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Blake Koch will be back behind the wheel of the No. 44 Centershot Camry this weekend at Kentucky Speedway. With five previous starts at the 1.5-Mile Tri-Oval, Koch is eager to aim for success on familiar ground. Koch has an average starting and finishing position of 31.0 and has turned over 420 laps in the Bluegrass State. During the spring outing, Koch brought home a 19th place finish.

Mike Bliss is ready to take on the 1.5-mile Tri-Oval of Kentucky Speedway. After a mechanical issue regulated Bliss to a 34th place finish earlier this season, he is ready for redemption in the Bluegrass State. With an average starting position of 16.6 and an average finishing position of 20.1, it is no surprise that Bliss has seen success at this track in his past 12 starts at the Speedway.

“New Hampshire is a track that I enjoy going to. It’s a track where you have to have a good handling car, you have to have track position and you have to have everything going right. If you get yourself stuck in the middle of the pack you’re not going to have a very good day unless you have a really good car.”

The recent NASCAR Richmond International Speedway event over the weekend of September 6th-7th did nothing to excite fans as far as racing was concerned, but there was one element of audience support that certainly got a few tongues wagging.

Dakoda Armstrong and the No. 43 WinField team will head to another mile-and-a-half track this weekend. The team continues to show improvement the second half of the season but feel they can take their mile-and-a-half program to the next level, which is what they hope to accomplish this weekend. The team will refer to their notes from their June test and race weekend.

Marcos Ambrose and the STANLEY Racing team have one objective: end the season with a win. Before Ambrose heads to Australia, he and the No. 9 team hope to check one more box off the list and get a win on an oval.

Aric Almirola and the No. 43 team had a strong showing in Chicago before an engine failure resulted in a 41st-place finish. Now 16th in points and 23 points outside of the Top-12, Almirola and the team are focused on winning in the next two races in order to advance to the Contender Round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.

Red Horse Racing at New Hampshire Motor Speedway... In 10 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series starts at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Red Horse Racing has earned one top-five and five top-10 finishes.

On the strength of back-to-back race victories, Brad Keselowski and the No. 2 Miller Lite Ford team enter this weekend as the leaders in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) championship. The team is the only one to claim five victories in 2014 NSCS competition. The consecutive victories mark Keselowski’s first ever two in a row and his 15th career win. It also ties his career-best mark of five wins in a season that he notched on the way to claiming the Cup title in 2012.

“We are aware of the completed investigation and the announced next steps. First, our thoughts continue to be with all who have been impacted by this tragedy. We will monitor this process and stay in close contact with Stewart-Haas Racing. It would be inappropriate for NASCAR to comment on this case so we will continue to respect the process and authorities involved.”