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Schedule for All-Star weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway

By Daniel McFadinMay 17, 2018, 10:00 AM EDT
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NASCAR returns home this weekend for the start of a two-week stretch of racing at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The Cup Series takes part in its annual All-Star Race and the Camping World Truck Series holds the North Carolina Education Lottery 200 on Friday night.

The Cup cars will have a different package this weekend that includes restrictor plates.

Here’s the weekend schedule with TV and radio info.

(All times are Eastern)

Friday, May 18

7 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. — Cup garage open

7:30 a.m. — Truck garage opens

9:05 – 9:55 a.m. — Truck practice (No TV)

10:35 – 11:25 a.m. — Final Truck practice (Fox Sports 1)

11:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. — Monster Open practice (FS1)

12:15 – 12:55 p.m. — All-Star Race practice (FS1, Motor Racing Network)

1 – 1:40 p.m. — Final Monster Open practice (FS1)

1:45 – 2:25 p.m. — Final All-Star Race practice (FS1, MRN)

2:30 – 2:40 p.m. — Pit road speed practice; Group 1 (FS1)

2:45 – 2:55 p.m. — Pit road speed practice Group 2 (FS1)

4:40 p.m. — Truck qualifying; single truck/two rounds (FS1)

5:45 p.m. — Truck driver-crew chief meeting

6 p.m. – Cup Monster Open qualifying; single-car/two rounds – impound (FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)

6:35 p.m. — Cup All-Star qualifying; three laps with pit stop – impound (FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)

8 p.m. — Truck Series driver introductions

8:30 p.m. — North Carolina Education Lottery 200; 134 laps/201 miles (FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)

Saturday, May 19

2 p.m. — Cup garage opens

4 p.m. — Driver-crew chief meeting

5:30 p.m. — Monster Open driver introductions

6 p.m. — Monster Energy Open; 50 laps/three segments; 20 laps-20 laps-10 laps (FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)

7:30 p.m. — All-Star Race driver introductions

8 p.m. — All-Star Race; 80 laps/four segments; 30 laps-20 laps-20 laps-10 laps (FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)

Joey Logano wins pole for Kansas Cup race, playoff contenders sweep top five

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By Dan BeaverOct 19, 2018, 8:07 PM EDT
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Joey Logano got through Turns 3 & 4 faster than the Cup field at Kansas Speedway and set a speed of 191.646 mph to win the pole for the Kansas Cup race. This is Logano’s second pole of the season and first on an unrestricted track. His previous pole came at Talladega this spring.

The last two races at Kansas have been won from by the pole winner with Kevin Harvick doing so this spring and Martin Truex Jr. last fall.

Playoff contenders swept the top five positions with Harvick (191.178 mph) second, Aric Almirola (190.968) third, Ryan Blaney (190.934) fourth and Brad Keselowski (190.725) fifth.

Playoff contenders Kyle Busch (190.543) qualified seventh, Alex Bowman (189.994) qualified 10th, Kurt Busch (189.593 mph) qualified 11th and Truex (189.387) was 12th.

Joe Gibbs Racing took the remaining spots in the top 12 with Erik Jones (190.570) fastest among the non-playoff contenders in sixth. Daniel Suarez (190.449 mph) was eighth and Denny Hamlin (190.027) ninth. 

Chase Elliott and Clint Bowyer failed to advance to the Round of 12 despite each of them making two runs. Elliott lines up 13th with a speed of 190.027 mph; Bowyer was 14th (189.980)

Kyle Larson rolled out a backup car after crashing in practice. He was qualifying for pit selection only since he will have to fall to the back of the pack, but could only muster the 27th-fastest time of 187.162 mph.

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NASCAR America at 6 p.m. ET: 1,000th Episode

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By Dan BeaverOct 19, 2018, 5:30 PM EDT
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Today’s marks the 1,000th episode of NASCAR America and it airs from 6-7 p.m. ET on NBCSN.

In celebrating this milestone, we’ll re-live some of the show’s best moments from our first 999 episodes.

Also on today’s show:

  • Joining the program, will be 7-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson, who will reflect on his 17-year partnership with Chad Knaus that will end following this season. He’ll also talk about his crew chief for 2019, Kevin Meendering.
  • Kansas native Clint Bowyer also joins the show to discuss racing in his home state, his passion for the Kansas City Chiefs and how he hopes to secure a spot in the Round of 8 this weekend.

If you can’t catch today’s show on TV, watch it online at http:/nascarstream.nbcsports.com. If you plan to stream the show on your laptop or portable device, be sure to have your username and password from your cable/satellite/telco provider handy so your subscription can be verified.

Once you enter that information, you’ll have access to the stream.

Click here at 6 p.m. ET to watch live via the stream.

Xfinity practice report from Kansas

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By Dan BeaverOct 19, 2018, 3:59 PM EDT
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Final Practice

Shane Lee posted the fastest lap in final practice for the Xfinity race with a speed of 179.480 mph.

He beat Ty Majeski (179.414 mph) by .011 seconds.

Playoff contender Christopher Bell (178.684), Austin Cindric (178.247, playoff contender) and Daniel Hemric (178.247, playoff contender) rounded out the top five.

Playoff contender Matt Tifft spun with three minutes remaining in final practice. He was 11th on the speed chart at the time with a speed of 177.206 mph.

Playoff contender Cole Custer (177.737) was ninth, Justin Allgaier (177.538) was 10th, Elliott Sadler (177.130) was 12th and Tyler Reddick (177.084) was the slowest 13th.

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First Practice

Hemric posted  the fastest single lap in the first practice session for the Xfinity race at Kansas Speedway with a speed of 179.916 mph.

He beat Bell (179.659 mph) by .043 seconds.

Tyler Reddick (179.474, playoff contender), Shane Lee (179.462) and Austin Cindric (179.408) rounded out the top five.

Playoff contender Allgaier (178.832) was seventh fastest, Custer (178.725) was eighth, Tifft (178.660) was ninth and Sadler (177.585) was the slowest in 13th.

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Ryan Blaney tops first Cup practice at Kansas, Kyle Larson wrecks

By Dan BeaverOct 19, 2018, 3:01 PM EDT
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Ryan Blaney posted the fastest single lap in the first practice session for the Kansas Cup race with a speed of 192.130 mph. Blaney enters the weekend 22 points below the cutoff line.

He beat Kyle Busch (191.768 mph) by .053 seconds.

Kevin Harvick (191.761), Joey Logano (191.632) and Chase Elliott (191.421) round out the top five

Kyle Larson‘s weekend continues to worsen. With 15 minutes remaining in Friday’s practice session, he got loose and made heavy contact with the wall. Larson will have to roll out a back up car and drop to the back of the field to start the race. Larson (189.288) was 20th on the speed chart at the time.

Regan Smith was the only driver who posted 10 consecutive laps. His average speed was 182.606 mph.

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