Tissot, a manufacturer of Swiss watches since 1853, will be the primary sponsor on Danica Patrick’s No. 7 Tissot / GoDaddy.com Chevrolet in Saturday's NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan.
Biffle on racing at Kansas Speedway: “We don’t really know yet what to expect with the new surface at Kansas, but I’m excited about our chances coming off how good we ran at Charlotte. I think it will be like Michigan and Charlotte, which is right up our alley. Our cars are fast at those types of tracks, we’ll have to wait and see what happens this weekend.”
Last weekend, Joey Logano finished ninth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The result marked Logano’s fourth top-10 finish in the first five Chase races in the 2012 season. Logano has now grabbed top-10 finishes in five of his last eight Sprint Cup Series races dating back to Bristol Motor Speedway, where Logano led 139 laps and finished eighth.
Kenseth on racing at Kansas Speedway: “They did a really nice job with the repave at Kansas Speedway. They put a little bit more banking in it and the track was really smooth when we went out there for our test. It reminded me a lot of Las Vegas after they changed that track."
This Week's American Ethanol Toyota ... Kenny Wallace will pilot RAB Racing with Brack Maggard chassis No. 42 in Saturday's NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Kansas Speedway. A workhorse of the RAB Racing stable, this Toyota Camry has raced nine times in 2012, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Auto Club Speedway in March, at Texas Motor Speedway in April, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May, at Michigan International Speedway and Kentucky Speedway in June, at Iowa Speedway in August, and at Richmond International Raceway in September.
Kansas Speedway has a newly-repaved track with a change to progressive banking waiting for the NASCAR Nationwide Series upon their arrival this weekend.
Because of a change in partnership status for this weekend’s NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Kansas Speedway, JD Motorsports has been forced to not enter Chrissy Wallace in the team’s No. 4 Chevrolet as originally planned.
Following the April event at Kansas Speedway, the 1.5-mile track was repaved and reconfigured with the corners now featuring variable banking up to 20 degrees. Two-time and inaugural Kansas Speedway winner Gordon does not know what to expect ahead of Sunday's Hollywood Casino 400.
The NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) will make its first and only trip of the year to the freshly resurfaced Kansas Speedway this Saturday afternoon. This will mark Buescher’s second trip to the Kansas 1.5-mile oval in 2012. In April, Buescher drove his Chevrolet Silverado into victory lane for his first career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) win.
DREAM NATIONWIDE SERIES SEASON CONTINUES ON: Just last weekend, Joey Logano uttered the words “if you had told me before the year, running a part-time schedule that we could win eight races, I would have probably have told you that you were crazy.”
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.
