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Larry Hollenbeck
Lawrence "Larry" Hollenbeck (April 9, 1949 – October 8, 2020) was a professional stock car racing driver residing in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he designed, built and leased residential and commercial properties for 35 years. He had five Busch Series starts to his credit and fielded the #71 S.W.A.T. Fitness Chevy in the ARCA RE/MAX Series. Racing career Hollenbeck’s race career began at the age of 18 at the local drag strip. He had also raced in snowmobiles, and spent a decade racing APBA-sanctioned powerboats offshore, and 3 years at oval tracks racing go-carts. His stock car career began at a short track in Florida, then he moved on to the ARCA series. In his first race with ARCA he finished in the top 10 at Winchester Speedway in 2001. In 2002, Hollenbeck received his NASCAR Busch license. Hollenbeck ran his first NASCAR Busch series race in Talladega Superspeedway, Talladega on April 5, 2003, where he finished 15th. In 2004 and 2005 Hollenbeck ran in select Busch rac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Kalamazoo ( ) is a city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. At the 2010 census, Kalamazoo had a population of 74,262. Kalamazoo is the major city of the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 335,340 in 2015. Kalamazoo is equidistant from Chicago and Detroit, being about 140 miles (225 kilometers) away from both. One of Kalamazoo's most notable features is the Kalamazoo Mall, an outdoor pedestrian shopping mall. The city created the mall in 1959 by closing part of Burdick Street to auto traffic, although two of the mall's four blocks have been reopened to auto traffic since 1999. Kalamazoo is home to Western Michigan University, a large public university, Kalamazoo College, a private liberal arts college, and Kalamazoo Valley Community College, a two-year community college. Name origin Originally known as Bronson (after founder Titus Bronson) in the township of Arcadia, the na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kalamazoo Gazette
The ''Kalamazoo Gazette'' is the daily newspaper in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and is part of MLive Media Group, Michigan's largest local media organization. ''The Gazette'' publishes seven days a week. Papers are available for home delivery on Thursday and Sunday. History Originally founded in 1833 by John D. Defrees as the ''Michigan Statesman and St. Joseph Chronicle'', the paper's name was shortened to the ''Michigan Statesman'' after it was purchased by Henry Gilbert. The paper became the ''Kalamazoo Gazette'' in 1837. In April 2010, the ''Gazette'' announced it would pay $1,525,000 to the City of Kalamazoo to avoid lawsuits seeking $4 million in previously awarded tax breaks related to the 2002 expansion of their downtown Kalamazoo printing facility. The 2002 expansion cost the ''Gazette'' $33 million, including $20 million in new equipment. The breaks were awarded on the condition that the ''Gazette'' maintain 175 jobs related to the expansion until 2014. On November 2, 2011, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Advance Auto Parts 500
The 2004 Advance Auto Parts 500 was the eighth stock car race of the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. It was held on April 18, 2004, at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia before a crowd of 91,000. The 500-lap race was won by Rusty Wallace of the Penske-Jasper Racing team after he started from a seventeenth position; It was Wallace's fifty-fifth and final victory of his career. Bobby Labonte finished second and Dale Earnhardt Jr. came in third. Report Background Martinsville Speedway is one of five short tracks to hold NASCAR races; the others are Richmond International Raceway, Dover International Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, and Phoenix International Raceway. The standard track at Martinsville Speedway is a four-turn, oval. Its turns are banked at eleven degrees, and neither the front stretch (the location of the finish line) nor the backstretch is banked. Before the race Kurt Busch led the Drivers' Championship with 1,032 points, nineteen ahead of Matt Kens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Samsung/Radio Shack 500
The 2004 Samsung/Radio Shock 500 was the seventh stock car race of the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season and the eighth iteration of the event. The race was held on Sunday, April 4, 2004, before a crowd of 216,000 in Fort Worth, Texas at Texas Motor Speedway, a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) permanent tri-oval shaped racetrack. The race took the scheduled 334 laps to complete. At race's end, Elliott Sadler of Robert Yates Racing would win in a photo finish against Kasey Kahne of Evernham Motorsports to win his second career NASCAR Nextel Cup Series win and his first win of the season. Sadler would win by 0.028 seconds over Kahne. To fill out the podium, Jeff Gordon of Hendrick Motorsports would finish third. Background Texas Motor Speedway is a speedway located in the northernmost portion of the U.S. city of Fort Worth, Texas – the portion located in Denton County, Texas. The track measures 1.5 miles (2.4 km) around and is banked 24 degrees in the turns, and is of the oval de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Food City 500
The 2004 Food City 500 was the sixth stock car race of the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season and the 44th iteration of the event. The race was held on Sunday, March 28, 2004, before a crowd of 160,000 in Bristol, Tennessee at Bristol Motor Speedway, a 0.533 miles (0.858 km) permanent oval-shaped racetrack. The race took the scheduled 500 laps to complete. Kurt Busch of Roush Racing would hold off the field on the final restart with two to go to win his fifth career NASCAR Nextel Cup Series win of his career and his first of the season. To fill out the podium, Rusty Wallace of Penske-Jasper Racing and Kevin Harvick of Richard Childress Racing would finish second and third, respectively. Background The Bristol Motor Speedway, formerly known as Bristol International Raceway and Bristol Raceway, is a NASCAR short track venue located in Bristol, Tennessee. Constructed in 1960, it held its first NASCAR race on July 30, 1961. Despite its short length, Bristol is among the most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400
The 2004 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 was the 5th stock car race of the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season and the 49th iteration of the event. The race was held before a crowd of 56,000 on March 21, 2004 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. Jimmie Johnson of Hendrick Motorsports would win the race, leading 69 laps. Bobby Labonte of Joe Gibbs Racing and Ryan Newman of Penske-Jasper Racing would take 2nd and 3rd, respectively. The race would be the last spring Darlington race until 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic forced NASCAR to race at Darlington in the spring, as the Ferko lawsuit would move the second race that Darlington originally had, the Southern 500, to Texas Motor Speedway for a promised second date to Texas. The Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 would therefore move to the fall and be lengthened to 500 miles, making the race the new Southern 500. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic would make NASCAR race once again at Darlington in the spring, and in 2021 after rekin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Golden Corral 500
The 2004 Golden Corral 500 was the 4th race of the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season, held at Atlanta Motor Speedway on March 14, 2004. The race was won by Dale Earnhardt Jr., who led 55 laps that day. Ryan Newman of Penske Racing would win the pole, while Tony Stewart of Joe Gibbs Racing would lead the most laps with 127 laps led. 125,000 were in attendance for the race. Entry list Qualifying Ryan Newman would win the pole with a 28.640. Kirk Shelmerdine would qualify for his first ever NASCAR Cup Series race. Results References External links 2004 Golden Corral 500 qualifying {{2004 Nextel Cup [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400
The 2004 UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 was a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race held on March 7, 2004, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada. Contested at 267 laps on the speedway, it was the 3rd race of the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season. Matt Kenseth of Roush Racing won the race. This marks the debut of Kyle Busch in the Cup Series. Entry list * (W) denotes past winner of the race (in some iteration, has been run since 1998). * (R) denotes rookie driver. * (i) denotes driver who are ineligible for series driver points. Larry Gunselman failed to qualify while John Andretti, Larry Foyt, and Andy Hillenburg all withdrew. Qualifying 1. Kasey Kahne *#9 Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge Evernham Motorsports 174.904 mph 2. Kurt Busch #97 IRWIN Industrial Tools Ford Roush Racing 174.548 mph 3. Brian Vickers * #25 GMAC Financial Services Chevrolet Hendrick Motorsports 174.537 mph 4. Jamie McMurray #42 Texaco Havoline Dodge Chip Ganassi Racing 174.436 mph 5. Ry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Subway 400
The 2004 Subway 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Nextel Cup Series race held on February 22, 2004, at North Carolina Speedway in Richmond County, North Carolina, Richmond County, North Carolina. The race was the second of the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season. Ryan Newman (racing driver), Ryan Newman of Penske Racing won the pole position, while Matt Kenseth of Roush Racing won the race. The race was the final Cup race at the track due to poor attendance, as the race date was later given to Phoenix International Raceway; only 50,000 were in attendance at the 60,113 facility. The other Cup race at the track, the Pop Secret Microwave Popcorn 400, had been replaced by Auto Club Speedway, California Speedway after 2003. Entry list Qualifying Ryan Newman, 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, 2003's pole leader with 11, won the pole at Rockingham with a lap speed of and a lap time of 23.398 seconds. Dodges were the top four fastest, with Newman, Jamie McMurray (), Kasey Kahne () a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Daytona 500
The 2004 Daytona 500, the 46th running of the event was the first race of the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup season. It was a race held on February 15, 2004, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. The race was televised by NBC, with Allen Bestwick, 1975 race winner Benny Parsons, and Wally Dallenbach Jr. calling the action for the second time after the 2002 race. It was the first NASCAR Nextel Cup race to air in high definition. Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the race, making this his first Daytona 500 victory exactly six years to the day after his father Dale Earnhardt, Sr. won his first and only Daytona 500 in the 1998 race. Tony Stewart finished second and rookie Scott Wimmer finished third. Qualifying and Gatorade 125's Greg Biffle won his first career Cup Series pole, but an engine change during Speedweeks forced him to go the rear of the field. The inside column of cars all moved up one row, promoting Dale Earnhardt Jr., who had won the first Gatorade 125, to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chevrolet
Chevrolet ( ), colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM). Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941) and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant (1861–1947) started the company on November 3, 1911 as the Chevrolet Motor Car Company. Durant used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a controlling stake in General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2, 1918, and propelled himself back to the GM presidency. After Durant's second ousting in 1919, Alfred Sloan, with his maxim "a car for every purse and purpose", would pick the Chevrolet brand to become the volume leader in the General Motors family, selling mainstream vehicles to compete with Henry Ford's Model T in 1919 and overtaking Ford as the best-selling car in the United States by 1929 with the Chevrolet International. Chevrolet-branded vehicles are sold in most autom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollenbeck Motorsports
Hollenbeck may refer to: Places in the United States * Hollenbeck Middle School, Los Angeles, California *Hollenbeck Park, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California *LAPD Hollenbeck Division, part of Los Angeles Police Department, California * Hollenbeck Hall, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wapello County, Iowa Wapello County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,437. The county seat is Ottumwa. The county was formed on February 17, 1843, and named for Wapello, a Meskwaki chief. Wapello County ... Other uses * Hollenbeck (surname) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
