Kyle Busch finally wins at Pocono, takes Overton’s 400

They battled for the lead at Indianapolis and crashed as Truex lost control. After the wreck, there was an altercation on pit road between two members of Truex’s team and Busch’s crew chief, Adam Stevens. He held the lead for at least a lap, and often many more, in 27 of his 36 races.

Clint Bowyer captured the stage win but Hamlin and Truex re-captured the lead for the start of stage three. Busch and Truex restarted in row two.

“We’ve certainly figured out a lot of different ways to lose those races this year”, said Busch. “I knew I needed to just follow him, regroup and rethink where I was going to pull the trigger at”. JGR provides the pit crew for Furniture Row Racing as part of a technical alliance, giving them the authority to suspend members of the FRR team. As it was, Busch and Truex were the two fastest drivers on Sunday.

“[That stall] probably won’t be available [at Pocono] – probably a good thing”, Truex said.

Perhaps this is a purely hypothetical discussion anyway, because NASCAR might decide it either loves things just the way they are or is already mulling over cutting Pocono back to a single stop each season. “You beat the best”. “Late in the week, they started practicing together”. You may have to enter your initial lineups now and be ready to tweak them in a shorter window on Sunday.

“It probably gives them confidence”. Fast facts: Kahne had gone 102 races between wins. Denny Hamlin was once a regular standout at this track, but can he regain that form?

“Having an impound element and basically not being able to put the auto in qualifying trim saves the guys a lot of work in the garage and saves the teams a lot of money, from dumping oils and putting on brake rotors and all the things we do to the cars to make them run fast”, said 2015 NASCAR Cup champion Kevin Harvick.

Joe Gibbs said he never considered disciplining Kyle Busch’s crew chief for his role in a confrontation with another team’s crew. “I know how much the guys appreciate being able to stay at home”.

Busch stamped his automatic entry for NASCAR’s postseason (the series for some reason dumped the term “Chase” though everyone still uses it) and showed he’s a legitimate contender to win his second championship. In order to not have a scramble on pit road, the order of pit-stall selection will be based on the previous week’s qualifying results.

Ryan Preece had waited his whole career for a chance to race in a vehicle as strong as the No. 20 Toyota of Joe Gibbs Racing.

The 26-year-old Preece finished second at New Hampshire and then capitalized with the victory Saturday at Iowa.

Before all of that happens we can take a look at some of the top trends here at Pocono going into the weekend. “I proved it to myself and this is awesome”. I ask him [but] he doesn’t take a dime from that.

“Those guys (the teams racing Toyotas) have found a bunch”, Keselowski said.

Having made his name on NASCAR’s modified circuit and still competing in the series, Preece doesn’t have any additional Xfinity races planned for 2017.

Formula one: Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, hampered by a steering issue for most of the race, won the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest and extended his championship lead over Lewis Hamilton to 14 points heading into the month-long summer break.

“I feel like there’s compromise on the whole track, not just the three corners”, says Grant Enfinger, who will make his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start at Pocono after eight races in an ARCA auto.

“It was nothing intentional”, Haley said. There’s just no way with the banking that you have in turn one and the way that turn two is pretty flat and the way that turn three is even flatter than that.

“I thought this weekend was really good just the way that the schedule was laid out”, he said. He finished a solid 12th and has races left at Watkins Glen, Michigan, Bristol, Darlington and Richmond.

Busch had seven top-five finishes this season and was runner-up to Austin Dillon in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte.

“We struggled at first”. We had a little bit of cleaner air.