NASCAR isn’t as anxious to put a Sprint Cup race at Kentucky Speedway as Speedway Motorsports chairman Bruton Smith is.
“It’s not a market that we’ve said is highly desirable,” NASCAR chairman Brian France said before Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. “It’s well served.

While Indianapolis 500 activities were abuzz over Memorial Day weekend, one would assume that open-wheel champion Paul Tracy would be missing the atmosphere that saw him walk away with a 2nd place finish in 2002. On the contrary, Tracy was busy booking flights and preparing to depart for Chicago, Illinois, where he will be [...]

Crew chief Bootie Barker said he’s been running all season the same wing mount setup on Scott Riggs’ #66 Chevy that was confiscated on Saturday after NASCAR officials decided it was illegal. He reminded that the car passed two inspections on Thursday and wasn’t impounded until somebody in the garage fingered Riggs’ team and Haas [...]

Former Hendrick Motorsports teammates Kyle Busch and Jeff Gordon had a brief conversation after the Coca-Cola 600 after Busch was apparently upset with how hard Gordon was racing him.
Busch refused to answer a question about it in his postrace news conference, saying the conversation would remain quiet. But Gordon, who finished one position behind Joe [...]

Tony Stewart appeared headed for victory in the closing laps of the Coca Cola 600 when with 3 laps to go he cut his right front tire ending his bid for his first 600 win.
A disappointed Stewart waved off interviews as he headed to his Joe Gibbs Racing hauler, and then he bolted out of [...]

KASEY KAHNE (No. 9 Budweiser Dodge Charger) Finished 1st
“Really, really a special race, special weekend. We were there all night. We put our Budweiser Dodge where it needed to be. The pit stops were great. The pit calls by Kenny (Francis, team director) and Chad (Johnston, race engineer) were awesome. Everything was great all night. [...]

Toyota Camry drivers Kyle Busch (third) and David Reutimann (10th) earned top-10 finishes in tonight’s race.
Reutimann’s result was his career-best NSCS finish. His previous best result was a 13th-place finish at Richmond last year.
Other Toyota drivers in the field included Dave Blaney (17th), Tony Stewart (18th), AJ Allmendinger (20th), Denny Hamlin (24th), Michael Waltrip (27th), [...]

Jeff Gordon, No. 24 DuPont Impala SS and Dale Earnhardt, Jr., No. 88 National Guard/AMP Energy Impala SS, finished fourth and fifth respectively in the Coca-Cola 600.
With less than 20 laps to go in the 400-lap/600-mile race, drivers began diving down pit road for a final gas-and-go. crew chiefs Steve Letarte (Gordon) and Tony Eury, [...]

DAVID GILLILAND — No. 38 freecreditreport .com Ford Fusion (Finished 40th)
“You saw what happened. A wheel came off and just hit me and put me out of the race. It’s too bad because we had a good car, but we’ll get it fixed and get out there to collect some points.”