Nascar is headed to an inaugural event in the Bluegrass state. Kentucky motor Speedway is finally on the cusp of a Sprint Cup weekend. It wont just be the Sprint cup racing there this week, all three series will be in action at the Kentucky Motor Speedway starting with the Camping World Truck Series on Thursday. Kentucky Motor Speedway was opened in 2000 and is a 1.5 mile tri oval and is located near Sparta Kentucky on I-71. Initially the speedway hosted Nationwide and truck series races but only after a lengthy court battle was fought against Nascar to provide race dates. Kentucky Motor Speedway is owned by Speedway Motorsports, which is a Bruton Smith company. From the beginning of Nascar there has been two major track owners in the sport, ISC, and SMI. The founders of Nascar, the France family, own ISC or Speedway Motorsports Inc. These two entities have been at odds with each other from the beginning, fighting over race dates, inclusion of new tracks and many other issues. It is like two brothers fighting over everything in their lives. This feud has cost both sides millions of dollars and I would bet that they will be at odds with each other in the future, over what is anybodies guess. But at least they finally agreed on the subject of Kentucky Motor Speedway and we now have a full weekend of racing not far form the Cincinnati metro area.
The truck series is loading into the garage this morning and will have their first practice session at 4 P.M. eastern time with a second practice at 6 P.M. they have an additional practice on Thursday starting at 10 A.M. and qualify at 3:05 P.m. eastern which will be tape delayed for 6 P.M. All of this weekends Camping World truck series racing action will be on SPEED TV. Race time for the University of North West Ohio 225 will be at 8 P.M. eastern time on Thursday. What makes this university special is the fact that they are connected to the racing community with their Applied Technologies degree program. This is a program that covers automotive training along with a high performance Motorsports program. That’s right folks, you can go to college and learn to build, pit and repair various forms of racecars! If I could go there I would be “All In” for this kind of learning!
After the truck series we have the Nationwide series loading in for their race on Friday night. They will load in on Thursday and practice at 6:10 P.M. before the truck race and again 9 A.M. Friday morning. Qualifying for the Feed The Children 300 will be at 3:30 P.M. on Friday and green flag coming shortly after 7:30 P.M. Friday night. Qualifying will be on SPEED TV and the race will be on ESPN. Last year the race was the Meijer 300 and Joey Logano took the checkered flag for that one. The “Onion” (Todd Bodine won the truck race there last year.
Sprint Cup action begins with the cup teams loading in on their usual Thursday morning. With all three series there and in the garage area on Thursday I would assume that they have three garages although I could not find any information to that effect on the track web site. The first Sprint cup practice starts at 11:05 eastern time on Thursday morning; the second session is scheduled for 4 P.M. Thursday. Final practice for the cup series is Friday at 11:30 A.M. and this one will be live on SPEED TV. Sprint Cup qualifying is set to run at 5 P.M. eastern time and will also be aired on SPEED TV. The Quaker State 400 will run Saturday night with television coverage on TNT starting at 7:30 P.M. eastern time. I love the Saturday night racing action, I can get a race in and still be with my family on Sunday.
I’ll be back with more Nascar news and reports as the weekend progresses.
Stay safe out there
TW
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