NASCAR Cup Series

Kevin Harvick, No. 4 Busch Beer Ford Fusion: Finished 5th “This is a great weekend for our Busch/Jimmy John’s Ford. The guys did a great job. They made it a little better than it was in practice. They executed on pit road all day and did all the little things right. We didn’t have the speed that the Toyota’s had through the center of the corner. As the long run would go that gap got wider as we got worse. We hung in there and fought all day and everyone did a good job to get us a good finish.”

After starting in the rear of the field, Kyle Larson and the No. 42 Target Chevrolet SS team rebounded to earn a runner-up finish in the Overton’s 301 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The run was the career best finish for Larson in seven races at the Magic Mile.

KYLE LARSON, NO. 42 TARGET CHEVROLET SS – Finished 2nd - IS IT BEGINNING TO GET FRUSTRATING HAVING TO WORK FROM THE BACK TO THE FRONT ONLY TO NOT BE ABLE TO PASS THE LAST ONE? “It’s a little frustrating what we have had to go through the last couple of weeks, but it’s pretty awesome to be able to run as fast as we have and finish second the last two weeks from dead last. I’m proud of our team, proud of everybody at our race shop. I can’t thank my sponsors Target, Credit One Bank and all of our other supporters enough for what they do for our team. It’s been a lot of fun these last couple of weeks to be as fast as we have been, so keep working hard at it and maybe we can get some more wins.”

Camry driver Kyle Busch was victorious in Saturday afternoon’s rain-delayed NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Busch’s victory marks his 175th combined NASCAR national touring series race – including 154 triumphs in a Toyota.

Kyle Busch topped the chart in final Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Martin Truex Jr. topped the chart in second Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Martin Truex Jr. was declared the Coors Light Pole Award winner Friday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, taking the No. 1 starting position after Kyle Larson’s apparent pole-winning lap was disallowed.

Seven-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion, Jimmie Johnson, led the way for Team Chevy in qualifying at New Hampshire Motor Speedway placing his No. 48 Lowe’s Chevy SS on the outside pole for Sunday’s Overton’s 301. Johnson posted a lap of 28.705 seconds/132.688 mph around the 1-mile track. A three-time winner at NHMS, Johnson will make his best start of the 2017 when he takes the green flag from the second starting spot.

MARTIN TRUEX JR., No. 78 WIX Filters Toyota Camry, Furniture Row Racing - Starting Position: 2nd - Are you enjoying the rivalry with Kyle Larson this year? “Oh yeah, it’s been fun. His car’s fast and he’s a good driver and it’s been fun racing with him and practice we were one, two and now qualifying we’re one, two, so yeah. I just I thought we had a little advantage there on tires, you know? We only ran one lap in the first two rounds and I just didn’t quite have it there that third round. Just a little bit too tight, but all in all it was a really good day. Excited to have WIX on the car for the first time this year and hopefully we’ll give them a good run on Sunday.”

KYLE LARSON, NO. 42 TARGET CHEVROLET SS – Pole Winner - YOU USED TO STAY THIS WAS ONE OF YOUR WORST TRACKS… “We haven’t got to the race yet. No, our Target Chevy has been really fast all day. It has a lot of speed. Like I really don’t have to drive that hard and it just makes a lot of speed. So, that is good. We are missing Chad (Johnston, crew chief) this weekend and for the next couple of weeks, so good to rebound with a pole. That is pretty strong out of our organization. I’ve got a great lineup of guys and gals. Hats off to everybody at the shop. It’s been so much fun this year. I have never really been a great qualifier, but this is our fourth pole of the season. Hopefully, we can keep it going and figure out where our car works best in the VHT or PJ1 or whatever they are calling it this weekend and hope we have a good race on Sunday.”