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Buescher on racing at Indy:

For Michael McDowell and the No. 34 Horizon Hobby team, confidence has been a key to good runs on road courses this season. Starting off with some frustration at COTA during practice and qualifying, the team quickly found success on race day and their confidence translated to a top-five at Sonoma and a top-10 at Road America.

Ruedebusch Development and Construction returns to the No. 38 Ford Mustang this weekend as NASCAR Cup Series rookie Todd Gilliland competes in his first race on the Indianapolis (Ind.) Motor Speedway road course.

Harvick’s second career road-course win also had a connection to Stewart. When Harvick won at Sonoma in 2017, he gave Stewart-Haas Racing its second straight victory at the 1.99-mile, 10-turn road course.

Joey Logano started 14th and finished 20th in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway. The driver of the Verizon Ford Mustang struggled with balance issues much of the day.

Almirola earned his 11th top-15 of the season and his sixth top-15 in 20 career NASCAR Cup Series starts at Pocono.

CHASE ELLIOTT, NO. 9 NAPA AUTO PARTS CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 3rd - “Yeah, definitely a bit of a battle for our NAPA team today. I’m pretty happy with third after that."

Denny Hamlin drove his Toyota Camry TRD to his third win of the 2022 season and 49th of his career in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) race at Pocono Raceway.

MICHAEL MCDOWELL, No. 34 Fr8Auctions.com Ford Mustang (Finished 8th) - “It was a good day. I had a couple good restarts that got us track position, then I had one really bad one where we got hit in the left rear and about spun out and went back to last."

Three Chevrolet drivers qualified their Camaro ZL1’s into the top-10, led by Chase Elliott and the No. 9 NAPA Auto Parts Camaro ZL1 team in the third position. This marks Elliott’s fifth top-10 start at Pocono Raceway; and his 12th top-10 start of 2022.