Road racers looking for 1st win today at Sonoma

(AP) ‘ When NASCAR heads to a road course, many teams hire ringers to better their chances at victory.
This weekend will be no different at Infineon Raceway, where the usual aces have landed rides for the first of two road course races on the Sprint Cup schedule.
Series regular Reed Sorenson was pulled from the No. 41 Dodge for Scott Pruett, while rookie of the year candidate Regan Smith gave up his seat in the No. 01 Chevrolet for Ron Fellows.
But in 19 previous races at Infineon, a ringer has yet to drive his way to Victory Lane. Irv Hoer was the first non-Cup regular to crack a top-10 with an eighth-place finish in 1990.
Robby Gordon, before he became a full-time Cup driver, scored finishes of ninth and second. Boris Said has the most top-10 finishes of non-Cup regulars at Infineon with four, and only three drivers have cracked the top five: Gordon (second), Pruett (third) and Terry Labonte, who was third in 2006 while not running a full schedule.