With 35 laps left in the Blue Jeans Go Green 200, the skies would open up and rain would begin to fall. After a two-hour rain delay, NASCAR would make the decision to call the race.
After scoring the pole for the Sprint Cup Series race yesterday, Brad Keselowski kept the momentum rolling as he would score the pole for today's Nationwide Series Blue Jeans Go Green 200 at Phoenix International Raceway.
By a narrow margin, with a push from Trevor Bayne, Regan Smith edged Brad Keselowski by 0.013 seconds to win the season-opening Drive4COPD 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Daytona International Speedway.
Brad Keselowski would take the lead on a late race restart to win his seventh race of the season. Meanwhile, Austin Dillon fought back from having an ill-handling car early to win the 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series Championship, three points ahead of Sam Hornish Jr.
In the final practice for the Nationwide Series Ford EcoBoost 300, it’d be JR Motorsports driver Regan Smith topping the charts with a lap of 32.262 seconds. Last year in his first start with JR Motorsports, Smith went to victory lane behind the wheel of his No. 7 TaxSlayer Chevrolet.
Kyle Busch has won the most NASCAR Nationwide Series races in history and further extended his legacy with another dominant showing at the ServiceMaster 200. Busch edged Austin Dillon for the pole earlier in the morning and didn’t hesitate to get off to a good start, leading the first 79 laps of the event.
Brad Keselowski, the reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion moonlighting in the Nationwide Series, won for the sixth time in his last eight NNS starts with a victory Saturday in the O'Reilly Auto Parts Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway.
Driver of the No. 54 Monster Energy Toyota, Kyle Busch, wins his ninth NASCAR Nationwide Series pole award this season at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Busch is no stranger to doing well in the Nationwide Series with ten wins this season, including eighteen top-5 and nineteen top-10 finishes leading a total of 4,027 laps.
Hendrick Motorsports enters this weekend's NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway as the facility's all-time leader in wins (10), top fives (37), top 10s (64), laps led (2,682) and stage wins (15).
For the first time this season, NASCAR will face a traditional intermediate oval with the Cup and O’Reilly Auto Parts Series wrapping up its two-race west coast swing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
