RCR X-Finity Series Crew Chief Draws One-Race Suspension

Posted on April 21, 2016 by KBOE Administrator

Nick Harrison, crew chief on Ty Dillon’s Number-3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet in the NASCAR X-FINITY Series, has been suspended for one race. The team was found to have used an improper spoiler assembly and extension last weekend at Bristol, where Dillon finished seventh in the Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300.

In addition to his one-race suspension, Harrison was fined ten thousand dollars and placed on probation through December 31st for the rules violation – which was discovered during opening-day inspection.

Runners Rule The Road On April 30th At Darlington

Posted on April 20, 2016 by KBOE Administrator

Darlington Raceway will serve as the backdrop for a full day of running activities on Saturday, April 30th. “Run Darlington” will feature a fun run of one lap around the historic South Carolina oval, a 5-K race, and the Bojangles’ Half-Marathon that takes participants through Darlington’s five historical districts and the city’s Williamson Park. The event concludes at the track’s start-finish line. Cost is fifteen dollars for the fun run, thirty- five dollars for the 5-K and seventy dollars for the Bojangles’ Half-Marathon.

For more information or to register, visit Darlington Raceway-dot-com/RunDarlington.

Carl Edwards Takes The Food City 500

Posted on April 18, 2016 by KBOE Administrator

Carl Edwards lead two-hundred and seventy-six laps to pick up his first win of the 2016 season and fourth win at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Sunday’s Food City 500. Starting from the pole, Edwards maintained good track position throughout the race, piloting his Number-19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota to victory on a day that saw several drivers experience trouble at the always difficult half-mile speedway. Dale Earnhardt Jr. rebounded from falling two-laps down at the start of the race to finish second. At the drop of the green flag, Earnhardt Jr.’s stuck throttle safety system activated causing him to retreat to pit road on the first lap to reset the ECU. Kurt Busch led forty-one laps and was in

At the drop of the green flag, Earnhardt Jr.’s stuck throttle safety system activated causing him to retreat to pit road on the first lap to reset the ECU. Kurt Busch led forty-one laps and was in position to challenge Edwards on the final restart with five laps to go, but settled for third. Rookie sensation Chase Elliott and Trevor Bayne rounded out the top five.

Bayne, who started in tenth, fell back to twenty-eighth but battled back to score his first top-five finish in ninety-nine races when he won the DAYTONA 500 in 2011. Edwards was able to escape tire trouble that plagued his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth and Denny Hamlin. Busch, who was looking for his third win in a row, finished a disappointing thirty-eighth tallying his first DNF of the season after making contact with the wall for the third time on lap 258. With the win, Edwards assures himself of a spot in this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup and moved into second place, one-point behind Kevin Harvick in the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Drivers Point Standings. Edwards’ victory made it four-in-a-row for Joe Gibbs Racing. The race included sixteen

The race included sixteen lead changes among seven drivers. There were fifteen cautions for one-hundred and two laps, but no incident involving more than three drivers.

NASCAR X-Finity Series Visits Thunder Valley

Posted on April 15, 2016 by KBOE Administrator

The NASCAR X-Finity Series visits “Thunder Valley” this weekend for Saturday afternoon’s Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300, the opening race in the revamped “Dash for Cash” promotion. Traditional qualifying will set the forty-car field for each of the four races that will be part of the program this year: Saturday at Bristol, April 23rd at Richmond International Raceway, May 14th at Dover International Speedway and July 23rd at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. After qualifying, the drivers will be split into two fifty-lap heat races of twenty cars each. The top two finishers in each heat race who are eligible to collect X-FINITY Series points will then compete for a one hundred thousand-dollar bonus in the main event, which will go to the highest finisher among those four competitors. All forty original qualifiers will race in the points-paying main event, but only the top two eligible finishers in each of the heat races will be in line to collect the Dash for Cash bonus.

Next Stop Bristol Motor Speeday

Posted on April 15, 2016 by KBOE Administrator

Next stop Bristol Motor Speedway for Sunday’s Food City 500, eighth race of the 2016 Sprint Cup Series and the second of six short-track races on the schedule. Matt Kenseth is the defending winner. Last year, Kenseth started from the pole and also went to Victory Lane – becoming the first driver to win the track’s spring race from the Number-1 starting spot since Hall of Famer Rusty Wallace in 1999 … The burning question this weekend? Can anyone cool off a red-hot Kyle Busch? The reigning Sprint Cup champion has back-to-back weekend sweeps – winning the last two Cup Series races, a Camping World Truck Series event at Martinsville Speedway and last weekend’s X-FINITY Series race in Texas. Busch has seventeen Bristol wins across NASCAR’s three national series: five Sprint Cup victories, eight in the X-FINITY Series and four Truck Series wins.

Fan Voting Now Open For Sprint All-Star Race

Posted on April 14, 2016 by KBOE Administrator

NASCAR fans can now vote to give one of their favorite drivers a spot in the 2016 Sprint All-Star Race, which is scheduled to be run on Saturday, May 21st, at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The ballot includes thirty drivers who are not presently eligible for the non-points special event … led by Danica Patrick, who’s twice been voted in, and Sprint Cup Rookie of the Year candidates Ryan Blaney, Chris Buescher, Chase Elliott and Brian Scott. Fans can vote once daily at NASCAR-dot-com/Sprint Fan Vote. Balloting ends May 20th at 6 pm.

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.

Fan Voting Now Open For Sprint All-Star Race

Posted on April 7, 2016 by KBOE Administrator

Next Stop Martinsville Speedway

Posted on April 1, 2016 by KBOE Administrator

Next stop Martinsville Speedway for Sunday’s S-T-P 500, sixth race of the 2016 Sprint Cup Series and the first of the season on a short track. Martinsville was the venue for one of the most dramatic moments of 2015 as Matt Kenseth put the brakes on Joey Logano’s three-race post-season winning streak.

Kenseth drove into the back of race leader Logano less than fifty laps from the finish of the Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500 on November 1st – sending Logano into the wall and to the garage for repairs as the Eliminator Round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup began. Kenseth’s car was crippled from earlier contact with Brad Keselowski and he was running many laps down to Logano when they made contact, a retaliatory move on Kenseth’s part after the two had also gotten together two weeks earlier at Kansas Speedway.

Logano started from the pole and led 207 of the 454 laps that were run before Kenseth sent him into the wall and to the bottom of the Chase standings. Kenseth drew a two-race suspension for his actions. Logano had been one of the hottest drivers in the post-season but never recovered, failing to qualify for The Championship 4 at Homestead-Miami Speedway and finishing sixth in the final standings.

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