He and his three Hendrick teammates - Dover winner Alex Bowman, Kyle Larson and Elliott - scored the team’s first ever top-four race sweep at the Monster Mile last week and come into the weekend on a huge positive note. Although he has never won or earned a top five on a road course in the three NASCAR national series, he has four top-10 finishes. Ironically, the last time he finished outside the top 10 was the Daytona road-course race in February. William Byron, who earned his series-best 11th top 10 last week at Dover International Speedway, has earned his highest ranking (second) ever in the NASCAR Cup Series standings.
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One driver who has made laps at COTA - albeit in a street car - is Kyle Busch, who like Harvick will also be competing in the Xfinity race on Saturday in preparation for Sunday.īusch has four career road-course wins in the NASCAR Cup Series - two each at Watkins Glen and Sonoma - and a victory at Mexico City in the Xfinity Series.
The Xfinity car is going to be the best tool, and just being able to make laps is the most important thing.” Kyle Busch looking forward to NASCAR’s new road-course challenge
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“I want to make sure we’ve hit most of the curbs and know where you can take a risk, making a pass and where to make time, and how to get on and off of pit road in a live situation, because the practices are short.
“The experience I have in going to these racetracks for a long time - I can tell you every crack, every curve and every marker in the wall, and those are the things I want to have embedded in my mind before we get to Sunday. “I’m a huge visual person,” Harvick said of his decision to race Saturday and Sunday. He’s hopeful his first Xfinity Series start since 2018 will boost his preparation for Sunday’s show. His best finish is runner-up at Kansas Speedway early this month - one of only four top-five finishes in the 13 races to date.
4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford earned a series-best nine victories, but he comes into Austin ranked eighth in the championship points. Harvick, who will be racing in Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race in addition to Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series event, has won on both of NASCAR’s most traditional road course venues, at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) in 2006 and Sonoma (Calif.) in 2017. Kevin Harvick returns to NASCAR Xfinity Series seeking to regain form Hamlin, who has a series-best, nine top-five finishes this season, has only a single NASCAR Cup Series road race win in his career - at Watkins Glen International in 2016. That trio combined to win 21 of the 36 races last season. In fact, Elliott joins current championship leader Denny Hamlin and 2014 series champion Kevin Harvick as the only members ranked among the championship top 10 still without a win in 2021.
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