For only the third time this year all the major NASCAR Touring Series are all in the same place for three nights. Camping World Truck Series has a range of 225 km on the evening of Thursday, the Nationwide Series a 300 runner in the night between Friday and has a Sprint Cup 400-miler on Saturday night, all in Kentucky Speedway Sparta.
Each series opens its season in February in Daytona Beach, then the Division segment earlier this month in Dover. They will be together more than five times this year in Atlanta and Bristol in August, after the close of the season in November in Fort Worth, Phoenix and Homestead.
Sept. different drivers have won the first seven races this year in the Truck Series: John King, Kevin Harvick, Kasey Kahne, James Buescher, championship leader Justin Lofton, Todd Bodine and Johnny Sauter, the last winner three weeks ago, Texas. Timothy Peters (-5 points), rookie Ty Dillon (-12), Buescher (-23) and Parker Kligerman (-25) completed the top five points. Brad Keselowski is a Cup driver fails in the race for the Truck Series.
Two-winner Elliott Sadler led the country 11 points Rookie Austin Dillon. Defending champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (three time winner this year), is 23 in the third, with Sam Hornish Jr. (34) and Cole Whitt (-75) completed the top five. (Whitt probably out of the fight for the title.) Regular Cup has five races Joey Logano (but do not earn points nationally) won, with Buescher, Kurt Busch, Keselowski and Nelson Piquet Jr., who won once each. Busch, Keselowski, Denny Hamlin, Harvick and Joe Nemechek were also entered in the Nationwide race.
Daytona 500 winner Matt Kenseth (as last year in the Roush Fenway Racing, and many are sure it is on track for Joe Gibbs Racing) has a lead of 11 points in the Cup on Saturday evening, 400, period of 17 seconds in 26 career regular season. Teammate Greg Biffle is the second and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (-14), five-time champion Jimmie Johnson (-25) and three-time defending champion, Tony Stewart (-63). Stewart, Johnson, Denny Hamlin and Brad Keselowski are winners of two races. Kenseth, Earnhardt Jr., Biffle, Kyle Busch, Kahne, Joey Logano, Clint Bowyer and Ryan Newman have each won once.
A complete list of the Kentucky Speedway this weekend:
- Thursday: Noon, Camping World Truck Series practice clock 05.00, qualifying for the Truck Series, 18.30 clock, the first Nationwide Series practice, 08.00 clock, around the beginning of 150, 225 mile race number truck
- Friday: 11.30 clock, first Sprint Cup practice, 01.30 clock hands on the Cup final, 03.30 Clock, on the national classification, 17.00 clock, qualifying for the World Cup, 7 : 30 of the clock, the start of the 200 laps, 300 - mile Nationwide race
- Saturday: 19.30 clock, around the beginning of 267, Cup race 400 miles
