Reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion, Kevin Harvick, had to settle for a third-place finish in the CHEEZ-IT 355 at Watkins Glen International when his No. 4 Budweiser/Jimmy John’s Chevrolet SS ran out of fuel on the final lap of the race. Having led 29 of the 90-lap, 220.5-mile event, more than any other driver, Harvick ran dry with just two corners to go. It marked the second week in a row that a driver ran out of gas and relinquished the lead.
Kyle Busch was the top-finishing Toyota driver in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Watkins Glen International with a second-place result to race-winner Joey Logano.
In his first road course start in the NASCAR XFINITY Series, Bubba Wallace started and finished 16th in the No. 6 Cheez-It Ford Mustang. Wallace showed speed, but was slowed down by multiple pit road penalties throughout the course of the 82-Lap race at Watkins Glen International.
Roush Fenway Racing’s Chris Buescher ran solidly inside the top-five for the majority of Saturday afternoon’s NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Watkins Glen International. Buescher was able to navigate several late race cautions to finish third in his Ford EcoBoost Mustang, the highest finishing XFINITY Series regular.
Roush Fenway Racing’s Elliott Sadler finished eighth during Saturday’s NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) race at Watkins Glen International. Sadler qualified 11th Saturday morning for the 82 lap event. Sadler got off to a great start and missed a few of the early fender benders at the start of the race.
Boris Said was the top-finishing Toyota driver in Saturday’s NASCAR XFINTY Series (NXS) race at Watkins Glen International with a fourth-place result in the Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) No. 54 Camry. The race was won by Joey Logano.
BRAD KESELOWSKI – No. 22 Discount Tire Ford Mustang – “It was kind of an up-and-down day. Joey was really, really fast and we knew that. He had a little bit of trouble himself on pit road and drove through the field so quickly that he was running lap times I think three or four tenths faster than I was when we were leading and it was just all I could do to really keep up with him there at the end."
RYAN REED – No. 16 Lilly/American Diabetes Association Ford Mustang – “When he spun I don’t know if he was spinning to try to stay off the outside wall, but it filled the whole track up with smoke and I couldn’t see anything. You just kind of guess where to go and I guessed high because he had kind of spun down to the bottom and he must have throttled back up the race track trying to keep it going and just kind of drove straight into the fence. I guessed wrong there and just kind of ran out of room."
AJ ALLMENDINGER, NO. 47 KROGER/BUSH’S BEANS CHEVROLET SS – POLE WINNER - AFTER THAT DAY YOU HAD YESTERDAY, FULL OF FRUSTRATION, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO NOW START ON THE POLE AT WATKINS GLEN? “We can lead to Turn 1 at least. I’m just proud of all my guys; I was frustrated yesterday and I probably wasn’t helping. I was overdriving trying to get more than what we there and I didn’t do a good job yesterday.
It was a challenging day for Josh Berry and the No. 21 DEX team at Kansas Speedway, ending in a 27th-place finish in Sunday’s AdventHealth 400 after starting 30th.
Alex Palou got the break he needed and fast work from his Chip Ganassi Racing pit crew, and then he ran away with a victory Sunday in the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach.
