Kyle Busch wins pole for NASCAR Cup race at Dover

Johnson admits PJ1 won’t be effective at some tracks because there’s not enough room off the corners for drivers to run side-by-side. Both Bowyer and the #14 team have shown vast improvement this season and his best finish of the season came at the concrete track in Bristol where he finished second.

Crew chief Rodney Childers was hit with a $10,000 fine due to a safety violation.

Besides the point standings, Truex also leads the series in laps led (769) and playoff bonus points (16) and is tied for the most victories with two while driving the No. 78 Furniture Row/Denver Mattress Toyota.

Truex (158.877 mph), the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series leader, qualified second by a razor-thin margin, even though he had an extra half-lap on his tires, having aborted his opening run in the first round of knockout qualifying after his vehicle twitched off the corner. Matt Kenseth has 23 lead lap finishes, most among active drivers. Bar Harbor 200, Truck series, Dover, 5:30 p.m., Friday, Fox Sports 1. “The vehicle dynamics, how much the auto moves around, and the way it launches into the corner and lands, and then you turn around and fight through all the banking that has the launch back up onto the straightway, takes me back to my roots – and challenges the crews, the crew chiefs and engineers to make the vehicle comfortable and secure”.

“You’ve got be aggressive”. He won the latest race held at Dover last October. But the 20-year-old driver’s truck stalled leaving his pit box, leaving him to settle for a 14th-place finish.

“Finishing third in Charlotte was bittersweet”, said Truex.

The pole is Busch’s first of the season, and comes amidst JGR experiencing an uncharacteristic slow start to the season. Dover is one of Larson’s better tracks as he lost a thrilling duel for the win in this event a year ago with Matt Kenseth. His average finish at this track is 14.500 and his driver rating is 90.7. I can probably get better and go to training and classes and everything else, but I don’t know.

Smith, 33, drove for the team in the Monster Energy Open and Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway following a back injury suffered by the team’s primary driver, Aric Almirola, at Kansas Speedway May 13.

Ticket packages of all kinds are available for the speedway’s first tripleheader weekend of 2018, set for March 2-4 at the 1.5-mile oval.

This marks the 18th race in Wine Country for Earnhardt, who will take to the Sonoma Raceway road course for a final time at the Toyota/Save Mart 350 on June 25. Speedway Motorsports Inc., which owns LVMS, had to buy New Hampshire Motor Speedway and then take away one of their two dates.

If Joe Gibbs Racing isn’t back, it’s hard to say what “back” is.

– The Brickyard 400 now will be the last race before The Chase begins and Richmond moves to the second race of the playoffs. Two races in Las Vegas is pretty awesome.

“It’s a new team we’ve put together and we’ve had some growing pains we’re working through”, he said. How about it, Miami Marlins?