Keselowski in, Stremme out of 12 for final 3

Despite wrecking his new teammate Kurt Busch (and most of the lead lap cars) on the final lap of last week's Amp Energy 500, Penske Racing has announced that Brad Keselowski will replace David Stremme in the No. 12 for the final three races of the season, according to FoxSports.com.

Our View In the last few weeks, he has been the inciter of several incidents in both the Nationwide and Cup series. Let's hope he calms down and learns to respect his fellow drivers in the coming events.

If he can show a little maturity, he could be one of the best values in the game.

Watkins Glen pit stalls

Jayski has posted the pit stall selections from the Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at the Glen.

Our View There are only two stalls with openings in front of them, but this is a long pit road, so the others are not bad. Jimmie Johnson selected the last pit leaving pit road and David Stremme has pit No. 38 at the end of an "island" of six stalls at pit entry.

Road Kill

More Cup newsbreakers

NASCAR to meet with R Gordon, Stremme

NASCAR plans to meet with Robby Gordon and David Stremme at Watkins Glen International to make certain there are no lingering effects from their confrontation last week, according to @BobPockrass.

Our View Gordon has a lot more to lose this week than Stremme and as the more emotional of the two drivers, he is probably going to be the key. Don't look for anger to spill over this week.

More Cup newsbreakers

Dodge withholds support

The bankruptcy proceedings of Dodge/Chrsyler have put factory support on hold for the moment, according to NASCAR.com.

Our View: In this economy, with sponsorship at a premium, this support was extremely important. This impacts Richard Petty Motorsports' four teams and Penske's three teams. The effect won't be immediate, but without some additional support, money will eventually be tight.

Dover Cup Results

A slow pit stop for four tires late in the race appeared to be the unmaking of the No. 48 team. Jimmie Johnson restarted the Autism Speaks 400 ninth on lap 368 and with only a few laps laps he needed to pass a lot of cars. He slipped past David Stremme when that driver crashed and then had to sweat out four more laps under caution—watching precious time slip away.

Once the green waved again on lap 375, he steadily climbed toward the lead and passed Tony Stewart on the high side with only three laps remaining.

Finishing second, Stewart took the point lead from Jeff Gordon, who had a miserable day and fell two laps off the pace to finish 26th.

At the beginning of the week, we said Roush-Fenway would be strong. Greg Biffle finished third with Matt Kenseth on his back bumper. Biffle and Carl Edwards got to banging in the middle stages of the race, but the No. 99 was able to hold onto a top-10 finish in seventh. Jamie McMurray also finished on the lead lap in 14th.

Joey Logano kept his streak of top-15s alive at three with a 15th. That was also his fifth straight top-20.

Results, with career avg. finish

Finish	Start	Driver	Laps	Laps Led	Status	Avg Fin
1	8	Jimmie Johnson	400	298	Running	10.40
2	31	Tony Stewart	400	6	Running	11.67
3	5	Greg Biffle	400	41	Running	10.64
4	14	Matt Kenseth	400	7	Running	13.62
5	19	Kurt Busch	400		Running	20.50
6	2	Kasey Kahne	400		Running	24.09
7	13	Carl Edwards	400	12	Running	7.60
8	11	Ryan Newman	400		Running	10.33
9	17	Casey Mears	400		Running	20.38
10	28	Mark Martin	400	1	Running	12.70
11	25	Clint Bowyer	400		Running	14.29
12	22	Dale Earnhardt Jr	400		Running	17.05
13	12	Sam Hornish Jr	400		Running	24.33
14	18	Jamie McMurray	400		Running	16.00
15	21	Joey Logano	400		Running	15.00
16	32	Jeff Burton	400		Running	16.32
17	35	Kevin Harvick	400		Running	18.35
18	1	David Reutimann	400	25	Running	20.00
19	4	Reed Sorenson	400	4	Running	23.14
20	20	Marcos Ambrose	400		Running	26.00
21	15	Martin Truex Jr	399		Running	12.71
22	33	Regan Smith	399		Running	26.67
23	6	Kyle Busch	399		Running	15.33
24	26	David Ragan	399		Running	23.00
25	9	Brian Vickers	399		Running	21.55
26	42	Jeff Gordon	398		Running	12.36
27	10	Elliott Sadler	398	2	Running	21.38
28	27	Bobby Labonte	397		Running	16.76
29	7	A J Allmendinger	396		Running	31.60
30	3	Juan Montoya	395	3	Running	24.40
31	30	David Stremme	370		Accident	33.00
32	36	Paul Menard	363		Running	24.00
33	40	Robby Gordon	282		Accident	23.88
34	41	John Andretti	253		Accident	25.64
35	29	Michael Waltrip	250		Engine	21.43
36	16	Denny Hamlin	232		Accident	25.57
37	23	Scott Speed	118		Engine	37.00
38	38	Joe Nemechek	67		Drive Shaft	25.00
39	39	Dave Blaney	66		Transmission	25.44
40	37	Mike Bliss	56		Electrical	33.20
41	34	Mike Skinner	51		Engine	22.25
42	43	Tony Raines	42		Accident	31.79
43	24	David Gilliland	38	1	Power Steering	26.33
44		Brad Keselowski	0		DNQ
45		Max Papis	0		DNQ
46		Derrike Cope	0		DNQ	25.04
47		David Starr	0		DNQ

Happy Hour stripes

Here is a partial list of the cars that received stripes in Darlington's Happy Hour:

In Happy Hour:

Sam Hornish Jr. scraped the wall and spun
David Stremme slammed the wall; into backup
Denny Hamlin got a light stripe
Max Papis striped his car
Greg Biffle striped his car
A.J. Allmendinger striped his car
Scott Speed got another stripe
Reed Sorenson changed an engine
Bobby Labonte striped his car
Marcos Ambrose big stripe (backup?)

Stremme scrapes wall in Happy Hour

David Stremme scraped the wall just past the one hour mark of Happy Hour and scratched the Star Trek decals off the right side of his Dodge.

Our View: Stremme was probably on a qualification practice run at the time, because his early speed was not great in terms of the fastest single lap. He was, however, 15th quickest at the time based on average speed with a 118.324 during 18 laps.