NASCAR Cup Series

Pocono Raceway and Microsoft announced today the renaming of the annual August NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race held at “The Tricky Triangle” as the Windows 10 400. The Windows 10 400 race weekend will take place from July 31st to August 2nd, just two days after the launch of Windows 10. For the first time ever, Microsoft’s popular operating system will be offered as a free upgrade* to customers with qualified Windows 7 and Windows 8 devices.

With the race running in temperatures hot enough to boil a lobster, here is what was surprising and not surprising from the 23rd annual 5-Hour Energy 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Welcome to the Busch Chronicles. Brother Kurt missed the opening three races of the season, won a couple and quickly qualified for a Chase place by being well within the Top 30 in points on the season. Brother Kyle missed the opening 11 events of the season after suffering a broken leg in the XFINITY race at Daytona.

A Top-15 finish Sunday afternoon at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway has now placed Richard Petty Motorsports (RPM) back onto the Chase Grid. Aric Almirola and the No. 43 Smithfield Ford team finished 15th and is now the 16th-seeded driver in the Chase with seven races left before the grid is locked.

Go Green Racing (GGR) announced today that Josh Wise will make his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) debut with GGR in the No.32 Ford Fusion at Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend. Brandeis Machinery will proudly partner with GGR and Wise.

In winning for the third time in eight starts since returning from an 11-race injury absence, Busch solidified his chances of qualifying for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup with a serendipitous victory in the 5-Hour ENERGY 301 at the Magic Mile.

Greg Biffle spent the majority of Sunday afternoon’s race from New Hampshire Motor Speedway searching for grip in his No. 16 Safety-Kleen Ford. Biffle qualified 14th but lost track position while searching for grip and front turn. Biffle gambled late in the race once handling improved by taking the “wave around” to get back on the lead lap, but the cautions never fell his way resulting in a 27th-place finish.

With less than 50 laps remaining in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup (NSCS) race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. came down pit road under caution running in the ninth position but a lug nut knocked the valve stem off his right front tire causing Stenhouse to return to pit road for an unscheduled pit stop. After restarting 21st, Stenhouse bullied his way back to pick up four additional positions in the final laps to take the checkered flag in the 17th place.

Defending NASCAR Sprint Cup champion, Kevin Harvick, led the way for Team Chevy in the 5-Hour Energy 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) by piloting his No. 4 Jimmy John’s/Budweiser Chevy SS across the finish line in third place. A strong contender in the 43-car field, Harvick led 59 of 301 laps at the flat track in Loudon known as the ‘Magic Mile’.

Martin Truex Jr.'s 12th-place finish could be summarized as either disappointing or impressive, it's just a matter of which way one would assess the final result in Sunday's Sprint Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.