BRAD KESELOWSKI – No. 2 Detroit Genuine Parts Ford Fusion – “First off, the Detroit Genuine Parts Ford was good today. I thought we were gonna have a fourth or fifth-place run and just didn’t catch a break in so many different ways, but I’m really proud of everyone at Team Penske."
Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (TMS) and TRD, U.S.A. (Toyota Racing Development) today introduced the new 2015 Toyota Camry race car that will compete in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) competition beginning next season.
When Kyle Larson held his weekly media availability Friday at Charlotte Motor Speedway, there was an extra dimension to the event. Seventeen-year-old Make-a-Wish recipient Christian Keoleian of Clemmons, N.C., was ushered to Victory Circle, where he was introduced to Larson and posed with the driver in front of his No. 42 Nature’s Made Kids First Vitamins NASCAR Nationwide Series car.
Kyle Busch earned the pole position on Bojangles’ Pole Night with a lap of 197.390 mph in the final session of knockout qualifying on Thursday at Charlotte Motor Speedway. But it was his brother Kurt Busch who walked away with the new track record after posting a hot lap of 198.976 mph in the second qualifying session – the fastest NASCAR Sprint Cup qualifying lap recorded on a 1.5-mile superspeedway. Both Busch brothers, along with 19 other drivers, bested the previous track record of 195.624 mph set by Denny Hamlin in 2013.
TriStar Motorsports and Ingersoll Rand will team up once again this weekend for the Drive for the Cure 300 Presented by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Will Kimmel will pilot the No. 44 Ingersoll Rand Camry in his fifth and final race with TriStar Motorsports this season.
Will Kimmel is back for the finale of his five-race deal with Ingersoll Rand and TriStar Motorsports. This will be Kimmel's first time turning laps in a Nationwide Series car at Charlotte Motor Speedway, but he is looking forward to racing there and looking to his veteran teammates (Mike Bliss, Jeff Green, Eric McClure and David Starr) for advice. In his last outing in the Ingersoll Rand Camry Kimmel finished 28th at Chicagoland Speedway.
Coming off of a 14th place finish last weekend at Kansas Speedway, Mike Bliss is ready to make his 20th NNS start at Charlotte Motor Speedway this weekend. With an average start of 18.1 and an average finishing position of 16.5, Bliss has won two NNS races at the fast 1.5-mile quad-oval, his last in 2009. He has turned over 3,500 laps led 43, at the track where he's seen most of his NNS success.
After his 15th place finish last weekend at Kansas Speedway, David Starr is keeping the momentum high as he returns to Charlotte Motor Speedway for his 11th start with TriStar Motorsports. With four previous NNS starts at CMS, Starr has an average starting position of 25.0 and an average finishing position of 24.3. The Texas native has turned over 589 laps at the 1.5-mile speedway.
It has been over a decade since Tracy Hines has raced at the historic one-mile dirt oval at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse. The last time he competed at the track was during the 2002 edition of Super DIRT Week. The Traxxas USAC Silver Crown Series will return to the New York State Fairgrounds for the first time in 11 years this week, as part of NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week XLIII. Hines will be battling for his second Silver Crown championship as well in what serves as the season finale.
