MATT KENSETH, No. 20 Dollar General Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - How was yesterday’s test session? “I thought our test went pretty good. We seem to have decent speed -- just worked on a lot of different things."
"I remember watching it being built and racing over at the short track over the corner there and having some fun, being able to hone in my skills, I guess and somehow make it to this level. It’s been a journey, but it’s always fun to come back and race here and we won in 2009 and look forward to always being able to try to capture another win here if we can.
“The challenges here at Vegas are the bumps in (Turns) 1 and 2. To me, the bumps are worse getting into Turn 3 than they’ve been in quite a while. I don’t know if it’s just because of the heat of the summer or the cold of what it is, but the track definitely has more character than it used to have.
“It’s always an interesting race because it’s so early in the season and usually one of our first big tracks that we compete on. You find out how you stack up and where you are at. Phoenix went well for us.
The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif. has partnered with Auto Club Speedway as the title sponsor of NASCAR’s Pole Day on March 21. NASCAR’s new “knockout” elimination qualifying will set the pole sitter for the Auto Club 400 scheduled to run Sunday, March 23.
Bowyer will attend Tuesday’s night’s NHL game between the Carolina Hurricanes and the New York Rangers at the PNC Center in Raleigh, NC, as part of a promotional event for the upcoming STP 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway on March 30.
KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 4 JIMMY JOHN’S CHEVROLET SS, met with members of the media today at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and discussed the four hour test session, the momentum the No. 4 Chevrolet SS team brings into Las Vegas after the win last week at Phoenix International Raceway and other topics.
Greg Biffle, driver of the No. 16 3M/Red Cross Ford Fusion, visited the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Infield Media Center after taking part in a test session this afternoon with all of the other NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams. Below is a transcript of that session.
“I’m willing to talk about anything but today’s test, so any questions that you guys have I’d be more than happy to answer, but it was a pretty tough day for us.”
The Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship made its anticipated return to action for Round 10 of the Monster Energy SMX World Championship from Protective Stadium.
Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports’ No. 4 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R raced its way to the podium in GTD PRO on Saturday as Tommy Milner, Nicky Catsburg and Nico Varrone placed third in class at the end of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring.
Filipe Albuquerque, Will Stevens and Ricky Taylor, drivers of the No.10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R finished third in the 74th Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring.
Justin Allgaier made the outside lane work on the final restart of the race, pulling away from Brandon Jones to win Saturday's NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help a Hero 200 at Darlington Raceway.
