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A FAMILIAR FIST PUMP. Kevin Harvick rode a dominating performance to his second straight victory and second in his career at Las Vegas Motor Speedway when he took the checkered flag in Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube. GETTY IMAGES

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5 Team Penske Is Still Looking Stout

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or the second week in a row, Team Penske enjoyed a good Sunday afternoon at the track. Only this time, the organization placed all three of its cars in the top 10 — make that the top seven, to be more specific. Leading the Penske brigade at Las Vegas was the organization’s newest Monster Energy Series driver, Ryan Blaney, who finished fifth — just ahead of teammates Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano in sixth and seventh, respectively. While none of the Penske boys was remotely in the same league as race winner Kevin Harvick, putting three cars in the top seven is notable and perhaps indicative of even better things to come for the organization owned by motorsports legend Roger Penske. “I thought it was a solid day for us,” Blaney said after Vegas. “We had a pretty decent Ford all day. The first run we weren’t great, and we got better.” las vegas rearview: march 5, 2018

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apped by the leader a mere 33 laps into Sunday’s 267-lapper at Las Vegas, Jimmie Johnson clearly lacked the speed to run up front or even contend for the win. Johnson eventually rebounded to finish a respectable 12th — much better than he fared in either of the season’s first two races. Don’t think Johnson is ready to pop a champagne cork with his Vegas improvement, however. He’s far from it. Johnson also believes his own driving is at least in part to blame for his early-season struggles — which seem to have carried over from the second half of 2017. “Just giving 100 percent and driving the car where it’s at and bringing it home is what I need to start doing,” Johnson said. “I have been trying to carry it, and I’ve crashed more cars in the last six months than I have really in any six-month stretch or whole-year stretch.” las vegas rearview: march 5, 2018

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Both drivers were unable to continue. While Elliott was disappointed about getting wrecked, the third-year Monster Energy Series driver wasn’t overly critical of Busch. The 2004 series champion, meanwhile, was quick to shoulder the blame. “I was running the low groove, and it just stepped out on me,” said Busch, a Vegas native. “I wasn’t even trying to fill the hole or go 100 percent. I had it at 90 percent, and I knew Chase was going to be on my outside, and it was just that quick. I ruined his day, ruined my day. I hate it for all the Chase Elliott fans and the Kurt Busch fans and my hometown fans.”

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ure, the season is only three races old, but Kevin Harvick and his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing team led by veteran crew chief Rodney Childers are looking darn near unstoppable. Consider: Harvick has won and led the most laps in both of the season’s nonrestrictor plate races to date. So superb was Harvick on Sunday at Las Vegas that only nine cars finished on the lead lap. To lap that many cars on a 1.5-mile track equates to a beatdown of significant proportions.

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K, enough is enough, already. It’s time for Kyle Busch to do what many of his competitors have wished for years he would do — stick to the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and give up dabbling in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Over the weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Busch nabbed his 50th Truck Series victory — just one win shy of the all-time record set by 2018 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee Ron Hornaday Jr. While new participation rules have thankfully

limited the number of races that Busch and other full-time Monster Energy Series drivers can enter in NASCAR’s No. 2 and No. 3 division, it’s only a matter of time before Busch eclipses Hornaday and becomes the all-time wins leader in trucks. Of course, he’s already the all-time wins leader in Xfinity, having ascended that mountain back in August 2011 with his 50th Xfinity Series triumph.

To be completely fair, Busch isn’t the only Monster Energy Series regular who has enjoyed more than his share of Xfinity Series glory in recent years. So too have Kyle Larson and Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski and Kevin Harvick — just to name a few. Already this season, full-time Monster Energy Series drivers have won two of the three Xfinity races, respectively, while taking one among the trio of truck events.

While it’s probably too late to stop Busch from breaking Hornaday’s record in the Truck Series, it’s high-time for NASCAR to completely ban Monster Energy Series regulars from dipping down into the lower divisions. It’s undoubtedly a major source of irritation for the vast majority of the drivers and teams in those divisions, and it does no good for anyone — except, of course, the drivers such as Busch who are directly benefiting from being allowed to compete. las vegas rearview: march 5, 2018

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Kevin Harvick 135 Austin Dillon 94 Joey Logano 132 Ryan Blaney 131 Martin Truex Jr. 115 Kyle Busch 104 Kyle Larson

104 Brad Keselowski 99 Denny Hamlin 97 Paul Menard 96 Clint Bowyer 93 Aric Almirola 93 Kurt Busch

77 Ryan Newman 75 Darrell Wallace Jr. 68 Chris Buescher 67 Alex Bowman 67 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 66 Erik Jone 64 Michael McDowell 53 Chase Elliott 52 Trevor Bayne 50 AJ Allmendinger 43 William Byron 43 Jamie McMurray 42 David Ragan 39 Daniel Suarez 38 Kasey Kahne 37 Jimmie Johnson 36 Matt DiBenedetto 31 Jeffrey Earnhardt 25 Ty Dillon 25 Gray Gaulding 22 Cole Whitt 18 Mark Thompson 15 D.J. Kennington 13 Brendan Gaughan 9 Harrison Rhodes 4 Danica Patrick 2 Corey LaJoie 1

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Tyler Reddick 123 Elliott Sadler 123 Christopher Bell 100 Justin Allgaier 95 Spencer Gallagher 89 Ryan Reed

88 Brandon Jones 86 Ryan Truex

85 Daniel Hemric 84 Matt Tifft 69 Kaz Grala 68 Ross Chastain 68 Cole Custer

63 Garrett Smithley 58 Alex Labbe

52 Michael Annett 46 Jeremy Clements 46 Josh Williams 44 Austin Cindric 41 Ryan Sieg 39 Vinnie Miller 36 Stephen Leicht 34 Joey Gase 32 David Starr

31 Jeff Green 28 Dylan Lupton 27 J.J. Yeley 21 Spencer Boyd 21 Chad Finchum 16 Kyle Benjamin 34 John H. Nemechek 33 Caesar Bacarella 24 Chase Briscoe 22 B.J. McLeod

18 Tommy Joe Martins 16 Matt Mill 11 Josh Bilicki 9 Ryan Ellis 7 Timmy Hill 7 Mike Harmon 6

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Johnny Sauter Brett Moffitt Grant Enfinger Noah Gragson Ben Rhodes

Stewart Friesen Spencer Davis Dalton Sargeant Matt Crafton Myatt Snider Cody Coughlin Justin Fontaine Austin Hill Justin Haley

Joe Nemechek Wendell Chavous Jordan Anderson Austin Self Robby Lyons Norm Benning Scott Stenzel Jennifer Cobb Korbin Forrister Parker Kligerman Jesse Little

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He’s been interested in the sport for as long as he can remember.

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TY DILLON: Last season, Dillon entered a combined 66 races among NASCAR’s three major series. On 27 weekends, the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series rookie pulled double duty by also running the Xfinity Series race. That’s a busy schedule, to be certain, and one not survived without some powerful conditioning.

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spotlight is to come in properly hydrated and prepare to be in the car for almost three days, all day long.”

DENNY HAMLIN: Hamlin dropped close to 40 pounds between his rookie Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season of 2006 and 2010. He’s since managed to keep the weight off. Hamlin’s secret? Pilates.

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