“That restart was pretty hectic from the beginning with the 78 getting loose and it kind of put everybody in a bad spot, and it wound up with us being in the middle of three-wide into three. It’s so hard to get into that corner all night with a car close to behind you and outside of you, and no one lifting either, and it’s just an unfortunate spot we got put in and I hate to see two really good cars tore up.
“I was just looking at the tire in there. I got loose and hit the wall about 10 laps before that and the car got really loose when you tap the right-rear quarter over. You’re trying to slow down a lot and the brakes started going away and I don’t know what happened after that, if a rotor blew up or what made the tire go down, but the right-front went flat and I was pretty much along for the ride after that.
SPARTA, Ky. -- Carl Edwards topped the chart in final Sprint Cup Series practice at Kentucky Speedway. The driver of the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.808 and a speed of 187.448 mph.
The cars are challenging to drive like we thought they would be and like we hoped they would be. The mid-corner speed is way down. The straightaway speed is way up, so that’s a bit of a handful, but the good kind of handful that I think really challenges drivers to push it to the limits.
SPARTA, Ky. -- Carl Edwards topped the chart in third Sprint Cup Series practice at Kentucky Speedway Friday. The driver of the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota was the fastest in the third practice session with a time of 28.627 and a speed of 188.633 mph.
SPARTA, Ky. -- Denny Hamlin topped the chart in the rain-shortened second Sprint Cup Series practice at Kentucky Speedway. The driver of the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 28.680 and a speed of 188.285 mph.
SPARTA, Ky. -- Carl Edwards topped the chart in first Sprint Cup Series practice at Kentucky Speedway. The driver of the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 28.962 and a speed of 186.451 mph.
SPARTA, Ky. -- The repave wasn't the only change made to the racing surface at Kentucky Speedway. It was announced back in early-January that the 1.5-mile facility would undergo its first repave in its 17-year history. In addition, they changed the degree of the banking in turns 1 and 2, narrowed the width of the turns, improved drainage and added over three-thousand feet of SAFER barrier.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, XFINITY Series and Camping World Truck Series will compete at Kentucky Speedway this weekend. Please check below for the complete schedule of events.
Kyle Busch, the two-time Cup Series champion from Las Vegas, Nevada, led a race-high 147 of 200 laps, swept both stages and scored his second Truck victory of 2026 at the Monster Mile from pole position.
Kaden Honeycutt was able to drive back through the field after an early pit road speeding penalty and led Toyota with a fourth-place finish in the NASCAR Truck Series race at Dover Motor Speedway on Friday evening.
