NASCAR Cup Series

After sweeping the NASCAR XFINITY and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Daytona International Speedway last weekend, Ford Performance heads to Kentucky for its only visit of the season. Brad Keselowski, who is the only Ford driver with a NSCS win at the 1.5-mile track, will be looking to make it two straight after taking the checkered flag Saturday night in the Coke Zero 400.

“I hate that I...” I love that phrase. It is the prelude to expressing some measure of regret for some on track transgression in the hopes that these mere words will make everything alright. For instance, "I hate that I got into Kurt [Busch] there at the end racing to the line.” So says Joey Logano after Busch got dumped on the final lap, crossing the line spinning backward in 23rd place Saturday night at Daytona.

Let it be known that I hate restrictor plate racing. Between the XFINITY and Cup races, it was pile up after pile up. If you're a fan, you might as well save the money, go to the County Fair and go see the demolition derby.

The "Big One" struck and collected over half the field just past halfway through last night's race at the "World Center of Racing."

On a night at Daytona International Speedway in which Ford Fusions were the dominant cars, Ryan Blaney and his No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Fusion showed speed and skill en route to a 14th-place finish in the Coke Zero 400.

Austin Dillon Avoids Melee at Daytona International Speedway to Finish Seventh. "Andy (Houston, spotter) worked really hard there at the end of the race to gain us track position."

Recap: Brad Keselowski scored his first career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) win at Daytona International Speedway in the No. 2 Detroit Genuine Parts Ford Fusion on Saturday night.

After a costly miscue on a green flag pit stop early in the race, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. persevered to drive his Fifth Third Ford to a fifth-place finish in Saturday night’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway. Stenhouse is just 17 points shy of 16th place in the point standings.

Greg Biffle posted a qualifying lap speed of 192.955 MPH, earning himself the pole position for the Coke Zero 400 in his No. 16 Ford EcoBoost Ford. Biffle got shuffled back in the pack mid-race and just when he was making his move to the front “the big one” unfolded, collecting him and 21 other cars. Despite multiple pit stops for repairs, Biffle was able to earn an eighth-place finish.

It would have taken more than a Houdini act for Martin Truex Jr. to escape the 22-car melee Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway.