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LONG POND, Pa. | Carl Edwards got more face time on TV than he would have liked at the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Pocono.
Edwards shed his helmet and took a turn in the broadcast booth when his No. 99 Ford was forced out with a broken valve in his engine. He returned for one final lap and a 37th-place finish in Sunday's race.
His Sprint Cup points lead was sliced from 40 to six over five-time champion Jimmie Johnson. That's not a huge deal because the points are reset once the Chase for the championship starts.
"What good is the points lead if you don't use it?" Edwards said. "We are using it today and we're going to need every bit we can to get out of here with the lead today."
His race ended before 60 laps were up, forcing him to put the No. 99 in reverse over a chuck of pit road before bringing it back to the garage. Edwards joined TNT in the broadcast booth, cracked jokes, and showed off a broken part.
"We were running really well and I was babying the engine a little bit and not shifting too much," Edwards said. "It's just one of those things. Sometimes things break."
harvick, busch again get hotheaded
Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch might have a few more rounds left in their feud.
Harvick and Busch were fined $25,000 apiece, and NASCAR put them on probation for their actions on pit road at Darlington. They were summoned separately to the NASCAR hauler for a meeting with top officials and told to play nice.
They needed another scolding at Pocono.
It started early when they were fighting for position on the track. Harvick forced Busch down the track and NASCAR quickly radioed to each crew for the drivers to cool it.
"There were a couple of times where I just had to back off and wait and get back to him and try and pass him again," Busch said. "Maybe it shows his character and who he is and how he feels he needs to race on the racetrack. It's not my fight. He's trying to turn it into one."
Probation ended at Pocono. Watch out for some possible fireworks next week at Michigan.
earnhardt adds tohis winless streak
Dale Earnhardt Jr. stretched his winless streak to 107 races. His streak of solid races in a bounce-back season is also intact.
Earnhardt finished sixth at Pocono Raceway on Sunday. He was second last week at Kansas and seventh the race before that at Charlotte. He's third in the points standings.
"I'm really happy to be running well and being up front," Earnhardt said. "It's surely a difference from the last couple of years, so I feel fortunate and feel lucky to be able to compete."
Maybe his win comes next week at Michigan. His last Cup victory came there on June 15, 2008.
- The Associated Press
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