Richmond Preview: The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series heads next to Denny Hamlin’s home track of Richmond Raceway for a Saturday night race on April 13. The Chesterfield, Va., native has three wins at the three-quarter mile speedway and has led a career-best 1,659 laps around the Virginia oval. With two wins to his name already this season, Hamlin and team will be seeking their third victory, potentially moving them into first in the Cup Series standings.
Former NASCAR drivers Blake Koch and Dale Earnhardt Jr. today announced a new partnership in FilterTime®, a company that provides homeowners and business owners an easy and affordable path to receiving and replacing air filters.
"It was a tough day for our Love’s Travel Stops No. 34 team. We struggled to find the right adjustment all day and came home P28. We will take what we learned this weekend, regroup back at the shop and look ahead to Richmond next weekend."
Ryan Newman and the No. 6 team recorded its best finish of the season Sunday afternoon at Bristol Motor Speedway, crossing the line ninth in the Wyndham Rewards Ford Mustang.
Paul Menard capitalized on crew chief Greg Erwin’s call to stay on the track during the race’s final caution period and came away with a season-best sixth-place finish in Sunday’s Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.
A late-race penalty sidetracked Brad Keselowski’s chances for a possible victory Sunday afternoon at Bristol Motor Speedway. Keselowski was running second behind teammate Joey Logano when the 11th and final caution slowed the pace on lap 479. Crew chief Paul Wolfe made the call for right-side tires on lap 481, with Keselowski returning to the track in fifth position for the restart – or so he thought. NASCAR officials ruled that Keselowski lined up incorrectly for the restart, issuing a pass-thru penalty on lap 486. He served the penalty on lap 490, 10 laps from the finish of the 500-lap race. The process cost Keselowski a lap to the leaders and left him with an 18th-place finish.
Austin Dillon and the SYMBICORT® (budesonide/formoterol fumarate dihydrate) Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Team Battle to 14th-Place Finish in War of Attrition at Bristol Motor Speedway
The 24-year-old Riggs from Bahama, North Carolina, led a race-high 21 of 53 over-scheduled laps and capitalized in overtime to win the Truck Series' inaugural event at San Diego's Naval Coronado Base.
The 22-year-old Honeycutt from Willow Park, Texas, clocked in a pole-winning lap at 90.813 mph in 134.782 seconds to claim the inaugural Truck Series pole position in San Diego, California.
