Carpentier Turns A Lot Of Heads With His Strong Run In NASCAR Debut
Aug 12, 2007
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Regardless of where he finishes tomorrow’s Centurion Boats at The Glen, the chance to compete at NASCAR’s highest level is an opportunity he could only have imagined last year. It was then, at New Hampshire International Speedway, that he held a news conference to essentially announce nothing but his interest in competing in the Busch Series. He didn’t get that chance until last week in Montreal, and now his ascension continues seven days later. Kris Johnson, SceneDaily
Aug 09, 2007
This weekend, Carpentier will be back in a Busch series car. But wait — as they say in infomercials — there’s more. He will also be in a Nextel Cup car.
“It’s like a dream, ” Carpentier said Tuesday.
Carpentier, who turns 36 next week, is a veteran open-wheel driver and has driven in the Champ Car and IndyCar series. In 2006, he moved to sports-car racing in the Rolex Grand American series.
His name surfaced several times about moving to NASCAR in recent years, but it wasn’t until Desrosiers hooked him up with Armando Fitz to drive in Saturday’s NAPA Auto Parts 200 that Carpentier got his shot. JIM PEDLEY, The Kansas City Star
Aug 07, 2007
The best thing to come out of the NASCAR Busch Series NAPA 200 at Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve—besides proving the naysayers wrong—was the coming out party for Patrick Carpentier as a NASCAR driver.
The former Champ Car World Series and IndyCar Series star delivered a performance that guaranteed him another look by NBS team owner Armando Fitz, who took a flyer that Carpentier—who had never raced a Busch car before the Montreal event—would bring the No. 22 Zellers Komatsu Dodge home with the fenders still attached. DEAN MCNULTY, OttawaSun
Aug 03, 2007
When you’re surrounded on all sides by people, by noise, by confusion, you take whatever quiet moments you can get, even if you have to create them yourself.
That’s the only way Patrick Carpentier is able to find peace during what can arguably be considered the most hectic professional weekend of his life. Paul Grant, ESPN.go.com
Aug 3
One thing you learn when spending a day with Patrick Carpentier is that if you want to keep up, you have to move fast.
That’s appropriate, of course, considering speed is the office he works in, door-to-door jostling cars being his cubicle walls. But finding out first-hand is an entirely different story.
Aug 03, 2007
With a whopping 852-point lead atop the Busch Series drivers standings, Carl Edwards could easily skip a couple of the season’s 13 remaining races and still win the championship.
And considering the Ford driver runs in both the NASCAR Nextel Cup and Busch Series, some might expect the 27-year-old native of Columbia, Mo., to look for opportunities to relax during his 71-race schedule.
Think again.
Aug 03, 2007
There was a lot of action at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve today for the free practice session where Patrick Carpentier scored the fastest lap with a time of 103.898 ahead of Nascar Bush stars like Scott Pruett (second at 104.091, Boris Said was third in front of Ron Fellows.
Aug 03, 2007
“What amazes me is the power, the acceleration for a car that heavy,” Carpentier said. “You’re coming down the straightaway down the back and it keeps going, it keeps accelerating. It reminds me of the Indy cars of that time, when we had a lot of power. I can only imagine a Nextel Cup car, which even has more power than this one.”
