Weather permitting, Sprint Cup teams will begin practice Friday on the 1.5-mile track.
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(WHAS 11)-We had to wait for that extra practice session for NASCAR drivers at Kentucky Speedway. “It’s a special opportunity and I just want to do my best and finish all the laps”.
Las Vegas is higher banked and faster than Kentucky, but the set-up and rules package remained the same over each of the seasons.
“The best way to gain points is to win races”, he said. SMI expanded to 107,000 for the first Quaker State 400, bucking an industry trend that has seen every other oval on the schedule drop its seating the same decade.
The Harvick and Johnson advantage will be diminished, I think, so it brings lots of value to several drivers hovering above 10-to-1 odds.
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series will return after a two-week break Thursday with the UNOH 225 at Kentucky Speedway.
Jones’ crew chief, Randy Fugle, said, “We finally put it all together and collected our first win”. “It’s getting rougher and I haven’t been there in a few years, so it should be pretty good and rough now”. “Now, we need to go out and get five or six more”.
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“I’m in that camp and on that team that says that’s what it’s going to take our sport to the next level, as far as the quality of racing is concerned, is developing genre-specific packages for the tracks with the realization that, when the vehicle of Tomorrow (2007) and the Generation-6 vehicle (2013) came out, I think it was designed to perform at a higher level at the plate tracks and, in some way, whether it was intentional or not, the road courses”, Keselowski said. Goodyear also will have a race-specific tire ready for the Darlington race. “Running both events will help me figure the track out quicker and will hopefully lead to two positive results”.
