 24th in 2007. "I've always liked Homestead," Kahne said. "That's where I won my first Nationwide race. I've run well there in a Cup car. Every year, we seem to qualify good there. It's a different track. The banking -- you go into turn 1 and it is real flat, and you hit the banking and you've already started turning. It's kind of similar in (turn) 3 and off of (turn) 4. It flattens out before the exit of the corner, so it's different. Your car changes a lot. But it's a pretty neat track. I like racing there. I like trying to close the year out strong. We've been able to do that a couple of times there. I made a couple of mistakes there, but hopefully we'll close out the year strong and finish top 10 in points. That's all that we can shoot for."
Last week: Kahne is coming off a 15th-place finish. "Overall, it was a pretty good day for our Dodge," Kahne said. "Track position was so important today, and we just couldn't get the car balanced like we needed to stay up front with the leaders as the race wore on. We were running inside the top 10 for nearly 150 laps and then we just fought a front-end issue that we couldn't fix. At one point in the race, I felt like I could feel every crack in the race track, and with such long green flag runs today, if your car wasn't perfect, you just didn't have time under yellow-flag stops to make any adjustments that you needed."
Etc.: Richard Petty Motorsports will be racing Fords next year, which means Kahne will be driving something other than a Dodge for the first time in his Cup career. Those are among the many things that Kahne has to consider for 2010 with so many layoffs happening at RPM as they prepare for a merger with Yates Racing. "From the sounds of it, talking to all the guys, everybody wants to stick together," Kahne said of his team.
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