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track primer schedule Friday, Mar. 2

Las Vegas 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series – Race No. 3 Start Time: 6:00 p.m. (PST) Television/Radio: FOX Sports 1 / MRN/SiriusXM 2017 Winner: None – New Event

Saturday, Mar. 3

Boyd Gaming 300 NASCAR Xfinity Series – Race No. 3 Start Time: 1:00 p.m. (PST) Television/Radio: FOX Sports 1 / PRN/SiriusXM 2017 Winner: Joey Logano

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Sunday, Mar. 4

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four races.

▶▶ The Pennzoil 400 will be a good barometer for the remainder of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season as it is one of 11 races to be run on 1.5-mile tracks.

Martin Truex Jr. carried the momentum of his first victory of 2017 to a Monster Energy Cup Series championship.

Jimmie Johnson has four wins at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, although Brad Keselowski may be the favorite after cruising to victory here in two of the last

RECORD BOOK ▶▶ Seven-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson tops the win list with four victories at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

race rewind ▶▶ Martin Truex Jr. and Brad Keselowski had a fine battle, with Truex topping a fading Keselowski at the end for the victory. Kyle Busch and Joey Logano traded blows on pit road after the race.

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track facts LENGTH: 1.5 MILES (267 LAPS = 400.5 MILES) BACKSTRETCH: 1,572 FEET FRONTSTRETCH: 2,275 FEET BANKING IN TURNS: 20 DEGREES BANKING ON STRAIGHTAWAYS: 9 DEGREES FIRST RACE: MARCH 1, 1998 – LAS VEGAS 400 MONSTER ENERGY NASCAR CUP SERIES QUALIFYING RECORD: KURT BUSCH, MARCH 4, 2016, 196.378 MPH RACE RECORD: BRAD KESELOWSKI, MARCH 9, 2014, 154.633 MPH

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After back-to-back races on the East Coast to begin the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, the series kicks off its annual thee-race West Coast swing this weekend with a trip to Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

While it’s been a whole year since drivers last raced in Sin City, the 1.5-mile venue is barely removed from a late January test

where more than a dozen drivers spent two days knocking off the proverbial offseason rust.

Turning the fastest lap on both days of testing was Kyle Larson, who finished second to Martin Truex Jr. in Vegas one year ago. Based on the test — and his performance last year at Vegas — the Chip Ganassi Racing driver is a favorite to go to Victory Lane in Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube.

Larson feels modestly encouraged by the laps he turned at Vegas over the winter.

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Kyle Larson clocked the fastest during testing at Las Vegas in January.

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of kind of where you stack up against other teams,” he said. “But, I don’t know it’s also hard because you don’t know who is pushing the limits on their bodies and stuff here or whatever they are doing.”

The Vegas test was especially critical for Larson and the other Chevrolet drivers who were able to shake down the manufacturer’s re-designed

Chevy Camaro ZL1 that made its official debut at the 2018 Daytona 500.

“It was a really good test overall, and I was pretty excited to get here and get in the new Camaro,” Larson said. “Those were my first laps in it, so it’s just nice to know it has as much speed or more than what we had last year.”

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day session on the second day, crossing the line in 28.234 seconds at 191.259 miles per hour. Veteran Ryan Newman was secondfastest at 28.417/190.027, with 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series rookie of the year Erik Jones turning the third-fastest lap 28.420/190.007.

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“I can’t wait to get back here,” Byron said after the test.

Another driver who participated in the test was two-time Las Vegas winner Brad Keselowski, another driver on the shortlist of favorites to win this weekend.

“It’s a fun track to come to, and I always like coming to the tracks we win at,” said Keselowski, whose victories at Las Vegas came in 2014 and 2016. “I’ve won here twice at the Cup level, and we probably should have won this race last spring, but had a part failure on the next-to-last lap while leading. Now that we’ve got two races here, it seems to justify us coming here and putting a little extra effort into this one with us kind of starting out the season and it having such an important effect on the back half of the season.”

Larson, for his part, is

Brad Keselowski has won two of the last four Cup Series races at Las Vegas.

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excited about Las Vegas kicking off the 2018 Monster Energy Series playoffs.

“Vegas is obviously an awesome city and great to come hang out and good food and all that, but the racing is really good here,” Larson said. “The fans are always great. The stands are always packed whenever we come. And

then to have it be the kickoff to our playoffs, I think that will be big and hopefully we can promote that a lot and carry that momentum that we build throughout the promotion of it throughout the whole playoffs. I think moving or adding a second date here at Vegas and having it be the first race of the playoffs was very important.”

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▶▶ Riding high on the heels of a dominant performance on the way to victory at Atlanta, Kevin Harvick is understandably eager to return to Las Vegas — a track where he won in 2015. ▶ ▶ Kyle Larson turned the fastest lap on both days of a twoday winter test at Las Vegas. That bodes well for this weekend, especially considering Larson finished second at Vegas one year ago. ▶▶ Martin Truex Jr. put on a clinic last season in Sin City by leading 150 of 267 laps en route to victory. The reigning series champion, Truex has been relatively quiet so far in 2018. ▶▶ A winner of two of the past four races at Las Vegas, Brad Keselowski rebounded from a disappointing finish at the Daytona 500 by finished a strong second last weekend at Atlanta. ▶▶ No one is more eager to race in Sin City than Las Vegas native Kyle Busch, whose lone Monster Energy Series victory at his home track came back in 2009 after starting from the pole.

preview predictions Driver To Beat: Brad Keselowski Team To Beat: Team Penske Sleeper: Alex Bowman

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no. Driver Pts. Wins

1 Kevin Harvick 75 2 Austin Dillon 70 3 Joey Logano 87 4 Ryan Blaney 83 5 Denny Hamlin 77 6 Clint Bowyer 74 7 Martin Truex Jr. 69 8 Kurt Busch

68 9 Paul Menard 66 10 Aric Almirola 66 11 Kyle Busch 61 12 Brad Keselowski 58 13 Kyle Larson

54 14 Darrell Wallace Jr. 52 15 Michael McDowell 52 16 Ryan Newman 49 17 Alex Bowman 46 18 Chris Buescher 45 19 Chase Elliott 44 20 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 43 21 Jamie McMurray 41 22 AJ Allmendinger 36 23 Erik Jones 35 24 Trevor Bayne 33 25 William Byron 33 26 Daniel Suarez 27 27 David Ragan 25 28 Kasey Kahne 19 Jeffrey Earnhardt 19 30 Gray Gaulding 18 31 Matt DiBenedetto 16 32 Ty Dillon 12 33 Jimmie Johnson 11 34 Mark Thompson 15 35 D.J. Kennington 13 36 Brendan Gaughan 9 Cole Whitt 9 38 Harrison Rhodes 4 39 Danica Patrick 2 40 Corey LaJoie 1

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70 Ryan Truex

63 Spencer Gallagher 62 Christopher Bell 53 Justin Allgaier 52 Ross Chastain 49 Kaz Grala

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32 Jeremy Clements 31 Ryan Sieg 31 David Starr

29 Josh Williams 28 Jeff Green 27 Stephen Leicht 27 Dylan Lupton 26 Cole Custer

25 Vinnie Miller 23 Michael Annett 22 J.J. Yeley 20 Spencer Boyd 20 Joey Gase 15 Chad Finchum 11 Kyle Benjamin 34 John H. Nemechek 33 Caesar Bacarella 24 Chase Briscoe 22 Ryan Ellis 7 B.J. McLeod 7 Tommy Joe Martins 4 Timmy Hill 3 Matt Mills 1 Brandon Brown 1 Morgan Shepherd 1

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Noah Gragson Dalton Sargeant Spencer Davis Joe Nemechek Justin Haley

Stewart Friesen Myatt Snider Justin Fontaine Austin Hill Cody Coughlin Jordan Anderson Parker Kligerman Wendell Chavous Austin Self Robby Lyons Norm Benning Scott Stenzel Bo Le Mastus Jennifer Cobb Jesse Little

David Gilliland Bryan Dauzat Josh Reaume Clay Greenfield Chris Fontaine Akinori Ogata Travis Kvapil

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Hall of Fame Spotlight: ‘Big Bill’ France

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William H.G. France, known as “Big Bill” partly because of his 6-foot-5 stature, was a visionary who helped transform stock car racing from a backwoods sport into a national phenomenon.

A native of Washington, D.C., who moved his family south to Florida, France operated a gas station to support his passion for driving stock cars. He was among several drivers, car owners and promoters who

“Big Bill” France, driver Johnny Mantz and Alvin Hawkins at North Carolina’s Bowman Gray Stadium.

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assembled at the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Dec. 14, 1947, in an effort to better organize the sport.

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing was the eventual result and France was selected to guide organization.

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hall of fame spotlight: ‘Big Bill’ France In addition to his work in growing NASCAR, France saw a need for bigger, more modern race tracks. In 1959, he opened Daytona International Speedway and introduced the sport’s marquee race – the Daytona 500. He later added Alabama’s Talladega Superspeedway to his International Speedway Corp. business.

France turned over the day-today operation of both NASCAR and ISC to his oldest son, William C. France, in 1972. He passed away on June 7, 1992, at the age of 82 after battling Alzheimer’s disease.

France was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural five-member class in 2010.

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driver profile Kaz Grala is racing in the XFINITY Series with JGL Racing. (Photo by Getty Images for NASCAR)

An Infusion of Energy Kaz Grala Is Thrilled to Run in the XFINITY Series

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ot many 19-year-old teenagers have the opportunity to compete in the NASCAR XFINITY Series, but Kaz Grala is one of the few that has that on his resume. The Maine native is fresh off a strong run at Daytona to start the season and is geared up to compete for Rookie of the Year with JGL Racing.

How did the deal come about to race in

the XFINITY Series?

“It started off – even though I didn’t know it at the time – after I won Daytona, The team owner at JGL, James Whitener, is really into plate races. I guess I got his attention when I won at Daytona. He kept his eye on me throughout the season.

Halfway through 2017, we started having some conversations and got together for a meeting. He called us about the new manufacturer switch and alliance, and it sounded like a really good deal.”

What are your expectations for your rookie year?

“Early, we’re going to spend a lot of time with housekeeping logistics at the shop and sorting all of our cars out.

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Rolling Along Church Enjoys Driving the Open Road

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teven “Chucky” Church, transporter driver for StarCom Racing and driver Jeffrey Earnhardt, attended his first NASCAR race in 1984 at the old Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway with members of his family. Years earlier, one memorable highlight in NASCAR history caught his attention.

“I remember seeing the big fight they had on television at Daytona [in 1979 Daytona 500 involving Cale Yarborough, Bobby and Donnie Allison],” Church said. “My grandfather sold cars and would watch NASCAR races. My Dad was a pretty good mechanic and worked on a

lot of things in the shop. So I learned a lot of things from him.”

Also in the early 1980s, Stevens’ career in the sport began by passing out resumes to team owners as they walked into the garage area. That plan worked and over the years, he has helped drivers Morgan Shepherd, Jennifer Jo Cobb, Rick Carelli, Rick Ware and Derrike Cope in various jobs with their teams.

The Chuck Norris lookalike was given the “Chucky” moniker by fellow transporter drivers. His present role involves far more than just getting the team’s Chevrolets to the track. He’s fine with criss-crossing the United States to compete on the full 36race Cup schedule.

“I guess you could say I’m in a support role for all of the tasks that are done in the garage area,” Church said. “That includes getting the radios ready, any tools, supplies or parts on the hauler that might be needed for the race that’s coming up. And I have to know where everything is in case a crew member comes up and needs something.” las vegas preview: march 1, 2018

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“What I enjoy about driving is the open road. I grew up in Washington and have been driving since I was 13. We would get a farm permit and haul wheat from the fields and silos.

I got the bug from there and have done all kinds of driving across country.”

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spoltight skill set to the limit engages an unbridled adrenalin rush more than anything.”

As an internationally recognized brain surgeon, Cormier has been able to engage companies to establish new technologies to diagnose and rehabilitate head injuries. He is now augmenting his current efforts on prevention.

“Motorsports Safety Group is excited that we’ve come this far in such a short time,” Cormier said. “We owe a great deal to both the drivers and the racing organizations for embracing our insight.”

Cormier has found that his racing background gives him more credibility when talking with race teams.

“I am able speak to and understand the lingo – whether it’s regarding G forces, drafting, tire grading, steering pull, tire/ shocks ratios, etc.,” Cormier explained, “and on the other side, implications and educating from a medical

prevention and intervention standpoint.

“I’m not just a doctor who comes in saying, ‘We’re trying to get you out of this car,’” Cormier said. “My approach is to try to prepare them appropriately so they can enjoy the sport longer and walk away from the sport with their faculties, to better enjoy retirement and most importantly, to remember it!.”

Through Cormier’s work with race car drivers, he has found that very few have the desire to alter their racing styles, so preventative measures are best taken before the racing begins.

“It would be difficult to say to someone, ‘You’re pushing the limits a bit too much,’” Cormier said. “The racerathletes will continue to defy the odds and challenge the physics of what they believe should happen. To stymie that progression and excitement they bring to themselves and the

public, it would render them unrecognizable to both the public and to themselves.

“My role is to educate them as to how they can be safer and MSG is excited about the technology that we hope will help prevent or reduce concussions, and so far there are very promising results that will help mitigate those causational vectors of force.”

For the specifics on that new technology, race fans will have to stay tuned.

“Our team has put real thought into who we’ve engaged and the racing organizations that we’ve engaged,” Cormier said.

“We hope to introduce new technology in 2018 with a plan to build 300 to 400 percent of what we did in 2017. There are many more exciting things to come.

We thank all of you for embracing our insight and we encourage you to follow us on social media and speak to us when you see us on the track.”

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The Lewsiville, N.C. native led only the final lap of the race in his No. 3 RCR Enterprises Chevrolet and secured his second-career Cup series victory.

Days before the race, Dillon met a young fan at an autograph session that hadn’t committed to follow any particular driver.

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The next day, Dillon spotted the young fan standing behind the fence just outside the garage area and was given a small but significant gift of his own.

“He’s like, ‘Hey, I got this for you.’ It was a lucky penny,” Dillon said. “We put it in the car.

It’s sitting on the dash right now, and it’s pretty special. I think that’s really cool. I’ve never been that superstitious in my life, but my grandfather [Richard Childress] is very superstitious. I listened to him in the race, I ran the bottom more, I found a lucky penny, and it just worked out tonight, I guess.”

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NEXTERA ENERGY RESOURCES 250 johnny sauter ACTIVE PEST CONTROL 200 Brett Moffitt CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES RACE AT LAS VEGAS ALPHA ENERGY SOLUTIONS 250 CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES RACE AT DOVER CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES RACE AT KANSAS NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION LOTTERY 200 RATTLESNAKE 400 IOWA 200 CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES RACE AT GATEWAY CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES RACE AT CHICAGOLAND CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES RACE AT KENTUCKY ELDORA DIRT DERBY GANDER OUTDOORS 150 CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES RACE AT MICHIGAN UNOH 200 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 250 CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES RACE AT LAS VEGAS FRED’S 250 POWERED BY COCA-COLA TEXAS ROADHOUSE 200 JAG METALS 350 LUCAS OIL 150

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