NASCAR O'Reilly Series

SPARTA, Ky. -- Justin Allgaier leaves the Bluegrass State as the points leader, but doing so required rallying from an early flat tire and falling two laps down.

SPARTA, Ky. -- Tyler Reddick's entire No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing XFINITY Series team will enjoy a free vacation to Myrtle Beach, thanks to his overtake of Ryan Preece just past halfway to win the VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 at Kentucky Speedway.

RYAN PREECE, No. 20 Hurricane Relief Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Can you tell us a little bit about your hurricane relief paint scheme and what it means to you? "Well, first off, it's pretty cool that it's Toyota For Good, and Toyota USA is based out of Texas, and I believe what they're doing is they actually are supporting the American Red Cross, which is on our hood, and you can text 90999, and if you type "Red Cross" to it, it'll donate $10, and that's a great ‑‑ it's such a great thing to do, and to support Texas right now because of the hurricane, and every little bit helps. It's great, and obviously having Toyota, it's always driving forward, always moving forward, so it's a great opportunity to be here in Kentucky, and hopefully we can win."

Ryan Reed secured his position in the 2017 NASCAR XFINITY Series Playoffs with his win in his No. 16 Lilly Diabetes Ford Mustang in the season opener at Daytona International Speedway.  The 2017 Playoffs kick off this Saturday night at Kentucky Speedway and Reed has his eyes on a solid finish to set the tone for the remainder of the season and to advance through the Playoff field.

The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series travels to New Hampshire Motor Speedway for the second playoff race in the Round of 16. They are joined by the Camping World Truck Series as it begins its playoff series with the Round of 8. The NASCAR XFINITY Series heads to Kentucky Speedway for its first playoff race in the Round of 12.

Richard Childress Racing at New Hampshire Motor Speedway ... Richard Childress has four victories as a team owner at New Hampshire Motor Speedway with Robby Gordon (2001), Kevin Harvick (2006) and Clint Bowyer (2007 and 2010). In 121 starts at the 1.058-mile oval, Childress also has two pole awards, 16 top-five and 40 top-10 finishes with 10 different drivers including Dave Blaney, Jeff Burton, Bowyer, Austin Dillon, Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Green, Gordon, Harvick, Ryan Newman, Steve Park and Mike Skinner.

Today was NASCAR Playoff Media Day in Charlotte, NC, with Ford contenders Ryan Reed of Roush Fenway Racing and Cole Custer of Stewart-Haas Racing participating.  Here are transcripts from their interviews earlier this afternoon.

"I think for myself I’ve tried to keep expectations realistic and I know that I’m improving as a driver and I know that I need to get more laps and good experience, but I think we’re in a spot now being in the Playoffs we can focus our efforts into going as deep as we can and hopefully being in Miami at the end of the year."

Saturday night’s NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Kentucky Speedway will mark Ryan Reed’s eighth start at the 1.5-mile track.  In his previous seven starts, Reed’s best finish of seventh came in the fall of 2016.

"I'm really looking forward to going back to Kentucky (Speedway) this weekend. We had a 13th-place finish there in July and brought home some really valuable data and notes that we can use to prepare for this race. Hopefully we get more practice time this weekend unlike last time with the bad weather and getting only one practice session in."