Fresh off his first win of the season at Clay County Fair Speedway on September 12, Kraig Kinser returns to his home state of Indiana this week for a busy stretch of four races that will see the World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series race twice on Hoosier soil, along with stops in Ohio and Pennsylvania. For Kinser, the victory came after several strong runs had been thwarted by bad luck over the last few weeks.
BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion -- TALK ABOUT HOW THINGS PLAYED OUT FOR YOU TODAY. “I guess you couldn't ask for a better way to start the Chase other than starting up front. Just phenomenal with the way things played out. I don't know if we were the fastest car. There were some runs where I thought we were really fast and then some runs where I thought the 4 and the 42 were really fast. It was so hard to tell. Whoever had the cleanest air was really at such an advantage."
In the opening playoff round of the 10-race Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Jeff Gordon powered his No. 24 Drive to End Hunger Chevrolet SS to a second place finish in the MyAbFibStory.com at Chicagoland Speedway. Gordon led the 267-lap event four times, for 26 laps; marking his ninth top-10 finish in 14 races on the 1.5-mile tri-oval. It was his 18th top-10 finish of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.
Denny Hamlin (sixth) was the highest-finishing Toyota driver in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Chicagoland Speedway that was won by Brad Keselowski.
JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 DRIVE TO END HUNGER CHEVROLET SS – Finished 2nd - HOW MUCH FUN WAS THAT BATTLE WITH KYLE LARSON? “Oh my gosh. I was having a pretty good time watching him and Kevin (Harvick) go at it in front of me. I didn’t know what was going to happen."
BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion: Finished 1st “I am not really sure what to say. I don’t really know what happened I just know we got to the lead. There was traffic and I was just digging and in the zone. The recorder was turned off so I don’t remember what happened. I had my head down doing all I could do. We had a great Miller Lite Ford Fusion that I knew from the start would be good but man it was really awesome the last few runs."
Martin Truex Jr. and Furniture Row Racing took advantage of a break late in the race as the single car team dashed from two laps down to a 14th-place finish in Sunday’s Sprint Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway.
A total of 23 Team Chevy drivers will start the MyAFibStory.com 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Chicagoland Speedway. The 267-lap, 400.5-mile event is scheduled to begin on Sunday September 14 at 1:00 p.m. CT (2:00 E.T) Live coverage will be available on ESPN, MRN, Sirius NASCAR Radio Channel 90 and NASCAR.com.www.nascar.com.
After scoring his career-best NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) finish just weeks ago at Michigan International Speedway, Tayler Malsam had high hopes as he returned to the No. 32 Redbox Chevrolet at Chicagoland Speedway. However, contact from another competitor forced Malsam and his TSM team to spend a significant amount of time on pit road to repair damage, which ultimately regulated them to a 23rd-place finish, multiple laps down.
Making his fourth-career NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) start at Chicagoland Speedway on Saturday afternoon, Kyle Larson came up just short of the win, crossing the finish line in second position while scoring his career-best finish at the 1.5-mile track.
Final event in The Chase, the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series postseason that features the top ten drivers in the regular season standings competing for the 2026 championship.
The 24-year-old native of Washington, D.C. will return to JR Motorsports and drive the No. 88 Chevrolet on a full-time basis for the 2027 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series season.
Carson Hocevar and Josh Berry being fined and docked 25 points apiece for brake-checking a pair of Team Penske competitors highlights the penalty report from NASCAR's penultimate race weekend festivities in Ridgeway, Virginia.
