SM Staff

In the first practice ahead of Wednesday night’s Velocity Prairie Thunder 250 at Auto Clearing Motor Speedway, it’d be Scott Steckly topping the charts with a lap of 14.866 seconds.

Austin Hill, a 21 year old driver from Georgia and member of the NASCAR Next Class of 2015, will be taking his next step by racing in New Hampshire in the K&N Pro Series East race this weekend. Hill is racing full time in that series, as well as competing for the championship in his family-owned team.

After dealing with inclement weather, qualifying cancellation due to rain, weepers on the track and a new aero package, here is what else was surprising and not surprising from the Quaker State 400 Presented by Advance Auto Parts at Kentucky Speedway.

Leading the majority of the laps and having the whole field a lap down, Sebastien Bourdais was the class of the field en route to scoring the victory in the ABC Supply Co. Inc. Wisconsin 250 at the Milwaukee Mile.

For the second race in the span of four days, a driver has gotten up into the catchfence at a race track.

Even with only one top-five in four starts at Kentucky Speedway, Carl Edwards admits that he is a fan of Kentucky Speedway and hopes that he can have a good run on Saturday night after crashing out of the past two events.

Following a dramatic, three-wide battling all race long event at Auto Club Speedway, the Verizon IndyCar Series will return to the track this weekend with the ABC Supply Co. Inc. Wisconsin 250 at Milwaukee IndyFest. With the oval being shorter and less banked, the racing should be more tame with less three-wide racing, but still highly competitive with the depth of competition in the field.

Ever wonder about those engineers atop the pit box next to the crew chiefs working away on their computers during the race? This week’s NASCAR Behind the Scenes focuses on one such engineer, Tom Gray, who works with Jeff Gordon’s Hendrick Motorsports Team 24.

With drivers wishing their teams good morning due to the night race that went into the wee hours of the next morning, here is what else was surprising and not surprising from the Coke Zero 400 on the July 4th, 2015 holiday weekend.

Everyone has to still be stunned to see Austin Dillon walk away from the horrifying last-lap crash that sent his No. 3 Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet flipping into the catch fence at the end of the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona.