NASCAR Cup Series

Kansas Preview: The Series heads to Kansas Speedway this Sunday for the next cut-off race in the 2017 NASCAR Playoffs that will narrow down the Playoffs field from twelve to eight competitors. Hamlin currently sits fifth in the Playoff points standings, and will be looking to get a win at Kansas to secure his spot in the Round of 8. He last won at the 1.5-mile track in 2012, and has captured four top-five and five top-10 finishes in 18 career starts there. Hamlin was caught up in an incident in the closing laps of the race earlier this year at Kansas, resulting in a 23rd-place finish.

Leavine Family Racing (LFR) and Michael McDowell are confident returning to Kansas Speedway, where they earned one of their best finishes of the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) season.

Aric Almirola didn't leave Kansas Speedway the way he wanted in the spring after an accident in the race sidelined him for eight weeks. A track where he and the No. 43 Smithfield Ford team have shown speed, Almirola hopes to return to a good finish this weekend. Fully healed from his injury and back at it, he has no hesitation getting back on track.

With five races remaining in the 2017 NASCAR Cup Series season, Erik Jones and the No. 77 5-hour ENERGY Toyota team return to Kansas Speedway for the Hollywood Casino 400 with a couple of points to prove.

Stephanie Wood from AmericanMuscle.com revisits AM staff project Coyote in this episode of AM’s Hot Lap.  Being a fan of big power adders, Steph shows you the ins and outs of installing a Vortech V-3 Si-Trim supercharger kit in an attempt to wake this S197 up a little bit.

Ryan Blaney and the Wood Brothers Racing Team need another strong performance this weekend in the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway to maintain or improve on their current seventh-place position and transfer to the next round of the NASCAR Playoffs.

DARLINGTON, S.C. – Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Martin Truex Jr. and partner Sherry Pollex have been selected as the third quarter recipients of the National Motorsports Press Association’s Pocono Spirit Award.

At the start of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Playoffs, three drivers stood out as the top title contenders come the finale at Homestead-Miami: Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Larson, and Kyle Busch, who had been turning his season around at the right time. 

“Kansas is a great racetrack for me. That place has widened out pretty good and you can run against the fence there, which is a line that I like to run. It’s a very fast racetrack and very smooth – a lot of fun, so we should have a good time.” Dale Earnhardt Jr. on racing at Kansas

Trevor Bayne will make his seventh Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) start at Kansas this weekend. Bayne earned his best finish of 10th at the 1.5-mile oval in the May 2017 event.