When: Saturday, July 14, 2018
Where: Kentucky Speedway, Sparta, Kentucky
Defending Champion: Martin Truex Jr..
Kentucky Speedway will get ready for your NASCAR Quaker State 400 Presented by Advance Auto Parts which will occur on July 14, 2018. The track is situated about halfway between Cincinnati and Louisville, just south of the Ohio border.
Kentucky Speedway has long been used as a testing course for NASCAR, and a number of the sport’s biggest stars have experienced success in the course in the past, including Joey Logano, that won three straight Nationwide Series races there, and former Nationwide and ARCA race winners Kyle Busch, Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick.
Though Kentucky Speedway is still a comparative newcomer when it comes to hosting a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race, the track has had its share of large events in the past, such as NASCAR Xfinity Series races, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races and races at the IndyCar Series.
Last year, Martin Truex Jr. headed 152 laps en route to winning the NASCAR Cup Series Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway on Saturday night for his third victory of the season.
Truex Jr., got the jump over Kyle Busch, who had pitted for two fresh tires while Truex didn’t, and pulled out to secure the triumph.
This race has been dominated by two drivers who have won five of the six races. While Kyle Busch includes two brad Keselowski has three wins. Team Penske and joe Gibbs Racing have three team wins at the race.
While Ford has two wins, toyota has won this race three times and Dodge has one.
Quaker State 400 Race Prediction
To the relief of many last week’s wreck festival in Daytona is currently getting more distant in the rear-view mirror. It didn’t take long for most of the drivers to be wrecked out of this Coke Zero Sugar 400. The 200 mph demolition derby has been a reminder regarding restrictor plate racing’s power ball lottery effect. Or to paraphrase Tony Stewart why plate racing is not real racing. The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series returns in reality, this Saturday. Not to mention actual racing. Kentucky Speedway will host the Quaker State 400 Presented. And while many complain about place races just as numerous deride”cookie cutter” mile and a half tracks. Yet Kentucky is unique in that it has distinct banking across the track. The potential for an outstanding race is there. Continue…
Which driver will take victory lane at Kentucky Speedway?
There are usually 36 Monster Energy Nascar Cup Series races and 33 Xfinity Series races per year, while Formula One generally runs 17-19 races.
This means there are a ton more auto racing betting opportunities in NASCAR, along with better competition deep into the year.
Even though Kentucky Speedway is a newcomer when it comes to hosting a NASCAR Sprint Cup race, the track has had its share of large events before, such as the NASCAR Nationwide Series, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and IRL IndyCar Series.
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