NASCAR O'Reilly Series

High hopes for a good run by both the No. 01 G&K Services and No. 4 Tradebank Chevrolet teams of JD Motorsports with Gary Keller didn’t pan out the way they hoped in Friday night’s NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Kentucky Speedway.

Michael Annett started the 200-lap NASCAR Nationwide Series event at Kentucky Speedway from the ninth position, his best qualifying effort this season. Annett finished the Feed The Children 300 fourth.

“This just started off perfect last night at practice when we unloaded and were really happy with it. We tried something new on this Mustang and it was even better. We had a car that could run the bottom, run on the line and move up three grooves and we knew that is what we were going to need tonight after watching the truck race and seeing how hard it was to pass."

Camry driver Kurt Busch (second) was the highest-finishing Toyota driver in Friday evening's NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) race at Kentucky Speedway. Kurt Busch's top-10 performance on the 1.5-mile track was his ninth top-10 result of the season in just 10 NNS starts, including seven consecutive top-10 finishes.

Dillon would go on to dominate and bring the famous black No. 3, owned by Dillon's grandfather Richard Childress, back to victory lane, scoring his first win in 26 starts in the NASCAR Nationwide Series.

Driver Austin Dillon delivered his first NASCAR Nationwide Series Kentucky Speedway pole award and will lead tonight’s 43-car Feed The Children 300 field to the 7:30 p.m. green flag after turning a 172.199 mph (31.359 seconds) lap in the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing (RCR) car.

Defending Feed The Children 300 champion Brad Keselowski led the final NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) practice session at Kentucky Speedway today with a quick 174.295 mph (30.982 seconds) lap.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. met with media members Thursday afternoon to talk about his crazy week, finding out he would be elevated to a full time Cup ride in 2013. A partial transcript of his media availability, including responses to questions pertaining to his move to Cup racing in 2013 follows: