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Fan4Racing Fan2Fan NASCAR & Race Talk – Monday, August 17, 2015
Guests include NASCAR K&N East driver, Dillon Bassett as he talks about his first series victory at Motordrome Speedway this past weekend.
Singer/Songwriter, John Scargall, talks about his NASCAR connection and his performance at Bristol Motor Speedway this weekend.
NASCAR Whelen All-American driver, Christian McGhee talks about his victory at Irwindale Event Center this past weekend.
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Matt Kenseth Cruises to Dominant Sprint Cup Victory at Michigan
From Matt Kenseth’s point of view, the competition package NASCAR used at Michigan International Speedway could well have had a big, bright bow on it.
The Coors Light Polesitter for Sunday’s Pure Michigan 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, Kenseth quickly exhibited his mastery of the high-drag aerodynamic package, leading 146 of 200 laps in winning for the third time this season, the third time at Michigan and the 34th time in his career.
The 2003 premier series champion had to survive a restart with 13 laps left, after Jimmie Johnson spun off turn four to cause the eighth and last caution of the race. With a push from Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin, Kenseth cleared Kevin Harvick after the lap 187 restart and went on to win by 1.722 seconds. Continue reading
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Pure Michigan 400 Preview
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Next Race: Pure Michigan 400
The Place: Michigan International Speedway
The Date: Sunday, Aug. 16
The Time: 2:30 p.m. (ET)
TV: NBCSN, 2 p.m. (ET)
Radio: MRN, SiriusXM Ch. 90
Distance: 400 miles (200 laps)
‘Top-30 for No. 18’: A Kyle Busch Production
A mere 11 races after returning from a broken leg and foot suffered in February, Kyle Busch has cracked the top-30 in the point standings and is now eligible for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. Busch will qualify for NASCAR’s playoffs if he can stay in the top-30 at the end of next month’s Richmond race.
Busch currently mans the 30th spot in the driver standings, six points ahead of 31st-place Cole Whitt and one point behind 29th-place Justin Allgaier.
The No. 18 Toyota driver started off slow with just one top-ten finish in his first four races back (Pocono), but has been on an absolute tear since, winning four of the last seven races along with a runner-up.
Over the last seven races Busch has dominated most of the statistical categories, leading the series in wins (4), driver rating (116.3), laps led (317) and points (283). No other driver has multiple wins during the span. Brad Keselowski’s 209 laps led marks the next-best total, while Kevin Harvick’s 107.5 driver rating is the second highest. The 283 points are 22 more than Joey Logano’s second-best total (261).
Busch’s run of wins has overshadowed the consistency of some other drivers in the Sprint Cup Series. Harvick and Joey Logano rank tied with Busch with five top-five finishes over the seven-race span.
Furthermore, Harvick and Kurt Busch lead with six top-tens each in the last seven races compared to Busch’s five. Keselowski, Clint Bowyer, Jimmie Johnson, Joey Logano and Matt Kenseth also claim five top-tens. Continue reading
Kyle Busch Rallies for Second Straight Truck Series Win
Not even a pit road speeding penalty could keep Kyle Busch from his appointed rounds on Saturday at Michigan International Speedway.
With drafting help from Kyle Busch Motorsports teammate Erik Jones entering turn one, Busch regained the lead from Ryan Blaney on lap 97 of 100 in the Careers for Veterans 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race and held on to win by 0.157 seconds.
Blaney held the second spot, and Jones finished third, followed by Johnny Sauter and Austin Dillon. Two-time defending series champion Matt Crafton battled a buckling windshield, a penalty for pitting too soon to correct it and a late spin after contact from John Wes Townley’s Chevrolet to finish sixth.
Crafton gained three points on series leader Tyler Reddick, who ran ninth, and now trails by eight. Jones is third in the standings, nine points back.
The victory was Busch’s first at Michigan after four runner-up finishes in the series, and it was his second in two starts since returning from an injury that sidelined the driver of the No. 51 Toyota from all racing activity from February 21 through mid-May.
“First win for me, first win for KBM here,” said Busch, who won for the 44th time in the Truck Series. “I loved racing with those guys up there—Jones, Blaney and Dillon. It was pretty hectic on how all that was going to shape up and play out…
“Just cool to finally get that monkey off my back here in the Truck Series and notch another race track where I’ve won in all three divisions here at Michigan.”
Under caution on lap 27, Busch earned a speeding penalty while entering pit road and restarted at the back of the field on lap 31. By lap 51, Busch had worked his way back to fifth in the running order, and after an exchange of green-flag pit stops, he regained the lead on lap 69.
“We were trying something new with our tach settings, and it didn’t really work,” Busch said of the speeding infraction.
Drivers gauge pit road speeds with their tachometers and a series of lights on the dashboard. In essence, Busch was seeing two sets of lights at the same time, calibrated to different settings, and that led directly to the speeding penalty.
Once Busch passed Blaney with fewer than four laps left, Blaney—without a teammate to help—was resigned to a second-place finish.
“When we got the lead (after a lap 95 restart), I knew it was going to be hard to keep him behind us, because he can lay back to the 4 (Jones) and just get a big run and get by you,” Blaney said. “There’s nothing, as the leader, that you can do about it.
“You’re wide open. You can break the draft all you want, but when he’s got a partner, it’s just like speedway racing—he can go by you.”
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Careers for Veterans 200
Presented by Cooper Standard and
Brad Keselowski’s Checkered Flag Foundation
Michigan International Speedway
1. (10) Kyle Busch(i), Toyota, 100, $43447.
2. (12) Ryan Blaney(i), Ford, 100, $36614.
3. (7) Erik Jones #, Toyota, 100, $26735.
4. (9) Johnny Sauter, Toyota, 100, $20254.
5. (3) Austin Dillon(i), Chevrolet, 100, $15653.
6. (1) Matt Crafton, Toyota, 100, $19792.
7. (2) Daniel Hemric #, Chevrolet, 100, $16325.
8. (5) Timothy Peters, Toyota, 100, $16241.
9. (11) Tyler Reddick, Ford, 100, $16185.
10. (6) Cameron Hayley #, Toyota, 100, $17107.
11. (16) Alex Bowman(i), Chevrolet, 100, $13852.
12. (17) John H. Nemechek #, Chevrolet, 100, $15934.
13. (23) Jordan Anderson, Chevrolet, 100, $15850.
14. (19) Garrett Smithley, Chevrolet, 100, $15795.
15. (13) Tyler Young, Chevrolet, 100, $16138.
16. (14) Spencer Gallagher #, Chevrolet, Accident, 99, $15711.
17. (8) John Wes Townley, Chevrolet, 99, $15799.
18. (20) Travis Kvapil, Chevrolet, 98, $15572.
19. (28) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Chevrolet, 98, $15515.
20. (18) Cody Coughlin, Toyota, 96, $15988.
21. (15) Chad Finley, Ford, 96, $13210.
22. (27) Korbin Forrister #, Chevrolet, 95, $15404.
23. (30) Wendell Chavous #, Chevrolet, 95, $15376.
24. (22) Mason Mingus, Chevrolet, Accident, 87, $14099.
25. (4) Ben Kennedy, Toyota, Accident, 82, $14220.
26. (21) Ray Black Jr. #, Chevrolet, 66, $13042.
27. (31) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, Rear Gear, 40, $12987.
28. (25) Caleb Roark, Chevrolet, Vibration, 19, $12747.
29. (32) Tyler Tanner, Chevrolet, Clutch, 16, $12692.
30. (26) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, Electrical, 15, $12192.
31. (29) Todd Peck, Chevrolet, Rear Gear, 12, $10692.
32. (24) Justin Jennings, Chevrolet, Handling, 6, $9692.
Average Speed of Race Winner: 128.94 mph.
Time of Race: 01 Hrs, 33 Mins, 04 Secs. Margin of Victory: 0.157 Seconds.
Caution Flags: 6 for 26 laps.
Lead Changes: 15 among 6 drivers.
Lap Leaders: 0; D. Hemric # 1-4; A. Dillon(i) 5-6; K. Busch(i) 7-26; A. Dillon(i) 27; E. Jones # 28-34; R. Blaney(i) 35; E. Jones # 36-44; J. Sauter 45-68; K. Busch(i) 69-76; R. Blaney(i) 77-81; K. Busch(i) 82-89; A. Dillon(i) 90; K. Busch(i) 91-94; R. Blaney(i) 95-96; K. Busch(i) 97-100.
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led): K. Busch(i) 5 times for 44 laps; J. Sauter 1 time for 24 laps; E. Jones # 2 times for 16 laps; R. Blaney(i) 3 times for 8 laps; A. Dillon(i) 3 times for 4 laps; D. Hemric # 1 time for 4 laps.
Top-Ten in Points: T. Reddick – 514; M. Crafton – 506; E. Jones # – 505; J. Sauter – 461; C. Hayley # – 425; D. Hemric # – 420; T. Peters – 416; J. Townley – 414; S. Gallagher # – 394; B. Kennedy – 381.
By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service