This is my home race track, the coolest place to win for me. I could never pick a better race track to win. I watched my first Cup race here when I was five and I won that other Cup race here, but I just felt like I had to win one the right way here, and this means so much.
“The guys didn’t quit on me today and I’m driving my heart out,” said Truex. “Though we made good adjustments today and came through at the end, we struggled for most of the weekend and need to work out some issues. But the guys worked hard and kept on making the car better.”
Kyle Busch (eighth), who is one of 16 drivers in the Chase playoff, was the highest-finishing Toyota driver in Sunday afternoon's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
KYLE LARSON, NO. 42 TARGET CHEVROLET SS – FINISHED 2ND - THIS CAR CAN'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF FUEL LEFT IN IT, TALK ABOUT YOUR RUN: "It was a really good race for us. Our Target Chevy wasn't even a top-15 car the first 100 laps, and Shine (Chris Heroy) and everybody on this Target team did a great job to get me in the game.
How does it sound to be going to be going to the next round? “It feels good to go into the next one. We’ve got to keep doing what we’re doing though. We’ve got to keep our eye on the prize and think about the big trophy at the end.”
A late-race mechanical issue cost Landon Cassill a solid finish in Saturday night’s VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 Nationwide Series race at Kentucky Speedway.
Following an impressive NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) debut last month at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Cameron Hayley made his return to the No. 32 Cabinets by Hayley Chevrolet Silverado to take on New Hampshire Motor Speedway, finishing just outside of the top five in his second-career NCWTS start.
Ben Kennedy was looking to follow up last weekend's top-10 finish with another solid run in the Heater.com Chevrolet, but his momentum was stalled by a broken stud in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series' (NCWTS) return to New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Vermeer Midwest will partner with Zane Smith and the No. 38 Ford Mustang Dark Horse team for the NASCAR Cup Series return to Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday, July 5.
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and O’Reilly Auto Parts Series are set to compete this weekend at Rockingham Speedway. The ARCA Menards Series East will join them on Saturday morning.
JR Motorsports has competed at Rockingham Speedway a combined four times in the NOAPS. In those starts at the 1.017-mile oval, the organization has recorded one win, one top-five and one top-10. The average finish is 12.8.
