Three major incidents to the Furniture Row Racing team in Sunday’s Sprint Cup Series race spoiled a tenacious driving performance by Kurt Busch, who saw a potential top-five or better result dissipate to a 25th-place finish at Kansas Speedway.
Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway set a track record and a Sprint Cup season high for caution flags with 14, and Trevor Bayne and the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion were among those victimized by wrecks on the newly repaved track.
Philip Morris held off Lee Pulliam in a final six-lap sprint to the finish to win the Virginia is for Racing Lovers 300 at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday, but it was a gutsy decision on a late restart that proved to be the difference in the race for the four-time NASCAR Whelen All-American Series national champion.
Paul Menard led the Team Chevy train across the finish line in third place at the close of a crash-infested Hollywood Casino 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race today at Kansas Speedway. This was the second top-10 finish in eight races at Kansas for Menard, driver of the No. 27 Menard's/Certain Teed Insulation Chevrolet. There were 14 caution flags for 66 of the 267-lap race; most of which were brought out by accidents. Menard managed to steer clear of the melee, and led the field once for a total of six laps.
Matt Kenseth took the checkered flag for the 24th time in his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career with today's win. It marks the first time Kenseth has won a Cup race at Kansas Speedway.
Camry driver Martin Truex Jr. (second) was the first Toyota driver to the finish line in Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Kansas Speedway.
PAUL MENARD, NO. 27 CERTAINTEED INSULATION/MENARDS CHEVROLET - FINISHED THIRD - ON HIS RACE: "We had Slugger (Labbe, crew chief) back this weekend. He is well rested after six weeks off, and had some good ideas to try this weekend. Our Rheem Chevrolet in the Nationwide (Series) was probably the best car yesterday. And, our CertainTeed/Menards today was good too. It's a game of track position, and we had a good car. It was just a matter of getting us up there and having good pit stops and gained track position. Once we got up there, we just couldn't hang on."
Brad Keselowski (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger R/T) Finished Eighth WHAT WAS THAT RACE LIKE TODAY? “I don’t even know how to explain it. I’m ready to go home and have a couple beers. It’s just a long day. Everybody has been asking all season long where have all the cautions been? The answer is that they flew to Kansas because there was caution after caution and it seemed like every wreck today seemed to happen in front of me. I’m glad to survive the carnage and brought back a decent car, the Miller Lite Dodge, in OK shape and dodged a bullet. That’s the only way that I can describe it. Whew! Just a tough day.”
Matt Kenseth dominated the later moments of Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway to give Roush Fenway the weekend sweep at the newly-paved 1.5-mile track; RFR’s Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won the Nationwide race at Kansas on Saturday.
MATT KENSETH, No. 17 Zest Ford Fusion – VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW – YOUR SECOND TIME WINNING IN THREE WEEKS, THAT WAS ONE WHALE OF A RIDE TODAY. “It was up and down and our Zest Ford was pretty darn good."
Zilisch was originally scheduled to race at Texas Motor Speedway in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series race last year, but sat out due to the late-race Talladega crash, which resulted in a back injury.
One day after veterans dominated the speed chart, rookie Caio Collet rode the aerodynamic wave to the fastest overall speed of the Indianapolis 500 Open Test on Wednesday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
