This week’s changes to qualifying procedures did not hurt Denny Hamlin’s strong start to the 2014 season. In Friday’s qualifying for the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Bristol Motor Speedway has caused dramatic finishes and some horrific incidents during its 53-year career in NASCAR. The short half mile track located in Bristol, Tennessee has lived through some of the worst and best moments in NASCAR history – and this weekend they can only further that resume.
This past weekend at Las Vegas, Regan Smith did not have the race that he was looking for. Coming off a pair of solid finishes to start the year and the points lead, Smith had high hopes in possibly contending for the win.
When you can tout an average finish of 1.67, as in the case of Dale Earnhardt Jr, or Brad Keselowski’s 2.33 you know you are doing something right. Each has a win, with Junior having a pair of runner up finishes compared to the two third place runs put in by the 2012 champion.
Another week in the books for this year's talented rookie class - another week met by struggles for each of them to endure. The 1.5-mile Las Vegas Motor Speedway produced some ill-handling cars that resulted in poor finishes for the class of talented drivers.
Earnhardt’s engine sputtered on the final lap at Las Vegas, allowing Brad Keselowski to pass for the win as fuel mileage cost the No. 88 its second win of the year. Still, Earnhardt has a win and two runner-ups, and leads Keselowski in the points standings by one.
The 23-year-old Hocevar from Portage, Michigan, clocked in a single qualifying lap at 191.340 mph in 28.222 seconds to claim his second consecutive Cup pole at the Lone Star state by 0.003 seconds over teammate Daniel Suarez.
LEGACY MOTOR CLUB driver John Hunter Nemechek was made available to the media on Saturday prior to the NASCAR Cup Series race from Texas Motor Speedway.
TRICON Garage teammates Kaden Honeycutt and Brandon Jones led the Toyota Tundra contingent with third and fourth-place results, respectively, on Friday night at Texas Motor Speedway.
Hocevar led a race-high 76 of 172 over-scheduled laps and prevailed in an overtime shootout to notch his sixth Truck Series career victory at the Lone Star state.
