Saturday, December 19, 2015

Dover and Las Vegas Weekend

Hey folks! Here's my take on the Dover and Las Vegas weekend. The Trucks raced at Las Vegas and the Xfinity and Cup raced at Dover.






Saturday night was the Las Vegas Truck race. John Wes Townley won with 23 laps led, followed by Timothy Peters with 13 laps, Ben Kennedy, rookies John Hunter Nemechek and Brandon Gaughan. Rounding out the top-10 were rookie Daniel Hemric, Tyler Reddick with 2 laps led, pole-sitter Matt Crafton with 69 laps, rookies Erik Jones and Cameron Haley with 23 laps led. Johnny Sauter was 12th with 13 laps led. Rookie Ray Black, Jr. led 1 lap and was 13th. Travis Kvapil was 18th after leading 1 lap. Justin Jennings was 29th due to an electrical problem after leading 1 lap. Rookie Austin Theriault was 31st due to an accident. He had to go to the hospital due to what turned out to be a fracture in his lower back.




Saturday was the Xfinity race at Dover. Regan Smith won with 80 laps led, followed by Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch with 110 laps led,  pole-sitter Ryan Blaney and Kyle Larson. Rounding out the top-10 were Austin Dillon, Chase Elliott, Chris Buescher, Elliott Sadler with 8 laps led and rookie Daniel Suarez. JJ Yeley was 12th and led 2 laps.  Rookie Cale Conley had an accident on lap 103 and was 29th. Stanton Barrett was 30th due to an accident on lap 100. Brian Scott crashed on lap 80 and was 31st. Derrike Cope was 32nd after crashing out on lap 79. Rookie Ross Chastain wrecked out on lap 23 and was 37th.


Sunday was the Cup race at Dover. Kevin Harvick won with 355 laps led, followed by Kyle Busch with 19 laps led, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Jamie McMurray and Aric Almirola. Rounding out the top-10 were Kasey Kahne, pole-sitter Matt Kenseth with 26 laps led, Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., Kyle Larson and Joey Logano. Rookie Brett Moffitt was 42nd due to an accident on lap 346.  Rookie Jeb Burton was 43 due to crashing out on lap 186.
Come back for my Charlotte recap.



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