Paul Menard and the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane team came away with a 17th-place finish after a long, hard night in the Bojangles Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.
JOEY LOGANO PRESS CONFERENCE: Q. Joey, I know obviously first off, for Penske, just to get back to Victory Lane at Darlington after 33 years is a big deal. It's not your car in Victory Lane, but is it sweet to be part of this one‑two finish tonight?
Brad Keselowski’s first win of the 2018 season is one he won’t soon forget. Keselowski grabbed the lead from Kyle Larson with 22 laps to go and never looked back to win the Bojangles’ Southern 500 Sunday night at Darlington Raceway. The win was Keselowski’s first in 10 races at Darlington and his 25th in 330 MENCS starts. The victory was the first for Team Penske at Darlington since Bobby Allison swept both races at the 1.366-mile speedway in 1975. This also marked the 498th win for the organization.
Though Martin Truex Jr. rebounded to finish 11th in Sunday night’s Southern 500, the Furniture Row Racing driver didn’t exit Darlington Raceway with much happiness.
Austin Dillon and No. 3 American Ethanol Team Fight Their Way to 16th-Place Finish "First, I'd just like to say it was a privilege to drive the 'Silver Secret' and honor Dale Earnhardt for NASCAR Throwback weekend at Darlington. The No. 3 American Ethanol e15 Camaro ZL1 showed solid speed today even though we finished 16th."
KYLE LARSON, NO. 42 DC SOLAR CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 3rd - YOU LED 284 LAPS BUT LOST THE LEAD ON PIT ROAD. WHAT HAPPENED ON THAT LAST RUN? IT SEEMED LIKE THE CAR WAS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT “It’s always important to come out the leader off pit road or be the control car on the restart. I felt like if I could have been in clean air, I would have been all right. All day when I would get in traffic I’d get loose. "
BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 2 Miller Genuine Draft Ford Fusion – VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW – “I’ve got to give a lot of credit to my pit crew. We were running second and that last stop they nailed it and got us out in the lead. I thought Kyle was really good, and he was flat-out flying. I know how it goes. In 2015 we led a bunch of laps and lost it on the last pit stop and today my team won it on the last pit stop. Then it was just about me hitting all my marks and not screwing it up. How cool is this winning in Rusty Wallace’s Throwback car, the Southern 500, Throwback Weekend.”
ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards rookie driver Zane Smith (No. 41 LaPaz Margarita Mix/ICON Vehicle Dynamics Toyota) still has his eyes on the big prize, the 2018 ARCA National Championship. But while he’s chasing one teammate for a series title, another teammate is chasing him for the Scott Rookie Challenge Rookie of the Year title.
The General Tire Grabber 100 is the 17th race of 20 on the 2018 ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards schedule. It is also the ninth round of the 2018 Sioux Chief Short Track Challenge, an eleven-race championship-within-a-championship that takes place on tracks one-mile in length and less throughout the season. Other SCSTC races remaining on the schedule are Friday night at Lucas Oil Raceway in Brownsburg, Indiana, and Salem Speedway, in Salem, Indiana.
McAnally-Hilgemann Racing (MHR) announced today that the organization is welcoming former winner Nick Sanchez to the team’s 2027 NASCAR FedEx Freight Truck Series (NFFTS) lineup.
NASCAR Cup Series driver Austin Cindric won the first Proud to Honor Veterans Day Classic in the No. 2 Air Force Ford Mustang® Dark Horse™ R on Wednesday night at Daytona International Speedway.
A high-performance and patriotic day of on and off-track action and excitement moved the 12th Running of the Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Classic Daytona 24 Hour presented by Mission Foods off to a solid start Wednesday at Daytona International (DIS).
