After missing 11 races due to injuries sustained in an Xfinity Series race, Busch must finish in the top 30 in the four remaining regular season races in order to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup. But he was denied a spot in the finale, and had he made it and won the title, he might have driven directly into retirement.
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Watkins Glen’s 2.45 miles of twisting turns is such a great test of driving skill – and will. Watkins Glen is one of the more historic and notable tracks on the stock vehicle racing circuit, named after the nearby massive climbable gorge of the same name.
Allmendinger, 33, has emerged as one of the top road racers in the series. While a few team haulers were still in use at The Glen, the one-stop facility will replace the team haulers that had traditionally lined up at tracks.
While there are some checkouts in each section, there is one large checkout tent with a number of registers, including some self-run ones.
He closed out his road racing career Sunday at Watkins Glen in New York with a 41st-place finish, his worst showing at a track where he once won three consecutive times.
Logano already knows what he wants Gordon to do.
Remember, you get $50,000 to spend among your six-driver lineup, and it’s not just the finishing position that comes into play, so find yourself a driver who’ll lead a lot of laps, along with drivers who’ll improve from their starting positions.
Richard Petty, who raced against Baker during his Cup career, said he was a friend as well as a competitor. He did all he could to hold off Logano.
“We’re completely ripping it up”, Printup said. It was Really fast in qualifying, really fast.
It’s such a steep drop-off from last season, when he won four races, led over 1,000 laps and knocked down top-10 finishes in all but 13 races.
“It means we lead the field to turn one, at least”, Allmendinger said. That makes Busch eligible for the Chase.
“We are all about the things you can control, and from that standpoint we are just trying to improve the performance of the vehicle slightly”. It’s disappointing for (sponsor) TaxSlayer and all the guys at JR Motorsports that work really hard on these race cars. Last week at Pocono, he could have gotten in, but he ran out of gas. But I feel our gear is best, our communication… Harvick led the race for 29 of the 90 laps, which was the most on the afternoon, and managed to hang on for third place in the Cheez-It 355. It’s a good start.
“I made it longer this week than last”, Kahne said with a laugh.
Kyle Busch is now high in the point standings that he would qualify for NASCAR’s Chase.
It was the Penske driver’s first win since his Daytona 500 success in February, and came after he charged through from 14th place at the final restart with 30 laps to go.
I thought Id done a pretty good job of saving fuel under the caution, Harvick said.
But as they entered the final lap, with Harvick still out front, and Logano still running second, Logano began to have his doubts. This is exactly how last week’s race was decided at Pocono Raceway, which saw Busch run out of fuel on the final lap while leading and finish 21st.
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Stewart is 26th in points and without a win this year. “Unfortunately, it took us four laps to get that changed”.
