After Mother Nature spoiled the party at Varney Speedway Motorplex two weeks ago and forced the postponement of the Rick Woolner Memorial, the event is set to run this weekend at Sunset Speedway. The commemorative event in honour of Rick Woolner, who passed away form lung cancer in 1999, will be a 40-lap feature race Sunday afternoon.
The OSCAAR Super Late Model tour makes its fifth and final stop of the 2013 tour at Sunset Speedway as part of the Velocity weekend this Sunday. So far this season, Sunset has been the site of the most competitive races this season and largest fields, including a record-tying 28 cars on June 29. More of the same is expected this weekend.
MATT KENSETH, No. 20 Home Depot "Let's Do This" Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Starting Position: 2nd - How was your qualifying lap?"Man, this Home Depot 'Let's Do This' Camry has been really fast all day. Has had a lot of speed, been a lot of fun to drive. You feel like, especially with me driving the car, we don't get that many chances at the pole so I hate that we missed it by that little bit."
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. powered his No. 88 National Guard Chevrolet SS into the pole position with a track-record lap of 161.849 mph in 22.243 seconds for Sunday’s AAA 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover International Speedway. It was his 13th career pole win, his second of the 2013 Cup season, and first on the mile-long, high-banked concrete race track for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup contender.
CASEY MEARS – No. 13 Geico Ford Fusion – “It was definitely too loose for qualifying. It always loosens up here, so we tightened it up some but we didn’t tighten it up enough and it was still just too loose. I felt like we had a pretty good race car, but I don’t think that’s gonna be a very good lap today.”
“The car has been excellent all day and I just overdrove (Turn) 1 a little bit and didn’t really trust the car as much as I should have off of (Turn) 4. The car is a lot faster than that. But hopefully it will be a good qualifying run.”
Greg Biffle, driver of the No. 16 3M Ford Fusion, is fifth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings coming into this weekend’s AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway. Biffle came into the infield media center after today’s practice session to talk about his Chase prospects.
Officials from Mooresville, North Carolina-based Win-Tron Racing confirmed today that the team will compete in the upcoming NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) fred’s 250 powered by Coca-Cola from Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway on Saturday, October 19 with development driver Mason Mingus.
KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 Interstate Batteries Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - What is your outlook for Dover? "We ran pretty good here in the spring, so feel like we've got a good shot at being able to run well again here this time around. Just have to be able to do the same things we did then, which starts here in about half hour with just getting a good practice session in, being able to get good notes built up and get a good handling race car."
Josh Berry and the No. 21 eero team return to EchoPark Speedway this weekend for the Quaker State 400 after producing several strong performances at the track in recent seasons.
The event highlighted the history of North Wilkesboro Speedway as the first points Cup series race in 30 years returns to the historic track next weekend
The 2020 Cup Series champion from Dawsonville, Georgia, will make his first Truck start in three years and drive the No. 7 entry for Spire Motorsports at North Wilkesboro Speedway (July 18).
Noah Gragson and the No. 4 team head to the EchoPark Speedway in Hampton, Georgia, hoping to improve from a 27th-place finish at Chicagoland Speedway last week.
For the first time this season, the NASCAR Cup and O’Reilly Auto Parts Series will make a return visit to a venue as the sport’s top-two divisions head back south for a pair of events under the lights at EchoPark Speedway.
