Kyle Larson Takes The Pocono Green 250

Posted on June 6, 2016 by KBOE Administrator

“Mother Nature” kept her word on Saturday and Kyle Larson was in the right place at the right time to capitalize at Pocono Raceway. He had his Number-42 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet at the front of the field when the race was stopped by rain three laps past the halfway point of the track’s inaugural X-FINITY Series race. A wet weekend was forecast heading into Saturday’s race, in which Larson led twenty-seven laps including the last nineteen trips around “The Tricky Triangle.”

Rookie pole sitter Erik Jones finished second with Ty Dillon, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano completing the top five. Elliott Sadler grabbed sixth place and cut three points off Daniel Suarez’s lead in the standings. Suarez finished ninth on Saturday and will carry an eleven-point advantage into the next race next weekend at Michigan International Speedway.

With Larson’s victory, Sprint Cup Series drivers have now won nine of the first twelve X-FINITY Series races run this season. Jones and Sadler are the only series regulars to taste victory. Larson started fourth in the forty-car field and had his first lead of the day at Lap-24 … The race included six lead changes among five drivers, four of which are Sprint Cup regulars: Busch, Logano, Larson and Aric Almirola.

NASCAR X-Finity Head To Charlotte For The Hisense 300

Posted on May 27, 2016 by KBOE Administrator

The NASCAR X-Finity Series also is running in Charlotte this weekend, with Saturday’s Hisense 300. Elliott Sadler of Junior Motorsports leads the standings by three points over Daniel Suarez. Teams got two practice sessions on Thursday with Ty Dillon posting the fastest overall speed, 181.342 miles per hour in the Number-3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet. Rookie Erik Jones, Suarez, Denny Hamlin and Austin Dillon – Ty’s older brother – completed the top five. Suarez had the best average speed over ten consecutive laps at 175.708 miles per hour.

Austin Dillon swept both races at C-M-S last season and goes for three in a row on Saturday. The last driver to do that in Charlotte is Mark Martin in 1995 and 1996 … There is no on-track activity at C-M-S on Friday. The schedule resumes Saturday with X-FINITY Series qualifying at 11:15 a.m. (ET) and a pair of Sprint Cup Series practice sessions … THE CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES … is idle this weekend and will return to action Friday night, June 10th, in Fort Worth, Texas. Motor Racing Network – “The Voice of NASCAR” – will have live coverage of the Rattlesnake 400, beginning at 8:30 p.m. (ET).

Matt Kenseth takes the AAA 400 Drive For Autism

Posted on May 16, 2016 by KBOE Administrator

Matt Kenseth held off a late charge from Kyle Larson on Sunday afternoon at Dover International Speedway to claim his first victory of the season, capping Toyota’s weekend sweep of all three races at “The Monster Mile.” Matt Crafton won Friday’s Camping World Truck Series race and Erik Jones followed with a victory in Saturday’s X-FINITY Series event. Kenseth led the final forty-seven laps on Sunday, nipping Larson at the checkered flag by eighteen one-hundredths of a second. It’s his thirty-seventh career victory and third at Dover. Kenseth’s last Cup Series win had come in New Hampshire last fall, twenty races ago. He started tenth on Sunday and led briefly during the first half of the race before taking control down the stretch.

The race was red-flagged for more than eleven minutes after Jimmie Johnson’s transmission failure triggered an eighteen-car accident along the frontstretch less than fifty laps from the finish. Johnson, at the front of the field on a restart, could not get his car into third gear and up to speed. Martin Truex Junior drove into the rear of Johnson’s Chevrolet and the contact sent cars spinning across the track. Attrition left just fourteen cars running on the lead lap at the finish, a season low in the Sprint Cup Series. Larson led eighty-five laps en route to his second-place finish.

Rookie Chase Elliott ran third with Kasey Kahne and Kurt Busch completing the top five. Pole sitter Kevin Harvick led a race-high 117 laps, all in the first half, before fading to fifteenth place – enough to keep him atop the regular-season point standings.

X-Finity Series Set For O’Reilly Auto Parts 300

Posted on April 8, 2016 by KBOE Administrator

The NASCAR X-Finity Series is in the “The Lone Star State” this weekend for tonight’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 300. Erik Jones of Joe Gibbs Racing is the defending winner. The last driver with back-to-back victories in Texas Motor Speedway’s spring race is Kyle Busch, who won three in a row from 2008 through 2010.

There were two practice sessions on Thursday and Jones led them both – posting his best lap in the first of the two sessions, 186.968 miles per hour. The remainder of the top five based on combined speeds includes Ty Dillon, rookie Brandon Jones, points leader Daniel Suarez and Busch. Jones also had the best average speed over a stretch of ten consecutive laps, 178.409 miles per hour.

From Martinsville Half-Mile To High Speeds In Texas

Posted on April 6, 2016 by KBOE Administrator

From the Sprint Cup Series’ shortest track, Martinsville Speedway, NASCAR now moves to one of its fastest ovals with this coming weekend’s Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. The preliminary entry list shows forty drivers led by defending race winner Jimmie Johnson and regular-season points leader Kevin Harvick. The four non-Charter drivers on the list are rookie Ryan Blaney, Cole Whitt, Josh Wise and Reed Sorenson.

Johnson leads all competitors with six victories on the mile-and-a-half Fort Worth oval including three in a row and five of the last seven. Carl Edwards is next in line with three wins … There’s competitive balance among NASCAR’s three participating manufacturers with each brand winning the track’s spring race once over the last three seasons: Chevrolet with Johnson last year, Ford with Joey Logano in 2014 and Toyota with Kyle Busch in 2013.X-FINITY Series teams also will be competing at T-M-S with Friday night’s O’Reilly Auto

X-FINITY Series teams also will be competing at T-M-S with Friday night’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 300. There are thirty-nine drivers on the preliminary entry led by defending race winner Erik Jones and points leader Daniel Suarez, teammates at Joe Gibbs Racing.

Buescher, Jones Honored

Posted on November 24, 2015 by KBOE Administrator

Chris Buescher of Roush Fenway Racing and Erik Jones of Kyle Busch Motorsports were honored for their championship seasons in the NASCAR X-FINITY and Camping World Truck Series, respectively, on Monday night during a combined awards gala in Hollywood, Florida … The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards – to salute Kyle Busch for his first championship – will be held Friday night, December 4th, in Las Vegas, with live coverage on Motor Racing Network – “The Voice of NASCAR.”

John Hunter Nemechek of NEMCO Motorsports had the highest finish by a rookie in any of NASCAR’s three top series that competed this past weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway, placing second (to Matt Crafton) in Friday’s Camping World Truck Series season finale.

Jones To Run X-Finity Series, Some Cup Races In 2016

Posted on August 5, 2015 by KBOE Administrator

Erik Jones will run for the X-FINITY Series championship and a limited Sprint Cup schedule for Joe Gibbs Racing in 2016, but team owner Joe Gibbs has not revealed the organization’s plans for the nineteen-year-old driver beyond next season. Jones is currently running a full schedule in the Camping World Truck Series for Kyle Busch Motorsports.

He’s the leading candidate for Rookie of the Year and is currently third overall in the point standings behind only Tyler Reddick and two-time defending series champion Matt Crafton. Jones also has made seventeen starts in the X-FINITY Series with wins at Chicagoland Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway.

He filled in for the injured Kyle Busch at the Sprint Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway in early May, where he finished fortieth … Jones is not scheduled to compete in Saturday’s Zippo 200 X-FINITY Series road-course race at Watkins Glen International. Veteran Boris Said will drive instead, in the Number-54 Toyota.

Erik Jones Sweeps Both NASCAR Races This Weekend

Posted on June 22, 2015 by KBOE Administrator

Erik Jones traveled 765 motorsports miles to get a sweep of NASCAR’s two featured races this weekend. After winning Friday’s American Ethanol 200 in the Camping World Truck Series at Iowa Speedway, Jones journeyed some 290 miles east to Chicagoland Speedway, where he won Sunday’s rain-delayed Owens Corning AttiCat 300 X-FINITY Series race.

Jones led more than half of the total laps run in the two events, including ninety-four trips around the mile-and-a-half Chicagoland Speedway oval on Sunday to claim his second career X-FINITY Series win – both of which have come this season. Jones muscled his way past race leader Ryan Blaney following the day’s final restart and kept his Number-54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota in front over the final eleven laps – beating runner-up Blaney to the checkered flag by two seconds.

Pole-sitter Austin Dillon finished third with Brendan Gaughan and points leader Chris Buescher completing the top five. The race was originally scheduled for Saturday night, but rain moved it to Sunday afternoon. Blaney turned in a gritty performance after starting at the rear of the field. He wrecked in qualifying on Saturday, forcing Team Penske to a backup car. Blaney started hustling his Number-22 Ford toward the front of the field at the drop of the green flag and had his first lead at Lap-71 of the two hundred-lap race. He led four times for forty-three laps in a bid for his first victory of the season, including thirty-five laps down the stretch before yielding to Jones’ winning pass.

The top five drivers in the standings all held their positions with Buescher now carrying a twenty-nine-point lead over Ty Dillon, who finished ninth on Sunday.

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