It will be an all-Ford front row for tomorrow night's Sprint Showdown as David Ragan and AJ Allmendinger captured the first and second spots, respectively, in qualifying. Both drivers visited the infield media center to discuss their qualifying efforts."
Carl Edwards, driver of the No. 99 Aflac Ford Fusion, will be making his sixth start in the Sprint All-Star Race and is still looking for his first win. Edwards spoke to the media before qualifying for Saturday night's Sprint All-Star Race.
BRAD KESELOWSKI (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger) Starts Fourth In Sprint Showdown “The Miller Lite Dodge crew went work after practice and made the car better. I think we picked up about six-tenths; that’s a pretty big gain."
PAUL MENARD, NO. 27 MOEN/MENARDS CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 3RD: "I have a really good race car. Really good long-run car. We are going to start third, which is good. The track picked up a lot of speed from where we did our last run. It is about how brave you are diving off in the corner."
JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 5 LOWE'S 5% EVERY DAY CHEVROLET, met with media and discussed racing in the All-Star this weekend and the million-dollar prize, planking, the importance on how the race car unloads off the truck, and more.
TONY STEWART, NO. 14 BURGER KING CHEVROLET, met with members of the media at Charlotte Motor Speedway and discussed racing the All-Star versus the Coke 600, health of short track racing, driving Lewis Hamilton's car and other topics.
KENNY WALLACE, No. 09 American Ethanol/Iowa Corn/G-Oil Toyota Camry, RAB Racing with Brad Maggard Can you put into perspective what it means to you to make your 500th Nationwide Series start on Sunday? "Making my 500th start here at Iowa is coincidental and I'm very lucky."
KURT BUSCH (No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger R/T) CAN YOU TALK ABOUT ALL THE EXCITEMENT OF ALL-STAR WEEKEND AND COMING BACK TO CHARLOTTE MOTOR SPEEDWAY? “It’s great to go out there and race for no points and a million bucks. It’s a great atmosphere. "
Funny Car points leader Austin Prock won for the fifth straight time in the Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge on Saturday at Sonoma Raceway, defeating Blake Alexander in the final of the bonus race at this weekend’s 36th annual Denso NHRA Sonoma Nationals.
As cool, ideal racing conditions set upon Sonoma Raceway Friday night, Doug Kalitta, posted a track record 3.649 elapsed time to capture the No. 1 qualifying spot for Sunday’s eliminations.
The victory marked Brad Majman’s first-career Ligier JS F4 Series win. Previously, his best JS F4 result had been second, scored in Round 4 at Road America earlier this season.
Patrick Woods-Toth secured the pole for Formula Regional Americas Championship (FR Americas) at New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP) on Saturday morning.
