After rain washed out Friday’s test session and Saturday’s race schedule, the Budweiser 300 and inaugural visit to Autodrome Chaudiere by the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series, presented by Mobil 1 finally took the green flag at 1:30 on Sunday afternoon.
Entering Friday’s Corrigan Oil 200 event at Michigan International Speedway, 20-year old Austin Theriault was a relatively unknown name in the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards garage.
The only thing better than four second-place finishes, would have been four wins for Tracy Hines over the last week, but faced with stiff competition each race, he’ll gladly take the consistency as he battles for a pair of championships with the Honda USAC National Midget Series and Traxxas USAC Silver Crown Series.
Martin Truex Jr.’s reprieve from a plethora of bad luck was short lived as the Furniture Row Racing driver found himself in a Lap 8 multicar accident in Sunday’s Quicken Loans 400 Sprint Cup Series Race at Michigan International Speedway.
JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S/KOBALT TOOLS CHEVROLET SS – WINNER - THIS RACE HAS GOT TO HAVE BEEN A TOUGH ONE TO PUT THAT CHECK MARK NEXT TO IT WITH A WIN “Yeah, it has been. We have figured out every way to lose this race. And today we were able to get it done."
JOEY LOGANO – No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion – “Going into today I didn’t think our car was gonna be very good, but Todd made some good changes overnight and made us more competitive. We seemed to have some good restarts all day, except for the last one, which is the most important one. We got the run we needed and then got loose and got stuck in the middle of three-wide and lost all the air in the car and lost my momentum so I went back a little bit."
JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S/KOBALT TOOLS CHEVROLET SS – Race Winner - THIS RACE HAS GOT TO HAVE BEEN A TOUGH ONE TO PUT THAT CHECKMARK NEXT TO IT WITH A WIN:“Yeah, it has been. We have figured out every way to lose this race. And today we were able to get it done."
Homestead-Miami Speedway announced that Ford Motor Company has extended its partnership to host Ford Championship Weekend for the next five years with an option to renew for an additional five years. Matt Becherer, president, Homestead-Miami Speedway and Joe Hinrichs, executive vice president and president of the Americas, Ford Motor Company, made the announcement in the infield media center at Michigan International Speedway this morning.
James Buescher returned to Michigan International Speedway for the first time since capturing the win in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race last August.
Shane van Gisbergen started on the pole, led the most laps and captured the checkered flag in today’s Pit Boss/FoodMaxx 250 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Sonoma Raceway.
The three-time Supercars champion from Auckland, New Zealand, led a race-high 66 of 79 laps and had enough fuel to notch his second O'Reilly Auto Parts Series victory at Sonoma in three years.
