The charitable perks of being faster than Kasey Kahne

Posted on October 12, 2015 by

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Just a few days prior to Kasey Kahne‘s annual 5K, organized by the Kasey Kahne Foundation, the Hendrick Motorsports driver announced that for every person that beat him in the 3.1-mile road race, he would then donate an additional $105 to the Novant Health Hemby Children’s Hospital.

As an avid runner and slightly — OK, very — competitive individual, I gladly accepted the challenge to beat Kasey Kahne, all in the name of charity, of course. The “Five Kahne” 5K felt like the perfect assignment, an intersection of my line of work — NASCAR — and a passion of mine — running.

The perfect assignment it was.

At first it was unclear whether or not Kahne would end up racing after the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway was postponed, thanks to rain, from Saturday, Oct. 10th to Sunday, Oct. 11th. This happened to be the same day as the 5K in which only two-and-a-half hours separated the pair of events.

But the driver of the No. 5 promised, via Twitter, that he would be in attendance. Though it still was unclear if he would merely just be there to witness the festivities or if he would actually lace up his sneakers for some cardio.

It was confirmed to me in the most incredible way that he would, indeed, fulfill his promise and actually race.

Kahne lined up around 9:55 a.m., right outside the NASCAR Hall of Fame, about five rows back from the starting line and directly in front of me. So my question was easily answered.

It left me with roughly five minutes till the race’s start to strategize a plan to beat him, but I managed.

Keeping it short, I beat the NASCAR driver by roughly 54 seconds (but who’s counting?) and I was more than happy that he could give an additional $105 check to the Charlotte-based children’s hospital. I’m going to be honest, it felt pretty great to beat a professional athlete, feeding the competitive beast that, admittedly, lies within me.

A total of 39 runners outran Kahne’s time of 22:39, making the total donation an additional $4,095.

Kahne also had a special guest, Braylon Beam, join him for the morning’s events. Click here to learn more about the incredible Beam.

Braylon Beam was @kaseykahne‘s very special guest for today’s race festivities #NASCAR pic.twitter.com/F2cY6EFAmn

— Maggie MacKenzie (@Maggie_MKenzie) October 11, 2015

To find our more about the Kasey Kahne Foundation check out the website.

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Staff Report

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From 8-11 a.m. ET on Tuesday, NASCAR.com will live stream the post-race inspection process at the Research & Development Center in Concord, N.C.

The three-hour look takes you behind the scenes as NASCAR officials inspect NASCAR Sprint Cup Series vehicles following Sunday’s Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The cars at the R&D Center this week are: the No. 22 Ford of Joey Logano (won Sunday’s race), the No. 4 Chevrolet of Kevin Harvick (finished second in Sunday’s race) and the No. 3 Chevrolet of Austin Dillon (the random car selected).

For more information on what the inspection process entails, click here.

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Staff Report

NASCAR Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Development Officer Steve O’Donnell told SiriusXM NASCAR Radio’s “The Morning Drive” that he and other NASCAR officials “did not see oil” on the track during Sunday’s Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway

“I can’t debate Kyle (Busch) and (Dale Earnhardt) Junior,” O’Donnell said, referencing the drivers’ stating there was oil on the track. “They’re in the race car, they say they hit it. It’s not something we saw out there. We’ll continue to talk to them and see what we can maybe improve on in the future.

“We had personnel even out of the truck almost on their hands and knees out there to make sure there wasn’t any (oil),” O’Donnell said.

Both Busch and Earnhardt Jr. were adamant after the race that oil that wasn’t cleaned up from a previous incident led to each of them hitting the wall in separate incidents.

“We all hit the wall,” Earnhardt Jr. said after the Hendrick Motorsports driver finished 28th in the opening race of the Contender Round of this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. “I hit the wall, the 2 (of Brad Keselowski) hit the wall, then we went another lap. I pitted, a bunch of other guys hit the wall.

“There was oil down there. It wasn’t speedy dry (used to absorb fluids put down on the racing surface). I’ve raced this (expletive) for 20 years, I know what oil and speedy dry is. We hit fluid, flew into the freaking wall hard. That’s not speedy dry. There was oil up there.”

O’Donnell also thanked fans for sticking it out until Sunday as, “we did not see a window at all,” to get the race in during the rainy Saturday night for which the event was originally scheduled for.

And as far as that long-awaited 2016 schedule, O’Donnell mentioned it’s coming “very, very soon.”

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Nascar

CONCORD, N.C. — The conversation was brief and casual, a “congratulations” of sorts for how well his Toyota teams appeared to be performing this season, particularly as NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup rolled ahead.

“We said all along we hoped to have as many as five teams in the Chase, and hopefully to still have at least two when we go to Homestead,” David Wilson, President and General Manager for Toyota Racing Development, USA, said before Sunday’s rescheduled Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway got underway.

But, he cautioned, with the elimination-style Chase format, officials don’t look any further ahead than the race at hand. “You just never know what can happen,” he said.

Hours later, the fortunes for two of the more dominant Toyota entries, both from Joe Gibbs Racing, had taken a turn for the worse.

Matt Kenseth, five times a winner this season, was in the garage, his day undone by multiple issues in the opening race of the Contender Round of the Chase.

His 42nd-place finish left Kenseth, the pole winner at CMS, 12th in the Chase standings. Two opportunities remain — at Kansas and Talladega — to win or climb back inside the top eight and advance to the next round, which is the Eliminator Round.

“These are never the kind of days you want to have,” said Kenseth, who led 72 laps in the 334-lap race. “We’re real fast up front and we’re real tight in traffic.”

A four-tire stop dropped Kenseth from the lead to 13th for a Lap 81 restart while contact with Ryan Newman (Richard Childress Racing) sent him into the wall following a later restart. The team made numerous pit stops under ensuing caution periods to make repairs, but when Kenseth bounced off the wall at lap 240, his day was done.

“We got behind on that first pit deal and then didn’t catch the cautions right … I overshot my pit (stall) and put us in the back so it’s just like one thing led to another and led to another,” he said. “We shouldn’t have been back there to start with. My mistakes cost us today so we’ll just move on from this and get ready for Kansas.”

Teammate Kyle Busch had a day worth forgetting as well, but the winner of four races this season was still on the track when the checkered flag waved.

Busch had qualified second, ran in the top five for much of the race, and was third when contact with Kyle Larson during a Lap 195 caution occurred.

“What the (expletive) was he thinking?? Busch asked crew chief Adam Stevens via radio after the incident. “He was never going to make the commitment cone anyway.”

Busch had dropped low as if to enter pit road, then made a move back toward the track. Larson, running second, had made a late decision to dive onto pit road, and the two cars collided.

Larson said afterward that his team had instructed him to “do what everybody around me was doing, and the No. 22 (of race leader Joey Logano) was staying out, so I was committed to staying out.”

At the last minute, he said, his crew instructed him to pit.

“I hung a left and Kyle was there,” Larson (Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates) said. “I feel really terrible to ruin their day and hopefully it didn’t hurt their chances of transferring through this round. I know they deserve a top-three finish for sure. I felt awful immediately and still do. I hate it.”

While Kenseth and Busch had their issues, JGR drivers Denny Hamlin (fourth) and Carl Edwards (sixth) escaped the opening race of the second round relatively unscathed.

Hamlin’s No. 11 survived battery issues that threatened to take him out of contention.

“I ran on the wrong battery all day,” he said. “… My mistake.”

Edwards said track position was the key at CMS, noting that, “I tried everything I possibly could there at the end. I got about 35 feet from the 41 car (of fifth-place Kurt Busch) and that was as close as I could get.”

In spite of the turn of events for his teammates, Edwards said JGR is as strong as ever.

“I feel like any one of us could win at Kansas, and any one of us could win at Talladega,” he said. “There’s no telling what could happen. We all ran well (at times) and that’s the key, having that little bit of speed.”

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Nascar

RELATED: Full race results | Updated Chase Grid

CONCORD, N.C. — Two of NASCAR’s top drivers were adamant that oil not cleaned up from a previous incident led to each of them hitting the wall in separate incidents during Sunday’s Bank of America 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Both Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kyle Busch bounced off the outside wall shortly after Justin Allgaier had brought out the day’s seventh caution flag.

“We all hit the wall,” Earnhardt Jr. said after the Hendrick Motorsports driver finished 28th in the opening race of the Contender Round of this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. “I hit the wall, the 2 (of Brad Keselowski) hit the wall, then we went another lap. I pitted, a bunch of other guys hit the wall.

“There was oil down there. It wasn’t speedy dry (used to absorb fluids put down on the racing surface). I’ve raced this (expletive) for 20 years, I know what oil and speedy dry is. We hit fluid, flew into the freaking wall hard. That’s not speedy dry. There was oil up there.”

Earnhardt was already running outside the top 25 after an earlier incident had put his No. 88 Chevrolet in the wall.

Allgaier’s entry began slowing with smoke trailing out the rear of the No. 51 HScott Motorsports entry on Lap 182. Earnhardt said it might have been a “blown hose” that sprayed fluids across the track and that shadows cast by billboards ringing outside of the track could have made it difficult to see.

“(Expletive), man, guys hit the fence, what do you want me to do?” Earnhardt said. “I hit the (expletive) wall. I know I hit oil. I hit it. I promise. I’ll argue with (NASCAR) all day long because I know I’m right. They won’t argue about it. … They shouldn’t want to argue about that. A lot of cars hit the wall down there.”

Busch’s Toyota eventually slipped up and into the fence in the turn as well, continuing a day of misfortune for the Joe Gibbs Racing driver.

“You now, can’t pass anybody — single-lane race track and then you put oil on the top lane to try to make anything happen and then you put yourself in the fence, so thanks to NASCAR for cleaning that up,” Busch said after finishing 20th.

With two races remaining in the Contender Round, at Kansas Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway, Busch sits 10th and Earnhardt 11th in points. Only the top eight will advance to the three-race Eliminator Round (Martinsville, Texas and Phoenix), with a chance to be one of the final four to battle for the championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway in November.

Brad Keselowski (Team Penske) finished ninth and holds the No. 8 points position, 10 points ahead of Busch and 19 ahead of Earnhardt.

Richard Buck, NASCAR Managing Director of the Sprint Cup Series, said afterward that officials “listen to our drivers and our spotters; we get calls all day long. We’ve got spotters around the track, officials, clean-up and stuff and we’ll make the rounds over the radio.

“In that instance we actually had men on the ground walking that high groove and they couldn’t see anything,” he said.

Caution car driver Brett Bodine and official Buster Auton were also evaluating the condition of the racing surface in the area in question.

“So we got the reports and we looked everywhere,” Buck said, “including putting people on the ground walking the area where they said the oil was, and there was no oil.

“Sometimes, with some of these lubricants … there is some staining to the track. We’ll go back and do a double-check on that just to make sure; we did that today and we feel absolutely confident that there was no oil up in that very top groove or down below.”

Race winner Joey Logano (Team Penske) said there was radio chatter among his crewmen about possible oil on the track, but that he had no issues.

“I was warned,” Logano said. “My spotter did a great job warning me that people were talking about it, so when someone comes over the radio and says ‘Hey, they’re talking about oil in the middle of the race track,’ then you probably shouldn’t run in the middle of the race track.”

Sunday’s race was run a day later than originally scheduled due to rain that washed out all on-track activity on Saturday.

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Staff Report

Matt Kenseth‘s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship hopes took a heavy dose of damage Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Kenseth took his car to the garage on Lap 241 of 334 after his Joe Gibbs Racing No. 20 Toyota made major right-side contact with the Turn 4 wall. It was the final crushing blow in a series of misfortune for the Coors Light Pole Award winner, who led 73 laps in the early going.

Kenseth had a pair of slow pit stops early — one when his jack man slipped, the other when he overshot his pit-stall lane — that pushed him back in the pack. Contact with Ryan Newman on Lap 176 caused significant damage to his car’s right side.

“Everything kind of snowballed,” Kenseth told NBCSN about his trouble-filled day. “With Ryan (Newman), I honestly don’t know. I’ve got to go look at it. He went up like I thought he was broke, so I went up through the middle and I thought I left him plenty of room and then next thing I know I was pointed at the fence, you know? I don’t know. I’ve got to rewatch it.”

Kenseth scraped the wall again on Lap 204, then was running three laps down in 32nd place when he clouted the wall a final time. He was credited with a 42nd-place finish.

Kenseth, a five-time winner this season, had punched his ticket into the Chase’s Contender Round with a victory two weeks ago at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. He’ll likely need similar magic in the round’s next two races — at Kansas and Talladega.

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Staff Report

RELATED: Race results | Updated standings

A pair of pit-road fake-outs went horribly wrong for Kyle Busch and Kyle Larson during the eighth caution period of Sunday’s Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, spoiling the day for two drivers firmly running in the top five.

Busch, a Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup playoffs contender, feinted toward pit road after the yellow flag emerged for Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s third wall scrape of the day. When Busch tried to return to the race track to keep his third position, he bumped into second-place Larson, who was making his own lean toward pit road.

The contact sent both Larson’s No. 42 Chevrolet spinning at the pit entrance, with Busch’s No. 18 Toyota skidding and clipping into the commitment cone.

“What the (expletive) is he thinking?” Busch told his Joe Gibbs Racing crew over the radio. “He’s never going to make the (expletive) commitment cone anyway.”

Larson later told his Chip Ganassi Racing crew over the radio: “I’m sure it doesn’t matter, but please apologize as much as you can.”

After making multiple stops for repairs, Busch resumed the race in 23rd place with Larson 24th as the last two cars on the lead lap. Busch fared only slightly better after the contact, finishing 20th to Larson’s 21st — both a lap down.

“I don’t know. Just can’t say enough about my guys — all the work that they put into these things,” Busch said. “They don’t deserve to be put in these situations year in, year out, but we are for some reason. But it’s tough and we’re going to have to battle through with what we’ve got right now. I can’t say enough about what they did on pit road getting us back salvageable.”

Busch might’ve demurred when asked about the contact with Larson, but Adam Stevens, his crew chief, was more demonstrative, saying his plan all along was to keep his driver on the race track.

“(Busch) knew the call the whole time, he was just doing what he normally does,” Stevens said. “The big question is what was the 42 (Larson) doing. There was no way, whether we were there or not, he turned down so late that he was going to hit the cone — he was going to completely miss the cone on the right or maybe touch it with his left side somewhere, there was no way he was going to get under the cone. I don’t know what he was doing, but you’ll have that sometimes. I’m sure it wasn’t intentional.”

Larson reiterated his apology post-race.

“They told me to do what everybody around me was doing and the No. 22 (leader and eventual race winner Joey Logano) was staying out, so I was committed to staying out,” Larson said, “and as soon as I turned right to stay out they said pit, pit, pit. I hung a left and Kyle was there. I feel really terrible to ruin their day and hopefully it didn’t hurt their chances of transferring through this round. I know they deserve a top-three finish for sure. I felt awful immediately and still do. I hate it.”

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Staff Report

Joey Logano surged to a dominant victory Sunday afternoon at Charlotte Motor Speedway, landing an automatic berth in the next round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup playoffs.

Logano, driving the Team Penske No. 22 Ford, led 227 of 334 laps in the Bank of America 500, which was postponed by heavy Saturday night rain. He held off defending Sprint Cup champion Kevin Harvick to record his fourth win of the season, his first at the 1.5-mile track and 12th of his Sprint Cup Series career.

The victory gives Logano immunity from elimination in the three-race Contender Round, making him one of the final eight title-eligible drivers in the Eliminator Round. His road to last year’s championship round took a similar path; Logano also won 2014’s Contender Round opener, which was hosted last year at Kansas Speedway.

“This makes Talladega way easier,” Logano said, pointing toward the always dicey Contender Round finale at the 2.66-mile Alabama track. “I know that’s on everyone’s mind when this round starts and last year we won Kansas when it was the first race of this round and now we were able to get it this time at Charlotte. We’ll get lots of sleep here the next couple of weeks.”

Logano notched his victory a week after Harvick triumphed at Dover to claw his way back into the Chase.

“I think everyone saw how fast he was last week and it probably made a lot of people nervous, but our team kept their heads up and stayed confident,” Logano said. “We know we can beat them. We know we’ve got what we need over here, and our team is as tight-knit as they get.

“I’m proud of them. I couldn’t be more proud of them. We had a lot of money stops today to keep us out front. The pit stops were great and I couldn’t be more proud of what they’re doing right now.”

Harvick’s Stewart-Haas Racing No. 4 Chevrolet finished .704 seconds behind Logano at the end of his 11th runner-up finish this year. Martin Truex Jr., Denny Hamlin, Kurt Busch and Carl Edwards completed the top six as Chase drivers swept the first half-dozen positions. Seventh-finishing Austin Dillon was the top non-Chase driver.

Early trouble made for a difficult day for Chase drivers Dale Earnhardt Jr., Matt Kenseth and Kyle Busch, all of whom failed to finish on the lead lap. Earnhardt spent much of the race’s middle section one lap down after brushing the wall twice, on Lap 69 and 74. He continued after repairs, then scraped the wall again after hitting oil on the track on a Lap 190 restart.

Kenseth, the Coors Light Pole Award winner in Thursday qualifying, led 72 laps early before running into his own pitfalls. A pair of errors on pit stops pushed him back in the running order, then things got worse when he made contact with fellow Chaser Ryan Newman on Lap 176, sending his Joe Gibbs Racing No. 20 entry into the outside wall. After numerous stops for repairs, Kenseth scraped the wall again on Lap 204 and then hammered it on Lap 241, sending him behind the wall.

“These are never the kind of days you want to have for sure, but it’s just one of those days,” Kenseth said. “We’re real fast up front and we’re real tight in traffic. We got behind on that first pit deal and then didn’t catch the cautions right and it went green, overshot my pit and put us in the back so it’s just like one thing led to another and led to another.

“We shouldn’t have ever been back there to start with. My mistakes and they cost us today so we’ll just move on from this and get ready for Kansas.”

Busch, Kenseth’s JGR teammate, suffered damage and lost headway when he collided with Kyle Larson in a quirky collision at the pit-road entrance. Both drivers made moves to fake and entry onto pit road, but when Busch tried to return to the track in third place, he made sizable contact with second-place Larson.

Busch wound up with a 20th-place finish, Earnhardt 28th and Kenseth 42nd, leaving all three with plenty of ground to make up in the next two Contender Round races — next weekend at Kansas Speedway and the following week at Talladega Superspeedway.

The race was originally scheduled for Saturday night, but rain forced its postponement to a sunny Sunday.

“Well, we definitely had to make some bigger swings at the handling of the car than what we were prepared for last night,” said Harvick. “I like racing in the day, and especially here at Charlotte, because it seems like the cars move around more and it’s harder to get a hold of your car.

“But we never were able to get the balance right on our car all weekend and just never really got comfortable in the car — but kept grinding away, and it got better throughout the day today, and that’s a good thing on race day.”

Contributing: NASCAR Wire Service

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Staff Report

RELATED: Updated series standings | Full Charlotte race results

Advancing: Joey Logano had the car to beat in Sunday’s Bank of America 500, and it paid off as the Team Penske driver led 227 laps to win at Charlotte Motor Speedway, the first race of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Contender Round. Logano’s victory punches his ticket to the Eliminator Round.

This marks Logano’s first career trip to Victory Lane at Charlotte.

Four in, four out: Here’s the bubble picture following Charlotte. The four drivers below the line would not advance to the next round (Eliminator) if the Contender Round ended today. (Note: The Contender Round ends in two weeks at Talladega Superspeedway.)

5. Kurt Busch (four points ahead of eighth-place driver)
6. Carl Edwards (+4)
7. Jeff Gordon (+2)
8. Brad Keselowski (–)
———–
9. Ryan Newman (6 points behind eighth-place driver)
10. Kyle Busch (-10)
11. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (-19)
12. Matt Kenseth (-32)

Reason for hope: Kevin Harvick is certainly off to a better start to the Contender Round than the Challenger Round, finishing second to Logano at Charlotte. As long as he can stay out of harm’s way over the next two races, you could practically pencil in the defending Sprint Cup Series champion for the Eliminator Round. Only problem? Talladega Superspeedway (round finale) might as well be called “Harm’s Way.”

Reason for worry: Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Chase outlook darkened at Lap 69, when his No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet smacked the wall, then hit it again five laps later between Turns 1 and 2. “Hit the (expletive) wall pretty good,” Earnhardt told crew chief Greg Ives after his first contact. While Earnhardt continued in the race, his 28th-place result sets him back to 11th in the Chase field — putting him in a more desperate situation at Kansas, where he is winless.

MORE: Earnhardt Jr. hammers wall twice

Up next: Hollywood Casino 400, 2:15 p.m. ET, Oct. 18 at Kansas Speedway (NBC, MRN, SiriusXM)

Who it favors
Most wins: 3 — Jeff Gordon
Best driver rating: 100.5 — Jeff Gordon
Best average finish: 9.9 — Jeff Gordon

Who it hurts
Fewest top 10s: 3 — Kyle Busch (in 15 starts)
Worst driver rating: 78.8 — Kyle Busch
Worst average finish: 21.4 — Kyle Busch

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Staff Report

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR XFINITY Series are at Kansas Speedway this week, while the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is off. Sprint Cup Series and XFINITY Series practices, qualifying sessions and races can be watched on NBC Sports Live Extra.

All times are ET

SUNDAY, OCT. 18:

ON TRACK

— 2:15 p.m.: Presentation of Colors by: Leavenworth High School JROTC Color Guard
— 2:15 p.m.: Moment of Silence
— 2:15 p.m.: Invocation by United States Army Chaplain, Joseph Lea, Chaplain of the 40^th Military Police Battalion, Fort Leavenworth
— 2:16 p.m.: Intro National Anthem
— 2:16 p.m.: National Anthem by Gracie Schram, from Leawood, Kansas
— 2:17 p.m.: Fly-By TOT by KC Flight Team (Turn 3 to 2)
— 2:22 p.m.: “Drivers, Start Your Engines”: Introduced by Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Star of NBC’s “Truth Be Told”
— 2:31 p.m.: Hollywood Casino 400 (267 Laps, 400 Miles), NBC/Live Extra (Results)

PRESS CONFERENCES (Watch live)

— 5:45 p.m.: Post-NSCS race

FRIDAY, OCT. 16:

ON TRACK
— 1-2:25 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice, NBCSN/Live Extra (Results)
— 2:30-3:20 p.m.: NASCAR XFINITY Series practice, NBCSN/Live Extra (Results)
— 4:30-5:55 p.m.: NASCAR XFINITY Series final practice, NBCSN/Live Extra (Results)
— 6:15 p.m: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, NBCSN/Live Extra (Results)

GARAGECAM (Watch live)
— 12:30 p.m. Sprint Cup Series
— 4 p.m.: XFINITY Series

PRESS CONFERENCES (Watch live)
— 11:30 a.m.: Joey Logano
— 11:45 a.m.: Chris Buescher
— Noon: Matt Kenseth
— 12:15 p.m.: Martin Truex Jr.
— 2:30 p.m.: Carl Edwards
— 2:45 p.m.: Clint Bowyer
— 3:30 p.m.: Jeff Gordon
— 7:15 p.m.: Post-NSCS qualifying

SATURDAY, OCT. 17:

ON TRACK
— 11:30 a.m.-12:25 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice, CNBC/Live Extra (Results)
— 12:45 p.m. ET: NASCAR XFINITY Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, NBCSN/Live Extra (Results)
— 2:30-3:20 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series final practice, NBCSN/Live Extra (Results)
— 4 p.m.: NASCAR XFINITY Series Kansas Lottery 300 (200 laps, 300 miles), NBCSN/Live Extra (Results)

PRESS CONFERENCES (Watch live)
— 6:45 p.m.: Post-NXS race