“Hopefully, we’ll be sitting here tomorrow night at the end of this deal talking about how we did it in the race”, Edwards said. Sauter was the only other driver to lead a lap.
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Brad Keselowski enters the event as the Sprint Cup points leader.
It remains to be seen whether any team can slow the dominance of Team Penske, which Logano and former NASCAR champion Brad Keselowski drive for, and Joe Gibbs Racing, whose drivers include defending Sprint Cup champion Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards, victor of the Food City 500 in April.
It’s night racing this Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway for the The Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race, Ricky Stenhouse Junior honors a friend, and the Wood Brothers show their love for Virginia Tech football. “Last summer, we got a lot closer to winning”.
Last year: Joey Logano fended off tenacious Kevin Harvick over the final 63 laps to repeat as victor. But he hasn’t visited Victory Lane there in a Sprint Cup Series race since 2011, a drought he hopes to erase this weekend. 2 NASCAR weekend, Dover announced plans to add upwards of 500 feet of Steel And Foam Energy Reduction (SAFER) barriers to the one-mile concrete oval’s outside wall on the exits of turns 2 and 4. Remember, though, Hendrick and SHR cars are Chevys and they haven’t had the best of luck in terms of wins lately.
The 10-race Chase for the Championship starts September 18 at Chicagoland Speedway. He has logged 1,062 laps led at the track while posting 16 Top 10 finishes. “Tracks like that aren’t banked as Bristol is, but I love racing at Winchester (Indiana) and Slinger (Wisconsin), Salem (Indiana) – those are all high-banked racetracks that are a half-mile or a quarter-mile”.
Last race: Denny Hamlin survived a wreck-filled race at Watkins Glen for his first career win at a road course. “Now, I’m 30 behind Jamie (McMurray)”. In fact, it was Ty Dillon, who emerged on top when that trio raced three-wide on Bristol’s slippery, tight track.
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Jeff Gordon has run the previous three races and will compete at Bristol. Five of those six were top-five-finishes.
