Fox Sports 1 has pre-race coverage at 1:30 p.m. ET on Sunday with NASCAR Raceday, hosted by Chris Myers.
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“They proved how important tires are”, McReynolds said of Busch and the No. 18 team’s victory last season. He starts second behind Carl Edwards.
AJ Allmendinger was second at 95.676 miles per hour (1:14.878) in a JTG Daugherty Chevrolet.
Other drivers in the top 12 included Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, defending race victor Kyle Busch, Paul Menard, Tony Stewart, Danica Patrick and Brad Keselowski. The last 11 races have produced just one repeat victor – Kyle Busch.
Edwards: We’re having a good season. He’s teamed with crew chief Mike Ford for his Cup debut, and Ford led Lupton to a ninth-place finish at Mid-Ohio past year.
Discovering your car’s limit while sitting on the opposite side of the turn you are entering is foreign feeling for NASCAR drivers, and often times impossible to overcome for the duration of a race.
That’s not the case this weekend while competing at Sonoma Raceway.
Tony Stewart speaks during an interview after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race Sunday, … He has repeated the same achievement 19 times during his career as a driver. My teammates have helped me a ton. “All in all, it was my best qualifying effort here and this is typically a place we race well, just don’t qualify well so I’m looking forward to tomorrow”. In the end, we want that win. “Honestly, for where we were it was a struggle yesterday”, Allmendinger said.
Certain drivers excel on the road courses and A.J. Allmendinger is one of the most skilled road racers on the circuit. Team Penske didn’t seem to be themselves earlier in the year but they are showing signs of consistency and may be ready to challenge Joe Gibbs Racing.
Busch’s vehicle abandoned the track for a few seconds due to technical issues. He’s also No. 1 in laps led (197) and top-five finishes (seven), and his 9.2 start position is best among drivers with at least three Sonoma starts.
Most, if not all, who compete fulltime in NASCAR’S top series, began, and perfected their skills competing on ovals.
Developer Dusenberry Martin Racing unveiled on Friday the new cover of NASCAR Heat Evolution game, featuring Carl Edwards alongside his orange Toyota. Tune into Fox Sports 1 to catch the first left and right turn race of the season at Sonoma Raceway. He ended fourth in the same race, carried out at Charlotte Motor Speedway. “I think that is why I can feel the (car) a little bit better and these tracks get really slick and you have to hit your marks every lap, which is something I feel like I’m OK at”. “So, I guess the pressure is there to get the win while we are running well”.
Kalitta Motorsports’ Doug Kalitta and Del Worsham swept the No. 1 qualifying positions in the nitro categories at their home track in the NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio.
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Microsoft and NASCAR have worked in concert to develop a race management system that will consolidate six different aspects of race-day data into a single-screen interface, providing one platform for data management using Windows 10 and Microsoft Azure. It’s cool to have a Toyota on pole for the Toyota/Save Mart 350.
