Las Vegas Motor Speedway Tag

By Owen A. Kearns, NASCAR Wire Service LAS VEGAS – Tyler Reddick out-dueled Brad Keselowski Racing teammate Daniel Hemric to win Saturday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series DC Solar 350 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The victory was Reddick’s first of the 2016 season and marked the first time the Brad Keselowski Racing team had fashioned a one-two finish in the series. Reddick led five times for 70 of the 146 laps around the 1.5-mile track, taking the advantage for the final time from Cole Custer shortly after theRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer Entering Saturday night’s DC Solar 350 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Christopher Bell had just a 15-point lead over John Hunter Nemechek who sat in seventh, behind the Chase cut-off. With Talladega Superspeedway being the final race in the Round of Eight, all of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Chasers were looking to add to their cushion. In the only two practices, Bell’s DC Solar Toyota Tundra was 14th fastest and 11th fastest respectively. Bell qualified his Kyle Busch Motorsports truck 18th on theRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer 2016 has been a year of firsts for dirt racing standout Stewart Friesen. The Dirt Modified and Sprint Car standout made his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut at Eldora Speedway earlier this year. In the second heat race, Friesen started second and finished third. Friesen started the main event in 12th. After a multi-truck crash late in the race, Friesen ended up 28th. Friesen, a 33-year-old native of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, also made his pavement-racing debut in the No. 16 Halmar International Chevrolet SilveradoRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer The last time the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series visited Las Vegas Motor Speedway, John Wes Townley took home a surprise victory in a fuel mileage race Townley beat Timothy Peters by nearly four seconds. Johnny Sauter, Timothy Peters, and Townley are the only former winners in the field this weekend. Truck Series Chase After the first Truck Series Chase race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, William Byron has punched his ticket to the Round of Six with a victory at the Magic Mile. The 2016 ChaseRead More

By Joey Barnes, Editor-in-Chief AVONDALE, Ariz. – For the second consecutive weekend, Brad Keselowski struggled on a Saturday. The 2012 Sprint Cup champion qualified seventh in the Axalta Faster. Tougher. Brighter. 200 at Phoenix International Raceway, but struggled with a daunting pace put forth by the Toyota’s of Joe Gibbs Racing, led by a victorious Kyle Busch. Keselowski managed to lead nine laps, but overall struggled at the bottom half of the top 10 before settling for ninth. The finish is a rough one for all involved as Keselowski was alsoRead More

By Joey Barnes, Editor-in-Chief AVONDALE, Ariz – Coming off a sixth place finish at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and momentum in his corner, Ryan Blaney isn’t looking like a rookie, but rather a driver on the rise, a driver on the cusp of breaking through for his first win in the Sprint Cup Series. With the Good Sam 500 at Phoenix International Raceway set to get underway Sunday, it’s important to know how this season began. The 2016 season began with refreshing news that Wood Brothers Racing, one of NASCAR’sRead More

By Joey Barnes, Editor-in-Chief AVONDALE, Ariz. – Heading into Phoenix International Raceway, perhaps no one in the XFINITY Series has more momentum than Daniel Suarez. The 2015 Rookie of the Year, Suarez has opened the first three races with three top 10’s, including a runner-up finish last weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. That finish enabled Suarez to take over the championship lead for the first time in his young NASCAR career. Suarez, 24, is no stranger to Phoenix International Raceway. The NASCAR Drive for Diversity graduate raced in NASCAR’sRead More

By Joey Barnes, Editor-in-Chief The third NASCAR round from Las Vegas Motor Speedway is over, and after a long hiatus from Victory Lane Brad Keselowski made his long awaited return in the Kobalt 400 on Sunday. 1) Weather Someone somewhere was throwing every odd obstacle at the NASCAR community on Sunday. First, there was rain. Then, there was intense gust of winds. Later, there was a sandstorm that hit so hard that the cameras from the FOX telecast were shaking, which made it where we were barely able to seeRead More

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service LAS VEGAS – Overcoming a pit road speeding penalty with daring late-race strategy, Brad Keselowski broke a 33-race drought with a victory in Sunday’s Kobalt 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Keselowski passed Las Vegas native Kyle Busch with five laps left to win for the first time since the fifth race of 2015 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. The 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion beat Team Penske shopmate Joey Logano to the finish line by .675 seconds, as Busch lostRead More

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service LAS VEGAS – Kyle Busch made the move of the race to get the lead in Sunday’s Kobalt 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but a huge vibration in the right front of his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota hurt his winning chances in the closing laps. From the sixth position on a restart on Lap 224 of 267, Busch took Jimmie Johnson and eventual race winner Brad Keselowski three-wide into Turn 1, climbed to third place off Turn 2 and roared pastRead More