Jamie McMurray News

LAP 107: Top five - Tony Stewart, Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Kurt Busch, Jeff Burton.

That's it, close your eyes now, relax, let the hypnotist take over. Now repeat after me.

Jamie McMurray could hardly wait to get the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season going.

CAUTION 2 - Laps 20: 17th-place Jamie McMurray hits the wall in Turn 4 - got punted by Kevin Harvick into the wall.

The Sprint Cup visits Loudon, N.H., this Sunday for the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 , which means it's time for our weekly smash-up flashback.

The only engine noise at Lebanon I-44 Speedway this season is the muffled sound of traffic from the nearby highway.

The two Saturday sessions were going just fine. Reed Sorenson, Robby Gordon and Jamie McMurray got into the wall a little, but there were no major incidents.

Sam Hornish Jr. And Jamie McMurray Finished First and Second to Qualify for Main 2009 NASCAR All-Star Race The NASCAR Sprint Showdown set up a great day of racing in hopes of deciding which two racers would make it on to the night's All-Star event.

Marcos Ambrose took the checkered flag with his No. 47 KingsfordA Charcoal Toyota in 10th-place Saturday night in the NASCAR Sprint Showdown at Lowea TMs Motor Speedway.

Sam Hornish Jr. and Jamie McMurray finished first and second in Saturday's Sprint Showdown at Lowe's Motor Speedway to earn the two transfer positions into the Sprint All-Star Race to follow.

Hornish wins Showdown to move into All-Star race Eds: APNewsNow. AP Photo NCBJ102 By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CONCORD, N.C. Sam Hornish Jr.

Sprint has announced the names of the top 10 drivers leading the Sprint Fan Vote, the competition that will put the final competitor not already qualified into Saturday night's NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.

And the 14th caution is for ... the Biff. Greg Biffle , who has dominated so much of the evening, crashes with 72 laps to go.

Greg Biffle has an average running position of 7.9 in the last four races at Darlington.

JAMIE MCMURRAY a ' No. 26 Crown Royal Ford Fusion a ' "It would be more fun to get to practice, but I think the impound rule they have here is wonderful because qualifying is so irrelevant that it certainly saves the teams a lot of work.

What should the championship car owner do? David Caraviello: It's just an odd situation.

Roush-Fenway Racing must drop a team at the end of this season to meet NASCAR's four-car mandate, but team owner Jack Roush is adamant he has not decided how he'll meet the cap.

Co-owner Jack Roush says that no decision has been made concerning which Roush Fenway Racing team will leave his organization in 2010.

Jamie McMurray drives the #26 Ford for Roush Fenway Racing, which must pare its roster from five to four teams, per NASCAR mandate, at the end of the season.

My plane literally rocked as high winds buffeted it en route and as we approached Dallas today, but we made it and here's a look at this weekend's Cup race at Texas for you.