Roughly one-third of the way through NASCAR’s season, with Saturday’s Go Bowling 400 at Kansas Speedway up next, and there is one rookie driver drawing raves of the five in the field. Absolutely. People ask me all the time, when’s your next race, because it seems like you’ve got forever off. I get all that.
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“We are coming off an incredible weekend, where, in last Sunday’s GEICO 500, we had 213 green flag passes for the lead – the second most ever recorded in NASCAR”, he said.
Still, he said it could be a “genius move” to put the faster cars at the back of the field and make them race back through the field. You can be assured that no one will do any flips at Kansas Speedway under the lights.
Formula One is off this weekend, which is probably good for everybody except Nico Rosberg. Last week at Talladega, Elliott started on the pole and finished ninth in a race that was anything but clean.
It’s almost the same story for the Nygaard family from South Dakota, which has been at every Sprint Cup race at the speedway since it opened in 2001. “Just different racetracks and being able to run well at different times or different aspects”.
The Kansas event is a home game for Carl Edwards and this is the place he wants to win at the most. “We had a good vehicle that could’ve potentially won the race”.
John Hunter Nemechek has never taken a lap around Kansas Speedway, but he has visited Victory Lane there. “Our summer race week near the Fourth of July is becoming a tradition for race fans and the fall date will once again kick off the XFINITY Series Chase for the Championship”.
The Xfinity and Camping World Truck Series each have road circuits on the schedule, possibly for the same reason as the Cup schedule.
“We try to be part of a solution and not part of a bunch of threats”, NASCAR chairman Brian France said April 21. “It was an exciting moment”. Among other changes, Dovers spring date was moved from mid-May to June 4, the weekend following the popular Charlotte race.
“I say to anyone at any age, ‘Go for it!”
The 20-year-old has drawn some wrath from some NASCAR vets for reckless driving. Johnson also has three wins in his career at Kansas. As race winners, Nemechek and Johnny Sauter are the only drivers who have virtually locked up spots in the NCWTS Chase. He has finished second or better in five of his last seven starts. And the harder we can make it, the better shot each one of them thinks they’ve got at winning, right?
Busch boasts 36 career wins, including two this season. He has no wins in 2016.
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Elsewhere in USA motorsport, Mr Race Oil has become an associate sponsor and official lubricants supplier to Jerry Savoie in the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Pro Stock Motorcycle Series.
