Kyle Busch Motorsports driver Noah Gragson and Hattori Racing’s Brett Moffitt were made available to the media at Las Vegas Motor Speedway: Talk about your moment from last week and racing at home this weekend.
Paul Menard and the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane team are heading to Las Vegas Motor Speedway for Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 with an optimistic air about the team.
Where Truex’ Championship Campaign Began… It was evident 2017 was Toyota driver Martin Truex Jr. and Furniture Row Racing’s season as they dominated Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) competition en route to the championship. The No. 78 Camry team quickly mastered the new stage racing format, becoming the first – and only – team to win both stages and capture the checkered flag in the same event, which they did at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS) last March, and again at Kentucky Speedway in July. As last year’s MENCS champion, Truex had more victories (eight), stage wins (19) and stage points (440) than any other driver in the garage and it all began with a win at the 1.5-mile Las Vegas track.
Kasey Kahne and Leavine Family Racing (LFR) are looking forward to racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS) just one month after their pre-season test at the 1.5-mile track.
Fontaine on Racing at Las Vegas: “I’m looking forward to Las Vegas. Atlanta was a fast and tough mile-and-a-half, but Las Vegas should be a little similar to the other mile-and-a-half tracks I’ve run in ARCA and at Chicagoland last year in a Truck.
Darlington Raceway is celebrating “7 Decades of NASCAR” for its Bojangles’ Southern 500 Throwback Weekend on Sept. 1-2. As part of the celebration, the track Too Tough To Tame is highlighting specific moments in the sport’s history, beginning with the 1950’s.
Self at Las Vegas: Self will make his third NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Friday night. In his two previous starts, coming in 2016 and 2017, Self placed 21st and 20th, respectively.
Mark Martin made history when he captured the first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held at Las Vegas Motor Speedway 20 years ago. Ford Performance caught up with the NASCAR Hall of Famer earlier this week to relive that inaugural event in which the new Taurus registered its first series win and 13 of the top 14 finishers, including the top 7, were Ford drivers.
News and notes: Spencer Boyd will head out west this week to Las Vegas, which will be the first stop on the "NASCAR Goes West" tour. Boyd went to Las Vegas for a Grunt Style event prior to the season, but has never raced on the 1.5- mile track. "I've definitely been looking forward to the west coast swing," says Boyd. "I learned a lot last week at Atlanta, but I'm not quite sure how much will translate over to Vegas. They're both mile and a half tracks, but that's about all they have in common."
This weekend, the famed Richard Petty Motorsports No. 43 will carry new colors for one race. The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas will be the primary sponsor of the team and driver Darrell "Bubba" Wallace Jr, boasting the luxury property's signature shade, a jewel-toned purple. The No. 43 Cosmopolitan Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 will race in the Pennzoil 400 this Sunday, March 4 at the Las Vegas (Nev.) Motor Speedway.
Josh Berry and the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane team head to North Wilkesboro Speedway this weekend as the NASCAR Cup Series returns to the historic short track for its first points-paying event there since 1996.
