CLEVELAND, Ohio — Martin Truex Jr. is on the pole for tonight’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Go Bowling 400 at Kansas Speedway, but once again rookie Chase Elliott is showing he will be in the hunt after qualifying 13th.
Race coverage on FS1 begins at 7 p.m. with the green flag scheduled to drop at 7:47. You can follow along live at NASCAR’s Race Center.
The starting grid is strong at the top with Matt Kenseth second, Kurt Busch fourth and Kyle Busch sixth.
With 10 races in the books, the son of Bill Elliott has already posted three top-five finishes and five top 10s. Elliott sits 11th in the points race, 80 notches behind the leader, Kevin Harvick.
NASCAR
SPRINT CUP
GO BOWLING 400
Site: Kansas City, Kansas
Schedule: Saturday, race, 7:30 p.m. (FS1).
Track: Kansas Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles).
Race distance: 400.5 miles, 267 laps.
Last year: Jimmie Johnson held off Kevin Harvick over the last six laps to win a race marred by a long weather delay.
Last week: Brad Keselowski won a wild one at Talladega, where multiple wrecks cost teams an estimated $10 million in damage. Chris Buescher’s car flipped three times and Matt Kenseth got turned upside down during the restrictor plate event.
Fast facts: NASCAR Executive Vice President Steve O’Donnell said Monday that the series would work with teams through its research and development center to analyze what went wrong during last weekend’s race. … Joey Logano is winless in 2016 but he’s taken two of the last three in Kansas. Logano is also seventh in the Chase standings, tops among winless drivers.
Next race: AAA 400 Drive for Autism, May 15, Dover International Speedway, Dover, Delaware
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
