“Obviously, a win relatively early in the season is a great momentum-builder for our entire FedEx team. Our program on intermediate and short tracks isn’t quite where we need it to be, but this win gives us the opportunity to spend the next couple months getting ready for September and the Chase, when the playoffs start.
To say Clint Bowyer has had an eventful start to his week would seem an understatement. In the span of six hours on Monday, he and new wife Lorra announced they are going to be parents. A few hours later the soon-to-be dad announced a multi-year contract extension with Michael Waltrip Racing, sponsor 5-hour ENERGY and crew chief Brian Pattie.
Good morning, everyone. With us today is Jeff Gordon. Jeff currently holds the Sprint Cup Series points standings lead with four top 5 and seven top 10 finishes on the season. He heads to Kansas Speedway this season where he has two career wins.
Although Spencer Gallagher is a newcomer in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, the 24-year-old has competed in four previous stock car events at Kansas Speedway. Three of those starts came in the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards, where Gallagher posted a seventh-place finish in the fall of 2013.
KANSAS SUCCESS: Joey Coulter returns to Kansas Speedway for the fourth time in his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career. In his three previous starts, Coulter has two top-five finishes and completed 99.8% of laps contended. Coulter’s career-best finish at the 1.5-mile track came one year ago in the spring of 2013, when the driver finished second.
ack in the truck series... After finishing ninth in the season opener at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway, Jimmy Weller will climb back in a truck for the SFP 250 at Kansas Speedway on Friday, May 9.
The M&M’S® brand announced today that it is drafting off the hype of football news by giving its fans their own draft and asking them to select their favorite M&M’S® flavor. From May 7 – May 19, fans can visit the M&M’S® Racing Facebook page and share which M&M’S® flavor they would draft – M&M’S®Peanut, M&M’S® Peanut Butter, or M&M’S® Pretzel. The flavor with the top picks by May 19 will serve as the featured paint scheme on the No. 18 M&M’S® Toyota during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series™ race in Pocono, Pa, on June 8
Land of Oz...Justin Allgaier will be making his second start at Kansas Speedway this weekend in the 5-hour ENERGY 400. Kansas is one of four tracks Allgaier raced the No. 51 BRANDT Chevy at in 2013.
Reigning Top Fuel world champion Doug Kalitta made the quickest run of both sessions on Friday at New England Dragway, taking the provisional No. 1 spot at the 11th annual NHRA New England Nationals.
Ty Majeski of ThorSport Racing became the first NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series driver in World Wide Technology Raceway history to win back-to-back poles when he captured the top spot during Friday’s qualifying for the Toyota 200.
Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports will roll off 1-2 in class for the hometown race for the team and Chevrolet after Friday’s 15-minute qualifying session for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic.
The Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti (WTRAndretti) Acura ARX-06 GTP teams battled through the streets of downtown Detroit in an effort to set the grid for Saturday’s Detroit Grand Prix.
Sebastien Bourdais recorded a lap of 1 minute, 05.762 seconds in the No. 01 Cadillac V-Series.R on the 1.654-mile, nine-turn temporary street circuit to qualify third for the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear.
