NASCAR O'Reilly Series

Bubba Wallace, driver of the No. 6 Bleacher Report Ford Mustang, finished ninth on Saturday night in the NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Kentucky Speedway.

Erik Jones (eighth) was the top-finishing Toyota driver in Saturday night’s NASCAR XFINTY Series (NXS) race at Kentucky Speedway. Ryan Blaney won the race.

Ryan Blaney would not be denied Saturday night at Kentucky Speedway. In fact, Blaney may owe a pushing Regan Smith dinner after a green-white-checkered restart proved to be the saving grace for the driver of the No. 22 Discount Tire Ford Mustang, who won his second NASCAR XFINITY Series win of the season in Saturday night’s VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300.

With only seven races left on the 2015 schedule for the NASCAR XFINITY Series, Ty Dillon enters this weekend sitting second in points, 25 points behind Chris Buescher. It goes without saying that the driver of the No. 3 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing would like to start gaining points on the Roush Fenway Racing driver as we start to close out the season.

Brandon Jones will return to Richard Childress Racing in 2016 as a full-time driver in the NASCAR XFINITY Series for the Welcome, N.C. organization.

Roush Fenway Racing will honor the courageous fight of 10-year old Elijah Aschenbrenner this weekend, running special “Driven for Elijah” decals on all seven of its NASCAR Fords in races at Kentucky Speedway and New Hampshire Speedway.

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the Camping World Truck Series will race this weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway while the XFINITY Series travels to Kentucky Speedway.

Ross Chastain will be looking to improve upon his Kentucky Speedway finish earlier this year when the Xfinity Series races at the 1.5-mile track in Saturday’s VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300.

Harrison Rhodes wants to work “full time” at this week’s Kentucky Speedway race. On the series’ spring visit to the track, Rhodes ran only 90 laps before parking his JD Motorsports with Gary Keller Chevrolet with electrical problems. He finished 35th.

Michael Self returns to the cockpit of the JD Motorsports with Gary Keller No. 01 Chevrolet this week for the VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 at Kentucky Speedway.