Kentucky Recap

Welcome back to Captain Josh's Pit Stop. I hope everyone is enjoying my blogs. Today I recap the action from Kentucky. All three of NASCAR's top series raced at Kentucky Speedway. Christopher Bell won a rain delayed truck series race on Thursday night. The Xfinity race was postponed to Saturday morning with Kyle Busch picking up his 88th career Xfinity win. Vallterri Bottas won his second career F1 race in Austria on Sunday in his Mercedes. Sebastian Vettel came home in second keeping his points lead. Did you catch all that? On to the Cup race. Photo courtesy of Google images.

The Quaker State 400 took place on Saturday night with Xfinity race winner Kyle Busch on the pole with Martin Truex Jr alongside on the front row. The first and second stages were 80 laps, with the final stage making up the final 107 laps, completing the 267 lap, 400 mile race. Photo courtesy of Google images.

Martin Truex Jr continued his stage dominance winning both stage 1 and 2. Photo courtesy of Google images.

The action heated up in stage 2 with 70 to go in the stage. Brad Keselowski would get loose underneath Clint Bowyer going into turn 3 on the restart. Jimmie Johnson and Chase Elliott were also collected as shown above. Photo courtesy of Google images.

The next restart also had some action in stage 2 with 67 to go in the stage. Trevor Bayne and Kasey Kahne fought for the bottom line going into turn 1 due to the recently repaved track. Both drivers spun and hit the turn 1 wall. Bayne later spun due to the damage with 48 to go in the second stage. Photos courtesy of Google images.

The night ended early for rookie Joey Gase, as he cut a tire going into turn 3 in stage 2 with 23 to go in the stage. Photo courtesy of Google images.

Warning photo overload. The race went green in stage 3 until 2 to go when leader Truex Jr's progress was halted due to a blown engine by Kurt Busch. That created a green white checkered finish. During the caution, there were 8 cars on the lead lap due to Truex Jr having a fast car. All the lead lap cars except Truex pitted. Truex was able to hold off the field on the restart after a crash occurred. Darrell Wallace Jr who was replacing the injured Aric Almirola, got into Matt Kenseth in turn 4, ending the race under caution. Well that's it for now. Next week, the magic mile, New Hampshire. See ya then. Photos courtesy of Google images.