NASCAR Cup Series

With the championship Chase looming and all the talk focusing on other drivers like Jeff Gordon and Carl Edwards potentially scrapping their way in, one driver, Paul Menard, sits quietly in contention.

MARTIN TRUEX, JR., No. 56 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing How much do you enjoy racing at New Hampshire? "It's always exciting for me to come up here. We've got a lot of family history here with my dad winning back in '94 and me coming up through the Busch North Series ranks up here."

Each race weekend, selected SRT Motorsports Engineers, Penske Racing engineers and crew chiefs, drivers or engine specialists give their insight on the ‘Keys for Success’ for the upcoming race. This week, Howard Comstock, SRT Motorsports Engineering, provides the keys for Sunday’s Sprint Cup race.

There was no doubt that Kevin Harvick was anxious last weekend at Daytona with his wife DeLana ready to bring the child known as ‘Baby Otis’ into the world and his race car ready to run under the lights.

While Eddie D’Hondt has done just about everything in his career, from racing modifieds in the Northeast to spotting for four-time champion Jeff Gordon, he is absolutely sure of one thing.

Sam Hornish Jr. (No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger R/T) Qualified 24th HOW WAS YOUR QUALIFYING LAP? “Not quite as well as I would have liked for it to have been. We were a little bit too tight in the center of the corner, just couldn’t roll the center like we needed to for speed."

1st, KYLE BUSCH 18th, BOBBY LABONTE 3rd, DENNY HAMLIN 29th, LANDON CASSILL 4th, MARTIN TRUEX JR. 30th, TRAVIS KVAPIL 5th, CLINT BOWYER 34th, JOE NEMECHEK 15th, BRIAN VICKERS 38th, JJ YELEY 16th, JOEY LOGANO 40th, DAVID STREMME

Kasey Kahne narrowly missed placing his No. 5 Farmers Insurance Chevrolet in the top spot for Sunday’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301 and collecting his third pole of 2012.

By just 0.003 and 0.004 seconds respectively, Kyle Busch, in the No. 18 Interstate Batteries Toyota, nudged both Kasey Kahne and Denny Hamlin out of the way to score the pole for the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

KASEY KAHNE, NO. 5 FARMERS INSURANCE CHEVROLET – QUALIFIED SECOND HOW WAS YOUR LAP? “It was really good the car felt great. It felt great in practice today and it was just a little edgy getting into the corner."