The NASCAR Nationwide Series visits its fourth 1.5-mile track of the season. So far, Pastrana’s best finish at a 1.5-mile track came at Las Vegas, finishing 10th.
Buoyed by a season-best finish at Charlotte last month, Scott Riggs and the Ricky Benton Racing (RBR) Enterprises BTS Tire and Wheel Distributors/Goodyear fleetHQ/QMI team are returning to NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) action this week in the UNOH 225 at the Kentucky Speedway.
If momentum matters in racing then No. 56 NAPA AUTO PARTS Toyota driver Martin Truex Jr. will be a favorite in Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kentucky Speedway which happens to fall on his 33rd birthday.
Stenhouse has four Nationwide career starts at Kentucky Speedway earning three top-10 finishes. Stenhouse is currently 19th in the Sprint Cup standings; 47 points out of 10th.
Biffle has finished 21st in both Sprint Cup races at Kentucky. In six career Nationwide starts at Kentucky Biffle has three top-five and five top-10 finishes.
Elliott Sadler and the No. 11 OneMain Financial team travel to Sparta, Kentucky this weekend to compete in the NASCAR Nationwide Series Feed the Children 300. In his Nationwide Series career, Sadler has competed at Kentucky Speedway three times with one pole award, two top-five and three top-10 finishes with 101 laps led. He also competed in one NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event at the 1.5-mile track in 2011 where he started fourth and finished sixth.
Brian Vickers should be a popular man at Kentucky Speedway this weekend. Vickers’ No. 55 Aaron’s Dream Machine Toyota will carry a special paint scheme during Saturday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race honoring the University of Louisville’s men’s national championship basketball team.
Goody’s® pain reliever and Martinsville Speedway announced today a new name for the track’s fall NASCAR Sprint Cup race and a sponsorship extension for one of the longest partnerships in NASCAR.
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) heads to Kentucky Speedway for the eighth stop of the 2013 season. Miguel Paludo is hoping to get lucky in Kentucky with the first win of his NCWTS career in the Thursday-night show at the 1.5-mile D-shaped oval. Paludo led practice in his most recent visit to the Sparta, Ky. track in September before qualifying 12th and finishing eighth. The eighth-place finish bumped Paludo to 10th in the NCWTS Driver Point Standings, where he stayed for the remainder of the season.
This Week’s Wish for Our Heroes Chevrolet Camaro at Kentucky… ML Motorsports will bring chassis No. 065 for this Friday night’s NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) event at Kentucky Speedway. This chassis was last utilized at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 25, where Long and the ML Motorsports team started from the 28th position and raced their way into the top-20 before getting involved in a late-race incident that forced them to finish 36th.
