Sam Hornish Jr. (No. 12 Würth Dodge Challenger R/T) Finished 11th IT LOOKED TO BE A SOLID NIGHT BEFORE THE CAR GOT TIGHT LATE IN THE RACE: “I think that we started picking up enough speed from the track cooling off and the air getting cooler that we started to get down on the splitter a bit.
Michael Annett started the 200-lap NASCAR Nationwide Series event at Texas Motor Speedway from the 18th position. Annett finished the O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 as follows:
MARTIN TRUEX JR., No. 56 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing Qualified: 1st What does this pole position mean to your race team? "It means we got the pole and are in the Shootout next year. "
Kasey Kahne led the way for Team Chevy in his No. 5 Farmers Insurance Chevrolet by earning the fifth starting position for Saturday night’s Samsung 500, round seven in the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series tour. This was the sixth top-10 qualifying effort for Kahne this season.
MATT KENSETH, No. 17 Best Buy Ford Fusion – THIS HAS BEEN KIND OF A CRAZY SCHEDULE. HOW HAS THAT AFFECTED YOU? “The schedules have been really different this year and even last year they did a lot of this qualifying like this."
GREG BIFFLE, No. 16 Filtrete Ford – “That was all she had in her. It was just a hair too loose. I wasn’t sure what it was going to be like down there in three and four with all the wind. I backed out of the throttle when it got a little yawed out but I shouldn’t have."
Brad Keselowski (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger R/T) Qualified Eighth CAN YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR QUALIFYING LAP? "We worked on qualifying a lot in practice, including working on the driver (laughs). "
The 2023 Cup Series champion from High Point, North Carolina, led a race-high 171 of 263 over-scheduled laps and capped off a dominant run from pole position by sweeping all stages and surviving an overtime attempt for his second Cup victory of 2026 at EchoPark Speedway.
Bobby Gossett (No. 44 BSI Racing) might have thought lady luck was not on his side at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park on Saturday when his provisional pole time was disallowed, but she made herself known in the race.
Daniel Hemric continued his consistent road course handiwork with a sixth-place finish on Saturday afternoon at Lime Rock Park and substantially increased his cushion on the provisional Chase cutline.
Christian Eckes notched a gritty fifth-place finish on Saturday afternoon at Lime Rock Park to advance to fourth in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series (NCTS) standings.
