Ty Dillon Goes ‘Over the Edge’:

• Ty Dillon is going ‘Over the Edge’ on Thursday, May 8, at the Embassy Suites in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he will rappel 10 stories down. The annual ‘Over the Edge’ event supports the NASCAR Hall of Fame Foundation and its scholarship program to ensure children in the community are given the chance to visit the Hall of Fame without having to worry about any financial barrier. The education program at the NASCAR Hall of Fame serves more than 21,000+ students annually and serves as an extension of classroom learning with hands-on, problem-based interactive lesson plans that adhere to state and national learning standards. During last school year, the foundation provided more than 8,000 students with scholarship assistance.
• Donations can be made at charlotteovertheedge.org. A $20 donation helps one child visit the Hall of Fame and participate in its educational programs.
• Fans are welcome to join in the ‘Over the Edge’ fun at the NASCAR Hall of Fame Plaza where a live DJ will be on-site all day; food trucks from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET and games are available for a small donation. Dillon will rappel at 11:45 a.m. ET.

At Kansas Speedway:

Early in Ty Dillon’s career, he was able to capture his first-career ARCA Series win at Kansas Speedway in 2010. The win was one of nine wins Dillon earned out of 22 starts in the series in 2010 and 2011.

10 Team Info
Crew Chief: Andrew Dickeson
Partner: Sea Best

Ty Dillon, No. 10 Sea Best Camaro ZL1

Sea Best: Sea Best returns to the No. 10 Chevrolet this weekend at Kansas Speedway with Ty Dillon and Kaulig Racing. Sea Best proudly serves as the flagship brand of Beaver Street Fisheries, a family-owned and operated company based in Jacksonville, Florida. As one of the nation’s largest importers, manufacturers, and distributors of seafood and meat, the Sea Best brand is synonymous with premium-quality seafood. Its product lineup includes a wide range of frozen fish fillets—such as ahi tuna, mahi-mahi, cod, and catfish—along with shrimp, scallops, and lobster.

Meet Ty Dillon:

Sunday, May 11

On Sunday morning, May 11, Ty Dillon will be on the NASCAR Experience Stage in the Midway for a fan Q & A at 10:15 a.m. CT.
Dillon will then make his way to the NASCAR Classics Merchandise trailer from 11:00 – 11:25 a.m. CT to meet fans and sign autographs.
To close out race morning, Dillon will take part in Family Feud on the NASCAR Experience Stage at 11:30 a.m. CT. Dillon will be partnered with a fan and play against Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s team.

At Kansas:

• Ty Dillon will make his 15th NASCAR Cup Series start at Kansas Speedway this weekend in the AdventHealth 400. In his previous 14 starts at the track, Dillon has a best finish of 14th in 2017.
• Dillon has one previous start at Kansas Speedway with Kaulig Racing during the 2024 season where he finished 21st.
• In addition to his Cup Series starts, Dillon has four starts in the NASCAR Xfinity Series with one pole starting position and a best finish of fourth in 2015. In the Truck Series, Dillon has three starts with a best finish of eighth.
• Dillon won at the track in 2010 when he started the ARCA Series race from the fourth position and led 10 laps to claim his lone win at Kansas Speedway.

“This week at Kansas Speedway we are focused on building off of the success of last weekend at Texas. We were really strong, and each week we just try to add another five percent more to our program to try to get a little bit better and turn that top 12 into a top eight or top five. And when you are running in the top 10 in the Cup Series, you have a chance to win. So, we’re knocking on that door. Both AJ (Allmendinger) and I have had great runs week in and week out. We’re trying to fine tune and find a little bit more speed each week and give ourselves a shot at victory lane.” – Ty Dillon on Kansas Speedway  

16 Team Info
Crew Chief: Trent Owens
Partner: Action Industries

• AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Action Industries Camaro ZL1
• Action Industries: Action Industries has been a proud partner of Kaulig Racing since 2022, serving as both a primary and associate sponsor on the No. 16 NASCAR Cup Series Chevrolet driven by AJ Allmendinger, and an additional team associate sponsor on all Kaulig Racing’s Chevrolets in the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series.

At Kansas:

• AJ Allmendinger will make his 21st NASCAR Cup Series start at Kansas Speedway this weekend in the AdventHealth 400. In his previous 20 starts at the track, Allmendinger has a best finish of eighth in both events in 2016.
• AJ Allmendinger has earned one pole and four top 10s at Kansas Speedway. Allmendinger earned Kaulig Racing’s best finish of 14th at the track in 2023.
• In the NASCAR Xfinity Series, Allmendinger has led 10 laps and earned one top five and two top-10 finishes. Allmendinger earned the team’s best NASCAR Xfinity Series finish of third in 2021.

“Obviously we had a tough weekend in Texas, so we need to reset and get some momentum back. On the positive side, we’ve shown our mile-and-a-half program is really strong. Our plan is to go to Kansas, have speed, and execute like we have been to put together a solid run.” – AJ Allmendinger on Kansas Speedway  
 
About Kaulig Racing

Kaulig Racing™ is a full-time, multi-car NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) and NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) team, owned by award winning entrepreneur, Matt Kaulig. Established in 2016, Kaulig Racing™ has earned 27 NXS wins, made the NXS Playoffs consecutively each season since the playoff system started, and won two regular-season championships. In 2021, the team competed in select NCS events, before expanding to a two-car, full-time NCS team in 2022 and adding a third, part-time entry during the 2023 season. Since its first NCS start in 2021, the team has earned two wins. Kaulig Racing is currently fielding two full-time entries in the NCS and continues to field three full-time NXS entries. To learn more about the team, visit kauligracing.com.

EVENT: AdventHealth 400
DATE: May 11, 2025
RACE: NASCAR Cup Series | Race 12 of 36
TRACK: Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, Kan. | 1.5-mile intermediate oval

CLUB MINUTES

JJ AT KANSAS: LEGACY MC co-owner, Jimmie Johnson has 31 career NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) starts at Kansas Speedway. During his remarkable career, he won three times (2008, 2011, and 2015) at the mile and a half Midwest track. In addition to his victories, Johnson has earned nine top five and 19 top 10s, all while leading a total of 601 laps. Johnson’s next race is May 25 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, in the Coca Cola 600, where he will make his 700th Cup Series start.

KENSETH AT KANSAS: LEGACY MC competition advisor Matt Kenseth has an equally impressive career at Kansas Speedway. Kenseth’s first start at the 1.5-mile speedway came back in 2001 and had a total of 27 starts. He has two back-to-back victories when he won in October 2012, then again in April 2013. He also has seven top-fives and 13 top-10s.

TEXAS TWO-STEP: LEGACY MC entries of John Hunter Nemechek and Erik Jones both secured top 10 finishes at Texas Motor Speedway this past weekend. Both drivers overcame in-race penalties and fell deep in the running order.

NEVER SETTLE: Fans can join ESPN’s Marty Smith and Johnson for their weekly podcast, “Never Settle”. The podcast airs live on SIRIUS XM NASCAR Radio Ch. 90 at 2 p.m. ET every Wednesday and can be downloaded wherever fans source their podcasts. This week’s guest is Kasey Kahne, a NASCAR and dirt race driver and former teammate of Johnson.

JOHN HUNTER NEMECHEK
NO. 42 DOLLAR TREE TOYOTA CAMRY XSE
TOP-10: Nemechek is coming off a top 10 at Texas Motor Speedway this past weekend. The result marked his third top 10 of the 2025 season. With the result, he moved up three spots in the driver point standings from 26th to 23rd and sits just seven points out of 20th.

JHN AT KANSAS: Nemechek has been dominant in the NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) at Kansas Speedway, winning two of his three starts. He boasts an impressive average start of 11.7 and an average finish of 3.3, having never placed outside the top 10. He’s also led 218 laps in NXS competition at the track. In the NASCAR Cup Series, Nemechek has made four starts at Kansas, with a best finish of 13th coming in the spring of 2024.

T-MACK AT KANSAS: Travis Mack has nine NCS starts as a crew chief at the Kansas Speedway. Of those starts, he has one top-10 and four top-15 finishes. During his time in the NXS, he has four starts. Mack earned one pole, which happened in 2020 with driver Michael Annett behind the wheel.

JOHN HUNTER NEMECHEK QUOTE:

“You need to be able to run all over the track—clean air is crucial. You’ve got to be fast on the bottom, the middle, and up against the fence. There are several ways to find speed at Kansas, but ultimately, the key is moving around and figuring out where your car works best as the track evolves throughout the race.”

TRAVIS MACK QUOTE:

“Keep building on our mile-and-a-half program and build off last weekend at Texas [Motor Speedway]. Thankfully, we’re going to a similar racetrack, it’s a little different tire fall off and how you run the fence at Kansas, but very similar setups. Hopefully, we can carry over what we had at Texas to this weekend.”

ERIK JONES
NO. 43 ADVENTHEALTH TOYOTA CAMRY XSE
FIFTH AT TEXAS: Jones is rolling into Sunday’s AdventHealth 400 on a wave of momentum as he earned his first top five result of the 2025 season after finishing fifth last Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway. After a roller coaster of a race that had Jones fall to the rear of the field twice due to pit road penalties, he persevered and showed off the speed in his No. 43 AdventHealth Toyota Camry XSE to find his way in the top five by the checkered flag.

JONES KANSAS STATS: From one intermediate track to another. Jones is set to make his 17th Kansas Speedway NASCAR Cup Series start during Sunday’s race in the Heartland of America. In his 16 prior Cup Series starts at the track, Jones scored four top-fives and six top-10s. His best finish of third came in both his May 2019 and Sept. 2023 starts at the 1.5-mile oval. Outside of the Cup Series, Jones has three starts at Kansas – two in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and one in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. His best Xfinity Series starts came in October 2016 and 2017 where he started second and finished 15th in both races. Meanwhile, his best Truck Series result was an 11th place finish from the pole position in May 2015.

BESHORE AT KANSAS: Ben Beshore has a total of six prior races on top of the box in the NASCAR Cup Series at Kansas Speedway. His first came in May 2021 when he won with Kyle Busch after the team led 20 laps. Beshore earned another top three with Busch in May 2022 with a third-place result. In addition, he has four races at Kansas as a crew chief in the Xfinity Series, where he earned a victory in September 2023 with John Hunter Nemechek after leading 154 laps.

NATIONAL NURSES MONTH: May marks National Nurses Month for the American Nurses Association, with their main celebration being this week (May 5-11). LEGACY MOTOR CLUB is not only proud to partner with AdventHealth on the No. 43 Toyota Camry XSE but also sports their colors during their race entitlement this Sunday at Kansas. Jones’ mother Carol is a nurse.

IN-CAR CAMERA AT KANSAS: Jones will carry the AdventHealth in-car camera onboard his No. 43 Toyota Camry XSE this weekend in Kansas.

ERIK JONES QUOTE

“Kansas has been a fun track for the NextGen car, and really for the Cup Series over the past few years. You feel like you can really run all over the track, but that top lane is where you really want to be, and it’s become dominant in the last handful of years there. Looks like we’ll have cooler temperatures this weekend which opens up the track more to where we can move around to run some different lanes and make more passes. It sometimes feels like our mile-and-a-half program has shown some good speed and we finally put it all together in Texas. Hopefully we can carry that speed into this weekend to have a strong run. We have to clean up the mistakes and see what kind of race we can put together. I’m excited to get to Kansas though and face the challenge of the different lanes you can run.”

BEN BESHORE QUOTE

“We obviously have a lot of optimism coming off a good run at Texas last weekend. They’re similar style tracks with the same tires and same aero package so we’re all pretty excited about Kansas. Erik has run well there in the past, and it’s one of his better tracks. We ran pretty well there in the first race last year as a company, so there’s a lot to look forward to from all those angles.”

CLUB APPEARANCES
Leading into the AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway, Jones will head out to Molle Toyota on Friday, May 9, to sign some autographs from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. CT. The No. 43 AdventHealth Toyota Camry XSE show car will also be on site.

Nemechek has a host of appearances this weekend. On Sunday, he will be signing autographs at the Toyota merchandise rig located in the Fan Zone at 11:45 a.m. local time. He will have a question-and-answer session at the pre-race stage.

Next Wednesday, May 14, Nemechek and Jones will head back to the Kansas market and participate in the Korn Ferry Pro-Am at Blue Hills Country Club.

TUNE IN:
The AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway takes place on Sunday, May 11. The race will start at 3:00 p.m. ET and will broadcast on Fox Sports 1, MAX, MRN, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio (Channel 90).

ABOUT LEGACY MOTOR CLUB: (LEGACY MC) is a premier auto racing organization co-owned by seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and 2024 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee, Jimmie Johnson and Knighthead Capital Management, LLC. Drawing from a rich tradition of success, LEGACY MC is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of motorsport and setting new standards of excellence. The CLUB competes under the Toyota Gazoo Racing banner in the NASCAR Cup Series with the No. 43 Toyota Camry XSE piloted by Erik Jones and the No. 42 Toyota Camry XSE driven by John Hunter Nemechek. Johnson also races on a limited basis in the No. 84 Toyota Camry XSE. With NASCAR legend and Hall of Famer Richard Petty, “The King”, serving as CLUB Ambassador, LEGACY MC blends timeless racing traditions with a new forward-thinking vision. As an inclusive community for motorsport enthusiasts, LEGACY MC honors both its storied past and the promising future of its members, always striving for victory and championship glory at the pinnacle of NASCAR competition.

• In 22 NASCAR Cup Series starts at Kansas Speedway, Spire Motorsports has logged one top-10 and three top-20 finishes. Zane Smith earned a team-best 10th-place result in last fall’s Hollywood Casino 400. Spire Motorsports fields the Nos. 7, 71 and 77 Chevrolet ZL1s in the Cup Series for Justin Haley, Michael McDowell and Carson Hocevar, respectively.
• The AdventHealth 400 will be televised live on FS1, Sunday, May 11 beginning at 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The 12th of 36 points-paying races on the 2025 NCS schedule will be broadcast live on the Motor Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.

Justin Haley – Driver, No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet ZL1

• Justin Haley will pilot Spire Motorsports’ No. 7 NationsGuard Chevrolet ZL1 in Sunday’s Advent Health 400 at Kansas Speedway.
• The Winamac, Ind., racer has recorded eight Cup Series starts at Kansas Speedway. Over those eight races, Haley has logged a 28.0 average start, a 26.6 average finish and earned tallied top-20 showings.
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• Last week at Texas Motor Speedway, Haley overcame multiple setbacks, to secure his fourth top-15 finish of the season.
• In NASCAR Xfinity Series competition at Kansas Speedway, Haley earned a pair of venue best fourth-place finishes in October 2019 and 2021. He’s earned a 9.8 average start, a 5.3 average finish and came home no worse than seventh over four starts.
• In his lone ARCA Menards Series race at Kansas, Haley started fourth and finished sixth (Oct. 2017).
• Over the course of his career, the newly minted 26-year-old has collected four NASCAR Xfinity Series checkered flags and three CRAFTSMAN Truck Series wins, making him one of just 41 drivers in history to have earned wins across all three of NASCAR’s National Touring Series.
• Haley made his first start in NASCAR’s premier division for Spire Motorsports at Talladega Superspeedway on April 28, 2019 – his 20th birthday. Sunday will mark Haley’s 156th career NASCAR Cup Series start. Over the course of the last seven seasons, the 26-year-old racer has notched one win, five top fives, 17 top 10s and led 103 laps.
• In total, Haley has made 52 Cup Series starts for Spire Motorsports, with the bulk of races coming during the 2021 season behind the wheel of the team’s No. 77 machine.

Justin Haley Quotes
You have to feel good about a top 15 last weekend and Spire Motorsports’ overall performance at Texas Motor Speedway. How does that buoy your optimism coming into this weekend?
“When you look at the speed Spire Motorsports has at the mile-and-a-halves and if you look at how the team performed as a whole last weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, there’s no reason not to be optimistic about Kansas.”

Atop the No. 7 Box – Crew Chief Ryan Sparks

• Ryan Sparks serves in a dual role as both Spire Motorsports Competition Director and crew chief for driver Justin Haley.
• As a race engineer in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, Sparks helped Austin Dillon to a second-place finish in 2012 at Kansas Speedway during his time with Richard Childress Racing.
• The Winston-Salem, N.C., native has called 176 NASCAR Cup Series races where he’s earned three top-five and nine top-10 finishes.

Michael McDowell – Driver, No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet ZL1

• Michael McDowell will pilot Spire Motorsports’ No. 71 Gainbridge Chevrolet ZL1 in Sunday’s AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway.
• In 27 NASCAR Cup Series starts at the 1.5-mile tri-oval, the 40-year-old has posted an average starting position of 25.3 and an average finish of 26.9. Over his last 10 starts at the track in the heartland of America, he has improved those numbers to an 18.1 average start and a 16.8 average finish, including four top-10 starts.
• The No. 71 Chevrolet will return to its black-and-blue Gainbridge livery for Sunday’s 400-mile race.
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• The father-of-five qualified eighth in last year’s spring race at Kansas Speedway, where he earned his only top-10 finish at the venue.
• The 18-year Cup Series veteran has made two Xfinity Series starts and one ARCA Menards Series start at the track, highlighted by a notable 11th-place finish in the fifth race of the 2007 ARCA season.
• Texas Motor Speedway was a rollercoaster for McDowell and his Travis Peterson-led team. After a fifth-place qualifying run, the No. 71 team led a season-high 19 laps and ran up front during the closing stages. However, his strong run ended after a late-race incident left him 26th in the final rundown.
• The No. 71 team has earned 11th-place results three times this season, (Daytona, Austin, Talladega) and is still in search of its first top 10 of the year.
• McDowell has claimed three Xfinity Fastest Lap awards this season, clocking the fastest lap in the Daytona 500, at Phoenix Raceway, and again at Talladega Superspeedway. He stands as the only driver in the Cup Series to have secured three bonus points via the recently unveiled program.
• The Arizona native secured Spire Motorsports’ first Busch Light Pole Award last month at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. His 28.833-second lap marks the fastest lap in NASCAR’s seventh-generation Cup Series car (2022-present) at the 1.5-mile Nevada oval.
• On Tuesday, it was announced that Michael McDowell is ranked in the top 10 of the All-Star Weekend Fan Vote standings at North Wilkesboro Speedway, alongside his teammate Carson Hocevar.

Michael McDowell Quote:
What are your thoughts about heading to Kansas Speedway this weekend?
“Kansas is a great track and it has a lot of lanes. Everybody migrates towards the wall, which is always high intensity. The track changes a lot throughout the weekend, it usually starts out really fast and then by the time the race comes around, it drops off and you start to slide and move around. It’s been a good track in the past. It’s hard to hit it just right, but I feel like the speed that we’ve had at Vegas and Texas this past weekend gives us a good baseline to keep building momentum and confidence, so we are coming into it with high hopes.”

Atop the No. 71 Box – Crew Chief Travis Peterson

• Across two Cup Series attempts at Kansas Speedway, crew chief Travis Peterson has led McDowell to an average start of 14.8 paired with an average finish of 22.8.
• As a race engineer at JR Motorsports, the West Bend, Wis., native played a key role in Regan Smith’s third-place result in 2013. After qualifying fifth, the team dominated the race and led 81 of the 200 laps en route to his seventh-of-eight top-five finishes during the 2013 season.
• Prior to his time as a crew chief, the 33-year-old worked as a race engineer for Dale Earnhardt Jr., at Hendrick Motorsports where he recorded a third-place result at Kansas Speedway in 2015.

Carson Hocevar – Driver, No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet ZL1

• Carson Hocevar, driver of the Delaware Life Chevrolet ZL1 for Spire Motorsports, will make his fourth NASCAR Cup Series start at Kansas Speedway. The 22-year-old driver earned his first career Cup Series pole last Saturday at Texas Motor Speedway, becoming the youngest series pole sitter at the Fort Worth track.
• In sixteen starts on 1.5-mile tracks, Hocevar owns one top-five and three top-10 finishes. In addition to leading laps at Texas, Hocevar also led laps in March at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
• Hocevar is one of the top-10 drivers in the Fan Vote standings for NASCAR’s All-Star Weekend at North Wilkesboro Speedway alongside teammate Michael McDowell. Hocevar was top-three in last year’s Fan Vote and finished 10th in the All-Star Open.
• The 2024 Rookie of the Year has a best finish of 20th in three Cup Series starts at Kansas.
• Prior to climbing in the No. 7 Delaware Life Chevrolet Silverado RST for Saturday’s CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race, Hocevar will return to the FS1 broadcast booth for Friday night’s ARCA Menards Series race. He owns seven top-five and 13 top-10 finishes in 16 starts in the series.
• The Spire Motorsports driver will make his second NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series start of the season on Saturday night. Hocevar owns five starts in the series at Kansas, highlighted by a one top five – a runner-up finish in 2022 – and two top 10s. He’s led a total of 60 laps at the Kansas City venue.
• Hocevar led the first 22 laps in Sunday’s race and ran no worse than seventh until Lap 215 when he made his final scheduled pit stop under green flag conditions. The Portage, Mich., native was caught a lap down when a caution occurred as he was on pit road and subsequently sustained damage in a mid-pack incident. The No. 77 team recovered to finish 24th.
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Carson Hocevar Quotes
What are your expectations for Kansas after a solid weekend at Texas?
“I think we’ll have another good weekend. We seem to be heading in the right direction on our intermediate track program and it’s been a lot of fun to show people that we are improving. I felt like running the truck race at Texas was a big help as far as getting laps on track and getting into the racing mindset early in the weekend, so I’m excited to do that again at Kansas and try to make up for how last weekend ended.”

Atop the No. 77 Box – Crew Chief Luke Lambert

• Crew chief Luke Lambert has called 22 Cup Series races at Kansas resulting in three top-10 finishes and claimed the pole position with driver Daniel Hemric in Oct. 2019.
• In the NASCAR Xfinity Series, Lambert has called two races from atop the pit box. He owns a fourth-place run with Elliott Sadler in Oct. 2012 and a win with Noah Gragson in Sept. 2022.

About Spire Motorsports …
Spire Motorsports earned its inaugural NASCAR Cup Series victory in its first full season of competition when Justin Haley took the checkered flag in the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway on July 7, 2019. Less than three years later, William Byron drove Spire Motorsports’ No. 7 Chevrolet Silverado to its inaugural NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series win on April 7, 2022, at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway. The team’s most recent win came on March 21, 2025, when Kyle Larson took the checkered flag in the Baptist Health 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

In 2025, Spire Motorsports campaigns the Nos. 7, 71 and 77 Chevrolets in the NASCAR Cup Series. The team also fields the Nos. 07, 7, 71 and 77 Chevrolet Silverados in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series and the No. 77 Chevrolet in the ARCA Menards Series in select events.

KANSAS 1

Saturday, May 10 — NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, 7:30 p.m. ET (FS1)
Sunday, May 11 — NASCAR Cup Series, 3 p.m. ET (FS1)

Ford heads to Kansas Speedway on the heels of its second straight NASCAR Cup Series victory and while 12 Mustang Dark Horses will be center stage in America’s Heartland on Sunday, it won’t be the only place. This weekend, there will be 56 Mustangs competing in various series around the world, including IMSA, Formula Drift and the Repco Supercars Championship in Australia.

FORD GOING FOR THREE IN A ROW

Ford goes into this weekend’s race at Kansas Speedway having won back-to-back NASCAR Cup Series races with Austin Cindric (Talladega) and Joey Logano (Texas). The last time Ford won at least three consecutive races was a year ago when Harrison Burton took the checkered flag at Daytona International Speedway, sparking a four-race streak and claiming the 100th all-time win for the Wood Brothers. Overall, Ford has won nine Cup races at Kansas with Logano and Brad Keselowski combining to win four.

LOGANO MOVES UP FORD WIN LIST

Joey Logano’s win on Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway was his 37th career victory and 35th with Ford, moving him into a tie with Mark Martin for third-place on the all-time Ford list. That leaves only Bill Elliott (40) and Ned Jarrett (43) ahead of him. In addition to clinching a playoff spot, Logano recorded a win for the 14th straight season and continued a streak that has seen nine different drivers go to Victory Lane in the last nine TMS Cup events.

ALL-TIME FORD CUP WIN LIST

Ned Jarrett – 43

Bill Elliott – 40

Joey Logano – 35

Mark Martin – 35

Dale Jarrett – 30

David Pearson – 29

Brad Keselowski – 27

Fred Lorenzen – 26

Junior Johnson – 26

Kevin Harvick – 25

JOEY LOGANO: “At Kansas, you need a fast car, that is for sure. A car that can move around the race track is a big part of it. I like Kansas. It is a good place and probably one of the best tracks we have with this car. There are a lot of options to move around and you are in the gas a lot. Getting your car to rotate on throttle is the key there.”

RYAN BLANEY: “Kansas is a fast mile-and-a-half. I always talk about commitment level, and your commitment level has to be really high there, especially in qualifying. I think the beauty of it is that you can run all these different lanes — bottom, middle, top. For a while, it was top dominant, but that has changed a bit over the years. Last year I felt like the bottom could run a little bit. It is a place where you know you are going to be standing on the gas when you get there, and I think that is what drivers prepare for mentally. You have to be ready to hang on. It puts on a good show, and hopefully we can get a win.”

JOSH BERRY: WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO BE VERSATILE AT KANSAS? “I think it just really boils down to the Next Gen era of racing and it’s so hard to follow each other. If your car is really good on the top, that’s great, but if you can’t move down to get some clean air, you’re not gonna be able to pass. So, it’s just important to be good in multiple lanes because that way you can navigate racing through the field, but even if you’re the leader, you need to be able to navigate and pass lap traffic and make good lap time. I think that’s why that track seems to promote such good racing because it has multiple lanes and allows us options to have side-by-side battles.”

AUSTIN CINDRIC: “Whenever you are on the gas a lot, I think these Fords perform really well, and Kansas is one of those places. We have a lot of learnings from intermediates in the early season, and a lot of important races coming up. Kansas, you are definitely on the gas, and I like that you can move around there. Both of those bode well for our Ford group. I am looking forward to it.”

KEEP AN EYE ON KES

Brad Keselowski comes into this weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series race looking for his first win of the season, but Kansas Speedway could provide the proper medicine for a trip to Victory Lane. In 30 career starts on the 1.5-mile track, Keselowski has a pair of wins and 14 top-10’s for an average finish of 12.5. The only tracks currently on the circuit where he has better numbers are Loudon (10.5), Pocono (10.8), Darlington and Michigan (12.0) and Richmond (12.1).

LOGANO GOING FOR FOURTH KANSAS VICTORY

Joey Logano will be looking for his fourth career win at Kansas Speedway this weekend, which would tie his personal best at any single track. Logano currently has four career wins at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Phoenix Raceway. He won for the first time at Kansas in 2014, and then did it again one year later in the playoffs. That contributed to a sweep of the round as he took the checkered flag the following week at Talladega. His last Kansas win came in 2020 when he led the final 45 laps to beat Kevin Harvick across the finish line and clinch a spot in the Championship 4.

ON YOUR MARK

Ford went to victory for the first time at Kansas Speedway on Oct. 9, 2005 when Mark Martin took the checkered flag in what was a Roush Fenway Racing runaway with teammates Greg Biffle and Carl Edwards finishing second and third, respectively. Martin led a race-high 139 laps, including 81 of the final 83 circuits, to win by one-half second. It marked the second time in as many months that RFR swept the top three spots, a feat it did two more times during that season. In addition, the victory ended up being Martin’s last with Ford. His 35 series wins with the manufacturer ranks tied for third all-time with Joey Logano, trailing only leader Ned Jarrett (43) and second-place Bill Elliott (40).

KANSAS IS CRAFTON’S BEST

Three-time NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion Matt Crafton comes into this weekend 15th in the point standings, but a seventh-place effort last weekend at Texas Motor Speedway has him and his No. 88 Ford F-150 team pointed in the right direction. He’ll look to continue the climb on Saturday at Kansas Speedway, where he has a career-high three victories (2013, 2015), including one with Ford in 2020. In 29 career starts, he has 15 top-10 finishes.

FIVE FORD DRIVERS IN TOP 10

The top 10 in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series point standings is dominated by Ford F-150 drivers as they make up half of that group, led by Chandler Smith in second place. The Front Row Motorsports pilot is joined by his teammate, Layne Riggs, in eighth place while the ThorSport racing trio of defending champion Ty Majeski (fifth), Jake Garcia (seventh) and Ben Rhodes (10th) also find themselves in playoff positions.

FORD NASCAR CUP SERIES WINNERS

AT KANSAS

2005 – Mark Martin

2007 – Greg Biffle

2010 – Greg Biffle

2012 – Matt Kenseth (2)

2014 – Joey Logano (2)

2015 – Joey Logano (2)

2018 – Kevin Harvick (1)

2019 – Brad Keselowski (1)

2020 – Joey Logano (2)

FORD NASCAR CRAFTSMAN TRUCK SERIES WINNERS AT KANSAS

2003 – Jon Wood

2004 – Carl Edwards

2006 – Terry Cook

2007 – Erik Darnell

2020 – Matt Crafton (2)

2022 – Zane Smith (1)

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Kansas Speedway’s Seemingly Simple Layout Dares Drivers to be Different

MOORESVILLE, N.C. (May 6, 2025) – Kansas Speedway is a deceptively simple 1.5-mile oval on the outskirts of Kansas City that has produced high speeds and daring, side-by-side racing since its NASCAR Cup Series debut in 2001. Its sweeping, D-shaped layout allows drivers to explore multiple racing lines, and its smooth surface provides a consistent feel, instilling much-needed confidence when throwing a 3,400-pound racecar into a corner at around 170 mph.

After competing last weekend at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, where a massive bump in turn four of its 1.5-mile oval kept drivers on a knife edge, this Sunday’s AdventHealth 400 at Kansas offers a welcome reprieve.

“Kansas is a mile-and-a-half track that’s in great condition. No bumps, no wear, you can pretty much run that track from top to bottom,” said Cody Ware, driver of the No. 51 Parts Plus Ford Mustang Dark Horse for Rick Ware Racing. “If you want to run the apron, you can run the apron. If you want to run the wall, you can run the wall. And you can run any combination of lanes in between. You’re not having to fight through bumps like we just did at Texas. You’re not dealing with rough track surfaces, like Darlington. It’s really just a very good, solid, smooth, clean racetrack, which makes it easier to extract the car’s full potential.”

Unlocking that last bit of potential is perhaps the hardest element of Kansas.

“I feel like everyone typically unloads really, really well at Kansas,” Ware said. “Because the track allows you to move around, you can find a line that suits you and your racecar the best. You can get your car 99 percent there with where you want it to be.”

But in a sport where the entire field is separated by just tenths of a second, extracting that last percentage point is the true challenge of Kansas.

“Those guys who get to 100 percent, or even 101 percent, they’re really pushing the envelope,” Ware said. “You can drive on the ragged edge at Kansas because the risk is lower compared to other tracks. It’s a driver’s track. You can find speed because you’re able to turn quick, consistent laps.”

This myriad of options, however, makes Kansas complex. Without a plan of attack, Kansas’ simplicity can become a liability.

“You need to go into Kansas with a plan,” Ware said. “What do you want to do as a driver? Do you want to dial your car in to rip the wall, and do it from start to finish? Do you want to try to work on building a car with some flexibility? Or do you want something where you’re running a more traditional line for a mile-and-a-half oval?

“Not everyone is a Tyler Redick or a Kyle Larson, who can just rip the wall lap after lap without making the slightest mistake. Versatility and being able to adapt is the key to Kansas, because track conditions there change.”

Another element of Kansas that needs foresight is a plan for mom, as the AdventHealth 400 falls on Mother’s Day. It is one of many holidays those in NASCAR must navigate when 38 weekends are spent at a racetrack.

“We’re a racing family, so there’s a little bit more understanding in the Ware household because my grandfather was in it, and my dad’s been in it for decades, and my mom married into it. Like my father says, she knew what she was getting into, marrying a racing fanatic,” Ware said.

“So we plan ahead and we’re flexible. We’re not always able to celebrate a holiday on the exact day, but we still find a way. Instead of having Friday to Sunday for our days off, it’s a little bit of like Monday to Thursday. It’s like our weekends are the weekdays, so we just plan our lives around that.

“It doesn’t make this stretch of 28 straight race weekends easy, but that’s why not everyone’s out here doing it, either. We have a great family and a great support system, and we just figure out a way to make it happen. It just looks a little different.”

The commitment it takes to make it to the NASCAR Cup Series, and then stay there, is monumental. It is not done alone. In the case of Cody Ware, it is his mom, Lisa, who has been one of his staunchest supporters.

“From day one, whether I wanted to be a doctor, a painter or a racecar driver, she has supported me 100 percent,” Ware said. “And for all the chaos that racing can bring, and all the weekends away from home, and the travel and the stress of it all, she’s been a supporter and a champion of mine, just an amazing mother from day one. I couldn’t ask for a better cheerleader and supporter. I’m just blessed to have the mom that I do, who puts up with a lot of what racing throws at us. I can’t thank her enough.”

Ware’s Kansas weekend begins with practice on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. CDT/4:30 p.m. EDT with qualifying following at 4:40 p.m. CDT/5:40 p.m. EDT. Prime will provide live coverage of both, while FS1 and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio will broadcast Sunday’s AdventHealth 400 live beginning at 2 p.m. CDT/3 p.m. EDT.

About Rick Ware Racing:

Rick Ware has been a motorsports mainstay for more than 40 years. It began at age 6 when the third-generation racer began his driving career and has since spanned four wheels and two wheels on both asphalt and dirt. Competing in the SCCA Trans Am Series and other road-racing divisions led Ware to NASCAR in the early 1980s, where he finished third in his NASCAR debut – the 1983 Warner W. Hodgdon 300 NASCAR Grand American race at Riverside (Calif.) International Raceway. More than a decade later, injuries would force Ware out of the driver’s seat and into full-time team ownership. In 1995, Rick Ware Racing was formed, and with his wife Lisa by his side, Ware has since built his eponymous organization into an entity that competes full-time in the elite NASCAR Cup Series while simultaneously campaigning successful teams in the Top Fuel class of the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series, Progressive American Flat Track and FIM World Supercross Championship (WSX).