SM Staff

In the first day of the two-day Don Biederman Memorial weekend, it’d be Dwayne Baker picking up the victory in his No. 48 Zancor Homes, Innisfil Machine and Welding and Baker Performance Parts Super Late Model. It marks his first win this season in two starts this year.

For the second time this year, Brent McLean would take his No. 7 Home Building Centre (Bowmanville), Pro FX Signs, RN Manufacturing an McLean Farms to victory circle. It marks his second win so far this year after winning earlier this month at Barrie Speedway.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the Coors Light Pole award on Friday for the third annual Quaker State 400 presented by Advance Auto Parts. This marks Earnhardt Jr.’s first pole and third top-10 start in the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points season.

There are just ten races remaining before NASCAR enters it’s “playoff” season – the Chase for the Championship. After race No. 26, drivers that are in the top-10 in points are locked in and they are the drivers that are eligible to win the championship.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, KY this weekend for races in all of NASCAR’S top three touring series. Kentucky has hosted each of these series in past years beginning with the Camping World Truck Series in 2000 and most recently the Sprint Cup Series in 2011.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series heads to the Blue Grass State this weekend for the seventeenth race of the 2013 points season, the Quaker State 400, held on Saturday June 29th at Kentucky Speedway.

To the Bluegrass State we go this week for just the 3rd time in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history. Kentucky was the race which took away one of the two races at Atlanta Motor Speedway back in 2011.

JTG/Daugherty Racing recently made a temporary change that was unpopular in the eyes of fans. Removing former Sprint Cup Series champion, Bobby Labonte, in favor AJ Allmendinger. The move was intended to gain a new perspective on the team’s lack of performance.

Last weekend was a great weekend for the sport as Martin Truex Jr. snapped a 218-race winless streak that dated back to the Autism Speaks 400 at the Dover International Speedway in 2007. Truex’s first-career win was overshadowed partially due to the passing of Bill France Jr. earlier in the day.

Brad Keselowski won the 13th Annual Feed The Children 300, his 22nd victory in 197 NASCAR Nationwide Series races. This is his second victory and fourth top-10 finish in 2013. Elliott Sadler, Matt Crafton, Brian Vickers and Kyle Busch rounded out the top 5.