Notebook: Montoya has harsh words after early crash
Feb 28, 2010 Jamie McMurray, Jeff Gordon, Juan Pablo Montoya, Matt Kenseth, NASCAR News, Sprint Cup Series
LAS VEGAS—A Lap 93 accident involving teammates Jamie McMurray and Juan Pablo Montoya took some of the blush off the rose at Earnhardt Ganassi Racing.
McMurray’s No. 1 Chevrolet was running inside Montoya’s No. 42 as the cars sped through Turn 3 in Sunday’s Shelby American at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. McMurray’s Chevy twitched slightly, tapped [...]
Big Mac teams up with Jamie Mac in Cup Series
Feb 25, 2010 Jamie McMurray
LAS VEGAS—How good is Jamie McMurray? After he won the Daytona 500, he slipped in a sponsor reference without fans and media even realizing it.
On national television following the win in NASCAR’s season-opening Sprint Cup Series race, McMurray was talking about what he and his wife did after his win last November at Talladega Superspeedway [...]
McMurray maintains torrid pace with pole run at Fontana
Feb 19, 2010 Jamie McMurray
FONTANA, Calif. — The wave of success Jamie McMurray rode from coast to coast hasn’t broken yet.
Fresh from his dramatic victory in last Sunday’s Daytona 500, McMurray put his No. 1 Chevrolet on the pole during Friday’s qualifying session at Auto Club Speedway.
With a lap at 183.744 mph (39.185 seconds), McMurray edged Earnhardt Ganassi Racing [...]
Fantasy Pick’Em: 2010 Auto Club 500
Feb 17, 2010 Auto Club Speedway, David Ragan, Fantasy, Jamie McMurray, Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth
One race down, 35 to go, as the Sprint Cup Series heads to Auto Club Speedway for the Auto Club 500. Jamie McMurray will look to repeat Matt Kenseth’s 2009 feat of sweeping the first two races of the season, at a track where he has an average finish of 16.4. California is McMurray’s fifth [...]
McMurray content as career comes full circle
Feb 17, 2010 Jamie McMurray
In rare cases, you can go home again.
And as with the case of Jamie McMurray, sometimes you have to leave home before you can realize that you want to go back.
McMurray’s Daytona 500 victory on Sunday is the most obvious manifestation of his reunion with car owner Chip Ganassi. Not so obvious are the years [...]
So you won the Daytona 500 … What have you done lately?
Feb 15, 2010 Dale Earnhardt Jr, Jamie McMurray
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Forget everything you just saw.
On Sunday, Jamie McMurray won a Daytona 500 that gave fans some of the most dramatic, edge-of-the-seat action in the history of the Great American Race—when the cars weren’t parked on pit road.
The race also featured two long, tedious stoppages while track workers attempted—hardly with unqualified success—to repair a [...]
Can McMurray, Ganassi Sustain Daytona Success?
Feb 15, 2010 Dale Earnhardt Jr, Daytona International Speedway, Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing, Jamie McMurray, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Juan Pablo Montoya, Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr, Michael Waltrip, Ryan Newman, Sterling Marlin
Almost nobody expected Jamie McMurray to win the 2010 Daytona 500. It was his first race with Earnhardt Ganassi Racing after four lackluster years as the fifth driver at Roush Fenway Racing, and nobody knew whether or not the combination would work out.
Chip Ganassi was the first owner to give McMurray a shot in Cup, [...]
