Prosper’s Buescher avoids trouble to finish 11th, maintain points lead

Kenseth later returned to the track and was nine laps down when he drove race-leading Logano into the wall as retaliation for a crash between the two drivers three races earlier. “Guys get mad all the time”. How far that goes, I’m not real sure.

Kurt Busch told NBC Sports on Saturday that Keselowski had intentionally wrecked Kenseth.

Jones won the Camping World Truck race Friday night and is driving in place of suspended Matt Kenseth today in the Sprint Cup race at the high-banked, 1 ½ -mile track.

There are only three spots available as Jeff Gordon has already advanced into one of the four available spots after winning Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500 last Sunday at Martinsville Speedway.

“It’s his (Jones’) championship to lose and ours to win right now”, said Crafton, seated between his title rivals in the track’s infield media center. Keselowski is one of eight remaining Chase contenders and the polesitter for that race.

“I appreciate everyone here at AMS giving me the opportunity to do that”, Chase Elliott said about the ad campaign.

“At this particular point, that is really our goal for the next couple of weeks and whatever is presented to you on that particular weekend, you have to react to it and try to overcome it the best you can. I don’t know if that risk is worth taking at this point of the game”. The No. 22 Team Penske Ford finished 1.137 seconds ahead of the No. 88 JR Motorsports entry driven by Kevin Harvick, who passed Dillon for the runner-up spot with four laps left. The morning and afternoon practice session were canceled.

Keselowski also picked up extra track time in advance of the Cup race. “I’m very happy doing what I’m doing”, said Crafton, whose 29 NCWTS starts at TMS are second only to native Texan David Starr’s 31. “You always want to be able to look back at those stats, and getting that championship trophy would just be kind of one of the cool steps in my career I would be able to hopefully accomplish”. “I have no doubt that we’ll be competitive enough to pull it off. It’s just going to be a matter of staying out of trouble”. “I saw Matt. We have a group texting and he was talking about fantasy football this week”.

“It seems pretty complex”.

It’s the best way to win a championship.