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A Michigan native, a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion and a man who closely follows the nuances of the sport, Brad Keselowski has long had the Michigan International Speedway winner’s circle on his to-do list.

Now, to do.

The driver of the No. 2 Team Penske Ford was second fastest in opening practice Friday in preparation for Sunday’s Consumers Energy 400 at the Michigan two-miler (3 p.m. ET on NBCSN/NBC Sports App, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) and while he doesn’t want to read too much into that one present and promising statistic, there are plenty of other reasons to consider him a favorite for this weekend’s race.

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Not only does the track hold a sentimental place for the Rochester Hills, Michigan, native, Keselowski has been good there. Really good. He has been runner-up twice and holds 11 top-10 finishes in 20 Monster Energy Series starts – including the last three races. He was sixth in the season’s first stop at Michigan in June. He was runner-up in August last year. And in the 2017 race, Keselowski led a high 105 laps only to finish a gut-wrenching 17th.

“We had a great run here in the spring,” Keselowski said. “I thought we were more than capable of winning. We had a pit road issue very close to the end when we were in a position to grab the lead and take control of the race. That was really frustrating.

“I felt like we had the speed last spring to be in contention at the end. Everything has to fall your way and you have to execute as well, but that didn’t happen for us here and it hasn’t happened for us.”

But, he noted of his near chart-topping practice speed: “It looks like we are off to a good start this weekend. We have really good speed. We are one day into a three-day weekend so it is a bit early and a presumption to say anything beyond that, but it is a good start, nonetheless.”

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So Keselowski and his team will take that. It has been an interesting dynamic this year that this team hasn’t garnered the headlines despite a consistently solid, three-victory, playoff-assured season. Only championship leader Kyle Busch and his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Martin Truex Jr. have won more races (four victories each) than Keselowski.

And beyond those three victories (at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Martinsville Speedway and Kansas Speedway), Keselowski has a pair of runner-up finishes and is on a streak of three consecutive top-10 finishes coming to Michigan. Although he established his NASCAR Playoff eligibility almost immediately this season winning the second race, he’d like to finish out the last four races of the regular season with a trip to Victory Lane for good measure.

Coming off a particularly aggressive race at the Watkins Glen International road course last week, Keselowski was asked how forceful he would be to get that next win himself – particularly at a place like Michigan that holds so much sentimental value to him.

“You really don’t know until you are in those shoes,” Keselowski said. “That question always reminds me of the story of the guy that fell down in a canyon by himself and a rock fell on his arm so he bit his own arm off to get out. So people ask you what you would do to survive if you have to and I am guessing he never would have guessed that he would do that. I don’t know what I am capable of either or what I would do.

“I hope I don’t have to bite my own arm off. With that in mind, I think without a doubt I would do more for this race than most any other.”

RELATED: All of Keselowski’s Monster Energy Series wins

At 35 years old, driving for NASCAR Hall of Fame team owner Roger Penske and owning a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship trophy already on his mantle, Keselowski’s views are indicative of the opportunity his success has granted – to become a sounding board for the sport. He acknowledged with only four races remaining to set the 16-driver playoff field, the pressure is palpable.

Keselowski has finished in the top five in the championship standings four times and has been among the top 10 seven of the last nine years.

“I look at the points every two or three days,” Keselowski said. “Everybody is a little different. It is the clearest measurement of your success in the sport. It is one of the great things about NASCAR or being in this sport in general.

“You think about most careers, most lives and it is always hard to have a measuring stick. In sports, the scoreboard is up there all the time. You constantly get a reference on it. It is one of the things I appreciate about the sport so much.

“You really know if you are doing well or not. There is no ambiguity to it. I look at it a lot and I think it is interesting.”

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The world of racing is cutthroat. It is an industry where friends aren’t made easily. Staying friends while competing every week on the track is even more difficult. Drivers are meant to be warriors and show no sign of weakness, even in the darkest days and the hardest career struggles. But what happens when two unlikely allies join forces to create one of the strongest friendships in NASCAR?

The detailed documentary, “Blink of an Eye,” showcases the life of journeyman driver Michael Waltrip, who goes from a small-town boy living in Kentucky to the grandest lights on the NASCAR stage. Waltrip struggled with finding Victory Lane in his racing career. The hardships and pressure that come along with a famous family name and a strong personality in the garage created a dark cloud that followed him every day. An 0-for-462 career mark is a losing record of great magnitude, especially when it follows the footsteps of a successful older brother, Hall of Famer Darrell Waltrip. When Michael Waltrip started to lose all hope, emotion arrived with “The Intimidator.”

Nicknames like the “Intimidator” and “jokester” go together like oil and water. But Michael Waltrip’s bright light and the rough, country edge of Dale Earnhardt created a friendship that chased victories both on and off the track.

The film demonstrates how two people can form a bond and traces the origins of their friendship, while displaying how that friendship changed both lives for the better. “Blink of an Eye” is a pulled-back curtain to the world of racing. With every mountain encountered, a valley is endured. Racing parallels life and the film’s arc with its highs and lows.

This emotional account reaches its peak with one of the crown jewels in NASCAR, the 2001 Daytona 500. Waltrip led the race late and Earnhardt’s son, Dale Jr., was running second. Earnhardt Sr., who had become a legend and a hero in the sport with seven championships and a devoted following, sat in the third spot. Waltrip, inside of his car, recounts all the struggles and the 400-plus races he had lost. This was his one chance to change all of that if he could just stay in the lead.

Waltrip stared down his losing streak and saw the checkered flag flying just for him, but he had no idea what actually was unfolding in his rearview mirror. Waltrip’s losing streak had ended but what the world of stock-car racing lost that day was much, much greater.

That day in Daytona, Florida, still echoes with the NASCAR community and the sports world today. It’s an underdog tale of friendship, tragedy and redemption; one the documentary captures in heart-tugging detail through the voices of those who actually lived through it.

Blink of an Eye opens nationwide on Sept. 12 and tickets can be purchased at BlinkofAnEyeFilm.com.

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Austin Dillon soared to the fastest lap in opening Monster Energy Series practice Friday, setting the early pace at Michigan International Speedway.

Dillon posted a best lap of 189.969 mph at the 2-mile oval, landing the Richard Childress Racing No. 3 Chevrolet atop the speed charts. Dillon’s lap with roughly a minute left in first practice knocked Brad Keselowski off the top spot in the opening tune-up for Sunday’s Consumers Energy 400 (3 p.m. ET, NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM).

RELATED: Practice 1 results

Keselowski, a Michigan native, held on for the second-fastest lap at 189.929 mph, just eight-thousandths of a second slower in the Team Penske No. 2 Ford. Jimmie Johnson was third-fastest (189.603 mph) with teammate Alex Bowman tied with RCR’s Daniel Hemric at 188.957 mph to round out the top five in the 50-minute session. Four of the top five drivers were in Chevrolets.

Defending race winner Kevin Harvick was sixth-fastest on the board. Joey Logano, winner of the series’ most recent race at Michigan, landed the ninth-fastest lap.

The No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford team of former Michigan winner Clint Bowyer was docked 15 minutes of practice time at the end of the session. Bowyer’s team was late leaving the garage before qualifying last weekend at Watkins Glen International.

MORE: Full schedule for Michigan, Mid-Ohio

Busch Pole Qualifying for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series is scheduled for Friday at 5:05 p.m. ET (NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM).

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BROOKLYN, Mich. — If you’re wondering if the dust has settled between Ryan Blaney and Jimmie Johnson since their incident at Watkins Glen International five days ago, here’s the short answer: It hasn’t.

Johnson started his Friday morning visiting the Boys and Girls Club of Lenawee in Adrian, Michigan, where he received a tour of the facility by a handful of the children in the program, participated in a question-and-answer session and signed autographs before the race weekend at Michigan International Speedway.

But in his first media availability since the heated post-race discussion with Blaney at “The Glen,” the seven-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion noted Blaney failed to reach out this week.

“We know what happened on the track … the drivers do,” Johnson told NASCAR.com. “There was a window of opportunity there from my standpoint for Ryan to handle it a certain way, to engage in at least the way that I know I have when it wasn’t on purpose and I have yet to see or hear from him. So, that only validates my line of thought and how angry I was in the car.”

While Johnson indicated he was waiting for some form of communication, Blaney told NASCAR.com he had already had that conversation after the race.

“I have nothing to apologize about,” Blaney said Friday morning at Michigan. “He came down on me. I apologized to him right then and there, even though it was his fault. I have a lot of respect for Jimmie — or had a lot of respect –that’s why I kind of let him chew my ass out for a minute, minute-and-a-half or whatever he did and I didn’t go back into him, especially when he put a finger in my face.

“Then his comments after we got done talking pretty much threw all that out the window. That respect is very little.”

Blaney said he briefly considered reaching out this week but reiterated he didn’t do anything wrong.

“I was there and he came down across me, then we talked about it after the race,” Blaney said. “You do that to yourself and then expect me to apologize for that? It’s not like I flat ran him over. I told him that. … It’s his doing, but he wants to be mad at me about it.”

Johnson was asked about Blaney’s comments to NASCAR.com later Friday following practice at Michigan.

“I have learned more about Ryan’s point of view through reading articles than I have from out of his mouth, and that part bothers me,” Johnson said. “It’s pretty sad. When I went to go talk to him after the race, at some point he said he felt bad but I never heard ‘I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to,’ nothing that would make me think that he didn’t care if it happened.

“That aspect only confirmed the way I felt in my car. So I thought I would get a call from him during the week, just the friendship that we’ve had, the amount of respect that I thought we had for one another, and I didn’t.”

With four races remaining in the Monster Energy Series regular season, Johnson is currently tied with Ryan Newman on the playoff cutline but would win the tiebreaker to be in the 16-driver field. Blaney currently sits 10th in the standings.

Given Johnson’s comments at “The Glen” warning everyone to “stay tuned,” the possibility of retaliation lingers for Blaney. But it’s not something Blaney is necessarily worried about, he said.

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“He wants to do what he wants to do,” Blaney said. “That’s a separate deal. I’m over it. I’m sure he’s still mad.”

Blaney admitted he has given other drivers chances in the past and it hasn’t worked to his favor. That attitude might be changing this year as he enters the NASCAR Playoffs.

“I’ve checked up for a lot of people and they chopped my nose off like that over the years,” Blaney said. “That’s just not happening anymore. If he wants to be pissed off and try to wreck us and take us out, it’s going to be a whole other problem.”

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NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Jeff Gordon made a return to Victory Lane on Thursday night — this time at the Knoxville Nationals, as a supporter of Qualifying Night race winner David Gravel.

Gordon, former crew chief Ray Evernham and sponsor Axalta planned to make a big splash at this year’s premier sprint car race in Iowa, with a sponsored/wrapped Axalta car for Gravel, who made good Thursday night to lock into Saturday night’s prestigious 24-car main event.

With four-time Monster Energy Series champion Gordon and Evernham in attendance, Gravel was the night’s biggest winner, holding off Brad Sweet — who has more than 50 career starts at the NASCAR national series level, and is in the midst of perhaps his best-ever sprint car season.

Dubbed the “Granddaddy Of Them All,” the 59th Knoxville Nationals runs from Aug. 7-10 and hosts more than 100 sprint cars. The Knoxville Raceway half-mile clay oval is the site of the four-day showdown, which included a pair of qualifying nights held on Wednesday and Thursday.

There are last-chance qualifiers on Friday and Saturday prior to the 50-lap feature event that caps off the festivities. Saturday night’s 24-car A-Main event will have a total purse of nearly $1 million, with the winner taking home a $150,000 grand prize.

Chip Ganassi Racing driver Kyle Larson fell a couple spots shy of qualifying for Saturday night’s A-Main during his qualifying session on Wednesday. With the Monster Energy Series racing in Michigan, Larson will no longer attempt to make the main event at Iowa.

Sixteen drivers already are locked into Saturday’s main show, among them: Sweet, the defending event winner who drives a car for team owner Kasey Kahne; Sheldon Haudenschild, who drives for team owner Ricky Stenhouse Jr.; and World of Outlaws stalwart Daryn Pittman.

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The always anticipated road-course portion of the NASCAR Xfinity Series schedule continues this week with Saturday’s B&L Transport 170 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (3 p.m. ET on NBCSN, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

Austin Cindric earned his career first Xfinity Series victory last week at the iconic Watkins Glen International road course and shows up in Ohio an absolute favorite as well. He won the pole position last year at Mid-Ohio and led a race-best 59 laps only to finish second to series veteran Justin Allgaier.

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Allgaier proved himself as the 2018 road-course ace, earning wins in two of the four events – answering his Mid-Ohio win with another at the next stop in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin (Road America). He leads the series championship contenders with three career road-course wins and could use another to secure his position in the 2019 NASCAR Playoff field.

The JR Motorsports driver is one of only two drivers ranked in the top eight without a victory, and that’s largely because the top three in the standings have absolutely dominated the win column. Championship leader and defending series champ Tyler Reddick has three wins. Christopher Bell and Cole Custer have five victories each. Allgaier is ranked fourth just behind these multi-time winners.

Allgaier’s experience, plus the fact no member of that championship leading group of three has won on an Xfinity Series road course previously, certainly makes him a favorite heading into the weekend. He has a win, two top fives and three top 10s in four Mid-Ohio starts.

Counting the last five road-course events for the series, Allgaier has a pair of wins, four top fives and is averaging a 4.6 finish in the No. 7 JRM Chevrolet.

Some of his fiercest competition this weekend may actually come from within the JR Motorsports group. Xfinity Series rookie Noah Gragson won a NASCAR K&N Series race on the Sonoma, California, road course earlier this summer. He was ninth in the Xfinity Series road-course race last week at Watkins Glen and was a perfect two-for-two in top 10s in his two Gander Outdoors Truck Series road-course events.

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The 21-year-old driver of the No. 9 JRM Chevrolet has four wins in 10 road-course races in the combined NASCAR K&N East and West series.

“I really feel like this time of year is where we can really make move because of how comfortable I feel on road courses,” said Gragson, who is ranked seventh in the championship standings. “We were able to come away with a good run despite some adversity last week in Watkins Glen and I am really confident that we can have an even better run in Mid-Ohio, despite having never been there before. It’ll be an interesting weekend for sure and I’m ready to get it going.”

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Joe Gibbs Racing has turned to the days of the vintage Internet, revealing two retro paint schemes for Denny Hamlin and Erik Jones for NASCAR’s Throwback Weekend at Darlington Raceway.

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In a video released Thursday by the team, Hamlin and Jones traded dueling Sport Clips designs in a mock America Online chat session. The retro looks will hit the track Aug. 30-Sept. 1 at the historic 1.366-mile venue in South Carolina.

Hamlin will pilot a Bill Elliott-inspired No. 18 Toyota in the Aug. 31 VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200, a race he has won five times. Jones will drive the No. 20 Toyota in the Sept. 1 Bojangles’ Southern 500 that mimics his paint scheme from his rookie season in Late Model competition.

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HIGH POINT, N.C. — NASCAR legend and Hall of Fame Class of 2020 inductee Bobby Labonte returns to the race track this Saturday, August 10 to compete in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series modified race at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C. Labonte will be driving the No. 36 Alliance Insurance Services open-wheeled modified car — his first-ever modified race.

The race marks Labonte’s return to competition in the U.S. since becoming the first American NASCAR champion to join the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series in 2017. He raced full-time in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series in 2018, finishing 14th in points with 1 top-5 and 4 top-10s. At Tours in France, in what was his first outing on a European short track, the Corpus Christi, Texas native grabbed his first NWES podium finish under the checkered flag at the end of a breathtaking bumper-to-bumper battle for the win.

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His upcoming Twin 50-Lap race at Bowman Gray Stadium, also known as “The Madhouse,” presents a different challenge for Labonte. It is NASCAR’s first and oldest weekly series sanctioned track, and it also plays host to Sportsman, Street Stock, Stadium Stock and Classic Modified Division races throughout the season.

“I have been to Bowman Gray Stadium a few times, watching and testing this summer, and it’s a lot of fun,” said Labonte. “It reminds me of some of the racing I did before Cup racing. The modified races there are really competitive, and the teams and drivers are serious and talented. I am sure they will make it tough on me, but I am looking forward to strapping on my helmet and giving them a run for it in the No. 36 Alliance Insurance Services car on Saturday night.”

The first-ever NASCAR driver to win a championship in both the NASCAR Cup Series and in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, Labonte won 21 races at the highest level of NASCAR in the United States, conquering some of NASCAR’s crown jewels like the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte, the Southern 500 at Darlington and the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis. Labonte is set to be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in January 2020.

“Alliance Insurance Services is proud to sponsor NASCAR legend Bobby Labonte for this weekend’s special race at Bowman Gray Stadium,” said Christopher Cook, owner of Alliance Insurance Services. “Bobby is a fierce competitor and a proven winner, and we are honored to be part of his team.”

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It’s the silly summer stretch, when not only the tracks vary but so do the winners.

Victory Lane has seen a different driver in each of the past nine races, starting with Kyle Busch at Pocono Raceway on June 2 and most recently with Chase Elliott at Watkins Glen International last weekend. Four of those nine — Alex Bowman, Justin Haley, Kurt Busch and Kevin Harvick — nabbed their first win of the season during that span. One of those four isn’t even a full-time Cup driver (looking at you, Haley).

Repeat winners from earlier in the season included Busch, Elliott, Joey Logano, Martin Truex Jr. and Denny Hamlin.

Date Track Length Winner
June 2, 2019 Pocono Raceway 2.5 miles (triangular) Kyle Busch
June 10, 2019 Michigan International Speedway 2 miles Joey Logano
June 23, 2019 Sonoma Raceway 2.52 miles (road course) Martin Truex Jr.
June 30, 2019 Chicagoland Speedway 1.5 miles Alex Bowman*
July 7, 2019 Daytona International Speedway 2.5 miles Justin Haley*
July 13, 2019 Kentucky Speedway 1.5 miles Kurt Busch*
July 21, 2019 New Hampshire Motor Speedway 1.058 miles Kevin Harvick*
July 28, 2019 Pocono Raceway 2.5 miles (triangular) Denny Hamlin
Aug. 4, 2019 Watkins Glen International 2.45 miles (road course) Chase Elliott
Aug. 11, 2019 Michigan International Speedway 2 miles Sunday at 3 p.m. ET

*Notes first-time season winners | Italics for non-Cup regular

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A little perspective: The first 13 races of the season had just six winners. The longest such streak last season was just five different drivers in a row, and it was near the tail-end of the season, which was capped off by Logano’s championship. This year’s run of unique winners marks the longest streak of its kind since the 2017 season, when 10 different drivers in a row won. 

Date Track Winner
May 28, 2017 Charlotte Motor Speedway Austin Dillon
June 4, 2017 Dover International Speedway Jimmie Johnson
June 11, 2017 Pocono Raceway Ryan Blaney
June 18, 2017 Michigan International Speedway Kyle Larson
June 25, 2017 Sonoma Raceway Kevin Harvick
July 1, 2017 Daytona International Speedway Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
July 8, 2017 Kentucky Speedway Martin Truex Jr.
July 16, 2017 New Hampshire Motor Speedway Denny Hamlin
July 23, 2017 Indianapolis Motor Speedway Kasey Kahne
July 30, 2017 Pocono Raceway Kyle Busch

The lengthiest strand ever dates all the way back to 1961. There were two chunks of 13 different victors, and they actually overlapped. The first began with Junior Johnson’s win at Martinsville Speedway on April 30, 1961 and ended with Buck Baker’s victory June 23, 1961 at Hartsville Speedway. The second started with Fred Lorenzen on May 6, 1961 in Darlington, South Carolina, and ended with Johnson in Roanoke, Virginia, on June 24, 1961. 

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Back in the present, there are 23 drivers out of 32 who have started every race who have not won yet. With nine full-time drivers logging a win this season, by the process of elimination, seven currently are banking on points to make the 16-driver cutline for the NASCAR Playoffs, which begin in four races.

The Cup Series takes on Michigan International Speedway this Sunday (3 p.m. ET on NBCSN/NBC Sports App, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) for the second time in 2019. Logano won the June showdown, and Harvick took this second edition last year.

Both Logano and Harvick already are locked into the postseason – Logano has two wins; Harvick has one. Someone who isn’t guaranteed a spot and might have good luck at Michigan is Kyle Larson, sitting 14th in the standings with a 46-point buffer. Larson has won three of the last six Michigan races (the second race of 2016 and both in 2017) . He finished 14th there in June and is coming off an eighth-place showing at Watkins Glen.

A victory for Larson would snap a 68-race drought. Let the silliness continue to add some rain on the parade. 

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Kevin Harvick took his son, Keelan, for a ride to get the checkered flag in the August 2018 version of this race at Michigan International Speedway. Will there be more happy times ahead for Harvick and family at Sunday’s Consumers Energy 400 (3 p.m. ET, NBCSN, NBC Sports App, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)?

RELATED: Full Michigan schedule

A quick look at the stat sheet shows some numbers in Harvick’s favor: He has won three of the past five stages at Michigan and swept both stages in last year’s win, his second at the track. Harvick has also led the most laps in two of the past three races at Michigan. We’ll see if the No. 4 can get to Victory Lane again on Sunday.

Here’s the rest of the rundown for this week’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race in Michigan:

TRACK DETAILS

Michigan International Speedway is set in the scenic Irish Hills in Brooklyn, Michigan, and is a 2-mile track that features 18-degree banking and 73-foot wide sweeping turns. The first Monster Energy Series race took place there on June 15, 1969. Cale Yarborough earned the checkered flag ahead of David Pearson by five seconds.

RULES PACKAGE

Sunday’s race will feature the 2019 baseline rules package with the smaller tapered spacer, so engines will run with horsepower of about 550. Aero ducts will be used this week, along with the radiator pan, splitter and spoiler from the baseline rules package.

Michigan is a relatively smooth track, so Goodyear notes the challenge will be providing a tire that produces adequate wear. Each team will get three sets of tires for practice, one set for qualifying and eight sets for the race (seven race sets plus one set transferred from qualifying or practice). Teams will have inner liners in the tires.

In addition, NASCAR announced PJ1 will be used on the track for the first time.

STATS

— The driver in 16th place on the playoff grid has changed following each of the last nine races. Jimmie Johnson holds that spot entering Michigan.

— Chase Elliott, who won last week at Watkins Glen, has the best average finish among all-time drivers with three or more starts at Michigan: 7.43.

— Austin Dillon has four top-10 finishes at Michigan, which is second to Daytona (seven top 10s) among his best tracks.

— Denny Hamlin has the most points scored since Chicago with 229. Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Erik Jones is second with 212 points in that span.

Source: Racing Insights

LIVE COVERAGE

NBCSN and the NBC Sports App will be your sources for coverage this weekend, along with MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio and NASCAR.com. NBCSN will kick off coverage on Friday with first practice at 12:35 p.m. ET. Busch Pole Qualifying is at 5:05 p.m. ET on Friday, and the race will be Sunday at 3 p.m. ET.

Be sure to set your Fantasy Live lineups and make your Props Challenge picks on NASCAR.com and follow along on the live leaderboard. Take advantage of expanded lap-averages coverage with 5-, 10-, 15-, 20-, 25- and 30-lap averages for drivers in practices.

2018 RACE WINNER

Kevin Harvick led 108 of the 200 laps last August to capture the victory over Michigan native Brad Keselowski, who finished in second place, 3.233 seconds behind. For Harvick, it was the seventh of eight victories during the 2018 season.

ACTIVE MICHIGAN WINNERS

Kyle Larson, Joey Logano, Kurt Busch, three wins apiece; Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin and Ryan Newman, two wins; Jimmie Johnson, Clint Bowyer, Kyle Busch, one win.