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  • Austin Dillon Takes XFINITY Pole at Richmond

    Austin Dillon Takes XFINITY Pole at Richmond

    Austin Dillon will lead the field to the green flag in tonight’s XFINITY race in the capital of Virginia.

    The driver of the No. 2 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet scored the pole for the Virginia 529 College Savings 250 NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Richmond International Raceway after posting a time of 22.563 and a speed of 119.665 mph.

    It’s his 17th career pole in 112 XFINITY Series starts, first of the season, first in nine starts at Richmond and 13th top-10 start in 2016.

    Alex Bowman will start second in his No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet after posting a time of 22.569 and a speed of 119.633 mph. Justin Allgaier will start third in his No. 7 JRM Chevrolet after posting a time of 22.657 and a speed of 119.168 mph. Erik Jones will start fourth in his No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota after posting a time of 22.864 and a speed of 119.027 mph. Blake Koch will round out the top-five in his No. 11 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet after posting a time of 22.696 and a speed of 118.964 mph.

    Brad Keselowski will start sixth in his No. 22 Team Penske Ford. Kyle Busch will start seventh in his No. 18 JGR Toyota. Elliott Sadler will start eighth in his No. 1 JRM Chevrolet. Dakoda Armstrong will start ninth in his No. 28 JGL Racing Toyota. Daniel Suarez will round out the top-10 starters in his No. 19 JGR Toyota.

    Gray Gaulding will start 11th and Jeremy Clements will round out the 12 drivers that made the final round of qualifying.

    Forty-two cars were entered, so Morgan Shepherd and Austin Theriault failed to make the field.

    Twenty-three Chevrolet’s, two Dodge’s, seven Ford’s and seven Toyota’s will comprise the 40-car field in tonight’s XFINITY Series race.

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  • Austin Dillon Rates his Season as 6.5/10

    Austin Dillon Rates his Season as 6.5/10

    When asked to rate his season on a scale of 1 to 10, Austin Dillon gave himself a 6.5/10.

    Speaking to the media earlier this afternoon at Richmond International Raceway, Dillon was asked to rate his season on a scale of 1 to 10.

    “I would say it’s a 6.5/7, let’s say 6.5 because I feel like we could get the half point back with some mistakes we made throughout the center of the year,” Dillon said. “We would be at a 7 and I think that would have us locked in the Chase right now. We are pretty close to locked in, but you never know what happens when it comes to race day.”

    Twenty-five races into the 2016 season, the driver of the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet has had a career season with four top fives, up 300 percent from 2015, 10 top 10’s, up 100 percent from 2015, a pole position and a 14.8 finishing average. While he’s only led eight laps this season, down from 39 the year before, he currently sits 12th in points and nine points ahead of the Chase cutoff.

    Despite all this, Dillon says mistakes have prevented him from being in a more comfortable position going into the final race of the regular season.

    “I would have liked to have been at the 7 at this point, so there is a half point or a point that I would like to have back just because of mistakes that we made as a group and as a company that put us behind,” he added. “I really think we had a solid year starting and in the middle we just kind of dropped off because of certain things, we had brake failures, we had different things that happened that didn’t go our way, but we have learned from them and able to capitalize and have that 6.5 at this point.”

  • Mears Fastest in Final Cup Practice at Richmond

    Mears Fastest in Final Cup Practice at Richmond

    Casey Mears topped the chart in final Sprint Cup Series practice at Richmond International Raceway.

    The driver of the No. 13 Germain Racing Chevrolet was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 22.396 and a speed of 120.557 mph. Kyle Larson was second in his No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet with a time of 22.482 and a speed of 120.096 mph. Martin Truex Jr. was third in his No. 78 Furniture Row Racing Toyota with a time of 22.536 and a speed of 119.808 mph. Jamie McMurray was fourth in his No. 1 CGR Chevrolet with a time of 22.563 and a speed of 119.665 mph. Tony Stewart rounded out the top-10 in his No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet with a time of 22.573 and a speed of 119.612 mph.

    Greg Biffle was sixth in his No. 16 Roush Fenway Racing Ford. Denny Hamlin was seventh in his No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Jimmie Johnson was eighth in his No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. Kurt Busch was ninth in his No. 41 SHR Chevrolet. Joey Logano rounded out the top-10 in his No. 22 Team Penske Ford.

    Carl Edwards, whose fastest single lap was 20th fastest in his No. 19 JGR Toyota, posted the fastest 10 consecutive lap average at a speed of 116.652 mph.

    The Sprint Cup Series is back on track at 5:45 p.m.

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  • Kyle Busch Fastest in First Cup Practice at Richmond

    Kyle Busch Fastest in First Cup Practice at Richmond

    Kyle Busch posted the fastest time in first Sprint Cup Series practice at Richmond International Raceway.

    The driver of the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 22.318 and a speed of 120.979 mph. Martin Truex Jr. was second in his No. 78 Furniture Row Racing Toyota with a time of 22.379 and a speed of 120.649 mph. Denny Hamlin was third in his No. 11 JGR Toyota with a time of 22.397 and a speed of 120.552 mph. Kasey Kahne was fourth in his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet with a time of 22.418 and a speed of 120.439 mph while Matt Kenseth rounded out the top-five in his No. 20 JGR Toyota with a time of 22.461 and a speed of 120.208 mph.

    Jeff Gordon was sixth in his No. 88 HMS Chevrolet. Joey Logano was seventh in his No. 22 Team Penske Ford. Carl Edwards was eighth in his No. 19 JGR Toyota. Jamie McMurray was ninth in his No. 1 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet. Kyle Larson rounded out the top-10 in his No. 42 CGR Chevrolet.

    Busch posted the fastest 10 consecutive lap average at a speed of 119.781 mph. Truex was second at an average speed of 119.458 mph. Edwards was third at an average speed of 118.840 mph.

    The Sprint Cup Series is back on track at noon for final practice.

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  • Truex Wins the Southern 500

    Truex Wins the Southern 500

    DARLINGTON, S.C. — After 500 miles around the lady in black, it was Martin Truex Jr. who found himself in Gatorade victory lane.

    Kevin Harvick led the field to the green flag at 6:26 p.m. under mostly sunny skies. The race was dominated by Harvick and ran caution free for over 90 laps. It came out for the first time on lap 92 after Trevor Bayne spun out trying to get on pit road. It trapped all but Chase Elliott, Brad Keselowski and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. down a lap or more, and forced them to take a wave around.

    The race got back underway on lap 103 and remained green for nine laps before Brian Scott went spinning in turn 2 to bring out the second caution.

    When the race returned green on lap 118, it settled into another green flag long run that saw Harvick take the lead from Keselowski on lap 141 and a cycle of green flag stops on lap 162.

    Just past halfway, Tony Stewart got into Scott and sent him into the backstretch wall on lap 205. This got Stewart called to the NASCAR hauler after the race.

    After it returned to green on lap 211, Jimmie Johnson got loose exiting turn 4, turned down the track and hit the wall head on.

    The race turned into more of a start and stop mode after it restarted on lap 218. Thirty-one laps later, the fifth caution flew after Jeffrey Earnhardt made contact with the wall. Matt Kenseth assumed the race lead after opting not to pit.

    It restarted on lap 265. Harvick found himself back in the lead with 94 laps to go. The sixth caution flew with 87 laps to go for an incident with AJ Allmendinger and Ryan Blaney. Denny Hamlin exited pit road with the race lead.

    There was also the engine expiration of the 14 car with 48 laps to go and an accident with Kurt Busch and Paul Menard in turn 2.

    When the final caution flew with 17 laps to go after Clint Bowyer and Aric Almirola tangled in turn 2, Harvick was sitting in the lead. But as has plagued him for many recent races, he had a bad pit stop on top of other bad pit stops and Truex exited pit road with the race lead.

    Eventually, the race restarted, Truex pulled away and won the race.

    “This is just – this is unbelievable,” Truex said. “So many people to thank obviously. I’ve always loved this race track. I’ve led a lot of laps here in my career. I feel like just something always happened and just so proud to get to victory lane with this group. The pit crew was flawless tonight. They won us the race. They took a lot of heat from last week with what happened. I’m glad he’s (Ryan Newman) not riding home with me – he’d be waiting a while. But just a big weekend for us to – we’ve had a terrible string of back luck. We’ve had super-fast race cars. Auto-Owners Insurance, this is their second race with us and one more with us this year and really excited for them. They went a little retro. I’ve got my zoot suit. This is something here that’s really special to us – I ran this wheel today and it’s real special to take that thing to victory lane. We do a lot with our foundation for ovarian and pediatric cancer. It’s awareness month for both of those diseases, so big day for us there, but just can’t say enough about this team and Barney Visser (team owner) and Toyota and TRD (Toyota Racing Development) – the engines have been unbelievable this year – and Bass Pro Shops and Furniture Row, Denver Mattress and everybody that’s made this possible. Cole Pearn (crew chief) and these guys are just amazing. I knew when the bad luck would stop coming we’d start racking them off.

    “We do a lot with our foundation for ovarian and pediatric cancer. It’s awareness month for both of those diseases, so big day for us there, but just can’t say enough about this team and Barney Visser (team owner) and Toyota and TRD (Toyota Racing Development) – the engines have been unbelievable this year – and Bass Pro Shops and Furniture Row, Denver Mattress and everybody that’s made this possible. Cole Pearn (crew chief) and these guys are just amazing. I knew when the bad luck would stop coming we’d start racking them off and tonight we weren’t the best car for once and we actually won, so that was really cool and just couldn’t be more excited to win at Darlington, the Southern 500. I’ve been wanting to win this thing a long time and got to thank Sprint, the fans were great – tons of fans here today – and really excited. Glad they stuck around for a good finish and I don’t know – I could go on and on for hours I guess.”

    It’s his fifth career victory in 394 Sprint Cup Series starts, second of 2016, the 11th top-10 finish of the season, first win at Darlington Raceway and fifth top-10 at Darlington.

    “Well, it just was frustrating to lead laps here throughout my career and even in years when we didn’t run that well at teams I was on, we seemed to run well here and felt like we let a few slip away,” he added. “It was worth the wait for sure, so we’ll do some celebrating tonight and just can’t thank everybody enough again – everybody at (Joe) Gibbs (Racing), all those guys, great teammates – just so many people I need to thank. The pit crew – man, I can’t say it enough, what a job they did tonight. I appreciate them.”

    It’s also the first multi-win season of his career.

    Harvick led a race-high of 214 laps on his way to a runner-up finish in his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet.

    “Our team in the garage did a great job,” Harvick said. “They brought the fastest race car to the track once again and we just didn’t do a good job on pit road and gave it away.”

    It’s his 20th top-10 finish of the season and ninth in 20 starts at Darlington.

    Kyle Larson led 42 laps on his way to rounding out the podium in his No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet.

    “It was long,” Larson said of how his race went. “My spotter said we were halfway and I was like ‘are you kidding me we still have however many to go?’ But it was a good night. We had to fight pretty hard to get to the top four or five. Our pit stops weren’t great there in the beginning, but they rebounded and we had some good stops there at the end to maintain. The last probably five or six stops I thought were pretty good. We were able to get past Denny (Hamlin) and get to the lead and lead some laps. We had a really good car out front. In traffic, I was just too tight for a little while and as we went I would get too loose on exit, but I found some lines that worked for me and that helped, but a tough race. It is good to come back after the win last week and finish third.”

    Denny Hamlin led 13 laps on his way to a fourth-place finish in his No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Joey Logano rounded out the top-five in his No. 22 Team Penske Ford.

    When asked if that means anything at this point, he said “it just doesn’t matter if it isn’t a win. At this point, I guess momentum means something so I guess something matters. I disagree that I didn’t have anything for them. I did on the long run. We were the fastest car on the long run every time. We hit a lot of short runs at the end and that would kill us. I lost two or three spots every restart for the first five or six laps and then it would kick in and off I would go. I was fighting to get them back. We kind of hurt ourselves there with restarts tonight. We needed to go green from about 100 to go. We would have been good then.”

    Matt Kenseth led 10 laps on his way to a sixth-place finish in his No. 20 JGR Toyota. Kasey Kahne finished seventh in his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. Ryan Newman led nine laps on his way to an eighth-place finish in his No. 31 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet. Brad Keselowski led 47 laps on his way to a ninth-place finish in his No. 2 Penske Ford. Chase Elliott rounded out the top-10 in his No. 24 HMS Chevrolet.

    Kyle Busch, who led one lap, finished 11th.

    Eighteen cars finished the race on the lead lap and 32 were running at the finish.

    The race lasted three hours, 57 minutes and 54 seconds at an average speed of 126.437 mph. There were 14 lead changes among eight different drivers and 10 cautions for 52 laps.

    Harvick leaves Darlington with a 43-point lead over Keselowski in the points standings.

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  • Elliott Sadler Drives to XFINITY Victory in Darlington

    Elliott Sadler Drives to XFINITY Victory in Darlington

    DARLINGTON, S.C. — After so many years of trying in all three of NASCAR’s top three series, Elliott Sadler finally earned his first trip to victory lane at the lady in black.

    Under partly cloudy skies, Paul Menard led the field to the green flag just shortly 4 p.m. Sadler eventually ran down and drove by Menard to take the lead on the seventh lap. The first caution of the race flew on lap 21 when BJ McLeod got into the wall, turned down the track and hit the inside wall driver’s side.

    The race got back underway on lap 27. The 88 car, driven by Kevin Harvick, went behind the wall on lap 34 and retired from the race with engine issues. Denny Hamlin took the lead for the first time on lap 47. Mario Gosselin brought out the second caution of the race on lap 51 after riding the wall in Turn 4 and spinning down the track.

    The race returned to green on lap 56. After that, it settled into a follow the leader scenario until Kyle Larson decided to drive to the outside of both Hamlin and Dakoda Armstrong in Turn 4 to take the lead on lap 91. A few laps later, however, Larson brought out the third caution of the race after he spun out trying to get slowed down entering the pits. Three other cars, Ryan Blaney, Ross Chastain and Carl Long, spun out later in Turn 4 in a separate incident. It all shuffled Hamlin back into the lead.

    The race restarted with 36 laps to go. But Hamlin would not get the better restart. That honor went to Sadler who out-raced him going into Turn 1 to take the lead with 35 laps to go. Sadler maintained a sizable advantage over Hamlin until two to go when he got into the wall and Hamlin pulled alongside him. Sadler denied him the lead and scored the victory.

    It’s his 12th career victory in 320 XFINITY Series starts, second of 2016,his 21st top-10 finish of the season, first victory at Darlington Raceway and sixth top-10 finish in 13 races at Darlington.

    Denny Hamlin led 47 laps on his way to a runner-up finish in his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. It’s his ninth top-10 finish in nine races at Darlington and second top-10 finish of the season.

    Daniel Suarez rounded out the podium in his No. 19 JGR Toyota.

    Kyle Larson led 12 laps on his way to a fourth-place finish in his No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet. Brennan Poole rounded out the top-five in his No. 48 CGR Chevrolet.

    Erik Jones finished sixth in his No. 20 JGR Toyota. Ryan Blaney led five laps on his way to a seventh-place finish in his No. 22 Team Penske Ford. Jeremy Clements finished eighth in his No. 51 Jeremy Clements Racing Chevrolet. Brandon Jones finished ninth in his No. 33 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet. Ryan Preece rounded out the top-10 in his No. 01 JD Motorsports Chevrolet.

    Menard, who led six laps, finished 20th. Garrett Smithley, who led two laps, finished 21st.

    Fifteen cars finished the race on the lead lap and 28 were running at the finish.

    The race lasted one hour, 33 minutes and 36 seconds at an average speed of 128.719 mph. There were eight lead changes among six different drivers and three cautions for 17 laps.

    Sadler leaves Darlington with a 54-point lead over Suarez in the points standings.

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  • Keselowski Fastest in Final Darlington Cup Practice

    Keselowski Fastest in Final Darlington Cup Practice

    DARLINGTON, S.C. — Brad Keselowski topped the chart in final Sprint Cup Series practice at Darlington Raceway.

    The driver of the No. 2 Team Penske Ford was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.157 and a speed of 174.649 mph. Kurt Busch was second in his No. 41 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet with a time of 28.257 and a speed of 174.031 mph. Jimmie Johnson was third in his No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet with a time of 28.259 and a speed of 174.019 mph. Kasey Kahne was fourth in his No. 5 HMS Chevrolet with a time of 28.318 and a speed of 28.318 and a speed of 173.656 mph. Paul Menard rounded out the top-five in his No. 27 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet with a time of 28.351 and a speed of 173.454 mph.

    Greg Biffle was sixth in his No. 16 Roush Fenway Racing Ford. Carl Edwards was seventh in his No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was eighth in his No. 17 RFR Ford. Denny Hamlin was ninth in his No. 11 JGR Toyota. Trevor Bayne rounded out the top-10 in his No. 6 RFR Ford.

    Biffle posted the fastest 10 consecutive lap average at a speed of 170.536 mph. Martin Truex Jr., whose fastest single lap was 15th fastest, was second at an average speed of 170.449 mph.

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  • Johnson Fastest in First Cup Practice at Darlington

    Johnson Fastest in First Cup Practice at Darlington

    DARLINGTON, S.C. — Jimmie Johnson topped the chart in first Sprint Cup Series practice at Darlington Raceway.

    The driver of the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 27.937 and a speed of 176.025 mph. Denny Hamlin was second in his No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota with a time of 28.091 and a speed of 175.060 mph. Ryan Blaney was third in his No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford with a time of 28.147 and a speed of 174.711 mph. Kyle Larson was fourth in his No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet with a time of 28.174 and a speed of 174.544 mph. Ryan Newman rounded out the top-five in his No. 31 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet with a time of 28.178 and a speed of 174.519 mph.

    Brad Keselowski was sixth in his No. 2 Team Penske Ford. Chase Elliott was seventh in his No. 24 HMS Chevrolet. Martin Truex Jr. was eighth in his No. 78 Furniture Row Racing Toyota. Paul Menard was ninth in his No. 27 RCR Chevrolet. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. rounded out the top-10 in his No. 17 Roush Fenway Racing Ford.

    Johnson posted the fasted 10 consecutive lap average at a speed of 173.389 mph. Hamlin was second at an average speed of 173.144 mph.

    The Sprint Cup Series is back on track at 1:30 p.m. for final practice.

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  • Hamlin Fastest in Final XFINITY Practice at Darlington

    Hamlin Fastest in Final XFINITY Practice at Darlington

    DARLINGTON, S.C. — Denny Hamlin topped the chart in final XFINITY Series practice at Darlington Raceway.

    The driver of the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.484 and a speed of 172.644 mph. Kyle Larson was second in his No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet with a time of 28.561 and a speed of 172.179 mph. Elliott Sadler was third in his No. 1 JR Motorsports Chevrolet with a time of 28.775 and a speed of 170.898 mph. Erik Jones was fourth in his No. 20 JGR Toyota with a time of 28.855 and a speed of 170.425 mph. Ty Dillon rounded out his No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet with a time of 29.037 and a speed of 169.356 mph.

    Daniel Suarez was sixth in his No. 19 JGR Toyota. Ryan Blaney was seventh in his No. 22 Team Penske Ford. Ryan Reed was eighth in his No. 16 Roush Fenway Racing Ford. Justin Allgaier was ninth in his No. 7 JRM Chevrolet. JJ Yeley rounded out the top-10 in his No. 44 TriStar Motorsports Toyota.

    Hamlin posted the fastest 10 consecutive lap average at a speed of 166.767 mph. Sadler was second at an average speed of 166.010 mph. Dillon was third at an average speed of 165.279 mph.

    The XFINITY Series is back on track this afternoon at 3:30 for the VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200.

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  • McMurray: ‘Everyone wants the chance to get in a really good car and Alex has done…a phenomenal job’

    McMurray: ‘Everyone wants the chance to get in a really good car and Alex has done…a phenomenal job’

    DARLINGTON, S.C. — Speaking from experience as having started as a substitute driver, Jamie McMurray said every driver “wants the chance to get in a really good car” and that Alex Bowman is doing “a phenomenal job.”

    Talking to the media during a teleconference on Friday morning, the driver of the No. 1 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet was asked what a driver like Bowman is going through in a substitute role for a big name driver such as Dale Earnhardt Jr.

    “Well, if you are a driver that is trying to make it in the sport there is no better position to be put in than to get in a car like that, because you know that you have an opportunity, maybe not to win, but you are in a car that is capable of winning and running up front and showing guys what you can do if you are in the right equipment,” McMurray said.

    “Everyone wants the chance to get in a really good car and Alex has done, I think, a phenomenal job at jumping right in and having a lot of speed and racing well. The flip side of that is if you get in that car and you don’t run well, then you lose your opportunity at maybe ever getting that shot again. I think that Alex has, even though he hasn’t pulled off a win, he has had really good speed and I think to me what sticks out the most is he is not even really in a car every week. If you were in a truck every week or a XFINITY car week in and week out and then you were filling in that would be one thing. But he hasn’t really been racing that much this year.

    “To jump in and do what he has done at a track like Loudon which is one style or racing and then to go to a place like Michigan, that is completely different he has just done an awesome job. I know that probably for him the phone is not ringing as much as he wants it to, but he is going to get an opportunity because to me he has really shown that he is capable of it.”

    McMurray is no stranger to the role of substitute driver. He came into the Sprint Cup Series as a substitute driver in the then No. 40 Dodge for Ganassi Racing after Sterling Marlin broke his neck in a wreck at Kansas Speedway in a season where he was near the top of the points standings for most of the season. He made his debut with a 26th place finish at Talladega Superspeedway. In his second career start the very next week, McMurray led a race high of 96 laps on his way to scoring his first career victory in Cup at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

    “I had raced my whole truck and Busch Series at the time, in cars that I think my Busch car had won like one or two races in seven or eight years,” he said. “It wasn’t necessarily a winning car, and then all of a sudden I got in Sterling’s car that had I think won a couple of races earlier that year and it had led the points up to that point, it was a really good car. So, there is a lot of pressure on you to run well because you know that you are in a car that is capable of winning. So, really nervous and then once we won in Charlotte it was like super relieving because not only is that a confidence builder for you, but I think in all the people that are around you.”