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While Kyle Busch is a two-time Brickyard 400 champion on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval, he’s poised to take on a different challenge as the NASCAR Cup Series heads to Indianapolis for Sunday’s Verizon 200 at the Brickyard.

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The 24-year-old from Ladera Ranch, California, will be making his 97th career Cup Series start during Sunday’s 82-lap, 200-mile race, and his second on the 2.439-mile, 14-turn Indianapolis circuit.

Indianapolis will be the hub of racing activity this weekend as all three of NASCAR’s top touring series compete.

Keselowski on racing at Indy: “We’ve got another great challenge on our hands this weekend with a configuration that is still very new to all of us."

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.