Jimmie Johnson, driver of the No. 48 Lowe’s Red Vest Chevrolet SS, finished in third place to lead five Team Chevy drivers in the top 10 in the 23rd annual Crown Royal presents the Combat Wounded Coalition 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) on Sunday.
TONY STEWART, NO. 14 MOBIL 1/CHEVY SUMMER SELL DOWN CHEVROLET SS – FINISHED 11TH - ON HIS DAY: “I really did the team wrong here. I got a penalty on the last stop and that is a green flag stop that turned into a yellow and got us a lap down. But we fought and got our lap back and I don’t know where did we end up 11th? So, fought back and got something respectable out of this. Didn’t leave anything out there.”
JOEY LOGANO – No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion – THE FIRST RESTART IS LOOKED LIKE YOU HAD SOMETHING FOR KYLE, BUT WHAT HAPPENED ON THE LAST RESTART? “It just was not good.
About the only thing Kyle Busch didn’t win on Saturday was the one prize he wasn’t eligible for.
But the driver of the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota won everything else, capping a phenomenal day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a victory in the Lilly Diabetes 250 NASCAR XFINITY Series race—and he did so with tires that were 23 laps older than those of his pursuers.
Camry driver Kyle Busch won his seventh NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) race of the season on Saturday afternoon at Indianapolis Motor Speedway after starting from the pole, marking his seventh victory in 11 NXS starts in 2016.
Roush Fenway Racing driver Ryan Reed and the No. 16 Lilly Diabetes/American Diabetes Association team finished 13th on Saturday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) after starting 15th in the main event.
DARRELL WALLACE JR. – No. 6 EcoBoost Ford Mustang – WHAT HAPPENED AT THE START OF THE RACE, WHERE YOU HAD TO PIT BEFORE THE GREEN FLAG? “That was just unfortunate and explains how our luck is going. We rolled off for the main and it just started sputtering and the motor shut off. I switched distributors and it fired back up, so I’m like, ‘Great, we have an electrical issue.’
Jeb Burton returned to the NASCAR XFINITY Series on Saturday afternoon at the blistering hot Indianapolis (Ind.) Motor Speedway. Burton partnered with Estes Express Lines to race the No. 98 Ford owned by Biagi-DenBeste Racing - a winning team this season in the XFINITY Series.
Indiana native Tony Stewart led a contingent of Chevrolet SS drivers in qualifying for the 23rd running of the The Combat Wounded Coalition 400 at the Brickyard. Stewart will start the third with a lap of 48.826-seconds/184.328 mph behind the wheel of the No. 14 Mobil 1/Chevy Summer Sell Down Chevrolet SS fielded by Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR)
Kyle Larson is back to try to add another O’Reilly Series victory to his resume and will be driving the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet entry when the green flag drops Saturday night at The Last Great Colosseum.
NHRA officials announced today the return of PowerEdge, a line of high-quality, competitively-priced commercial and heavy-duty truck aftermarket products, as the presenting sponsor of the 38th annual DENSO NHRA Sonoma Nationals at scenic Sonoma Raceway.
