Kentucky Speedway had the ‘Tire Dragon’ working overtime on Saturday. The unique vehicle, whose purpose is to put an extra layer of rubber on the asphalt racing surface, worked the middle groove before Saturday’s rain-delayed Alsco 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race.
Daily Archives: July 10, 2017
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JR Motorsports driver William Byron came to Kentucky Speedway with a chance to make history. Fresh from back-to-back wins at Iowa and Daytona, Byron could have become the first NASCAR XFINITY Series driver to notch his first three victories in the series in succession, had he won Saturday’s Alsco 300.
Kyle Larson and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. come to NASCAR racing from similar backgrounds – specifically, open-wheel sprint cars. And both Larson and Stenhouse have two victories so far this season in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Larson at the two two-mile tracks (Fontana and Michigan) and Stenhouse at the […]
After all was said and done, the dominant car won the race – but not without extreme complications. With just over a lap to go in Saturday night’s Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway, Martin Truex Jr. held a lead of more than 15 seconds over second-place Kyle Larson, with […]