Denny Hamlin wins Bristol qualifying: Complete starting grid

All four JGR drivers have won this season. And a win would certainly make things a little easier over these next couple of weeks, but when you say “need” a win, I’ve won 92 times. “I can’t wait for the Chase to start“.

Yes, that’s right: Saturday night’s race at Bristol is the greatest must-see spectacle in NASCAR.

Busch trailed Xfinity points leader Buescher on the final restart on the start of a two-lap overtime. It was a futile battle, with Logano maintaining the lead and Harvick finishing second.

“It’s just a great day”, said Hamlin. But I still like it. No, I love it. Night racing in Bristol, where the sponsor colors on all these cars look the brightest and best among all tracks. “I give (Buescher) credit for trying to make it there at the end on gas”. After climbing from the auto after the race, Gordon walked away from pit road without comment. Denny Hamlin and Carl Edwards haven’t been as strong over that span, but they’re getting close.

NBCSN will televise the race, beginning with the pre-race “Countdown to Green” show at 7 p.m. ET, hosted by Krista Voda alongside analysts Mike Massaro, Kelli Stavast and Dave Burns. He was followed by Team Penske teammate Brad Keselowski.

“He’s been given a really good prognosis on his health, he’s responded to the treatment really well and beyond the expectations”, Marcus Smith said. Gordon said Friday this had already been one of the most enjoyable seasons of his career, just catching up with old friends and getting honored by the different speedways. That’s what we did, and that’s what we do every week. “You just did that for me here today”.

Denny Hamlin set a track record in leading a Toyota sweep of the first two rows in qualifying at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Q. Should a Joe Gibbs Racing team be favored to win the championship? Kurt also boasts the second-most laps led (721) and second-highest driver rating (106.2) in the series this season.

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series has next weekend off. The next race is Sunday night September 6 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway. During the April race at Bristol, he led 98 laps. He slapped the wall a couple of times during the race and spent only about 27 percent of the event in the top 10 and less than half the race in the top 15. Hamlin’s 131.407 miles per hour pole-winning lap was a track qualifying record…. Kenseth also headed into Saturday as the series’ most recent victor , August 16 at Michigan global Speedway.