Following the victory, Busch only needs wins at Charlotte and Pocono to complete the 23-track Sprint Cup circuit. Busch said that is the type of “challenge” which he looks forward to every race.
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“I just got loose”.
Last year, he led 131 laps in two straight races aboard the Chevy entry of Furniture Row Racing and lost both. From there on, all he had to do was hold off Kevin Harvick and his brother Kurt Busch, who finished second and third respectively.
Under the caution, most of the teams made their first pit stops of the race, and while most of the teams had uneventful pit stops, Jamie McMurray was black flagged shortly after the restart for an unapproved body adjustment. Truex led for 172 if the race’s 267 laps, but wound up finishing 14.
“I thought we were done with that (rivalry), but maybe we aren’t”, Kenseth said after the Talladega race. “I was just going for it there”. “From where the vehicle was yesterday, to change pretty much everything on the auto and have it be that competitive on the racetrack today says a lot about our team”, said. Here’s some drivers we like for this race. “Went around (turns) one and two and I was like, ‘Wheel’s loose.’ I kept telling myself that maybe it’s just shaking because it has tape on it or something stupid”.
Pre-race activities at the Go Bowling 400 on Saturday night at the Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, Kan. Harvick still leads the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series point standings by four points over Kyle Busch. Harvick is four points ahead of Busch and 23 points up on Carl Edwards, who sits in third place. A lug nut got hung up between the wheel and hub, which forced him back into the pits and momentarily cost him a lap to the leaders.
Stevens opted to keep Busch on the track under the fifth caution on lap 233, after Ricky Stenhouse Jr. scraped the Turn 4 wall to bring out the yellow. He rolled around the track with leads of two and three seconds, the rest of the field seemingly no threat to his position. Perhaps Kenseth gets the nod if only because blues man Jason Vivone has written a song about the Wisconsin driver’s inability to convert fast cars into victory called The Kenseth Blues.
NOTES: Martin Truex Jr. led a Toyota sweep of the top-three in qualifying. For the record, he has won 16 races in his career where he has led over 100 laps.
Matt Kenseth has 7/1 odds tonight. On Saturday, Busch won at a track where he had never won before, Kansas Speedway, and continued his remarkable run so far this season. Next up the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race of the chase hits to the first state held DE and the green flies over the AAA 400 driver on his own.
The other thing I took note of was in a fairly short race, how many drivers rebounded Saturday night.
Racing as a hobby at Colorado National Speedway led to his desire to start a NASCAR XFINITY Series team, which has evolved into the successful single-car Sprint Cup team.
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A technical alliance with Richard Childress Racing buoyed Furniture Row, then running Chevrolets, a year ago – and Truex would advance deeper into the Chase than any of RCR’s three drivers. Early success highlighted the organization’s beginnings, but up until recently (despite Trevor Bayne’s 2011 Daytona 400 upset victory), the team hit a dry spell.in 2016 Ryan Blaney no doubt has the chance to end that.
