Roush Fenway Racing’s Elliott Sadler finished 11th during Saturday’s NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) race at Darlington Raceway. Sadler got off to a slow start when his morning had a quick speed bump in NXS qualifying.
The tricky old Darlington Raceway has a well-deserved reputation of being the “Track Too Tough To Tame” but rookie Ryan Blaney and his No. 21 Snap-on Ford team are doing a commendable job of figuring it out.
Brian Scott finished 12th and was the highest finishing Richard Childress Racing driver at Darlington Raceway. Brendan Gaughan finished 13th, Ty Dillon 15th and Paul Menard was 25th.
A strong No. 60 AdvoCare Ford Mustang and a great pit call by crew chief Scott Graves earned Chris Buescher a top-five finish in Saturday afternoon’s NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Darlington Raceway. With his 11th top-five finish of the 2015 season, Buescher extends his points lead to 29 over second-place.
CHRIS BUESCHER, No. 60 AdvoCare Ford Mustang – Finished 5th “We got it turned around here. A race like this is the reason this is my favorite place. I love this race track. It did exactly what we thought it would in the heat of the day."
Bubba Wallace, driver of the No. 6 Scotchman/Coca-Cola Ford Mustang, earned a 14th-place finish on Saturday afternoon in the NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Darlington Raceway.
Kurt Busch led the way for Team Chevy in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series qualifications at Darlington Raceway for the 66th running of the Bojangles’ Southern 500. Busch posted a quick time of 27.691-seconds/177.588 mph in his No. 41 Haas Automation Chevrolet SS to earn the outside pole position for the 367-lap race. It is the 11th top 10-start for Busch this season and his ninth top-10 start at the 1.366-mile track.
BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion – Qualified 1st “We had a really good Miller High Life Ford and Paul Wolfe made good adjustments each round. The track was changing and the car was falling off as the tires were falling off and it is hot so the track was hard to get ahold of but the car is fast and my team did a great job."
KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 M&M’s Crispy Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Starting Position: 10th - How was your backup car during the qualifying session? “Really proud of my M&M’s Crispy Toyota team for getting this backup car ready and in good enough shape to qualify in the top-10. We’ll have some more adjustments to make during the race tomorrow, but I feel confident we can get things figured out pretty quickly once the green flag drops.”
Much like in Race 2 a few hours earlier, Pato O'Ward benefitted from another driver's misfortune on the final restart to sweep the day at the Milwaukee Mile. Also Alex Palou won his fifth title.
Turner made the first statement of the weekend by pacing each Qualifying session. Her time of 2:18.740 placed her well ahead of Cannon’s 2:21.082, with the title combatants separated by 2.3 seconds.
Don’t tell the principal, but Max Garcia may have earned the right to skip school Monday after his stirring first career INDY NXT by Firestone victory Sunday at the Milwaukee Mile.
