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[/media-credit]SPARTA, Ky. – The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) Quaker State 400 will return to Kentucky Speedway on Saturday, June 29, 2013.
The third NSCS event in Kentucky Speedway history will be the 17th of 36 championship races and one of six that make up the Turner Network Television (TNT) NASCAR Summer Series. The Quaker State 400 also will be broadcast on Performance Racing Network (PRN) radio and Sirius XM 90.
Brad Keselowski earned his second career Kentucky Speedway victory and first Quaker State 400 title this season on June 30. It marked the fourth Penske Racing stock car victory at Kentucky Speedway. Penske Racing holds the all-time Kentucky Speedway lead in team victories with seven after securing a 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series victory with Keselowski, 300-mile open-wheel race titles in 2010, 2009 and 2006 along with ARCA Racing Series (ARS) event victories in 2009 and 2000.
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch secured an inaugural Quaker State 400 victory on July 9, 2011 and became the first driver in Kentucky Speedway history to capture race victories in four different series.
Kentucky Speedway 2013 season tickets and season campsites can be purchased by visiting www.kentuckyspeedway.com and by phone at (859) 578-2300. A single-race ticket sale date will be announced in the future.
The full 2013 NSCS schedule follows:
Date Site TV
2/16 Daytona International Speedway (Shootout) FOX
2/17 Daytona International Speedway (Daytona 500 Qualifying) FOX
2/21 Daytona International Speedway (Duel) SPEED
2/24 Daytona 500 FOX
3/3 Phoenix International Raceway FOX
3/10 Las Vegas Motor Speedway FOX
3/17 Bristol Motor Speedway FOX
3/24 Auto Club Speedway FOX
4/7 Martinsville Speedway FOX
4/13 Texas Motor Speedway FOX
4/21 Kansas Speedway FOX
4/27 Richmond International Raceway FOX
5/5 Talladega Superspeedway FOX
5/11 Darlington Raceway FOX
5/18 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race (Charlotte Motor Speedway) SPEED
5/26 Charlotte Motor Speedway FOX
6/2 Dover International Speedway FOX
6/9 Pocono Raceway TNT
6/16 Michigan International Speedway TNT
6/23 Sonoma TNT
6/29 Kentucky Speedway Quaker State 400 TNT
7/6 Daytona International Speedway TNT
7/14 New Hampshire Motor Speedway TNT
7/28 Indianapolis Motor Speedway ESPN
8/4 Pocono Raceway ESPN
8/11 Watkins Glen International ESPN
8/18 Michigan International Speedway ESPN
8/24 Bristol Motor Speedway ABC
9/1 Atlanta Motor Speedway ESPN
9/7 Richmond International Raceway ABC
9/15 Chicagoland Speedway ESPN
9/22 New Hampshire Motor Speedway ESPN
9/29 Dover International Speedway ESPN
10/6 Kansas Speedway ESPN
10/12 Charlotte Motor Speedway ABC
10/20 Talladega Superspeedway ESPN
10/27 Martinsville Speedway ESPN
11/3 Texas Motor Speedway ESPN
11/10 Phoenix International Raceway ESPN
11/17 Homestead-Miami Speedway ESPN
