NASCAR Cup Series

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will be racing at the Kentucky Speedway, under the lights, this Saturday night. The Quaker State 400 marks only the second time NASCAR's elite series has raced on the speedway's 1.5 mile oval.

The 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup season will be the first time that Matt Kenseth is not driving for Roush Fenway Racing (RFR). It was announced earlier this week that Kenseth will be leaving RFR at the end of the season and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will be replacing him in 2013.

KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 29 BUDWEISER FOLDS OF HONOR CHEVROLET met with members of the media at Kentucky Speedway and discussed the recent struggles of the No. 29 Chevrolet team, running double duty this weekend and the challenges of practicing during the day; racing at night and other topics.

EXPRESS NOTES: Sonoma Recap: Denny Hamlin finished 35th in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on the road course in Sonoma, Calif., following an on-track incident and broken suspension, forced to retire after 98 of 110 laps in the event won by Clint Bowyer.

TMone, a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm and leader in driving new jobs in South Dakota and Iowa, is jumping on board with Tommy Baldwin Racing (TBR) and the No. 10 Outsourcing in the USA @TMone Chevrolet driven by David Reutimann in this weekend’s Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway.

Brad Keselowski (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger R/T) YOU ARE RUNNING ALL THREE RACES HERE AT KENTUCKY SPEEDWAY THIS WEEKEND. IS THIS THE FIRST TIME YOU’VE DONE THAT? “Second time. I can’t remember where the other place was. You know there certainly would have been easier weekends to do that.”

Multi-platinum Grammy-winning superstars Train, whose hits include “Hey Soul Sister” and the smash hit “Drive By” from their new album California 37, will be performing an hour-long pre-race concert prior to the 54th annual Coke Zero 400.

A recent, first of its kind study published in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research proved definitively that not only are athletic skills needed behind the wheel of a stock car, but also that there is a significant correlation between performance on the track and the length of resistance training sessions.

From the land of wine, as well as left and right turns, here is what was surprising and not surprising from the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma.

Johnson posted his eighth top-5 finish of the year with a fifth in the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma. He is fourth in the standings, 25 out of first.