JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S CHEVROLET, met with members of the media at Daytona International Speedway and discussed his qualifying lap, overheating issues in this weekend’s race and other topics.
BRAD KESELOWSKI (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger R/T) Qualified 10th TALK ABOUT YOUR QUALIFYING LAP: "You try not to put too much stock in qualifying at a plate track. I'm usually a 13th to 18th-place qualifier at this place so it looks like we'll beat that today."
Roush Fenway enters this weekend’s race at Daytona International Speedway looking for its third consecutive win in the Sprint Cup Series at the famed 2.5-mile superspeedway.
Officials of the International Motorsports Hall of Fame announced today that former NASCAR Champion and ESPN Auto Racing Analyst, Rusty Wallace, has been elected to the hall's 2013 class. Joining Wallace in the class is car owner Rick Hendrick, former crew chief Dale Inman and drag racer, Don Schumacher.
Each race weekend, SRT Motorsports Engineer Howard Comstock gives his insight on the ‘Keys for Success’ for the upcoming race. This week’s focus is on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
Brad Keselowski (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger R/T) YOU DIDN’T RUN THE SECOND CUP SERIES PRACTICE THIS AFTERNOON. IS THAT A SIGN THAT YOU’RE HAPPY WITH YOUR RACE CAR? “Yeah. We had it planned before practice started and sometimes things go by plan."
DENNY HAMLIN, No. 11 FedEx Office Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing What is your outlook this weekend at Daytona with your back issues? "Lucky that we are at Daytona in the sense of as important as practices are for the Cup Series, at this track they're not as important"
Roush Fenway Keselowski (RFK) Racing wasn’t fueling around in Talladega Sunday. Brad Keselowski was the mastermind of a Stage One strategy that became the talk of the race.
The reigning two-time Cup Series champion from Elk Grove, California, led 23 of 189-overscheduled laps and went from 11th to 1st in half of the final lap during an overtime shootout to score his first superspeedway victory and increase his points lead by 73 points with two-scheduled events remaining.