Новости за 19.09.2017

Stenhouse Jr. has nine Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) starts at New Hampshire Motor Speedway with an average starting position of 22.3 and average finishing position of 20.4.

Bayne makes his sixth career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) start at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday afternoon. Bayne recorded a best finish of 16th in the Sept. 2015 event at the New England track.

The final regular season race took place last Friday night at Chicagoland Speedway for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and set the final playoff point standings. Here's a look at who thrived in Chicago.

"I'm really looking forward to going back to Kentucky (Speedway) this weekend. We had a 13th-place finish there in July and brought home some really valuable data and notes that we can use to prepare for this race. Hopefully we get more practice time this weekend unlike last time with the bad weather and getting only one practice session in."

"Grab your helmet and your firesuit and be at the airport the next morning." Those were the instructions that Dale Earnhardt Jr. received one day in the mid-1990s when he answered the phone while changing the oil on a car at his father’s Chevrolet dealership. The voice on the other end of the line? None other than his dad - the legend himself - Dale Earnhardt Sr. Where was Dale Jr.’s destination the following morning? None other than Talladega Superspeedway, where boys become men.

Saturday’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway marks Bell’s sixth start at the one-mile track. His most recent start at the track came in 2014, while his best finish of 10th came in 200

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

The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs continue this weekend with Round 2 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.  Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano, Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer have all posted victories at the track with Busch owning a season sweep in his championship year of 2004.

The No. 21 team will utilize GMS chassis No. 107. Sauter previously raced this chassis to a third-place finish at Gateway Motorsport Park earlier this season. It was also raced four times in 2016 for 2 top-five and 3 top-10 finishes, including at 10th-place result at NHMS.

So it begins. Chicago, where the Chase began. Chicago, where winning was a big thing, but not the only thing. Win and you advance. Drop out or too near the rear of the pack and all you have is New Hampshire and Charlotte to get it right, to fix the problem, to save your season. Three races, 16 drivers, and just a dozen spots available in order to continue the quest.

1. Martin Truex, Jr.: Truex started third at Chicagoland as Toyota's took the top three qualifying spot. Despite an early pit road speeding penalty, Truex recovered and took the win, securing his spot in the second round of the Chase For The Cup.