NASCAR at Michigan and Gateway/ARCA at Michigan

The Cup Series and Xfinity Series are at the Irish Hills of Michigan for a weekend at the fastest track in NASCAR today, Michigan International Speedway. Martin Truex Jr. finally triumphed in last week's Cup race at Pocono. Chris Buescher won the last Xfinity race at Dover.

The truckers are in St. Louis to race Saturday night at Gateway. Darrell Wallace Jr. won in last year's return to the speedway. Matt Crafton looks to ccontinue his stronghold for the title after his Texas victory.

ARCA will race here on Friday afternoon for a 200-mile race at Michigan.

Entry Lists coming soon.

This is a weekend of racing that I anticipate for what are probably very overt reasons, but not just for MIS; I've been looking forward to the Truck Series' return to Gateway since last year's race, which I thought was very entertaining!

Wish that I could see at least one of the races in person, but hopefully will be able to return next year!

While slightly off topic if this weekends racing, apparently Phoenix International Raceway is being renamed the Jeff Gordon Racewat this November, in honour of the 4-time Cup Champion. Ok then.

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Entry lists ahoy!
Cup: http://www.jayski.com/news/stats/2015/story/_/page/15-Michigan-2015-Entry-List
NXS: http://www.jayski.com/news/nxs/2015/entries/story/_/page/NXS-2015-13-Michigan-Entry-List
CWS: http://www.jayski.com/news/campingworld/2015/story/_/page/2015cts08gateway-entry

Highlights:
* Cole Custer is back in the CWS 00.
* John Hunter Nemechek takes over the CWS 8 for the rest of the season having turned 18.
* Jeffrey Earnhardt back in the NXS 55 for Viva Motorsports' rumored final start.
* Kyle Busch makes his wish-he-didn't-but-he-did return to the NXS 54.

MWR has swapped Crew Chiefs, with Brian Pattie going to the 55 and Billy Scott will move to the 15.


Also Xfinity became more unwatchable, and looks like the regulars may not get there wins :/

ARCA qualifying was rained, so the field will be set by practice speeds. Also, the race will be on Fox Sports 2 at 5:30 PM.

Starting Grid

1st #25 Frank Kimmel
2nd #52 Ross Kenseth
3rd #69 Will Kimmel
4th #22 Blake Jones
5th #77 Tom Hessert
6th #23 Grant Enfinger
7th #98 Austin Wayne Self
8th #6 Josh Williams
9th #54 Matt Kurzejewski
10th #55 Cody Coughlin
11th #58 Cole Powell
12th #97 Bobby Hamilton Jr.
13th #2 Sarah Cornett-Ching
14th #59 David Levine
15th #42 Bo LeMastus
16th #9 Thomas Praytor
17th #48 James Swanson
18th #95 Kevin Hinckle
19th #28 Mike Buckley
20th #10 Rick Clifton
21st #0 Tommy O'Leary
22nd #40 David Sear
23rd #06 Con Nicolopoulos
24th #00 Wayne Peterson
25th #68 Chris Bailey Jr.
26th #3 Josh White
27th #96 Richard Altman

Today in Xfinity practice, all this Kyle Busch loving makes me feel like never watching again :/

It's bad, also Kenny called debris on Gaughn's car *Jacques*

-I see what you did there.

Is this Ross Kenseth's first start or did I miss something?

BooyakaDragon wrote:Is this Ross Kenseth's first start or did I miss something?

He ran a couple of races in ARCA already.

Kasey Kahne wins pole! Harvick 2nd, Kes 3rd, Edwards 4th and Ryan Blaney P5!

bsoyuz wrote:

BooyakaDragon wrote:Is this Ross Kenseth's first start or did I miss something?

He ran a couple of races in ARCA already.

Ah okay, I'm dumb lol.

>Ryan Blaney 5th

You wot

>Ryan Blaney P5

Hoping he can get the Woods' first win since some guy named Bayne in 2011.

Joey Logano wins pole EVEN THOUGH Chase had a faster lap, but NASCAR said he didn't make it in time, (TV had 1-2 seconds for time). Heck, the flagman was late also. That's NASCAR i guess.

Brian Scott got 2nd, Bubba P3, Larson 4th and Menard will start 5th

Brad Keselowski ‏@keselowski  2m2 minutes ago
Not sure how other sports can sync their clocks to telecast but we need it in NASCAR qualifying.

Kyle Busch wins. Chase P2/

I really hope Kyle chokes like he usually does this year

Even though Erik Jones put himself in a bad situation spinning out and can't get it restarted, I'm really starting to feel sorry for him.

EDIT: Well THAT just happened.

Custer was probably 5th place truck all night, and gets the win.

GALLAGHER 2ND!!! Sauter P3, JHN 4th and Hayley 5th.

Okay race. Got really wild at the end.

Red Flag for the Cup race.

Little shower coming through.

Kyle wrecks his car. That's what you get for winning Xfinity.

And they need to fix the barrier.

This race O_O

Lucstar88 wrote:Kyle wrecks his car. That's what you get for winning Xfinity.

And they need to fix the barrier.

This race O_O

that was a legit screw-up by NASCAR, there had been rain for at least a lap or two prior according to Harvick)

This is race is absolutely stupid. I know nobody can control mother nature, but race is almost 4 hours in and not even half way.

Mother of Invention wrote:

Lucstar88 wrote:Kyle wrecks his car. That's what you get for winning Xfinity.

And they need to fix the barrier.

This race O_O

that was a legit screw-up by  NASCAR, there had been rain for at least a lap or two prior according to Harvick)

It's odd that no-one but Kyle spun...

Rain again, Larson was 3 laps short. Kurt out front at the moment. May be his win.

Ben Atkins wrote:

Mother of Invention wrote:

Lucstar88 wrote:Kyle wrecks his car. That's what you get for winning Xfinity.

And they need to fix the barrier.

This race O_O

that was a legit screw-up by  NASCAR, there had been rain for at least a lap or two prior according to Harvick)

It's odd that no-one but Kyle spun...

I realized after posting that, he probably wrecked from over correcting (Something I noticed happens a lot to the 18 ). That being said I still think rain had a little to do with it, maybe not everything, but some.

Mother nature wins and so does Kurt Busch!

Thank you mother nature for finally putting the period on the end of another terrible Sprint Cup race.

Eh, I kinda liked the strategy being all over the place.

My thoughts on the 2015 Quicken Loans 400 @ Michigan:

Well, that last restart was a bummer.

Really thought Jr. was gonna snag a win, but because Larson stayed out and took the outside, that allowed Kurt Busch to steal the win with an outside pass of Jr., while Larson had to pit for fuel. Then the rains came and that was all she wrote, which was a massive bummer from my perspective. It's nice to see Kurt continue his redemption season, but I'd rather have seen Jr. win in that paintscheme. Oh, well. It is what it is.

Overall, the race just didn't really capture my attention that much. There was some good racing here and there, and the restarts were good, but there was a point while Harvick was leading that the race got painfully boring. Of course, Mother Nature being a prick didn't help matters, with four red flags for rain in this race. I did LOL though when Harvick had his flat tire, and Johnson was pretty much a non-factor for the entire race, which was something of a surprise.

My rating for the 2015 Quicken Loans 400 @ Michigan:

Well, it wasn't the worst race in the world, but it was far from being the best, which makes it kind of difficult to give a rating for, but I'll go on my Bret Hart shit for this race.



Well, NASCAR has a week off for Father's Day, and then we head to Sonoma.

I wasn't home on Saturday to extend the DVR recording of the Truck Series race. The recording ended on lap 145.

According to racing-reference.info, Jones was involved in an accident later that same lap (I was hoping that he could finally win).

And Spencer Gallagher finished in 2nd.

I have once again missed out. Good job to Cole Custer, by the way!