Новости за 05.07.2017

JCR's #51 Chevy Camaro SS heads to Kentucky Speedway with RepairableVehicles.com and Harrison’s Outfitters on board for the NASCAR XFINITY Series Alsco 300 on Friday, July 7th.

Michael McDowell and Leavine Family Racing (LFR) are heading to Kentucky Speedway for the first time as a team, fresh off their best finish in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) at Daytona International Speedway.

Roush Fenway Racing heads to the home of the Louisville Slugger this weekend as the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) hits the Kentucky Speedway for some Saturday night racing. A Roush Fenway Ford has earned three victories at the 1.5-mile oval across NASCAR’s three major touring series.

Bayne makes his third career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) start at Kentucky Speedway on Saturday night. Bayne’s best finish at the 1.5-mile oval is 11th in this event last season.

Daytona Recap: Denny Hamlin finished 24th in Saturday's Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway in the #11 FedEx Express Toyota after being slammed in the side by another car, spinning through the infield grass with two laps to go in the race won by Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

The two-time XFINITY champion and last week’s Daytona winner has four career MENCS starts at Kentucky with an average starting position of 18.0 and average finishing position of 23.2.

After a rough couple of weeks with finishes of 37th and 34th, Martin Truex Jr. is looking forward to returning to a 1.5-mile oval, a track length where he has had success this season.

Ryan Blaney, driver of the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion, recorded his first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series victory a few weeks ago at Pocono and is currently in a solid position to make this year’s Playoffs. He was a guest on today’s NASCAR Teleconference, where he spoke about a variety of issues going into Saturday night’s event at Kentucky Speedway.

The 2018 Camry Has Arrived: Almost five months after its race track debut, the 2018 Toyota Camry race car will be joined by its production counterpart at Kentucky Speedway. The new, radically redesigned 2018 Camry will serve as the pace car at the 1.5-mile track as Toyota becomes the ‘Official Vehicle of Kentucky Speedway.’ The timing could not be more fitting as the all-new 2018 Camry began production just down the road in Georgetown, Kentucky at Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. (TMMK) in late June.

Richard Childress Racing in the Bluegrass State ... In 19 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series starts at Kentucky Speedway, Richard Childress Racing holds an average starting position of 16.6 and an average finishing position of 17.4, completing 5,054 of the contested 5,073 laps (99.6 percent).

The driver of Furniture Row Racing’s No. 77 SiriusXM Toyota Camry will compete in his first NASCAR Cup Series race at the 1.5-mile tri-oval in Saturday night’s Quaker State 400. The Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate is coming off a ninth-place finish last Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway.

The Motorcraft/Quick Lane Racing team rolls into Kentucky this weekend following one of its strongest performances of the season, marred by a late-race accident, last week in Daytona.

Saturday night’s NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Kentucky Speedway will mark Ryan Reed’s seventh start at the 1.5-mile track. In his previous six starts, Reed’s best finish of seventh came in the fall of 2016.