Kenseth has won three times in New Hampshire, including twice in a row.
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Sadler wins inaugural Xfinity Chase race: SPARTA, Ky. His first New Hampshire win of this season came under similar circumstances. Edwards swept the pole positions in 2015 at New Hampshire and finished fifth and seventh in those two races.
Truex’ victory at Chicagoland automatically advanced his team to the second round of the Chase regardless of how he runs at New Hampshire or Dover next weekend. “Just kind of pieces of the puzzle that hasn’t lined up the past few years”, Truex Said.
NASCAR made a series of changes to its inspection-failure policy this week after Joliet race victor Martin Truex Jr. and 12th-place finisher Jimmie Johnson both failed the Laser Inspection Station.
Martin Truex Jr. celebrates his win in Chicago last Sunday.
Other Chase results: Kyle Larson was 10th, Joey Logano 11th, Chase Elliott 13th, Denny Hamlin 15th, Austin Dillon 16th, Jamie McMurray 19th, Tony Stewart 23rd, and Chris Buescher 30th.
Brad Keselowski (Rochester Hills) qualified 11th.
“I just want to thank all our sponsors and everyone at the shop who works on the Stewart-Haas Racing cars”, Harvick said.
Justin Bonsignore surged from the final restart on the outside with two laps remaining and held on to win the Whalen Modified Tour F.W. Webb 100.
The two combined led a total of 172 laps, Byron with a race high of 161 laps led and Bell with 11.
“NASCAR responded in the best way that they could”, Edwards said. “I think NASCAR did a good job responding to that”. “It’s amusing how that works”, he said. He picked two – one being the New Hampshire Chapter of Speedway Children’s Charities, which will receive $12,500 from the pilot of the No. 19 Comcast Business Toyota. Clint Bowyer spun during his lap to bring out the red flag and buy time for the rest of the cars to complete inspection.
NHRA: Richie Crampton took the No. 1 position in Top Fuel qualifying Saturday at the Midwest Nationals in Madison, Ill.
He qualified 22nd, but Stewart looked like a top 15 driver during practice. He had a fast vehicle to feel, well, good enough to be No. 1. I was afraid the No. 4 was going to catch us there at the end. The only Chase driver that is in a deficit heading into Las Vegas is Daniel Hemric, who cut a tire on Lap 25. We’ve got our win, so that played into that decision a little bit. “We know that if we come out of here and do the best we can, put in our maximum effort, that’s all we can do”.
This year’s Chase is far from decided; one crash in the second round could doom Harvick.
The NASCAR Hall of Fame in downtown Charlotte had its exterior damaged this week during violent protests. “I was expecting to get a caution, hopefully save something, but we gave it all we had there the whole race, and I just can’t thank these guys enough”. He finished second in the Xfinity Series standings in 2012 and 2013. He drove Cunningham Motorsports’ No. 99 Ford on the 1.5-mile oval.
Ryan Blaney was third, followed by Sam Hornish Jr. and Matt Tifft.
Hight pushed his Chevrolet Camaro SS to a 3.893-second pass at 328.38 miles per hour during the second session.
Allen: We’ve seen that out of the 78 team all year.
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Truex has been one of the fastest cars all weekend, qualifying second and staying near the top of the practice charts in race trim.
