“I am really proud for the whole Discount Tire Ford team”.
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Both Sprint Cup Series practice sessions were canceled as track safety crews began working early Saturday morning to dry the track and drain the weepers from heavy overnight rains. Work continued to get the track prepared for that race.
Gordon starts 18th at Texas, where the top four qualifiers were Chase contenders Keselowski, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Bush and Logano, who slipped to last among the remaining eight contenders after Martinsville.
Harvick was also forced to give up position when he needed to pit again to have lugnuts tightened on the #88. While leading, his left-rear tire blew on Lap 176 and he would finish 33rd. Tyler Reddick sits third overall after a fifth-place finish at Martinsville, just 13 points behind the leader. Larson managed to fend off a passing attempt from Jones to retain the lead at the restart despite suffering from a serious tyre rub issue on the #42, and he soon had a two second lead over the field with Harvick quickly establishing himself as the best of the rest in second. Whether it was coming up on lapped traffic or being challenged for a spot on the track, he followed the main rule of points racing and took the safe option. Jones led 117 of the 147 laps on the 1.5-mile track en route to his seventh victory in 38 starts in three seasons in the series. “He ran a heck of a race”. How far that goes, I’m not real sure. Stepping in for the 43-year-old Kenseth will be Erik Jones, a promising 19-year-old who sits atop the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series standings.
The younger Elliott will fill the vacancy in the No. 24 vehicle left by four-time Sprint Cup Series champ Jeff Gordon beginning in 2016. Racing. In 2014, Buescher moved full-time to the Nationwide Series, driving the No. 60 Ford for Roush Fenway Racing, then returned to the No. 60 Ford in the newly-renamed Xfinity Series this year. Prosper’s Chris Buescher, who came into the race with a 27-point series lead, finished 11th.
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“It was not a bad day, by any means, but not the day we were hoping for”, Buescher said. It seems like it’s been busy here the last few weeks especially for me _ just been kind of running around and trying to do a lot of things in a lot of different directions, so it’d be nice to just get some rest and for me be home in Michigan.
