Kevin Harvick ran away with the O’Reilly Auto Parts Challenge 300 win on Saturday night in Texas, but it was the battle for the championship that stole the show.
Denny Hamlin is no stranger to run-ins with young Nationwide Series drivers. Just Google or YouTube he and Brad Keselowski. He isn’t afraid to speak his mind either, even if his opinion might not be the popular or correct one. Rewind to Dover in 2010 following penalties handed down to Richard Childress Racing in the first Chase race.
Kevin Harvick won the 8th Annual O'Reilly Auto Parts Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway for his 39th victory in his NASCAR Nationwide Series career and the second of the season.
Reddick won the race with Corey LaJoie finishing second. Darrell Wallace Jr. came from the back after his penalty to finish in the third position. Coleman Pressley and Jesse Little rounded out the top five, finishing fourth and fifth, respectively.
Johnny Sauter won Friday nights NASCAR Camping World Truck Series WinStar World Casino 350 at Texas Motor Speedway. Sauter took over the lead with 11 laps remaining and captured his second win of the season (both at Texas) and the sixth of his career.
Larry Barford Jr., driver of the No. 86 Trauma Doc Chevrolet for Deware Racing Group, will compete in the K&N Pro Series East race Saturday at Rockingham Speedway in the Classic 3 Championship presented by RCR Racing Museum. His car will feature a pink and white paint scheme with a pink bow on the side to promote Breast Cancer Awareness.
Last Saturday night, Corey LaJoie left Greenville Pickens Speedway on top of the world. He had just celebrated his fifth win of the season and was leading the points standings in the K&N Pro East Series. The final race of the season was only one week away at Rockingham Speedway and the opportunity to win a championship was within his grasp.
Jimmie Johnson captured the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway with a lap of 191.076 MPH (28.261 SECS). Johnson also captured the pole last week at Martinsville and won the race.
Halfway through Saturday’s Kroger 200 at Martinsville the championship hopes of James Buescher were slowing slipping away. Buescher was dropping through the field and soon a lap down as his No. 31 Great Clips Chevrolet refused to grip the racetrack.
CHRIS BUESCHER, No. 17 Kroger/Minute Rice Ford Mustang Dark Horse – “This is what we come to the racetrack for every week is to figure out how to put a trophy up on the shelf and bring the team to Victory Lane."
The 23-year-old Hocevar from Portage, Michigan, clocked in a pole-winning lap at 186.598 mph in 48.232 seconds for his fourth Cup career pole at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The 2020 Truck Series champion from Alpine, California, clocked in a pole-winning lap at 169.591 mph in 53.069 seconds for his first O'Reilly pole of 2026 at Indianapolis.
