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导出博客文章KANSAS CITY, Kan. Wholesale Nike KD Shoes Online . -- Jimmie Johnson described a less-than-ideal working relationship between Hendrick Motorsports and Stewart-Haas Racing on Friday, prompting his team general manager to clarify how the teams shared information.Stewart-Haas has gotten its Chevrolet engines and chassis from Hendrick Motorsports since it began in 2009, but that relationship is poised to end. Stewart-Haas announced this year it would be switching to Roush Yates Engines, which power Ford teams, for next season.Johnson was asked before practice for Sundays Sprint Cup race at Kansas whether he would like his team to find another partner to replace Stewart-Haas racing next season.Just to be selfishly speaking, Johnson said, we didnt get their data. We didnt share their data. They had ours. So it was a fantastic situation for them. They had our best stuff and then they have a huge engineering staff and they can take Hendricks best equipment and refine it.That counts as inflammatory stuff in the closely knit NASCAR garage.It also prompted Hendrick Motorsports general manager Doug Duchardt to climb out of Johnsons hauler a few hours later and clarify the relationship. The teams did share information with each other before Stewart-Haas announced its decision to leave, at which point communication was largely cut off.That is the way it worked from the time I have been at Hendrick Motorsports, Duchardt said. We received information from Stewart-Haas when we worked with them. When they made their announcement with Ford that changed things. But the bottom line is that as partners we exchanged data.Hendrick Motorsports is also providing Stewart-Haas with equipment through the end of the season, and that means supporting Chase contenders Kurt Busch and Kevin Harvick.Anything that Stewart-Haas has asked us to build for them this year, we have built, Duchardt said, and we have built it to their specifications.Johnson won the opening race in the round of 12 of the Chase last weekend at Charlotte, putting Busch, Harvick and the other drivers under pressure at Kansas. The unpredictable Talladega looms before the field of contenders is pared to eight.As for a relationship with another team, Johnson remains unconvinced that it is beneficial.We would always like to have some people running our engines and trying to do durability stuff on new motors that are coming out. I would imagine having a couple of cars out there we will always have that, Johnson said, but a team at that high of caliber again? I believe we would look really hard before we made that decision again. Cheap KD Shoes . But the quarterback hopes to stay involved in football after officially calling it quits Tuesday. "Id love to look at those opportunities as they arise," Pierce said in an interview from his Winnipeg eatery. Discount KD Shoes .C. United of Major League Soccer. United chose the defender in the second round of the 2013 MLS re-entry draft. http://www.kdcheap.com/ . -- The goal posts lying flat on the field, Arizonas fans lingered on the field, congregating around the locker room entrance nearly 30 minutes after rushing out of the stands.New Zealand finished the Super 10s of the World T20 unbeaten after thrashing Bangladesh by 75 runs in Kolkata, a win that ensures top spot in Group 2. Ish Sodhi (3-21) and Grant Elliott (3-12) took three wickets apiece as Bangladesh crumbled to 70 all out in 15.3 overs, chasing 146 to earn a consolation win.Kane Williamson top-scored for New Zealand with 42 from 32 balls - including five fours and one six - on a surface many batsmen struggled on.Mustafizur Rahman took tournament-best figures of 5-22, four of his wickets bowled, including two in New Zealands final over to see him on a hat-trick - but Mitchell McClenaghan blasted that ball for six to push the Black Caps score up to 145-8 with the final ball.Having already secured a semi-final spot with wins over India, Australia and Pakistan in their first three games, New Zealand made two changes, with Nathan McCullum and Henry Nicholls replacing the rested Adam Milne and Martin Guptill.Nicholls struggled, scoring only seven before becoming Mustafizurs first victim. He was replaced by Colin Munro, who also found the going tough early on in his innings, before eventually tallying 35 from 33 balls.Williamson batted nicely at the other end, accounting for 42 of New Zealands first 57 runs before he too was bowled by Mustafiizur. Cheap KD Shoes Free Shipping. Williamson plays a shot as wicketkeeper Sarfaraz Ahmed (left) looks on Just when Munro was warming up, lofting Al-Amin Hossain (2-27) into the stands for his second six, he had his middle stump removed later in the same over.Ross Taylor added a useful 28 off 24 balls, but wickets continued to fall around him, with no other batsman managing double-figures.Bangladeshs reply started badly with the in-form Tamim Iqbal run out for three in the second over, and while Mohammad Mithun and Sabbir Rahman struck fours in Mitchell Santners fifth over, thats about as good as it would get for the Tigers.They wouldnt manage another boundary for another nine overs, losing nine wickets for 41 runs, with Sodhi and Elliott particularly devastating with the ball.The only thing that delayed New Zealands charge to victory was a floodlight failure at the ground that brought the players off briefly midway through Bangladeshs innings.Watch highlights of New Zealands win over Bangladesh at 6pm on Sky Sports 2. 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