Last week at Pocono, he could have gotten in, but he ran out of gas. We had a nice test at Bristol, so I feel that will help us when we get there. Don’t screw this up, ‘ ” he said. If Gordon were to do that it would also give him his first win of the 2015 season and it would lock him into the chase. He was able to stay with it and get back on the track but now Harvick had a huge lead and could once again try to conserve gas as Logano played catch-up. The previous NASCAR Busch North Series was a trailblazer to today’s NASCAR K&N Pro Series East.?I felt like I was superior to anything he was, yet my team boss (Adam Stevens) brought in frightened on the fuel circumstance from a week ago and I dont point the finger at him. Lo and behold, a race that had 16 cautions in the first 60 laps had none in the last 30.
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“I made it longer this week than last”, Kahne said with a laugh. “It just wasn’t meant to be”. “It is the concerns of freak things happening like what happened to us at Indy, what happened to us here”.
Career-best fourth-place in 2012, same season he won at Sonoma; tenacious, scrappy on roads. He passed Kevin Harvick, who ran out of gas, on the final lap for the win at Watkins Glen.
“It ” s going to be close”, Harvick told his crew.
Pole sitter and race defending champion A.J. Allmendinger had an afternoon he’d rather forget.
Today’s leader at the start will be AJ Allmendinger in the #47 Kroger/Bush’s Beans Chevrolet. Work had already begun before the NASCAR weekend on the notorious Boot section of the track that NASCAR has not used to this point in their races.
Allmendinger’s 24th-place finish pretty much ends any hope of his making the Chase this season. Starting from the pole, Logano took charge, leading 39 of the 82 laps with his only competition coming from teammate Brad Keselowski, who led 40 circuits.
The Mobil 1 Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park will run July 8-10 in 2016 and that could clash with the Honda Indy Toronto….
A brake line issue early in Sunday’s Cheez-It 355 at The Glen led to a tough final race at Watkins Glen worldwide for four-time race victor Jeff Gordon. Is it even remotely fair to the other teams that have been working their tails off all season? Accordingly, crew chiefs implored their drivers to save fuel in attempt to make it to finish without pitting. “And when the got (David) Price, like every Jays’ fan I was very excited”.
“It’s the coolest weekend of my life”, said Logano, 25.
Childers thinks he will have a good beat on fuel mileage after practice Friday. “They’re just eating me alive”.
With just four races left before the start of the Chase, NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series returns to action next Sunday for the Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan global Speedway.
“That’s really the position that we’re in right now with where we are in points and with a win”.
“Everything went as planned”, Logano said.
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In six career starts at Watkins Glen, Allmendinger has two top-five finishes and four top-10s and has the third-best driver rating (100.5). That’s the only way we’ll go into the Chase. New York. I had to go around some cars and our vehicle was just a little too loose, so I couldn’t get everything out of it.
