Fantasy NASCAR Scouting Report – Kentucky
[themify_box ]This post is a recap of what happened last summer at Kentucky[/themify_box]
Kentucky Top Ten Starters
- Brad Keselowski
- Joey Logano
- Jeff Gordon
- Denny Hamlin
- Kevin Harvick
- Kyle Larson
- Ryan Newman
- Jamie McMurray
- Kurt Busch
- Danica Patrick
Full Kentucky Qualifying Results
Kentucky Pre-Race Notes
Tony Stewart started in the back due to a transmission change.
Kentucky Race Notes
Penske cars started 1-2. Keselowski who won the pole selected the outside lane. He led the opening 78 laps.
Jeff Gordon who started in 3rd got loose on the opening lap and fell back about 4 positions.
Kasey Kahne moved up 5 positions in the opening 9 laps.
Tony Stewart was up to 27th on lap 16.
Kurt Busch said his car was snapping loose on lap 21 and he fell back about 6 positions in the opening laps.
Running order on lap 27: 2,22,11,24,4,42,10,1,31,18 … 27,15,20,5,47,41,43,3,48,88 … 13,17,16,55,9
Big Moment: On lap 29 Denny Hamlin was running in 3rd but he hit the wall hard. He liked his car and said it drove well for him.
Notable Moment: During the Hamlin caution Larson had a slow pit stop when he overshot his pit box. That dropped him from 6th to 19th.
Running order on lap 40: 2,4,22,24,31,5,27,18,15,20 … 88,3,48,1,47,10,41,42,43,9 … 17,7,55,14,78,99,16,51,13,26
In the first eighth of the race Kyle Busch and Kasey Kahne had good cars and worked their way into the top ten from starting positions of 18th and 20th.
Big Moment: On lap 77 Kyle Larson got into the wall hard. At the time of the incident he was running around 16th.
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